JooYoung Choi
{{short description|American sculptor}}
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Massachusetts College of Art and Design
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JooYoung Choi is a Houston-based Korean American multidisciplinary visual artist working with paintings, sculpture, and video to portray the mythology of a fictional world called the Cosmic Womb.
Personal life
Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1982, immigrating to Concord, New Hampshire through adoption in the early 1980s.{{Cite web|title=JooYoung Choi|url=https://parrishart.org/jooyoung-choi/|access-date=2021-03-13|website=Parrish Art Museum|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last1=Lavin|first1=Talia|last2=Columnist|date=2015-04-27|title=One Artist's Parallel Universe Explores Issues Of Adoption And Race In America|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jooyoung-choi-cosmic-womb_n_7089990|access-date=2021-09-23|website=HuffPost|language=en}} She earned her undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and her M.F.A. in Visual Art from the Art Institute of Boston.{{Cite web|last=Glentzer|first=Molly|date=May 29, 2015|title=Art leads to many discoveries for JooYoung Choi|url=https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/theater/art-leads-to-many-discoveries-for-jooyoung-choi-6295155|access-date=2021-03-13|website=Preview {{!}} Houston Arts & Entertainment Guide|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=MCFADDEN|first=MICHAEL|date=2015-07-15|title=The Intoxicating Artistic Vision of JooYoung Choi|url=http://artsandculturetx.com/the-cosmic-womb/|access-date=2021-03-13|website=Arts and Culture Texas|language=en-US}}
Work
Choi's work includes soft sculptures, puppets, paintings, animation, and video art.{{Cite web|last=Kearney|first=Syd|date=2019-05-07|title=Art is the new brain food. Feast.|url=https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/entertainment/article/Art-is-the-new-brain-food-Feast-13826155.php|access-date=2021-04-15|website=Beaumont Enterprise|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=How Houston artist JooYoung Choi builds an inclusive fantasy world|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-houston-artist-jooyoung-choi-builds-an-inclusive-fantasy-world/ar-BB1aZ54j|access-date=2021-09-23|website=www.msn.com}} Her first puppets were created in 2015 during a residency at Lawndale Art Center, while also working to develop her skills as a painter and finding a love for visually balanced dynamic compositions.
= Cosmic Womb =
The Cosmic Womb is a paracosm with its own characters and mythology, with the motto "Have Faith, for You've Always Been Loved." It is a way of exploring aspects of her own identity and her experiences with adoption, offering ways for Choi to step into the roles of different characters. The Cosmic Womb is governed by an earthling from Concord (the city of her childhood) named C.S. Watson, alongside the Tuplets, who are six humanoids with special powers, and Queen Kiok.
Selected awards
- National Endowment for the Arts, Challenge America grant recipient, 2019{{Cite web|date=2019-02-14|title=Texas Organizations Receive National Endowment of the Arts Grants|url=https://glasstire.com/2019/02/14/texas-organizations-receive-national-endowment-of-the-arts-grants/|access-date=2021-03-13|website=Glasstire|language=en-US}}
- The Idea Fund, Round Eleven Stimulus grant, 2019{{Cite web|author=BWW News Desk|title=The Idea Fund Announces Round 11 Grantees For 2019|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/houston/article/The-Idea-Fund-Announces-Round-11-Grantees-For-2019-20181206|access-date=2021-03-13|website=BroadwayWorld.com|language=en}}
- Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs and Houston Arts Alliance, Support for Artist and Creative Individuals grant, 2019
- Riverfest Artist-in-Residence, 2018{{Cite web|last=360Wichita.com|date=2018-05-30|title=Meet the 2018 Riverfest Resident Artist: JooYoung Choi|url=http://www.360wichita.com/blog/Events/Meet-the-2018-Riverfest-Resident-Artist-JooYoung-Choi.html|access-date=2021-09-23|website=360Wichita.com|language=en}}
- The Idea Fund, Round Eight Spark grant, 2016{{Cite web|title=Round 8 (2016)|url=http://theideafund.org/grant-recipients/round-8-2016/|access-date=2021-03-13|website=The Idea Fund|language=en-US}}
- Artadia Fund for Art and Dialogue, Artadia Award, 2015{{Cite web|title=Awardee Spotlight: A Dialogue with JooYoung Choi|url=https://artadia.org/news/awardee-spotlight-a-dialogue-with-jooyoung-choi/|access-date=2021-03-13|website=Artadia|date=14 February 2020 }}
References
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External links
- [https://www.jooyoungchoi.com/ Official Website]
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Category:American women sculptors
Category:American artists of Korean descent
Category:American women installation artists
Category:American installation artists
Category:21st-century American women painters
Category:21st-century American painters