David Chung (artist)
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| name = Y. David Chung
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1959}}
| death_date =
| website = http://www.davidchung.com/
| education = University of Virginia
| alma_mater = Corcoran School of the Arts and Design,
George Mason University
}}
Y. David Chung (born 1959) is a German-born American contemporary artist, and educator, he is of Korean-descent. He serves as the director of the MFA program at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, associated with the University of Michigan. The focus of his work is Korean identity and various types of diasporas.{{Cite web|last=Son|first=Hijoo|last2=Rhee|first2=Jooyeon|date=2018|title=Decentering Korean Identity with Diasporic Art: A Conversation with Y. David Chung|url=https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-29/chung|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-17|website=Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review|pages=75–89|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809021755/https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-29/chung |archive-date=2020-08-09 }} Chung is known for paintings, drawings, printmaking, art installations, public art, and performances.Kim, Elaine H. 'Fresh Talk, Daring Gazes: conversations on Asian American Art' Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. p. 189.{{Cite news|last=Kimmelman|first=Michael|date=1990-05-27|title=Art View: The Force Of Conviction Stirred by the 80's|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/27/arts/art-view-the-force-of-conviction-stirred-by-the-80-s.html|access-date=2021-09-17|issn=0362-4331}}
Biography
Y. David Chung was born in 1959 in Bonn, Germany.{{cite web |url=http://www.tmttr.org/artists/chung.htm |title=Take Me to the River: Artists - Y. David Chung |publisher=Tmttr.org |date= |accessdate=2015-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305150728/http://www.tmttr.org/artists/chung.htm |archive-date=2016-03-05 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite book|last=Hallmark|first=Kara Kelley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=932dMZiWUfgC|title=Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists|date=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-33451-1|pages=49|language=en}} He is of Korean descent, his parents migrated after World War II. His mother was from Kaesong, and his father was from a small town outside Pyŏngyang.
He studied at the University of Virginia, and received his B.F.A. degree from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in 1988. He received his M.F.A. degree from George Mason University.{{cite web|url=http://stamps.umich.edu/people/detail/david_chung |title=David Chung | Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan |publisher=Stamps.umich.edu |date= |accessdate=2015-10-01}}
Career
Chung has been a visiting artists at a number of universities including Duke University, UC Berkeley, Wellesley College, Williams College, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Before returning to school to receive his MFA, Chung was artist-in-residence at Houston-based Project Row Houses in 1996.Kim, Elaine H. 'Fresh Talk, Daring Gazes: conversations on Asian American Art' Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. p. 103.
After receiving his M.F.A., Chung has held faculty positions at George Mason University and in the Department of Art and Visual Technology and at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at University of Michigan. In 2013, he was a visiting professor at the department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
Artwork
In an article by Rick Lowe for Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes, he discusses Chung's piece Third Ward Jungle and writes that Chung's process in performance work addresses important aspects of integrating art in society. Lowe also comments on the fact that while Chung is the primary performer in his pieces (referring to drawing performances), it is evident that the audience takes on a large role. In addition to his performance based works, Chung has also completed a number of public works.
In 1998, Chung created a large-scale mosaic in P.S. 24 in Brooklyn, New York depicting daily life of Sunset Park that was sponsored by the Board of Education.{{cite web |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/panyc/chung.shtml |title=Y. David Chung - NYC Department of Cultural Affairs |publisher=Nyc.gov |date= |accessdate=2015-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002013153/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/panyc/chung.shtml |archive-date=2015-10-02 |url-status=dead }}
Chung's work is in public museum collections including the New Museum,{{Cite web|title=People: Y. David Chung|url=https://archive.newmuseum.org/people/367|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-17|website=New Museum Digital Archive|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130151104/https://archive.newmuseum.org/people/367 |archive-date=2020-11-30 }} and the Whitney Museum of American Art.{{Cite web|title=Y. David Chung|url=https://whitney.org/artists/11293?q%5Bs%5D=sort_date%20desc|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-17|website=Whitney Museum of American Art|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917134332/https://whitney.org/artists/11293?q%5Bs%5D=sort_date%20desc |archive-date=2021-09-17 }}
Awards
Chung has received a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, the Washington Mayor's Art Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Artist at Giverny Fellowship, the Rosebud Best in Show Film and Video Award, the Artslink Collaborative Project Fellowship in Kazakhstan, and the Best Documentary Film Award from the National Film Board of Canada.
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External links
- [http://www.davidchung.com/ Official website]
- [http://stamps.umich.edu/people/detail/david_chung Stamps.umich.edu]
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Category:University of Michigan faculty
Category:Corcoran School of the Arts and Design alumni