I am interested in the ways information, fragments, and materials exist, accumulate, and circulate within a community. Through my work, I aim to investigate how visual and material circulation creates cultural imaginations, multi-layered narratives, and collective memories that affirm, connect, negate, or condemn individual experiences. Through excavation of familial archive, intuitive mark-making, and religious iconography, I approach my practice as the material language of listening, attunement, and prayer.
Michelle Chun is an artist, art educator, and art writer based in Los Angeles, CA. She received her BFA in Painting from RISD and a MAR in Visual and Material Culture from Yale Divinity School. She was a HATCH artist-in-residence at the Chicago Artists Coalition, a Painting and Drawing Teaching Artist-in-residence at Lillstreet Art Center, and a Wurtele Gallery Teaching Fellow at the Yale University Art Gallery. She has shown at Helen J Gallery in Los Angeles, Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, and Gelman Gallery in Rhode Island, among other exhibitions.
michellejeehyechun@gmail.com