Artist Statement/ Biography

Choey (Eun Young Cho); her drawings, installations, and photographs are inspired by her ongoing curiosity for the hierarchy between text and image. She makes works about language and of poetry. Her practice explores the process of language production, mobility and stillness of translation, and linguistic theories. Dependent on but free from language, she generates something new and beyond linguistic encounter by reassembling the fragments of its whole. Choey’s conceptual and material process deeply engages with the condition of inhabiting two world views as a bilingual and addresses the position of a silent third in her poetry.

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Choey is a visual artist based in US and S. Korea. She works with drawing, installation, poetry, and photography and is inspired by conflicting cultural and societal values surrounding her everyday. The central framework of her practice is translation theory and her editing projects include a retrospective exhibition catalog for National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) and a publication for Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture (SFAC). Her recent shows include Roy G Biv Gallery, the Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical studies and fellowships and residencies include Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada and Vermont Studio Center and Studios at MASS MoCA (forthcoming). She holds an MFA from the Ohio State University and a BFA from Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha.