1982   Born in Daegu, Korea

2006   B.F.A Fine Art Department, Hong-ik University, Seoul

2008   M.F.A Fine Art Department, Hong-ik University, Seoul

Currently works and lives in Seoul

SOLO EXHIBITION

2012   My castle in the air   Art Seasons Gallery|Singapore

2008   a made-up scene 2^nd   Insa Art Center|Seoul
       a made-up scene   Kumho Museum Of Art|Seoul

GROUP EXHIBITION

2012   AR Festival   Asia Publication Culture & Information Center|Paju, Korea

2011   HOMA Curator project   Hong-ik Museum of Art|Seoul
       No.45 - Kumho Young Artists   Kumho Museum of Art|Seoul

Choi Jiyoung’s work featuring a bed, a sofa, a chair, a bathtub, a chandelier, an incandescent lamp, and a tea table makes the objects seem to be floating over the background, submerged in darkness. This evokes a psychological, internal, and implicative mood. The objects that appear in her paintings work as a substitute for personality and desire. The artist calls them ‘a made-up scene.'

In ‘a made-up scene', the scene is the momentum that transforms objects into fetishes. The palette of her painting is restricted to several monotones, Such as black and white or blue and orange, thereby evoking a se

nse of puritanical abstinence and temperance which is congenial to bourgeois morals, Confucius ideology, and a Minimalist aesthetic sense. While a black and white scene(more accurately on a dark brown canvas) brings about ontological pathos as if facing darkness itself(a metaphor for an abyss), a bluish tone applied to the bathroom scenes provokes a sense of agreeable isolation along with a cold, dim feeling. This cozy feeling of solitude is likely to be a stylistic feature of the modern style.

(高忠煥 Kho Chunghwan, Art Critic)