About

Jayoung Chung is a Korean media artist working with video, sound, light and interactive installation. Her recent practice explores Christian liturgy, the Eucharist, embodiment and sacred space.

Contact

Jayoung Chung

Phone: +82-10-3544-2075 / +44-758-735-9785

Email: jayoungchung.com@gmail.com

Education

2024 King's College London, Arts and Christianity, MA, London, UK

2010 New York University, Interactive Telecommunication Program, MPS, New York, USA

2005 Seoul National University, Design, BFA, Seoul, Korea

2003 Ewha Woman's University, Painting, BFA, Seoul, Korea

Awards | Residency

2025 Young Artist Award, The 29th Catholic Art Award, Korea

2023 Arvo Part Centre Residency, Estonia

2020 <LIGHT: online> Seoul Cultural Center, Online media open call, Seoul, Korea

2018 4 Walls Media Open-call the first prize, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea

2018 Watermill Residency, Watermill Center, Watermill, NY, USA

2017 Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, USA

2017 ZK/U Residency, Berlin, Germany

2017 Asian Culture Center Creator Lab Residency, Gwangju, Korea

2016 National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Media Wall Open Call, Seoul, Korea

2016 Eyebeam Residency, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2015 LMCC Workspace Finalist, NYC, NY, USA

2015 Edward Albee Foundation Residency, Montauk, NY, USA

2015 Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA

2014 Watermill Residency | Robert Wilson, Watermill, NY, USA

2014 Grant of Arts Council Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea

2013 Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA

2013 New York State Council on the Arts in Film and Electronic Media Residency

2013 Environmental Art Biennale/Residency, I-Park Foundation, CT, USA

2013 Selected for member at Kinetica-Museum, London, UK

2013 Da Vinci Idea, Seoul Art Space, Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea

2012 Swing Space Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), New York, USA

2011 I-Park Foundation Residency, CT, New York, USA

2011 AHL Foundation Residency, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2011 The Invisibledog Residency, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2011 Culture Hub Residency, NY, New York, USA

2011 Finalist, 33rd Joongang Fine Art Competition, Seoul, Korea

2008 <Dear> Korean Film Archive, Seoul, Korea

2007 <Dear> (Animation) New Media Festival, Seoul, Korea

2007 <Dear> (Animation) Dot Mov Festival, Sapporo, Japan

2006 <Things That Harden Softly> (Film) New Media Festival, Seoul, Korea

2003 Advertisement Presentation Competition, 2nd Prize, KOBACO, Seoul, Korea

Exhibitions | Performance

2026 <Living Altar [Der lebendige Altar]> The 29th Catholic Art Award Exhibition, Gallery VOGOZE, Seoul, Korea

2026 <Special Exhibition for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ: The Living Altar> Eucharistic Adoration Chapel, Umyeon-dong Parish, Seoul, Korea

2022 <Double Oceans> Tongyeong Triennale, Tongyeong, Korea

2021 <LIGHT: online> Seoul Cultural Center, Online media open call, Seoul, Korea

2020 Single Channel Video, Brazil Korean Cultural Center, Brazil

2019 <LICHT> ISEA closing ceremony performance, Gwangju Cultural Center, Gwangju, Korea

2018 <LICHT> Multi-media performance, Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea

2018 <Einfühlung> Audience participation performance, Watermill Center, NY, USA

2017 <Einfühlung: The rhythm of sorrow> Audience participation performance, Asian Culture, Gwangju, Korea

2016 <Die Halbe Nacht> Performance, Interactive Installation, MMCA, Seoul, Korea

2016 <Ein·fühl·ung> Performance, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2016 <Color of Light> Performance, AIC, Silla, Seoul, Korea

2015 <Performing with 3 YOU> Performance, Dongsoong Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2015 <Cultural Exchange: Spain Media Art> Performance, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea

2015 <Divine Intervention> Performance with Tracie Morris, Yaddo, Saratoga Spring, NY, USA

2015 <Reaching out the Moon> Media Installation, Coex, Seoul, Korea

2014 <Performing with YOU> Performance, Art Hampton Art Fair, Bridgehampton, USA

2014 <Moonlight> Performance & talk, Queens Museum, Queens, NY, USA

2014 <Under the same moon> Performance, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

2014 <2 moons under the same moon> Interactive installation, City Hall, Seoul, Korea

2014 <2 lovers> Performance, TEDx Samsung, Seoul, Korea

2014 <Performing with YOU> Performance with Exhibition, Watermill Center, USA

2014 <Crossing> Performance, HCI Conference, Toronto, Canada

2013 <12 string, Galaxy tab> Open Creativity, Open World, Coex, Seoul, Korea

2013 <Leaves of Lives> 2013 Environmental Art Biennale, CT, USA

2013 <12 strings> Blur Hour, Da Vinci Idea, Keumcheon, Korea

2013 <Special Olympics Winter Games> Moving images, Opening ceremony, Pyeongchang, Korea

2012 <Singing Strings> Exhibition, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea

2012 <MEDIA[CIRCUS> Digital duet via telepresence, Culturehub, Seoul Institute of Arts, Korea

2012 <Farewell> Performance, Symposium on Ephemeral Art + Architecture, I-Park, CT, USA

2012 <Drawing as Composing for 2 Worlds> River to River Festival, LMCC, NY, USA

2012 <Three Windows> Swing Space Residency Open Studio, LMCC, Governor Island, NY, USA

2011 <Sounds of Nights> AHL Foundation Gala Show, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NY, USA

2011 <Sounds of Winds> I-Park Foundation Open Studio, CT, USA

2011 33rd Joongang Fine Art Competition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea

2011 <Dance with the Moonlight> La Mama Gallery, NY, USA

2011 <Electronic Highways: Festival of Ideas (New Museum)> Culturehub, NY, USA

2011 <.JPEGo4> Performance and Exhibition, Da Gallery, NY, USA

2011 <Sound of Nature> Drawing exhibition, Oms Gallery - Bank Asiana, NJ, USA

2011 <MOON> Sound Interactive Performance, HCI Design Conference, Yangpyung, Korea

2010 <Rain Harmony> Kayageum Performance, Glassland Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2010 <Arirang> Kayageum Performance, Theater HAN | The Red Room, New York, USA

2010 <Playing Nature> Kayageum Performance, ITP Graduation Party, NYU, New York, USA

2009 <MOONLIGHT> Sound Interactive Performance, IAC Building, New York, USA

2009 <PLAYING THE MOONLIGHT> NIME Sound Performance, South Spraw, Brooklyn, USA

2009 <Moonlight> Sound Interactive Performance, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, USA

2008 <HEART HAS ITS OWN REASON> Interactive Art, ITP Winter Show, NY, USA

2007 <Dear> (Animation, Film) New Media Festival, Seoul, Korea

2007 <Dear> (Animation, Film) Dot Mov Festival, Sapporo, Japan

Work Experience

2010–Present · Independent Interdisciplinary Artist / Freelancer — Graphic designer, Programmer, Video editor, Technical assistant

2022–Present · Research & Development, BIRDHAND, Seoul, Korea

2022 · Producer, Research & Development, Korea–Philippine Cultural Exchange Program, Media Wall Project, Manila, Philippines

2014 · Artist, Seoul–Beijing Cultural Exchange, Seoul Cultural Council / Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

2013 · Media Art Director, Special Olympics Winter Games, Pyeongchang, Korea

2012 · Independent Curator, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea

2012 · Assistant Director, The Last Wall Begins, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea

2012 · Visiting Artist, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

2011 · Culture Hub Residency, New York, USA

2010 · Interactive Designer, Picture Projects, Inc., Brooklyn, USA

2008 · Art Director, Lee Young-Hee Museum, New York, USA

2007 · Art Director, Gallery Jung, Seoul, Korea

2006 · Art Director, Harold Pinter Festival, Seoul, Korea

2006 · Film Director, Things That Harden Softly, Seoul, Korea

2005 · Web Master & Designer, Korea Times, Seoul, Korea

Visiting Lecture

2017 UNO College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media

2015 Ewha Woman's University, Painting Graduate lecture — From Robert Wilson

2015 New York University, Steinhardt Music Technology lecture — Kayageum, 12 Strings

2014 Seoul National University, Interface Design lecture — Interface: sound–image relationship

2014 Hongik University, Multi-media — Moving Image & Sound Design

2013 Seoul National University, Visual Image lecture — Performance: sound–image interface

Bio

Rooted in the gayageum, traditional song, and samulnori she studied in childhood, Jayoung Chung draws on these as the wellspring of her artistic world. Though trained in fine art, after graduating from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University she has continued to develop interdisciplinary performance work that combines gayageum, dance, film, drawing, and performance on a foundation of media technology. Centered on audience-participatory, interactive work themed around empathy—sharing in the suffering of others—she works actively across New York, Korea, and Berlin. Her work has been exhibited and performed at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul Citizens' Hall, Sejong Hyundai Gallery, the Asia Culture Center, Eyebeam, the Bemis Center, Yaddo, the Watermill Center, and the Edward Albee Foundation residency, among others. Following works addressing the Sewol ferry disaster and the Brothers Home, Licht—an interdisciplinary narrative performance on the May 18 Gwangju Uprising, selected through the 2018 Media Wall open call—was met with wide acclaim and restaged in 2019. That same year, she was invited to present the closing performance of ISEA (the International Symposium on Electronic Art) at the Gwangju Traditional Culture Center, where her projection-mapping-based interdisciplinary performance drawing on Korean traditional instruments and pansori earned international recognition.

On receiving the Young Artist Award at the 29th Catholic Art Awards, Chung began to expand in earnest an artistic world of faith and theology under the rubric of "Arts and Christianity." The awarded work, Living Altar [Der lebendige Altar] (2025), is an installation created in and around Groß St. Martin church in Cologne, Germany, and was presented in 2026 at the awardees' exhibition (Gallery Bogojae). Chung believes that the mystery of the Incarnation—by which the body of Jesus Christ entered this world through the doors of the five human senses—continues today in the Mass and the Eucharist. On this understanding, through interdisciplinary work joining image, sound, light, body, and space, she explores "the mystery present within the senses" and experiments with the possibility of a new liturgical experience within the contemporary moment.