Jong-un Choi

Jong-un Choi



About The Artist


EDUCATION: 2013 Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA MFA, Studio Art, Painting 2007 Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea MFA, Fine Arts, Korean Painting 2004 Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea BFA, Fine Arts, Korean Painting AWARDS: 2015 Special Juror Mention, 18th International Open, juried by Gil Gatfield, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA 2013 Honorable Mention, Reflection, Juried by Mark-Elliott Lugo, 21 Gallery, Artists guild of San Diego Museum of art, San Diego, CA 2012 Honorarium, BIG TEN CONFERENCE, Park Ridge, IL 2010 Artist Residency Scholarship (Delta Phi Delta, Purdue University), Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen, CO, USA 2010 the Visual Arts Committee’s Purchase Awards at Westwood, West Lafayette, IN 2006 Selected for Korean Grand Contest for Fine Arts, National Museum of Contemporary Art Selected in EPOCH, Art Museum, Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea 2006 Selected for the Twenty-First Century ART - New Challenge,DanWon Museum, Seoul, Korea 2004 Selected for the 2nd Seoul Art Grand-Prix, The annexes of GyongBok and GyongHee Palaces, Seoul, Korea 2004 Selected for the Dong A Art Festival, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea EXHIBITION: Solo Exhibitions 2013 SELECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS: between vision and perception, Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, West Lafayette, IN, USA 2008 SPACE, Young Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2007 ANOTHER VISION BEHIND, DOS Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2007 SPACE, Jang Eun Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2006 SPACE, Gallery the Space, Seoul, Korea Commercial Collaboration Solo Exhibitions 2015 SPACE, ART of Framing,Inc., Lafayette, IN, USA 2014 SELECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS, Communication Dept. at Purdue Univ.,West Lafayette, IN, USA 2012 SPACE, Cafe Lumos, West Lafayette, IN, USA 2009 SPACE, KDees Coffee, Lafayette, IN, USA Two-person Exhibitions & Art Fair 2007 Beijing 798 Contemporary Korean & Chinese Art, 706Gallery, Beijing, China 2007 ART SEOUL, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea 2006  ART SEOUL, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea 2006 Chaos n Cosmos by Hyun sun Jo and Jong-un Choi, Gallery the Space, Seoul, Korea 2005 Guk jin Seo and Jong-un Choi, Seizy Gallery, Seoul, Korea Group Exhibitions  2015 18th International Open, juried by Gil Gatfield, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA 2014 2014 Faculty Show, Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, West Lafayette, IN, USA The City As I See It, selected by The Gallery at the Watershed, Eugene, OR, USA GRIT: The Urban Landscape, Juried by Paul Ha, Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA, USA 27th Annual Northern National Art Competition Juried by Linda Benedict-Jones,Nicolet College Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI OPEN DOOR, 10th Juried Competition by Jill Schroder, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA NEW YORK NOW, Factory-Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA Westwood, Westwood, the residence of Purdue University's president, West Lafayette, IN, USA Masur Museum of Art 51st Annual Juried Competition by Kelly Shindler, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA, USA 2013 Reflection, Juried by Mark-Elliott Lugo, 21 Gallery and The San Diego Museum of Art, Artists Guild Online Gallery, San Diego, CA, USA Westwood, Westwood, the residence of Purdue University's president, West Lafayette, IN, USA Between the Rough, Lafayette, IN, USA 2012 Westwood, Westwood, the residence of Purdue University's president, West Lafayette, IN, USA 18th Annual Texas National Exhibition juried by Dave Hickey, SFA Art Galleries, TX Solar Decathlon Home_ INhome by Purdue, Washington D.C., USA 2011 Big Ten Conference 2011-12 Graduate Student Fine Art Exhibit, Park Ridge, IL, USA Anderson Ranch Annual Art Auction, Snowmass Village, CO, USA 64 ARTS National Juried Exhibition, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL, USA NASL Visual Art Show, Bloomington, IN, USA Westwood, Westwood, the residence of Purdue University's president, West Lafayette, IN, USA 14º Purdue Grad Art Show, Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, West Lafayette, IN, USA 2010 Westwood, Westwood, the residence of Purdue University's president, West Lafayette, IN, USA The Kaumba Project, Chicago, IL, USA 2009 Borrowed Ground, the Lions Club Building, Battle Ground, IN, USA 2008 Someday, Open the Door, Door Gallery, Seoul, Korea Small Pictures, Korean Art Center, Seoul, Korea 2007 Spread Impression, KeumSan Gallery, Has Gallery, Heyri, Korea Contemporary Korean Painting, Tablo Gallery, Seoul, Korea Divinity of Korean Art, Gallery Chosun, Seoul, Korea Expression of the Sensibility of Korean Paintng , E- hyoung Art Center, Seoul, Korea Exhibition by Chaeyon, Ewha Art Center, Seoul, Korea 2006 6th plus minus “Love is...," Gallery Dos, Seoul, Korea Korean Painting - New Eyes, Tablo Gallery, Seoul, Korea EPOCH / Art Museum, Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea The celebration in EPOCH, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea 7th plus minus “Treasure Beyond the Memory,” Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea Exhibition by Chaeyon, Lamer, Seoul, Korea 2005 Perfection of the Beautiful Autonomy, Lotte Art Gallery, Ilsan, Korea The 2nd Young Artists' Prospect, Gallery All, Seoul, Korea The Object, Gallery With White, Seoul, Korea An Exchange of World Colleges - WAVE, Ewha Art Center, Seoul, Korea New East, Gongpyong Art Center, Seoul, Korea La Jeune Creation Coreenne, Galerie Etienne de Causans, Paris, France 5th plus minus “A Secret and A Lie”, Style Cube Zandari, Seoul, Korea Beautiful Youth, Guoldam Gallery, Tablo Gallery, Seoul, Korea Exhibition by Chaeyon, Gongpyong Art Center, Seoul, Korea 2004 Young People's Breath 04'-breath, Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea “Who am I?" Gallery Sun&Moon, Seoul, Korea The 5th New Millennium Young Artists, Tower Gallery, Busan, Korea "Clothing-Painting INTENTION," Lotte Gallery, Anyang, Korea CURATORIAL PROJECT 2015 SPRING BREEZE, West Lafayette, IN COLLECTIONS Purdue University Kangnam Yonsei Rehabilitation Clinic Jang Eun Sun Gallery E&C Engineering