SuJung Jo
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SuJung Jo
@sujungjo
Artist Biography
I am a Brooklyn-based artist who works with photography, wood working and sculpture. My personal experiences have deeply influences my art practice and led me to explore the vulnerability and fragility of human. Through my practice, I visualize the fragility that I find. I make it tangible in order to confront it.
Simultaneously my instinct to withhold my weakness manifests in my works as shielded, veiled, fragmented, and distorted images which I achieved through stitching and sculpting. My current body of work lies in the illusion of three dimensionality of layered organza, which allows for topographical perspective on fragility. My work is a combination of my acceptance and resistance to my own vulnerability.
My strategy in using the organza to veil the images is not just a psychological strategy, but also an innovative growth in my approach to photography. I have found new and fresher ways to communicate through my art, particularly by stretching the boundaries of the two-dimensional form of photography and integrating I with the three dimensional possibilities of sculpture. I am constantly exploring the limits of my mediums to create new possibilities and push the boundaries of traditional mediums.
EDUCATION
Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY
MFA in Photography 2022
International Center of Photography New York, NY
MFA in Photography 2019-2020
Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI
BFA in Graphic Design 2017
EXHIBITION
2023 Art&Fashion Show New York, NY, Blockchain Center
2023 Keumsil Show Chicago, IL, George W Dunne Cook County Office Building
2023 New York K-Art Festival New York, NY, Kate Oh Gallery,
2023 Beyond Art Space II New York, NY, One Art Space
2022 Beyond Art Space Brooklyn, NY, Gowanus Gallery by Larrisa
2022 Maximalism and Minimalism II New York, NY One Art Space
2022 La Pera Project Collaboration &Digital Exhibition
2022 Art Fluent Digital Exhibition
2022 Afterimages Brooklyn, NY Photo Gallery
2022 There is a Deadline Brooklyn, NY Matte HQ
2022 AD Art Show New York, NY Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center
2022 MFA Thesis Show Brooklyn, NY Pfizer Building
2022 Materials Matter Brooklyn, NY Dekalb Gallery
2021 Maximum and Minimalism New York, NY Art in Space
2016 Echirolles Graphic Design Month Paris, France Poster Exhibition 2016
AWARD
2022 Excellence in Academic Achievement Brooklyn, NY Pratt Institute
2022 Clio Award in Contemporary Art New York, NY Finalist
2021 Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency Saugatuck, Michigan Papermaking
2013 Congressional Art Competition Princeton, NY 3rd place in Photography