Cody Choi(b.1961), who has consistently been active as a visual artist and cultural theorist since the 1980s, explores the cultural identity and relationship of authority within contemporary society. Choi touches upon topics of cultural maldigestion, third-culture created by the clash of different cultures, the beauty of such hybridism, and simultaneously occurring new social phenomena—all of which Choi experienced as a foreigner in the US. Choi gained his stature as a world-renowned artist after participating in a solo exhibition at Deitch Projects (New York, USA) and an inaugural group exhibition at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseille (Marseille, France) in the mid-1990s. From 2015 to 2017 he had a retrospective traveling show at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, Germany), Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseille (Marseille, France), Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (Chemnitz, Germany) organized by art-historian John C. Welchman. Choi was a representing artist at the Korean Pavilion for the 2017 Venice Biennale. His publication includes Topography of 20th Century Culture (2006) and Topography of Contemporary Culture (2010), which are critiques about contemporary society and culture.
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Cody Choi
코디 최
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After graduating from Hongik University’s Visual Design Department and KAIST’s MBA program, she worked as a designer in various organizations. She works as a freelance designer and participates in open design projects such as the Open Design Salon at Creative Commons Korea.
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