Born in South Korea, Joomi Chung is a multimedia artist based in Oxford, Ohio where she is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Miami University. Her work has been exhibited at national and international venues including Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH; Urban Arts Space, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; Seoul Art Center at Hangaram Museum and SOMA Drawing Center, Seoul, South Korea; CICA Museum in Gyonggido, South Korea; and the University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic among others.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
CICA Museum (2023-present), 196-30 Samdo-ro, Yangchon-eup, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Soma Museum (2011-present), 88-2 Bangi-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Strata Gallery (2022-2023), 418 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Creative Asian Society (2024-present), an interdisciplinary non-profit association of AAPI artists based in Ohio.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS IN MUSEUMS
Asian Art Collection, University of Colorado Boulder, CO
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
Miami University, Oxford, OH
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Robert Elaine Stein Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Vance Waddell Collection, Cincinnati, OH
Barbara and Gates Moss Collection, Cincinnati, OH
David and Kelly Beckett Collection, Cincinnati, OH
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 (In)Visible, Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Archives, Eva G. Farris Gallery, Thomas More University, Crestview Hills, KY
2020 Image-Space/Memory-Space, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2019 Milieu, Martha Hull Lee Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH
2017 Floating Land, Cloyde Snook & Hatfield Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa, CO
2016 Vortices and Atlas, 21st Century Museum Hotel, Cincinnati, OH
2015 Swarm, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Swarm, Box 13 Art Space, Houston, TX
Swarm, En Em Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2013 Surfaces, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2010 Atlas, The Carnegie Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Covington, KY
2008 Signoscope-Signoscape V: Vortices, juried solo exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, NY Juror: Esther Adler, Museum of Modern Art in New York
2005 Signoscope-Signoscape II, Cage Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH
2004 Playground II: The Labyrinth, Herter Galleries, UMASS, Amherst, MA
2000 Playground 1, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
SELECTED JURIED/INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Multiculturalism and Belonging, juried multimedia group exhibition, co-hosted by CICA Museum and Dutton Gallery, CSU San Bernardino, CA
Newbodies/Nobodies, juried multimedia group exhibition, co-hosted by CICA Museum and King Street
Gallery, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD
Dragon, etc., Creative Asian Society group exhibition, Elevar Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
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Nature 2024, juried multimedia group exhibition, CICA Museum, South Korea
2023 SOS ART2023: Peace and Justice, invitational group exhibition curated by Saad Gosn, Art Academy of
Cincinnati, OH
Strata member annual group show, Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Durations, multimedia concert co-organized by concert:Nova and the Response Project, The Mercantile
Library, Cincinnati, OH. Animators: Santiago Slabý (Argentine artist based in Czech Republic), Kate Ball
(Brighton, UK), Joomi Chung (OH, US), Steven Subotnick (RI, US), and Lizzy DuQuette (OH, US). Musicians:
Briana Matzke, Ted Nelson, Eric Bates, Anna Dunlap, Michael Culligan, Matt Hightower, and Henrik Heide.
Guest speakers: Philip Argyres (physicist), Jennfer Molano (neurologist), Rabbi Haim Rechnitzer (Ph.D),
Jordan Ficklin (watchmaker). https://www.theresponseproject.org/durations
Animaze, Int’l Animated Film Festival, Montreal, Canada. Selected work: Soundscape II: A Visual Response
to Morton Feldman’s Duration III, 2022. https://animazefestival.com/about/
Form 2022, international juried multimedia exhibition, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Lewis Place Exhibition, Department of Art Faculty and Student exhibition, Miami University, Oxford, OH
2021 The Masks We Wear, curated from the Vance Waddell Collection, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Oliveros Project Visual Response, Wave Pool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Prologue, Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2020 Visual Protest: The Voice of Change, Women's Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
The Masks We Wear, Pendleton Photography Center, Cincinnati, OH
2018 Open Source 1.1, invitational group exhibtion, The Carnegie Gallery, Covington, KY
Landscape: Real and Imagined, Site: Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary Masters of Drawing: From Classic Realism to Abstraction, Alden B. Dow Museum of Science
and Art of the Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI
2017 Line, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Drawn to Creating: A Survey of Contemporary Drawing, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selingsgrove, PA
2016 Atypical Topographies, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa, CO
2015 Mindful/Mindless (무심無心), SOMA Drawing Center, Seoul, South Korea
2014 Connections, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Drawn, Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH
2013 Limit(less), Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2010 Time-Sensitive, emerging artists national juried group exhibition, Roy G Biv Gallery, Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, OH. Juror: Ola Ståhl
Drawing in the Expanded Field, Clara Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Jurors: Deanna Petherbridge and Howard Riley
Skeptical Landscapes, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Invited artists: Dean Monogenis, Joomi Chung, Dean Byington, Steve Budington, Erik Benson, Peter Edlund, Benjamin Edwards, Jake Longstreth, Dana Melamed, Lisa Sanditz, and Peter Rostovsky
2009 Sight Mapping, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. Invited artists: Mark Lombardi, Vernon Fisher, Diana Cooper, Joomi Chung, Dominic McGill, and Tam Van Tran among others.