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Biography
Exhibition View of Jesse Chun: 밤, 낮, 달, 비, Speaking in Tongues, (Commonwealth and Council, 2024, Los Angeles, US
Education
2022 Art by Translation | Post-Graduate Research Fellowship | supported by L'École
Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de
Paris-Cergy, Paris, FR
2014 Master of Fine Arts | The School of Visual Arts, New York, US
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts | Parsons School of Design, New York, US
Solo Exhibitions
2024 밤, 낮, 달, 비, Speaking in Tongues, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA,
US
2023 Jesse Chun: 시, language for new moons, solo survey exhibition presented by the
Seoul Museum of Art at the Seoul Museum of History for the 12th Seoul Mediacity
Biennale, curated by Rachael Rakes, Seoul, KR
2022 And verse (혼잣말의 언어 그리고 cosmos), Gallery TPW + public billboards,
Toronto, CA
2020 SULLAE 술래, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, online, curated by Daisy
Desrosiers, CA
2020 SULLAE 술래, Yeh Art Gallery at St.John's University, New York, US
2020 stain begins to absorb the material spilled on, Doosan Gallery, New York, US (two
person)
2019 enunciating silence and, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, US
2018 Subtitles, BRIC, New York, US
2018 Name Against the Same Sound, Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, curated
by Howie Chen, NY, US
2016 Jesse Chun: On Paper, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, US
Group Exhibitions
2024 [...], Carnegie Museum of Art, Art Film Series, Pittsburg, PA, US
2024 Open Hands, Gallery Hyundai, with Commonwealth and Council, Seoul, KR
2024 Tongue of Rain 혀 달린 비, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, KR
2024 Borrowed Recipes, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, US
2024 Nostalgics on realities, Thaddaeus Ropac, curated by Kim Sung Woo, Seoul, KR
2023 Artist’s Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2023 The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale: THIS TOO, IS A MAP, curated by Rachael Rakes, hosted by the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2023 Artists’ Film International, Galleria d’Arte Moderna E Contemporanea di Bergamo, IT
2023 Artists’ Film International, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE
2023 Be here, or even better, be nowhere, KADIST, San Francisco, CA
2023 Tongues of Fire, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
2023 Slippery Tongues Sliding Horizons, De Appel, screening curated by Jo-lene Ong, Amsterdam, NL
2023 Landscape Hot Mic, Juf, Madrid, SP
2023 Are we free to move about the world, Museum of Fine Arts at FSU, Tallahassee, FL
2022 Past/Present/Future: Thomas J. Watson Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2022 Sympathy for the Translator, ICA at MECA, Portland, ME
2022 Slippery Tongues Sliding Horizons, curated by Jolene Ong, organized by Arts Council Korea and Dutch Culture, LAB111, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Folk Fiction, OMS, Athens, GR
2022 Around Space: Works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Sujin Lee, and Jesse Chun, Electronic Arts Intermix x Wendy’s Subway x Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Affairs Étrangères, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Grand Paris, FR
2022 Listening Material, Sound+ x Material Art Fair, Mexico City, MX
2022 Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere: Freedom Dreams in Contemporary Art, Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY
2021 Cinema Ephemera, Brooklyn Public Library Façade, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Greater Toronto Art Triennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, CA
2021 Mis/Communication: Language and Power in Contemporary Art, Zuccaire Gallery at Stony Brook University, NY, US
2020 In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter, New York, US
2020 The Future of Silence: When your tongue vanishes, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, KR
2020 WORKBOOK, performance lecture as part of Protocols as Language and Communication, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, NY, online presentation
2020 This is your last chance to use words, Treize, Paris, FR
2020 Countermythologies, NXTHVN, New Haven, CT
2019 Point of Departure, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2019 Material Tells, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, CA
2019 What is feminist art, the Smithsonian Institution, Archive of American Art, Washington DC
2019 It will never become quite familiar to you, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
2019 Paperwork, International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, NY
2019 Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
2019 What's Love Got to Do with It, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2018 Queens International:Volumes, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
2018 Moving Body, Moving Study, BAM, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Liquid Myths:Jesse Chun and Guadalupe Maravilla, BAM, a collaborative sound lecture, Brooklyn, NY
Residencies
2024 The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Goyang Residency, Seoul, KR
2023 Two Trees CSS Program, Artist in Residence (21-23), New York, US
2020 Smack Mellon, Artist in Residence, New York, US
2019 International Studio & Curatorial Programs (ISCP), the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, NY, US
Grants&Awards
2021 Ballroom Marfa, Ballroom Session - the Father Place, Texas, US
2020 The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters & Sculptors Grant Recipient, US
2020 Triple Canopy, Commission Award, New York, US
2019 Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York, Emerging Artist Award, New York, US
2018 The Drawing Center, Open Sessions Fellowship, New York, NY
2018 The Lower East Side Printshop, Keyholder Fellowship, New York, NY
2017 The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Artists in the Marketplace (AIM), Bronx, NY
Collections
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
KADIST, Paris, FR and San Francisco, US
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Special Collections, IL, US
Museum of Modern Art Library, NY, US
Smithsonian Institution, Archive of American Art, Washington, DC, US
Whitney Museum of American Art Library, NY, US
Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, NY, US
Asia Art Archive in America, NY, US
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