Jinseok Choi

Before The Last Spike 2

Fabric scraps from garment factories rust-dyed with railway spikes

"As a Los Angeles-based artist from Seoul, South Korea, I am invested in exploring both the points of connection between disparate cultures, social classes, and histories, and how these disparities have a marginalizing effect on social groups shaped by Western hegemony. My work exploits residues, leftovers, byproducts, imprints, traces, and indentations born of labor, time, memories, and personal and public histories. Integrating these charged materials in a cohesive art piece means providing a physical, collective presence of all we have left behind in our labors, hinting toward our unseen potential and gesturing toward alternate histories and counterfactual realities.”

— Jinseok Choi

About the artist

Jinseok Choi

American

Jinseok Choi is an interdisciplinary artist, fabricator, and event organizer who investigates our current cultural moment by researching historical and cultural contexts and weaving together seemingly unrelated issues via sculpture, installation, performance, and video. His work has been exhibited at venues including ArtCenter College of Design, Human Resources Los Angeles, and Fellows of Contemporary Art. He has participated in residencies at Bemis Center (upcoming), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, UCROSS, and Treasure Hill Artist Village. His grants include support from Fellows of Contemporary Art, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and CERF+. He has also been shortlisted for the Hopper Prize, California Community Foundation’s Fellowship for Visual Artists, and Prospect Art. Choi holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.