Artist Statement

Shin Chung is a Seoul-based artist whose work explores not what images represent, but how they are perceived. Drawing inspiration from film, social media, popular culture, and everyday life, Chung collects visual fragments and reinterprets them through geometric forms, custom-mixed colors, and compositions.

Chung translates familiar subjects from a personal perspective. Faces and identities are often deconstructed and reshaped, shifting attention away from recognition and toward perception itself. By balancing familiarity and ambiguity, the work invites viewers to bring their own memories and experiences into the image.

Through this process, Chung reflects on the ways images shape memory, desire, and cultural identity in an age of endless visual consumption, allowing viewers to discover their own narratives within each work.

CV / Profile

Education

  • 2025 M.F.A. in Painting, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Hongik University
  • 2014 B.A. in Printmaking, University of Alaska Anchorage

Exhibition

  • Solo Exhibitions
  • 2024 Book Club, Forerium, Gimpo, South Korea
  • 2010 Ability to Capture, Gallery Zhang, Seoul, South Korea

  • Group Exhibitions
  • 2024 Multiple Perspectives, Herald Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
  • 2017 Small but Great Joy, Choi Jung Ah Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
  • 2016 Share, Heart, Choi Jung Ah Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
  • 2015 100 X 100, International Gallery of Contemporary Art (IGCA), Anchorage, USA
  • 2012 CUPtemporary, International Gallery of Contemporary Art (IGCA), Anchorage, USA
  • ASYAAF (Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival), Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, South Korea

Contact

Email: shinvchung@gmail.com

Instagram: @shinvc