Sooyoung Chung
South Korean
b. 1987
Biography
A South Korean artist, she explores what lies between misery and joy, deprivation and desire using depicting objects present in the everyday experience of contemporary people.
Chung’s work is based on her actual life and uses the space and objects to reflect what people enjoy at home, what they hide and what they want to reveal, in other words, her work is an intersection of personal mythology and collective identity.
News
February 18, 2020
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Exhibitions
Maddox Street
Sooyoung Chung: Self on the Shelf
16 March - 30 April 2023
Maddox Gallery is delighted to host Self on the Shelf, a uniquely introspective exhibition of paintings by the South Korean artist Sooyoung Chung. Each work features a shelf, or shelves, on which lie a host of objects that are laden with meaning and question what the concept of identity means to the artist.
