Paili (Fire God) Mask Sculpture

Jin-Yong Choi is a New York-based artist born in South Korea. Choi received his BFA at Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea and MFA at Pratt Institute in New York. Based on his apocalyptic narratives, he explores and experiments with tactile desires and a sense of materiality in sculptural forms and installation. By creating objects with intriguing materials, combining digital and non-digital images, and adding lots of details to them, he wants to create a unique experience that arouses haptic desires and visual pleasure that can only be experienced in the real. Recently, he has been working on a project called Digital Shaman and creating shamanic objects. Digital shaman is a medium that delivers past knowledge to the new world. He believes people in the apocalyptic world will treat his multicultural creations as relics that are simultaneously primitive and advanced. Choi’s artwork has been shown in galleries and museums in South Korea and the U.S., including Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL) in NY, Shin Gallery in NY, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in NY, A.I.R Gallery in NY, Wassaic Project in NY. He has participated in the Artist Residency Program at Trestle Art Space in NY, Sculpture Space in Utica and ChaNorth in Pine Plains, BRIC Bridge Space, NY, and LMCC Art Center in NY. Also, He earned the Stutzman Foundation Fellowships and won the Gold Prize from AHL – T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Awards.