Chung Seoyoung (b. 1964, Seoul, South Korea; lives in Seoul, South Korea) works across sculpture, drawing, text, video, sound, and performance. Her practice opens pathways for sculpture to manifest as a comprehensive and expansive medium. She has long engaged with the relationship between objects, language, and sculpture and considers her objects—which she calls “social evidence”—to be the result of countless human actions and events in a chain reaction. Her work detaches objects encountered in life from their situation and time and brings them to the place of sculpture. Chung studied sculpture at Seoul National University and the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany. She has participated in numerous exhibitions including 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane (2024); 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale (2024); SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul (2014); Gwangju Biennale (2008, 2002, 1997); and Landscape of Differences at the Korean Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale (2003). Recent solo exhibitions include With no Head nor Tail (Tina Kim Gallery, New York, 2024); What I Saw Today (Seoul Museum of Art, 2022); and Knocking Air (Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, 2020).
