WonJung Choi

Adjunct Professor

photo of WonJung . She is smiling wearing a black collared shirt and a gold necklace. She has her arms crossed in front of her and is standing in front of a black wall.

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WonJung Choi was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. Through her series of installations, drawings, prints, 3D printed sculptures and sculptures, Choi explores the cultural aesthetics of hybridity and heterogeneity, regional and global identity and shows her firm belief that humanity has evolved based on migration. Her work is conducted by labor-intensive practices, also by equally intensive research-based processes.

Choi received her MFA in Fine Arts from School of Visual Arts in New York, USA and her BFA and MFA in Sculpture from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea. She won First prizes in Trawick Award and Emerald Award and awarded residencies at Museum of Arts and Design, Artists Alliance Inc. (AAI) in New York and fellowship in Vermont Studio Center in VT.

Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as Katzen Museum in American University (Washington DC), Wave Hill (New York), Bloomberg NYC, Real Art Ways (CT), Gwangju Museum of Art (Korea), Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art (New York), Cuchifritos (New York), Mixed Green Gallery (New York), Space cottonseed (Singapore), Islip Museum (New York), Art Place (Seoul), H.P France gallery (Tokyo), ARARIO Gallery (Korea) and Ras Al Ain Galley (Jordan). Her works are in the collections at Samsung(Korea), Swarovski (USA) and ARCHEUS (UK).

Large sculpture of a galloping dinosaur skeleton filling a white room suspended from the ceiling. the form is rendered using something like black wire, giving it a look resembling scribbling with a pen

Exodus of Dinosaur

abstract forms filling a gallery room suspended from the ceiling with clear string. the forms are like wandering black pen scribbles with some areas filled in with varying colors.

Mindless Particles

gallery documentation of sculpture of two dimensional fish skeletons swimming in the same direction. They are suspended from the ceiling by clear string and are rendered with a clear material such as plastic or glass. The photograph is only partially lit, giving the photo the look of a vignette and casting a shadow of the sculptures along the floor.

Fish+Feathers

flat clear shapes in various colors suspended from the ceiling near a wall in a white room with very high ceilings. on each shape are black line portrait drawings. a person stands in the bottom of the photo showing the height and large scale of the installation.

Extraordinary+Ordinary

a dark room filled with clear glass forms on white pedestals, only the forms are lit giving the photo an overall dark look. The forms are like water droplets and each is unique

Water