South Korean
Born in Seoul, South Korea, In Kyoung Chun is a painter living in Atlanta, Georgia. Chun’s solo exhibitions have included Whitespace of Atlanta, The New Gallery in Tennessee, Sumter County Gallery in South Carolina; HiLo Press of Atlanta, Blue Heron Nature Preserve of Atlanta, Poem88 of Atlanta and Ernest G. Welch Gallery at Georgia State University. Her work has been included to its permanent collection of High Museum of Art, the City of Atlanta Mayors Office of Cultural Affairs, Fulton County Public Library of Atlanta, Ernest Welch School of Art & Design of Georgia State University and numerous private collections including the late master Larry Walker’s. Chun’s sculpture Blue Gate was showcased at Emory University of Atlanta and Industrial City Plaza of Brooklyn, New York in 2023. Last year, Blue Gate became a part of its permanent collections of the Goat Farm Arts Center in Atlanta. Chun was a finalist of the Edge Award 2023 at Swan Coach House of Atlanta and completed her three-year-residency at the Atlanta Contemporary in 2022. In 2024, she attended the Virginia Center for Creative Arts’ residency at le Moulin a Nef in France. And her installation “Shared Room” was featured for an online exhibition New Art Dealers Alliance Curated: ASSEMBLY. Chun participated in the Art on Paper New York 2024 with Metropolitan Art Atelier and Asian Art Contemporary of New York. She also participated in the inaugural Atlanta Art Fair with Spruill Gallery of Atlanta. This year Chun participated in the exhibition “Celestial Bodies” at Stoveworks in Tennessee and “Mirrors and Masks” at Asian Art Contemporary of New York City.