SuJung Jo
SuJung Jo
@sujungjo
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EDUCATION
Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY, MFA in Photography 2022
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International Center of Photography New York, NY, MFA in Photography, 2019-2020
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Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI
BFA in Graphic Design, 2017
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Experience
Art&Fashion Show New York, NY, Blockchain Center, 2023
Keumsil Show Chicago, IL, George W Dunne Cook County Office Building, 2023
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New York K-Art Festival New York, NY, Kate Oh Gallery, 2023
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Beyond Art Space II New York, NY, One Art Space, 2023
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Beyond Art Space Brooklyn, NY, Gowanus Gallery by Larrisa, 2022
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Maximalism and Minimalism II New York, NY One Art Space, 2022
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La Pera Project Collaboration &Digital Exhibition, 2022
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Art Fluent Digital Exhibition, 2022
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Afterimages Brooklyn, NY Photo Gallery, 2022
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There is a Deadline Brooklyn, NY Matte HQ, 2022
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AD Art Show New York, NY Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center, 2022
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MFA Thesis Show Brooklyn, NY Pfizer Building, 2022
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Materials Matter Brooklyn, NY Dekalb Gallery, 2022
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Maximum and Minimalism New York, NY Art in Space, 2021
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Echirolles Graphic Design Month Paris, France Poster Exhibition 2016, 2016
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Awards
Excellence in Academic Achievement Brooklyn, NY Pratt Institute, 2022
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Clio Award in Contemporary Art New York, NY Finalist, 2022
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Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency Saugatuck, Michigan Papermaking, 2021
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Congressional Art Competition Princeton, NY 3rd place in Photography, 2013
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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.
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