Joomi Chung was born in South Korea; partially grew up in Argentina; and became US citizen in 2007. She received her B.F.A. degree in Painting (1999) and M.F.A. Research Certificate at Hong Ik University in Seoul, South Korea (2000); and M.F.A. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2004). Currently she is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her work has been exhibited at national and international venues including Seoul Art Center Hangaram Museum and SOMA Drawing Center, Seoul, South Korea; Fort Collins Lincoln Center and Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; Herter Art Gallery, UMASS Amherst, MA; Urban Arts Space, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; UICA, Grand Rapids, MI; Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; the Carnegie Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Covington, KY; Art Space, Raleigh, NC; First Street Gallery, Bowery Gallery, and Site: Brooklyn, NY; University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic; and SÍM Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.
AFFILIATIONS / REPRESENTATIONS
Soma Drawing Center Artist Registry, 88-2 Bangi-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, South Korea http://www.somadrawing.org
Manifest Gallery, 2727 Woodburn Ave, Cincinnati, 45206. http://manifestgallery.org
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Asian Art Collection at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Miami University, Oxford, OH
Robert Elaine Stein Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
2013 Surfaces, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2010 Atlas, The Carnegie Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Covington,
KY
SELECTED GROUP, JURIED, INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2018
Masters of Drawing: A Contemporary Survey, Alden B. Dow Museum of
Science and Art of the Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI
2017
Time Zone Converter, Korean Cultural Center, Beijing, China
National Juried Exhibition, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
Juror: Peter Colon, Associate Director at DC Moore Gallery in NYC
Line, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, Juror: Kelly Bennett
Drawn to Creating: A Survey of Contemporary Drawing, curated by Nick
Reszetar, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Selingsgrove, PA
2016
Atypical Topographies, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa, CO
Landscape: A Sense of Place, Site-Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, Juror: Annette Rose-Shapiro, Managing Editor, ARTNews
2016 National Competition, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY, Juror: Martica Sawin
2015
Mindful/Mindless, SOMA Drawing Center, Seoul, South Korea
Lost and Found Spaces, The Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO
Strange Paradise, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
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
2011
SÍM International Artists Exhibition, SIM Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
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
The 5th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Juror: Joe Amrhein, artist and director of Pierogi Gallery, NY
The 18th National Juried Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, NYC, NY, Juror: Rackstraw Downes
The 12th Alpan International 2010, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY, Juror: Hitomi Iwasaki, Director of Exhibitions, Queens Museum of Arts, New York
