Checksy Choi

Checksy Choi is a contemporary artist who developed Eotieum, a term rooted in Korean language and thought, as a visual and philosophical framework for understanding how relation endures within fracture.

Working across layered paintings on Hanji (traditional Korean paper), with a large-scale installation, she constructs spatial compositions in which misalignment becomes a structure for breath, continuity, and resilience. Grounded in a Korean understanding of relational space, her work explores conditions in which tension, distance, and coexistence sustain connection.

Articulated through her visual language of Checkered Expressionism, her practice emerges from the condition of a divided Korea, translating histories of rupture into material forms that hold fragmentation without resolution.

Selected for HUG: 100 Artists to Watch by a distinguished jury including Madeleine Pierpont (MoMA), Sebastian Sanchez (Christie's), and Jiayin Chen (Artnet)—with work featured in a publication housed in the Royal Library in Copenhagen—she has established herself as a defining voice for our fractured age. Additional honors include a UNV Certificate of Honor and recognition as a Hug Visionary Artist.
Checksy’s practice is explored in greater detail...

Institutional Archives & Acquisitions
2024, Royal Library of Copenhagen, Denmark (Publication acquired as part of HUG’s 100 Artists to Watch, selected by a jury from MoMA, Christie’s, and Artnet)

Permanent Collection
2025, DAM Museum, Florida

Awards
2024, United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Certificate of Honor, awarded through the 34 Gallery project
2024, Hug Visionary Artist Selection and Grant Recipient
2024, HUG’s 100 Artists to Watch Selection by a jury from MoMA, Christie’s, and Artnet


Solo Exhibitions
2025 – "Checkered Karma", Montreal, Canada
2023 – "Meet in Checkered", Seoul, South Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 – Los Angeles, USA
2025 – Florence, Italy
2024 – TriBeCa, New York, USA (393 Broadway)
2024 – Times Square Billboard Showcase, New York, USA
2024 – Melbourne, Australia (Public Exhibition by ArtCrush Gallery)
2024 – Brussels, Belgium (Clear Channel x ArtCrush Gallery, 780+ Screens)
2024 – Rome, Italy
2024 – Miami Beach, USA
2023 – Seoul, South Korea (Gallery Rabo)
2023 – New York, USA
2023 – Milwaukee, USA
2023 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 – Paris, France
2023 – Brussels, Belgium
2023 – Paros Island, Greece
2022 – Seoul, South Korea

Honors
2024, Selected for Loupe's Women's History Month (Event featu...