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— Studio Artists: 2020

Jesse Chun

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Jesse Chun is an artist working across video, sculpture, sound, drawing, and text. Chun’s work addresses systems of language, power, and legibility to consider new translations toward opacity, poetry, and the untranslatable. Her work has been exhibited at SculptureCenter; Queens Museum; The Drawing Center; BAM; Bronx Museum of the Arts (United States); Oakville Galleries (Canada); and the Nam June Paik Art Center (South Korea), among others. Select solo digital and print publications include WORKBOOK (Triple Canopy, 2019) and Intangible Heritage (Wendy’s Subway x BAM, 2018). Chun’s work is in public collections of the Whitney Museum Library; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Artist Book Collection; the Smithsonian Institution, Archive of American Art; Yale University Library, and Asia Art Archive in America, and more. Select reviews include Artforum, the Brooklyn Rail, ArtAsiaPacific, Art21, the Wall Street Journal, Artpapers, and BOMB. Chun works and lives in New York. 

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