Checksy Choi

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 ...

Solo Exhibitions

2026 Eotieum: The Ply of Longing, Peace Culture Bunker (former military anti-tank bunker), Seoul, South Korea
2025 Checkered Karma, Suburbs Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2023 Meet in Checkered, Piuda Artspace, Seoul, South Korea


Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Craiova Jazz Festival, Filarmonica Oltenia Craiova, ArtBeesGallery, Craiova, Romania
2025 Inter Carmina, Satyrus Area, Rome, Italy
2025 Inscribing Vegas, Immersive Gallery, Vū Vegas, Las Vegas, USA
2024 Reunion at No Place, ArtCrush Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2024 Reunion at No Place, ArtCrush Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2024 Subjective Art Festival, TriBeCa, New York, USA
2023 Forte, Gallery Rabo, Seoul, South Korea
2022 Wonderland, Artpian, Seoul, South Korea

Institutional Archives & Acquisitions
2024 Royal Danish Library, Denmark


Collection
2025 The Digital Asset Museum (THE DAM), Florida


Awards & Recognition
2024 HUG's 100 Artists to Watch
Selected by a jury from MoMA, Christie's, and Artnet
2024 HUG Visionary Artist & Grant Recipient
2024 United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Certificate of Honor
Awarded through the 34 Gallery project