Artist Statement

Suhyun | Sonia Choi is an artist and organizer who maps narratives of Queerean existence and labor. Their multidisciplinary practice (including installations, textiles, and social organizing) works to uplift and honor femme labor through creating grounding moments that make space for deep reverence and grief. These philosophical ruminations on the fundamental aspects of being, power, and interdependence translate to their organizing work, where collective care takes form in the process of re-indigenization and transformative justice. Through ritual and obsession, divination and prayer, they create care-based, philosophical, grounded, and cute works. 

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Artist Bio

Suhyun | Sonia Choi is a Queerean multidisciplinary artist, writer, and organizer who creates works through installations, video, textile, and social organizing. They were a past Recess 'Session' (2023) artist and MIT's 'Feminist Future(s)' (2021) fellow. Their work has been exhibited at Brooklyn Museum (2017), New Museum (2016), Queens Museum (2017), AHL Foundation (2022), School for Poetic Computation (2019), Abrons Art Center (2018), and POWRPLNT (2016). Their residencies include the New Inc membership (2024), Ford Foundation's 'New Media Leadership program' (2022), 'Bandung Residency' (2023) organized by the Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), Brooklyn Community Foundation (2020), and Eyebeam's 'Trust' residency (2018). They have been a guest speaker at Art Basel Hong Kong (2018) for Tai Kwun Contemporary’s talk 'Labor and Privilege', the Metropolitan Museum’s 'Career Lab: Art and Activism' in 2017, ‘Techno-Orientalism and Strategies Against Violence’ as part of their solo exhibition at Recess (2023), ‘Bandung Learnings: How Artists are building Black-Asian Solidarity’ at Ford Foundation by MoCADA and A4, ‘p5.js Community Salon’ at NYU ITP (2023), ‘Body Discourse and Ontology’ for Universidad de las Américas Puebla (2021), ‘Weaving ‘Us’’ for Allied Media Conference (2020), ‘Creative Anti-Racism’ for Biennale Architettura, Korea Pavilion: Future School (2020), Asia Art Forum (2020), was a keynote speaker for Eyeo Festival titled ‘WYFY: With You, For You’, ‘What’s the use of Intersectionality?’ for Feminist Culture House (2021), and ‘Building Radical Collectives’ at BRIC (2018). Their work has been featured on VoyageATL (2026), Womanly (2024), and DRECK Magazine (2014). Their writing is currently archived in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New Museum, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Commonwealth and Council Gallery, and AHL Foundation.

Through QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color) cultural organizing, they co-founded BUFU: By Us For Us, which has been covered by publications such as Frieze (2020), the Village Voice (2017 & 2016), NYLON (2017), Hyperallergic (2016), the Fader (2017), Editorial Magazine (2016), i-D (2017 & 2016), and POSTURE Magazine (2016). This work has resulted in the YBCA 100 Honoree award, which is given to activists and artists such as Tarana Burke, Janelle Monáe, Janet Mock, and many more.