Email jinseokchoistudio@gmail.com
Website jinseokchoi.com
Education
2016 — 2018 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2013 — 2016 MFA Sculpture, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea
2006 — 2012 BFA Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
Solo Exhibitions / Performances
2024 Before the Last Spike, Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery at ArtCenter College of Design, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Repair, Regather, Vares, Valga, Estonia
2019 Tell no lies. Claim no easy victories, Human Resources LA, Los Angeles, CA
2019 I will convince you that I don’t need to convince you, Werkartz, Los Angeles, CA
2018 I Would Rather Be Nowhere, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2017 Words as screaming, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2016 The (Patched) Question, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2015 Figurine Out, Vanjiha, Seoul, South Korea
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Watermarks That Seeped Through The Concrete, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Function–Fiction, GOBI, Los Angeles, CA
2024 My Shed Skin Becomes a Mask (Two-person exhibition), Art in the Park, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Acts of Healing and Repair, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
2023 It’s Raining Somewhere, Project Space (Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity), Banff, Alberta, Canada
2023 2023 Open Show, Monte Vista Project, Los Angeles, CA
2021 In Flux, GOBI, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Reunion, 888 N hill St, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Time is Out of Joint, MAK Center The Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Workspace Only / No Overnights, Art in the Park, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Augmented Realities: Performance in Real Life, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Zeitgeist: 非-Psychedelic; Blue, Amado Art Space/Lab, Seoul, South Korea
Grants/Awards/Fellowships
2024 Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY
2024 Shortlist of Fellowship for Visual Artists, California Community Foundation, CA
2024 CURATORS LAB (both the curator and a participating artist), Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Get Ready Grant, CERF+
2024 Shortlist of the Hopper Prize, Hopper Prize
2024 Shortlist of the NEW WORK LA Grant, Prospect Art, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Banff Centre Scholarship Fund, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2020 Nominee of Rema Hort Mann Foundation (RHMF)’s 2020 Emerging Artist Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Artist Fellowship, Korean Artists Welfare Foundation, Seoul, South Korea
Residency programs
2025 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE (upcoming)
2025 Artist-In-Residence Taipei, Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2024 Crosstown Arts Residency, Memphis, TN
2024 Vares Architecture Residency, Valga, Estonia
2024 Ucross Residency, Clearmont, WY
2023 Banff Artist in Residence Spring 2023, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2022 The Residency Project, Pasadena, CA
2019 Otis College of Art and Design Summer Residency, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Vermont Studio Center residency, Johnson, VT
2018 Werkartz residency, Los Angeles, CA
2018 MASS MoCA’s Summer residency program, North Adams, MA
2018 SAAS-FEE Summer Institute of Art, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Organizing/Programming/Talks
2024 Artist talk, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2024 Watermarks that Seeped Through Concrete, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Diaspora Roundtable, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2021 — present Co-founder, MOTOR (Mobile project space: https://motorla.online), Los Angeles
2021 Artist talk, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2021 Artist talk, Artes Plásticas Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia
2016 Arko Emerging Artists and Curators Workshop, Arko Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2012 — 2013 Co-founder, Space 1(Artist-run space), Seoul, South Korea
Press
2024 Hopper Prize, “Jinseok Choi Interview,” Apr 16, 2024. (https://hopperprize.org/jinseok-choi-interview/)
2024 Shortlist page of Hopper Prize (Url: https://hopperprize.org/jinseok-choi/)
2023 Margaret Bikman, “New Whatcom Museum exhibit tackles themes of healing and repair, Cascadia Daily News, Nov 15, 2023. (Url: https://www.cascadiadaily.com/2023/nov/15/new-whatcom-museum-exhibit-tackles-themes-of-healing-and-repair/)
2022 Interview by GOBI (Url: https://gobi.la/stories/studio-visit-with-jinseok-choi/)
2019 Sooyeon Oh, “Reconciliation between personal ego and social self,” Korea Daily, Jan 10, 2019. (Url: http://www.koreadaily.com/news/read.asp?art_id=6884885)
2018 Emma Kamp, “At the CalArts MFA Show, Video Art Delivers Biting Social Critique”, Hyperallergic, June 14, 2018. (Url: https://hyperallergic.com/447527/calarts-mfa-grad-show-2018-the-box/)
2018 Anushka Jain, “Exhibit allows international artists to bring awareness to East Asian struggles,” Daily Bruin, Sep 27, 2018. (Url: https://dailybruin.com/2018/09/27/exhibit-allows-international-artists-to-bring-awareness-to-east-asian-struggles/)
2016 Sun A Moon, “Zeitgeist: 非-Psychedelic; Blue is the first exhibition of Zeitgeist series based on media theory and generation theory and deals with 'art after the internet' and the generation born in 1980s & 1990s.”, Artrabbit, Jun 10, 2016. (Url: https://www.artrabbit.com/events/zeitgeist-非psychedelic-blue)
2016 Shiu Kwon, “<Zeitgeist: 非-Psychedelic>, Art after ruins”, Jipdanochan, June 2, 2016.(Url: http://jipdanochan.com/72, in Korean)