Choi Yoonsuk is a visual artist, director, and producer who documents and reconstructs autobiographical episodes through video and performance. Beyond the gallery, Choi focuses on performance-making. He led the process-oriented project Glass Mirror (2016？2022), which transformed the private interests of artists into lecture performances.
His recent practice includes solo exhibitions such as Peng Qu Chi: The Day Before I Was (2025, LDK), a spiritual time-travel toward the scenery of "the eve of birth" in the form of a tea ceremony, and Waiting For A Face (2020, Outsight), an attempt to find methods of distancing oneself from the work. He has also participated in various exhibitions, including the duo exhibition Counting Air (2023, Primary Practice) and group exhibitions such as Post Media and Site (2023, Busan Museum of Art) and My Sleep (2022, Culture Station Seoul 284). In the field of performance, his directorial work includes co-directing the production Sliding Invitation (2022, Theater QUAD) and the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company’s Step-up: Hard Disk (2020, Seoul Arts Center).
Education
2011 MFA in Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, UK
2007 BFA in Painting, College of Arts, Chung-Ang University, Anseong, KR
Selected Solo Exhibition
2025 Peng Qu Chi: The Day Before I Was, LDK, Seoul, KR
2021 The Face of a Flimsy Fabric, BRRRT, Incheon, KR
2020 Waiting for a Face, Outsight, Seoul, KR
2018 Homemade, PlaceMAK, Seoul, KR
2017 It Should Not Be This Way, Theatre Sinchon, Seoul, KR
2015 Unassailable Assets, O’NewWall, Seoul, KR
Selected Group Exhibition / Performance / Screening
2024 Stranger Than Heaven, OF, Seoul, KR
2023 Counting Air, Primary Practice, Seoul, KR
2023 Post Media and Site, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, KR
2023 Anbang Theater, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, KR
2022 My Sleep, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, KR
2021 New Cross Edition, Osisun, Seoul, KR
2021 Windmill Screening Vol.1: Stand by, WINDMILL, Seoul, KR
2020 This Event, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2020 Korean Eye 2020, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, RU
2020 Step-up: Hard Disk, Jayu Theatre, Seoul, KR
2019 PERFORM 2019: Linkin-out, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2018 PERFORM 2018: DATAPACK, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2018 EMAP: Ewha Media Art Presentation, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, KR
2017 Video Portrait, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2017 Museum Busking, Soma Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2017 Pattern of Ngoc, Ansan Street Arts Festival, Ansan, KR
2016 SeMA Biennale Media City Seoul 2016 Neriri Kiruru Harara: Sound of Hell, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2016 Please Return to Busan Port, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Oslo, NO
2015 Hesitation Form: Gone with the Beginning, Space O’NewWall, Seoul, KR
2015 Have a Good Day, Mr. Kim, Michael Horbach Foundation, Cologne, DE
2015 Another O, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, KR
Selected Performance Making
2025 Subaltern Elegy: Songs from the Margins, Theatre Sinchon, Seoul, KR
2023 Umbilic Point, Theatre Sinchon, Seoul, KR
2022 Sliding Invitation, SFAC Theatre Quad, Seoul, KR
2022 Still Life Garden, SeMA Nanji Residency Exhibition Hall, Seoul, KR
2022 Glass Mirror 2022: Makers, www.theglassmirror.org, KR
2021 VinylC × Glass Mirror, VinylC, Seoul, KR
2021 Still Life Overture, Theatre Sinchon, Seoul, KR
2020 Scenethesizer, COSMO40, Incheon, KR
2020 VinylC × Glass Mirror, VinylC, Seoul, KR
2020 Scenethesizer, Theatre Sinchon, Seoul, KR
2019 Makshow 2019: Glass Mirror, PlaceMAK LASER, Seoul, KR
2019 Hard Disk, Theatre Sinchon, Seoul, KR
2018 Glass Mirror 2018, PlaceMAK LASER, Seoul, KR
2017 Relay Lecture Performance: Glass Mirror, Dusan Art Center, Seoul, KR
2016 Relay Lecture Performance: Kaleidoscope, Open The Door, Seoul, KR
2014 Public Service: Kindness, Service, Cooperation, Doksan Police Station, Seoul, KR
2014 Life & Work Work & Life, Shinhan Gallery Yeoksam, Seoul, KR
2013 Reality Check, 43 Inverness Street Gallery, London, UK
Residency
2026 SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, KR
2021 Wooran Yisang Arts Research, Wooran Foundation, Seoul, KR
2020 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, KR
2019 MMCA Residency Goyang, Goyang, KR
Collection
Seoul Museum of Art, KR
