"The Elusive" Painting

Checksy Choi is a contemporary artist who develops Eotieum—a visual and conceptual framework for understanding how relation endures within fracture. Rooted in Korean language and ways of perceiving relational space, her work explores conditions in which tension, distance, and coexistence sustain connection. Working across layered paintings on Hanji (traditional Korean paper) and large-scale installation, she constructs spatial compositions in which misalignment becomes a structure for breath, continuity, and resilience. Articulated through her visual language of Checkered Expressionism, her practice emerges from the lived condition of a divided Korea, extending toward a broader inquiry into how relation persists across distance, time, and rupture. Her work translates histories of fracture into material forms that hold fragmentation without resolution—proposing relation as something that continues to form rather than resolve. She was selected for HUG: 100 Artists to Watch by a jury including curators and specialists from The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Christie’s, and Artnet. Her work is featured in a publication held by the Royal Library, Copenhagen. Additional honors include a UNV Certificate of Honor and recognition as a Hug Visionary Artist.