Cho Hee Jung

After moving to the United States to study graduate programs, he lives in New York and works as a writer while traveling between the United States and Korea. While living in the United States, the artist became more serious about Korean values, culture, spiritual world, and art world. As a foreigner, I settled and lived in another country, not only in culture and language, but also in each detailed behavior, and I had difficulty relearning everything like a child. Nevertheless, there are still walls that cannot be crossed, and there are many difficulties in the confusion of the artist's identity and cultural neutrality. These experiences broadened the author's thoughts on various big social issues from everyday trivial matters and led to the recognition of the difference between right and wrong.

The artist intends to talk about experiences that belong to both societies and do not belong to both societies through works of art. The artist's works begin by recording the relationship between people and places or the history and daily life of the community. It records and stores daily life through drawing photos and writings every day, reinterpreting various cultures and lives in New York and Korea from a subjective perspective and making works. New discoveries and imaginations from trivial daily life are far more moving and easily relatable than raising difficult philosophical topics. It allows you to look at everyday spaces with a new perspective and conveys the emotions of life that you can sympathize with. The artist reproduced the three-dimensional effect of space by collaging wood sculptures, and completed the flat work by emphasizing color and texture with woodblock prints. Through abstraction work that dismantles and reassembles the three-dimensional space structure, the artist's subjective values and many emotions that arise in the place are compressed and expressed.

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Education

2005   Master’s degree from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

2002   Graduated from Seoul National University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture

Awards & Exhibition

2021   Residency participation, Women’s Studio Workshop, Kingston, New York

2020-2021   Public Art Project Participation and Exhibition, Jamaica Flux, Jamaica Art Center, New York

2016   Residency participation, Lower East Side Printshop, New York Residency participation and scholarship, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York

2014-2015   Studio Support and Project, New York Museum of Design, New York

2013   Mentoring Program Participation and Exhibition, NYFA Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2012   Residency participation, Newark Museum Artist Residency/ Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey

2010   Visual Arts Award, AHL Foundation, New York

2009-2017   Studio support and exhibition, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York

2009   Residency Participation and Exhibition, Bronx Museum of Art, New York

Solo Exhibition

2017   ‘Indivisible’, Gallery STAN, Seoul

2015   ‘odd dimension’, Gallery Ho, New York ‘Architecture and The Senses’, Yujung Art Center, Seoul

2012   ‘Urban Illusions’, Earlville Opera House Gallery, Earlville, New York

2011   ‘Walk In Walk Out’, Watchung Arts Center, New Jersey

2010   ‘Nomadic City’, Chashama Times Square Gallery, New York group exhibition

2022   ‘Breaking down boundaries’, Gyeomjae Jeongseon Museum, Seoul, Korea

2021   ‘BLISS’, YCG Fine arts gallery, New York

‘East to Perform’, Howland Cultural Center Gallery, Beacon, New York

2020   ‘In the Abstract’, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, New York ‘Tracing Lines’, Water Wickiser gallery, New York

2019   ‘Harnett Biennial of American Prints’, University of Richmond Museum of Art, Virginia

2019   ‘Flâneur in New York’, Maggi Peyton Gallery, New York

2018   ‘Reimagining Constructs and Surroundings’, Steinberg Museum of Art, Long Island, New York

2018   ‘Collide or Steer’, Korean Art Council Gallery, New York

2017   ‘The Structure of things’, Islip Art Museum, New York

2017   ‘Outside In’, Patchogue Arts Council, Patchogue, New York