About
Jayoung Chung explores how bodily contact, light, sound and moving images alter our experience of space. Stepping into another person’s shoes and taking a hand, or watching a cloth rise to reveal an empty place, are distinct encounters within this practice.
정자영은 몸의 접촉에서 출발해 빛과 소리, 영상이 공간을 바꾸는 방식을 탐구한다. 관객이 타인의 신발을 신고 손을 잡는 일, 천이 떠오른 뒤 빈자리를 바라보는 일은 그 작업을 잇는 서로 다른 장면이다.
Contact
Jayoung Chung
Phone: +82-10-3544-2075 / +44-758-735-9785
Email: jayoungchung.com@gmail.com
Education
2024 King's College London, Arts and Christianity, MA, London, UK
2010 New York University, Interactive Telecommunication Program, MPS, New York, USA
2005 Seoul National University, Design, BFA, Seoul, Korea
2003 Ewha Woman's University, Painting, BFA, Seoul, Korea
Awards | Residency
2025 Young Artist Award, The 29th Catholic Art Award, Korea
2023 Arvo Part Centre Residency, Estonia
2020 <LIGHT: online> Seoul Cultural Center, Online media open call, Seoul, Korea
2018 4 Walls Media Open-call the first prize, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2018 Watermill Residency, Watermill Center, Watermill, NY, USA
2017 Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, USA
2017 ZK/U Residency, Berlin, Germany
2017 Asian Culture Center Creator Lab Residency, Gwangju, Korea
2016 National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Media Wall Open Call, Seoul, Korea
2016 Eyebeam Residency, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2015 LMCC Workspace Finalist, NYC, NY, USA
2015 Edward Albee Foundation Residency, Montauk, NY, USA
2015 Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
2014 Watermill Residency | Robert Wilson, Watermill, NY, USA
2014 Grant of Arts Council Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2013 Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
2013 New York State Council on the Arts in Film and Electronic Media Residency
2013 Environmental Art Biennale/Residency, I-Park Foundation, CT, USA
2013 Selected for member at Kinetica-Museum, London, UK
2013 Da Vinci Idea, Seoul Art Space, Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2012 Swing Space Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), New York, USA
2011 I-Park Foundation Residency, CT, New York, USA
2011 AHL Foundation Residency, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2011 The Invisibledog Residency, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2011 Culture Hub Residency, NY, New York, USA
2011 Finalist, 33rd Joongang Fine Art Competition, Seoul, Korea
2008 <Dear> Korean Film Archive, Seoul, Korea
2007 <Dear> (Animation) New Media Festival, Seoul, Korea
2007 <Dear> (Animation) Dot Mov Festival, Sapporo, Japan
2006 <Things That Harden Softly> (Film) New Media Festival, Seoul, Korea
2003 Advertisement Presentation Competition, 2nd Prize, KOBACO, Seoul, Korea
Exhibitions | Performance
2026 <Living Altar [Der lebendige Altar]> The 29th Catholic Art Award Exhibition, Gallery VOGOZE, Seoul, Korea
2026 <Special Exhibition for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ: The Living Altar> Eucharistic Adoration Chapel, Umyeon-dong Parish, Seoul, Korea
2022 <Double Oceans> Tongyeong Triennale, Tongyeong, Korea
2021 <LIGHT: online> Seoul Cultural Center, Online media open call, Seoul, Korea
2020 Single Channel Video, Brazil Korean Cultural Center, Brazil
2019 <LICHT> ISEA closing ceremony performance, Gwangju Cultural Center, Gwangju, Korea
2018 <LICHT> Multi-media performance, Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2018 <Einfühlung> Audience participation performance, Watermill Center, NY, USA
2017 <Einfühlung: The rhythm of sorrow> Audience participation performance, Asian Culture, Gwangju, Korea
2016 <Die Halbe Nacht> Performance, Interactive Installation, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
2016 <Ein·fühl·ung> Performance, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2016 <Color of Light> Performance, AIC, Silla, Seoul, Korea
2015 <Performing with 3 YOU> Performance, Dongsoong Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2015 <Cultural Exchange: Spain Media Art> Performance, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
2015 <Divine Intervention> Performance with Tracie Morris, Yaddo, Saratoga Spring, NY, USA
2015 <Reaching out the Moon> Media Installation, Coex, Seoul, Korea
2014 <Performing with YOU> Performance, Art Hampton Art Fair, Bridgehampton, USA
2014 <Moonlight> Performance & talk, Queens Museum, Queens, NY, USA
2014 <Under the same moon> Performance, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2014 <2 moons under the same moon> Interactive installation, City Hall, Seoul, Korea
2014 <2 lovers> Performance, TEDx Samsung, Seoul, Korea
2014 <Performing with YOU> Performance with Exhibition, Watermill Center, USA
2014 <Crossing> Performance, HCI Conference, Toronto, Canada
2013 <12 string, Galaxy tab> Open Creativity, Open World, Coex, Seoul, Korea
2013 <Leaves of Lives> 2013 Environmental Art Biennale, CT, USA
2013 <12 strings> Blur Hour, Da Vinci Idea, Keumcheon, Korea
2013 <Special Olympics Winter Games> Moving images, Opening ceremony, Pyeongchang, Korea
2012 <Singing Strings> Exhibition, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
2012 <MEDIA[CIRCUS> Digital duet via telepresence, Culturehub, Seoul Institute of Arts, Korea
2012 <Farewell> Performance, Symposium on Ephemeral Art + Architecture, I-Park, CT, USA
2012 <Drawing as Composing for 2 Worlds> River to River Festival, LMCC, NY, USA
2012 <Three Windows> Swing Space Residency Open Studio, LMCC, Governor Island, NY, USA
2011 <Sounds of Nights> AHL Foundation Gala Show, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NY, USA
2011 <Sounds of Winds> I-Park Foundation Open Studio, CT, USA
2011 33rd Joongang Fine Art Competition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2011 <Dance with the Moonlight> La Mama Gallery, NY, USA
2011 <Electronic Highways: Festival of Ideas (New Museum)> Culturehub, NY, USA
2011 <.JPEGo4> Performance and Exhibition, Da Gallery, NY, USA
2011 <Sound of Nature> Drawing exhibition, Oms Gallery - Bank Asiana, NJ, USA
2011 <MOON> Sound Interactive Performance, HCI Design Conference, Yangpyung, Korea
2010 <Rain Harmony> Kayageum Performance, Glassland Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2010 <Arirang> Kayageum Performance, Theater HAN | The Red Room, New York, USA
2010 <Playing Nature> Kayageum Performance, ITP Graduation Party, NYU, New York, USA
2009 <MOONLIGHT> Sound Interactive Performance, IAC Building, New York, USA
2009 <PLAYING THE MOONLIGHT> NIME Sound Performance, South Spraw, Brooklyn, USA
2009 <Moonlight> Sound Interactive Performance, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, USA
2008 <HEART HAS ITS OWN REASON> Interactive Art, ITP Winter Show, NY, USA
2007 <Dear> (Animation, Film) New Media Festival, Seoul, Korea
2007 <Dear> (Animation, Film) Dot Mov Festival, Sapporo, Japan
Work Experience
2010–Present · Independent Interdisciplinary Artist / Freelancer — Graphic designer, Programmer, Video editor, Technical assistant
2022–Present · Research & Development, BIRDHAND, Seoul, Korea
2022 · Producer, Research & Development, Korea–Philippine Cultural Exchange Program, Media Wall Project, Manila, Philippines
2014 · Artist, Seoul–Beijing Cultural Exchange, Seoul Cultural Council / Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2013 · Media Art Director, Special Olympics Winter Games, Pyeongchang, Korea
2012 · Independent Curator, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
2012 · Assistant Director, The Last Wall Begins, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
2012 · Visiting Artist, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2011 · Culture Hub Residency, New York, USA
2010 · Interactive Designer, Picture Projects, Inc., Brooklyn, USA
2008 · Art Director, Lee Young-Hee Museum, New York, USA
2007 · Art Director, Gallery Jung, Seoul, Korea
2006 · Art Director, Harold Pinter Festival, Seoul, Korea
2006 · Film Director, Things That Harden Softly, Seoul, Korea
2005 · Web Master & Designer, Korea Times, Seoul, Korea
Visiting Lecture
2017 UNO College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media
2015 Ewha Woman's University, Painting Graduate lecture — From Robert Wilson
2015 New York University, Steinhardt Music Technology lecture — Kayageum, 12 Strings
2014 Seoul National University, Interface Design lecture — Interface: sound–image relationship
2014 Hongik University, Multi-media — Moving Image & Sound Design
2013 Seoul National University, Visual Image lecture — Performance: sound–image interface
Bio
The gayageum, traditional singing and samulnori that Chung studied as a child form a bodily foundation for her practice. Through painting and her studies at New York University’s ITP, she brought drawing, performance, programming and instrumental music into relation. In the Empathy series, contact between participants becomes a condition for light and recorded voices to appear. Licht and Fiat Lux extend this inquiry into architecture and public space. Residencies and performances in New York, Berlin, Omaha and Seoul have allowed her to examine how a work changes with the bodies, languages and memories of those who take part.
During her MA at King’s College London in 2024–2026, Chung developed six essays and a dissertation on empathy, images and embodiment, absence and presence. Research in London and field research in Cologne and Ávila examined the limits of identification with another person and the spatial conditions that emerge when an image withdraws. These questions informed Living Altar (2025), produced in Cologne, and subsequent exhibitions in Seoul in 2026. Her recent work uses the alternation of projected images and physical light, the movement of cloth and intervals of silence to ask how the place left by a body can be perceived.