Past Residents
Past Resident2024: DOOSAN Art Center
Sungsil Ryu
Sungsil Ryu’s art delves into materialistic desires in contemporary Korea, shaped by a blend of traditional Korean Confucian values and the pervasive neoliberal global order led by the United States. Through the lens of black comedy and employing diverse mediums including video, installation, and performance, she reinterprets cultural phenomena with incisive commentary.
Sungsil Ryu has exhibited work at Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Germany; Nam June Paik Art Center, South Korea, among others.
Sungsil Ryu, BJ Cherry Jang 2018.9, 2018, single channel video, 11 min.
Sungsil Ryu, I'm Not Dead!, 2019, Motor and mixed media, 59 × 78 × 119 in. (149.86 × 198.12 × 302.26 cm).
Sungsil Ryu, BigKing Travel Ching Chen Tour - Mr. Kim’s Revival 2019, 2019, single channel video, 25 min.
Sungsil Ryu, Bigking Travel 2020, 2020, single channel video with user interaction, 15 min.
Sungsil Ryu, The Burning Love Song, 2022, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Residents from South Korea
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Hong Seon Jang
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Past Resident2024: DOOSAN Art Center
Heemin Chung
Seoul-based artist Heemin Chung explores the material potential of digital images by translating them into painting and sculpture. Her work examines how technology has shaped contemporary art and its role in society. She reimagines traditional painting genres, such as landscape and still life, through poetic visual metaphors, employing experimental techniques to investigate the functions of texture and volume.
Heemin Chung has exhibited work at Doosan Art Center; Busan Biennale; and Nam Seoul Museum of Art, all in South Korea, among others.
Heemin Chung, Receivers, installation view, l2023, mixed media.
Heemin Chung, Distant Calling, installation view, 2023, acrylic, oil and inket transferred gel medium.
Heemin Chung, Siren Anemone and Her Reflected Self, installation view, 2022, mixed media.
Heemin Chung, When Our Palmline Meets, installation view, 2021, acrylic and inkjet transferred gel medium.
Heemin Chung, The Opening of the Night, 2023, oil, acryl, injet transferred gel medium.
Residents from South Korea
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Hong Seon Jang
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Past Resident2024: Icelandic Art Center
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir
Interdisciplinary artist Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir works with staged photography, sculptures, tapestry paintings, video, and audio. By blending phenomena and familiar imagery, she explores the hyperreality of her everyday environment. Ríkharðsdóttir is interested in the contrast between the natural, the man-made, and the staged and work is influenced by personal experiences and visual surroundings, as well as by math, sci-fi, cult movies, advertisements, memes, and stock images.
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir has exhibited work at Hafnarborg Museum, Iceland; The Living Art Museum, Iceland; and 80WSE Gallery, New York, among others.
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, Game of Chess with the Lottery Lady, 2023, video installation, 8 min.
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, Volcano Painting #5, 2022, stretched digital image on woven tapestry, 20 × 27 in. (50.8 × 68.58 cm).
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, Final Countdown, 2021, video installation, 7 min.
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, The Golden Ratio, 2021, 12 pencil and color pencil drawing on 220g paper, 9 × 0 × 12 in. (22.86 × 0 × 30.48 cm).
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, Please Wait, 2021, video installation, 11 min.
