Jisoo Chung

Jisoo Chung is a Korean artist who relocated to the United States. She traces failures in language, such as mistranslations, auto-corrections, and linguistic omissions, to track the sociocultural power constructed in language and names. Navigating through video, installation, drawings, and performance, her work is an act of searching for the loss of cultural identity. Mistranslations and omissions: These linguistic glitches create humor that reveals the gaps in language’s power and opens up the possibility of reevaluating language's role in forming a sense of self. The limited voice of a female in the patriarchal society of Korea and an Asian in the Western hegemony in America motivates me to investigate the invisibility of women and diaspora immigrants through a linguistic lens. A place where language hierarchy reveals social hierarchy, a place where linguistic failures evoke the loss of cultural identity, is where her works begin.

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Chung is a nominee for the United States Artists Fellowship, a fellow of the MacDowell Residency, and she has received grants from the LACE Lightning Fund (Andy Warhol Foundation), the Puffin Foundation, the Seoul Arts and Culture Foundation, and Jungwoon Prize at the Seoul International Experimental Film and Video Festival, among others. Chung holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BFA from Seoul National University. She served on the production committee at GYOPO, is co-founder and educator at Drawwing Cabinet, and is currently an adjunct faculty member at Bakersfield College. She lives, works, and teaches in Los Angeles.