Artist Statement

Suhyun 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 aspect of being, power, and interdependence translates 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 Choi is a Queerean multidisciplinary artist and organizer who creates works through installations, textile, sculpture, writing, video, painting, and social organizing. They were a past Recess 'Session' (2023) artist and MIT's 'Feminist Future(s)' (2021) fellow. They are a current New Inc member, and were a resident in Ford Foundation's 'New Media Leadership program' (2022), Eyebeam's 'Trust' residency (2018), and the 'Bandung Residency' (2023) organized by the Asian American Arts Alliance and Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art in New York. Their writings are featured on Pioneer Works, Biennale Architettura, Korea Pavilion: Future School, and Processing Foundation. They have been a guest speaker at Art Basel Hong Kong (2018) for Tai Kwun Contemporary’s talk called 'Labor and Privilege', the Metropolitan Museum’s 'Career Lab: Art and Activism' in 2017, and ‘Techno-Orientalism and Strategies Against Violence’ at Recess in 2023. 

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Through QTBIPOC organizing, they co-founded BUFU, which has been covered by publications such as the Village Voice, NYLON, Hyperallergic, the Fader, and many more. For BUFU’s programming, they have worked with institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, New Women Space, the New Museum, Abrons Art Center, and School for Poetic Computation. This work has resulted in the YBCA 100 Honoree award that is given to activists and artists such as Tarana Burke, Janelle Monae, Janet Mock, and many more.