JIWON CHOI
JIWON CHOI
Education
2016 MFA Photo, Video, and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, United States
2013 BFA with Honors, School of Visual Arts, New York, United States
2012 Willem De Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Honors and Awards
2021 Official Selection - Berlin International Art Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
Official Selection - London Filmmaker Awards, London, United Kingdom
Red Carpet Image Award - New Media Film Festival, Los Angeles, United States
Adobe Premiere Pro Insider, Seoul, South Korea
Honorable Mention, Best Experimental Film - ARFF Paris International Awards, Paris, France
Official Selection - Dancing the God Festival, World Music Institute, Online
2020 Official Selection of Still Point Expanding - A Dance on Camera Festival, Online
2018 Official Selection of New Filmmakers - New Filmmakers New York, New York, United States
2017 International Young Filmmaker Award - 14th up-and-coming Int. Film Festival, Hanover, Germany
2014 Chairman’s Grant - School of Visual Arts, New York, United States
2012 Fine Art Grant - School of Visual Arts, New York, United States
Travel Grant - Willem De Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Selected Exhibition / Performance / Screening
2023 “Thrill Me.” Kunsthalle Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland (Upcoming)
“Thrill Me.” Kunsthalle Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland (Upcoming)
“Thrill Me.” Stadtkino Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Upcoming)
"OUR WEEK," Seoul, South Korea
"143KM Ride and Screening," Seoul, South Korea
2022 "I Am Here/You Were There," The Ohio State University, United States
"K-POP Dance Night," Lincoln Center, New York, United States
2021 "ARFF Paris International Awards," Paris, France
"New Media Film Festival," Los Angeles, United States
"Berlin International Art Film Festival", Berlin, Germany
"London Filmmaker Awards", London, United Kingdom
"Dancing the God Festival", World Music Institute, Online
2020 "Still Point Expanding - A Dance on Camera Festival," Online
2019 "22nd International Open," Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, United States
"Obsessive Pop Tendencies," Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
"Shall We Dance?", Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations, Marseille, France
"Take My Money / Take My Body", Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Los Angeles, United States
"Double Takes: Historic and Contemporary Film + Video", Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, United States
2018 "FLOW", Raven Row, London, United Kingdom
"Family Grimoires- The Diaspora Fantastic", SEVENTH Gallery, Victoria, Australia
"Parallel", Vdrome, Online
"Parallel", the Box, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, United States
"Verão no Galpão", Galpão VB, São Paulo, Brazil
"New Filmmakers", Anthology Film Archives, New York, United States
"Morning!", Kino Rex Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2017 "14th up-and-coming Int. Film Festival", Hanover, Germany
"Parallel", Gallery 67, New York, United States
"To Spread the Table Fuller: Screening", Miranda Kuo Gallery, New York, United States
"Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: HAPHAZARD PARADIGM", Brooklyn, United States
"20th Contemporary Art Festival SESC_VIDEOBRASIL", Associação Cultural Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
"WRO BIENNALE: DRAFT SYSTEMS", WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
"Parallel", b.a.d. Foundation, Rotterdam, Netherlands
"Parallel", Happy Lucky no.1 Gallery, Brooklyn, United States
"Lunatic Womxn", The Borough, Brooklyn, United States
"Worlds", Flowers for all Occasions, Brooklyn, United States
"Nasty Women", The Knockdown Center. Maspeth, United States
2016 "Parallel", PRAM, Prague, Czech Republic
"Authority, By Proxy", Molasses Books, Brooklyn, United States
"Re: Re:", Pfizer. Brooklyn, United States
"Re:", Pfizer, Brooklyn, United States
"Kilroy Metal Ceiling Launch", Kilroy Metal Ceiling, Brooklyn, United States
"Daughters of Onion.land", Jan Brandt Gallery, Bloomington, United States
2015 "et.alia/1", Sleep Center, New York, United States
"invisible -> visible", 56 Bogart, Brooklyn, United States
"One Million Year", The Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States
"AMBUSH + Rat the 'spy' 51", XP, Beijing, China
2014 "One Way Communication", Channel 1969, Seoul, South Korea
"Video by Night", Creon Gallery, New York, United States
"ALL-NIGHTERS", 46 Hester St, New York, United States
"Round Three", Gucci Tower, New York, United States
"Small Works Show", Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, United States
2013 "Dreamy World", C.C.C.P Gallery, Brooklyn, United States
"Fitting In, Performance Anxiety", Culture Fix, New York, United States
"Sampler", Visual Arts Gallery, New York, United States
"Birth", Spotlight, New York, United States
2012 "Thanks for All The Fish", Willem De Kooning Academy Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
"Invisible Harbor", Gebouw Weena, Rotterdam, Netherlands
"TERRA NOVA", CREW, Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
"Versus", Kyungwoo Chun, Times Square Alliance Public Art, New York, United States
Artist Talk / Lecture
2022 It’s ALL ABOUT K-POP, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, United States
2021 Cinematic Voices, class by Jheanelle Brown, CalArts, Santa Clarita, United States
2019 K-POP and Art, Politics, Gender, and Globalization of K-POP, class by Dr. Sharon Heijin Lee, New York
University, New York, United States.
Ending the Korean War, class by Dr. Sharon Heijin Lee, New York University, New York, United States
2017 Visiting Artist - Jiwon Choi, Parallel, b.a.d foundation, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Publication
2020 Feminist right here, Feminist in Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Obsessive Pop Tendencies, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
On Danse?, MUCEM, Marseille, France
2017 17th Media Art Biennale WRO 2017 DRAFT SYSTEMS, Wroclaw, Poland
Panoramas Do Sul, Festival De Arte Contemporãnea Sesc_Videobrasil,São Paulo, Brazil
Up and Coming 14. Internationales Film Festival Hannover, Hannover, Germany
2015 et.alia, PS1 MoMa Art Book Fair, Long Island City, United States
2013 20/20, School of Visual Arts, New York, United States
Selected Bibliography
2022 The Montclarion. “Multimedia Artist Jiwon Choi Comes to Montclair State’s Film Forum,” Feb 2nd. By Megan Lim.
2021 Artebrasileiros. "Eduardo De Jesus comenta "Parallel", de Jiwon Choi, no novo Acervo Comentado Videobrasil," January 14th. By Redação
2019 TERREMOTO. “Take My Money / Take My Body”, February 20th. By LACE.
Journal ventilo. “On danse?”, February 6th. By Pauline Puaux.
Contemporary Art Review.la. “Take My Money/Take My Body at LACE”, January 30th. By Aaron Horst.
Artillery Magazine. “LACE: TAKE MY MONEY / TAKE MY BODY”, February 12th. By Jennie E. Park.
Hyperallergic. “How K-Pop Has Become a Battleground for Political Ideologies”, February 6th. By Abe Ahn.
2018 Elemmental. “‘Parallel’ de Jiwon Choi: el K-pop en cuestión” , March 1st. By Danielle Cruz.
Vdrome. “Parallel”, Interview by Danielle Wu.
TERREMOTO. “20º Festival de Arte Contemporânea Sesc_Videobrasil,at Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo”, January 11th. By Dorothée Dupuis.
2017 ArtAsiaPacific. “Southern Panoramas: 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil”, November 3rd. By HG Masters.
Serienjunkies. “Up-and-coming 2017: The winners of the young film festival”, By Hanna Huge.
Hannoversche Allgemeine. “Das Nachwuchsfilmfestival Up and Coming vergibt seine Wettbewerbspreise” , By Thomas Kaestle.
2016 The Spark Mag. “et.alia”, February 2nd. By Lindsay Zackeroff.
2015 The Korean New York Daily. “BIBIM”, By Young Joo Shin.
2014 The Korean New York Daily. “Re-interpretation of 'Identity Crisis'”, August 22nd. By Chang Gyu Lim.
2013 Hyperallergic. “And They're Off: Friday Night Openings at Bushwick Open Studios 2013”, June 1st. By Hrag Vartanian.
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