CHU Mirim majored in visual design, utilizing the smallest units of digital screens, square pixels, and shapes extracted from cities viewed through satellite maps as working modules. Setting contemporary everyday user interfaces in the web and urban environments, she aims to express the digital nostalgia and urban sensibility felt on the surface through various genres such as painting, installations, and videos. She has expanded her perspective to the data that fuels web and urban operations, attempting to explore the appearance of a data-centric society and symbolize and ventilate these observations metaphorically
She has recently participated in the duo exhibition Partner’s Desk with Hong Seung-hye (This Weekend Room, Seoul, 2024), as well as Young Korean Artists 2023 (MMCA, Gwacheon, 2023) and a solo exhibition titled Chaos Kong (Baik Art, Seoul, 2023). Additionally, she has been part of exhibitions held at institutions like Gyeongnam Art Museum, Ulsan Art Museum, and Seoul Museum of Art. Her works are collected in institutions such as the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Government Art Bank, and Hanwha Dream House. She participated as the 17th resident at MMCA Residency Goyang.
Education
2006 Bachelor of Design (B.D.), Major in Visual Communication Design, Dankook University
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Chaos Kong, Baik Art, Seoul, Korea
2020 Satellites, Gallery LUX, Seoul, Korea
2016 New modules born from a rippling grid, Trunk gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014 P.O.I (Point of interest), Space Willing and Dealing, Seoul, Korea
2013 WWW.THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, Gallery Steph, Singapore
2010 418: I AM A TEAPOT, Die Galerie, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Korea Young Artists 2023: Annotating Museum, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea
2022 Singing Whales, Diving Stars, Ulsan art museum, Ulsan, Korea
2021 Sunset Valley Village, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
2020 No Space, Just a Place. Eterotopia, Daelim museum, Seoul, Korea
2019 The Way a Hare transforms into a Turtle, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Space Exploration, Gyeongnam art museum, Changwon, Korea
2018 Two pillars and seven letters, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2017 25.7 Seoul Focus, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 Confession of A Mask, Museum of Art Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2011 Korea tomorrow, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2009 Wonderful Pictures, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Public Art and Media Projects
2023 Cheongnyangni Hillstate Kinetic Media Cube City Pixel Blocks
2022 Samsung Everland Media Facade Annual Project
2021 Video Production for the Contemporary Dance Performance Cheok Showcase, Asia Culture Center
2021 Iconic Gyeonggi at Gwanggyo Provincial Government Complex, Gyeonggi Province
Awards
2019 Grand prix, Unknown Asia, Osaka, Japan
Collection
MMCA Government Art Bank
Hanwha Dream House
MMCA Art Bank
Residencies
2024 SeMA Nanji Residency
2021 MMCA Goyang Residency
