Chaewon Moon

ChaeWon Moon (b.1992, Korea) is a visual artist living and working in South Korea. Her practice focuses on the inevitable failure behind order and rule; sensing nonsense from the organized logic is a central idea of her practice. She borrows pictures and texts from manuals and reassembles them into a non-functional system. The work reflects her interest in the tension between order and playful illegibility, and also ambivalence caused by this conflict. She constructs the rebus that refused to decoded. Her work reads as dark humor about attempts to control the situation that only need an ideal result from the process. By deconstructing and rebuilding the structure of the manual, which is designed to point the answer or the goal, she parodies familiarity and perfection. In her work, the structure that supposed to present a concrete and helpful solution becomes a tool to address the intended misunderstanding.

2019 MFA Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Major Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing

2015 BFA Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea
Major Fine Arts, Painting

Solo Exhibition
2019
“How To Make A Perfect Pancake” , Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016
“Collapsed Perfection”, Sum Gallery, Jeonju, Korea

Group Exhibition
2019
"On the tip of My Tongue", Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
“Unsolicited Submissions”, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA
“Priority Mail” , Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “North//East”, CIRCA Gallery, Minnesota, MN
“Mostly Fine Adults” , Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
“All In” , Pratt Institute Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY “Reaching Into Transformation" , CP Project Space, New York, NY
"Jet Lag" , Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018
"Jaceb Tivc", Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
“Uncanny Valley Ranch”, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY "Big Painting Show" , Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2017
“Passion. Connected. 100x100” , Korean Cultural Center, New York, NY

2015
"Limbo", Kookmin Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea