Eunjeong

Choi

Born in 1980, based in Seoul, South Korea

Artist Choi Eun-jeong graduated from the Department of Paintings, Incheon Catholic University, and the Department of Painting, Hongik University Graduate School, and completed the doctor’s course in Fine Arts at Hongik University Graduate School.

Last year, she held a private exhibition on the theme of “Subtle Scape” with the support of Shin Han Art Materials (Inc), and she had held a number of private exhibitions before.

She is a young new artist who participated major exhibitions including the ‘Korea Tomorrow 2016_ OUT+STANDING,’ which is held every year in an attempt to suggest a new direction to the Korea’s contemporary art market through new planning, ‘SOMA DRAWING_Mindful Mindless’ planned by Soma Museum, ‘Urban Gatherers’ planned by Space K, ‘Art Factory Project’ held at Culture Station Seoul 284, and ‘Pre-Drawing Biennale-Competition Exhibition_ Drawing, Birth of Thinking’ held at DMZ.

As for her major awards, she won the Grand Prize at the Ghasong Art Award sponsored by Dong Wha Parm (Ghasong Foundation) in 2016, was selected as Artist of the 36th JoongAng Fine Arts Prize sponsored by The JoongAng Ilbo in 2014, and was chosen as Selected Artist at a number of other major art awards. She was also selected as a Year 1 Artist of SOMA Drawing Center Archive by the Seoul Olympic Museum of Art (SOMA), which was opened in 2006.

While on the face of them, Artist Choi Eun-jeong’s works seem abstract and difficult to understand, their contents are made up of ‘hetero-ecotopia,’ her desired ideal space that is neither utopia nor dystopia. On the canvas, a variety of plants constitute key positions in a city, and form one giant organism.

Recently, she expands her ‘contemporary picturesque’ work into installations, by the use of modified canvas, object and lighting, focusing on painting.

Education

Ph. D,  Candidate, Painting, Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea.

M.F.A, painting, Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea.

B.F.A,  painting, Incheon Catholic University, Incheon, Korea

Solo Exhibition

2022

Implosional Space / Klamp Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2020

Harmony Hall /KAIST Research and Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2019

Virtual Façade/ Soorim Cultural Foundation_ Soorim  Arts center, Seoul, Korea

2018

Tropical City/ Gallery 2u , Seoul, Korea

2017

Subtle Scape/ Ponetive Space, Paju, Korea

Subtle Scape/ Gallery Meme, Seoul, Korea

2015

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE / Art Company GIG, Seoul, Korea

2013

Ecotopia : Unfamiliar Landscape / Kepco Art Center, Seoul, Korea

Group Exhibition

2023

Precarious Geographies, GalleryMEME, Seoul, Korea

2022

PAGE ONE, Sulim Cube(Soorim Cultural Foundation), Seoul, Korea

Passage : Artificial Paradise, Seojung Art Center, Seoul, Korea

Post Analogue, Osan Museum of Art, Osan, Gyeonggido, Korea

2021

Beyond Landscape, lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Flex Art, , lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2020

Distance between me and nature, Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju, Korea

2019

PHANTOM CITY/ Sewha Museum, Seoul, Korea

2018

Hyper Narrative/ META MONACO, Monte-Carlo, Monaco Women, The meaning of art/ Dalseo Culture Foundation_Smiling Arts Center, Daegu, Korea

2017

The 19th Danwon Art Festival/ Terrsa gallery, Dakamatsu, Japan

The 19th Danwon Art Festival/ Danwon Art Museum, Gyeonggi, Korea

Before Art/ RAW Drawing Gallery, Paju, Korea

浪漫窓前/ KyungPook National University Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2016

Korea Tomorow 2016_ OUT+STANDING/ Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

The 5th Ghasong Art Award / Summer Saeng-Saek, Ara Arts center, Seoul, Korea

Seoul Digital University Art Prize / Seoul Digital University, Seoul, Korea

2015

SOMA DRAWING_ Mindful Mindless / Soma Museum, Seoul, Korea

Urban Gatherers/ Space K, Daegu, Korea

2014

The 36th Jooongang Finearts Prize/ Hangaram Art Museum of Seoul Arts Center,   Seoul, Korea Art Factory Project / Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea

2013

Window of Aisa_ Korea, Thailand International Exchange Exhibition / Bupyeong Arts Center, Incheon, Korea Pre-Drawing Biennale-Competition Exhibition_Drawing, Birth of Thinking/ White Block Art Center, Paju, Korea

Awards & Project

2022

Meta Open Arts (Facebook Open Arts) Project, Meta Seoul/ Seoul, Korea

2018

Soorim Art Prize_ Grand Prize Winner/ Soorim Cultural Foundation/ Seoul, Korea

2017

The 19th Danwon Art Prize_ Finalist Artist/ Danwon Art Museum, Gyeonggi, Korea Think art korea_ Selected Artist/ ShinHan Art Materials, Seoul, Korea

2016

The 5th Ghasong Art Award_ Grand Prize Winner/ Ghasong Foundation, Seoul, Korea Seoul Digital University Art Prize_ Second Prize Winner/ Seoul Digital University, Seoul, Korea

2014

The 36th Jooongang Fine Arts Prize_ Finalist Artist / JoongAng Ilbo, Seoul, Korea

2006

SOMA Museum Drawing Center_ Selected Artist/ SOMA Drawing Center, Seoul, Korea

Collections

Soorim Cultural Foundation, Soorim  Arts center, Seoul, Korea

Mimesis Art Musem, Paju, Korea

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Arts Bank), Seoul, Korea

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Arts Bank), Gyeonggi, Korea

Incheon Foundation For Arts & Culture (Arts Bank), Incheon, Korea

Dong Wha Parm (Ltd), Seoul, Korea

Shin Han Art Materials (Inc), Seoul, Korea

Private collections