Minyoung Choi

Biography

Born: 1989

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Currently: London, UK

Educated: MFA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London

Minyoung’s artistic practice includes painting, drawing and poetry. Her work explores aspects of memory, time and place through the lens of childhood and adolescence. At first glance, the dreamlike scenes seem to suggest a narrative although the whole mood, how things are placed and painted are more important for her. Minyoung collects images of objects, figures and creatures with poses that interest or fascinate her. The sources of the imagery range from everyday and banal to historical or fictional ones. When positioned in these landscapes they take on a new kind of personal symbolism and narrative.

Works

Exhibitions:

2018      Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London.
2017      On Water Under Snow, Art in the Bar, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales.
2017      We Go Forward/We Come Back, Olvera Contemporary Art Centre, Olvera, Spain.
2017      FLOCK, GX gallery, London.
2017      Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London.
2017      Authentic Tongues, Bloomsbury Theatre, London.
2017      On Primrose Hill, Primrose Hill, London.
2017      MA and Other Postgraduate, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset.
2016      After Art School, Artattack, The Crypt Gallery, London.
2016      Forwards + Backwards, Dona Laura’s House, Lisbon, Portugal.
2016      Wells Art Contemporary Awards, The Bishop’s Palace, Wells.
2016      Beep 2016 Wales International Painting Prize: This must be the place I never wanted to leave, Swansea College of Art & Undegun, Wrexham.
2016      Cacophonia, The Peckham Pelican, London.