EDUCATION:

Present   Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

             Master’s program in Painting
 

2007     Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

           Master’s in Fine Arts

2004     Ewha Womans University, Seoul,South Korea                                                         

            Bachelor’s in Fine Arts

EXHIBITION:

Solo Exhibitions

2010        SPACE, K.Dees coffee, IN, USA

2008        SPACE, Young Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2007        ANOTHER VISION BEHIND, DOS Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2007        SPACE, Jang Eun Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea  

2006        SPACE, Gallery the Space, Seoul, Korea

Two-person Exhibitions & Art Fair

2007        Beijing 798 Contemporary Korean & Chinese Art, 706 Gallery, Beijing, China

2007        ART SEOUL, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea

2006        ART SEOUL, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea

2006        Chaos n Cosmos by Hyun sun Jo and Jong-un Choi, Gallery the Space, Seoul, Korea

2005        Guk jin Seo and Jong-un Choi, Seizy Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Group Exhibitions 

2011          Big Ten Conference 2011-12 Graduate Student Fine Art Exhibit, Park Ridge, IL, USA

                Anderson Ranch Annual Art Auction, Snowmass Village, CO, USA

                64 ARTS National Juried Exhibition, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL, USA

                NASL Visual Art Show, Bloomington, IN, USA 

                Westwood, West Lafayette, IN, USA

                14º Purdue Grad Art Show, Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, West Lafayette, IN, USA

2010         Westwood, West Lafayette, IN, USA

                The Kaumba Project, Chicago, IL, USA

2009         Borrowed Ground, the Lions Club Building, Battle Ground, IN, USA

2008         Someday, Open the Door, Door Gallery, Seoul, Korea

                Small Pictures, Korean Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2007         Spread Impression, KeumSan Gallery, Has Gallery, Heyri, Korea

                Contemporary Korean Painting, Tablo Gallery, Seoul, Korea

                Divinity of Korean Art, Gallery Chosun, Seoul, Korea

                Expression of the Sensibility of Korean Paintng , E- hyoung Art Center, Seoul, Korea

                Exhibition by Chaeyon, Ewha Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2006         6th plus minus “Love is...," Gallery Dos, Seoul, Korea

                Korean Painting - New Eyes, Tablo Gallery, Seoul, Korea      

                EPOCH / Art Museum, Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea

                The celebration in EPOCH, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea

                7th plus minus “Treasure Beyond the Memory,” Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea

                Exhibition by Chaeyon, Lamer, Seoul, Korea

2005        Perfection of the Beautiful Autonomy, Lotte Art Gallery, Ilsan, Korea

                The 2nd Young Artists' Prospect, Gallery All, Seoul, Korea

                The Object, Gallery With White, Seoul, Korea

                An Exchange of World Colleges - WAVE, Ewha Art Center, Seoul, Korea

                New East, Gongpyong Art Center, Seoul, Korea

                La Jeune Creation Coreenne, Galerie Etienne de Causans, Paris, France

                5th plus minus “A Secret and A Lie”, Style Cube Zandari, Seoul, Korea

                Beautiful Youth, Guoldam Gallery, Tablo Gallery, Seoul, Korea

                Exhibition by Chaeyon, Gongpyong Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2004        Young People's Breath 04'-breath, Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea

                “Who am I?" Gallery Sun&Moon, Seoul, Korea

                The 5th New Millennium Young Artists, Tower Gallery, Busan, Korea

                "Clothing-Painting INTENTION," Lotte Gallery, Anyang, Korea

AWARDS:

2010        the Visual Arts Committee’s Purchase Awards at Westwood, West Lafayette, IN

2006        Selected for Korean Grand Contest for Fine Arts,                         

                National Museum of Contemporary Art Selected in EPOCH, 

                Art Museum, Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea

2006        Selected for the Twenty-First Century ART - New Challenge,

                DanWon Museum, Seoul, Korea

2004        Selected for the 2nd Seoul Art Grand-Prix,                                  

                The annexes of GyongBok and GyongHee Palaces, Seoul, Korea

2004        Selected for the DongA Art Festival,

                National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 

ACTIVITIES:

2004-2008        Member of Chaeyon

2004-2008        Member of Plus Minus

2004-2008        Member of Korean Women’s Art Association

     Based on the inception of my experience, I explored the convergence of reflected images in mirrors or windows using the lens of a camera as an alternative vision. Photographic work makes it possible for me to reproduce a secondary reality in which images are perceived to have value. The photographic images are actualized to refine my vision altogether and optimize my perspective. My perspective of objects is the implication of vision with my eyes in its material relation to the world. Therefore, a singular perspective, as I see through the lens, embodies my own existence. In this activity, there is only one standpoint where I, as a stationary spectator, am standing and engaging with my entire perception.

     My painting is divided into binary parts: the reflected image I select and the outer space of the reflected image I do not select. I cut the actual objects out which directly appear to me and draw invisible objects, reflected from visible objects. The depicting of realistic visible content in a reflective surface corresponds to my perspective, my time and even my emotions when I catch them. I seize the moment immediately with my own consciousness and suggest the abstractive space of my own desire. While the reflected image is elaborately depicted as if the lens of the camera is showing, the rest of the space is filled with solid color smoothly painted. The reflected images I select actualize my existence and represent my consciousness of objects, whereas abstract color, the outer space of the reflected image, indicates either the spiritual or emotional space of my desire and reveals the visual impact with a fictive image by implication. The internal perception of the outer space of reflection has a psychological impact by a filtering of my experiences and absolute contrast with the depicted reflection.

     The consciousness of reflected surfaces represents my own engagement in the urban vistas where I currently live and work. I have always been interested in the visual relationship between objects and space from an exploration of reflected images, and I have attempted to refine a mutual relationship between my vision and the reflected objects. In other words, the purpose of my work is to awaken my consciousness of objects and emphasize the relationships among objects. I want to express the structures based on the transcendental cognition in which I find my own existence. I believe the result of my work may be a well-designed creation in order to harmonize contemporary space based on my own view of visible objects.