최 Misty 은주 Choi 


(b. 1993, Seoul) lives and works in Los Angeles.
contact: q.mistychoi@gmail.com | cv

Los Angeles, US (current)
research into adaptive bodies and spatial systems within inverted gravitational environments (ongoing)

  1. (ongoing) Artist-in-residence at Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, 2026
  2. (upcoming) Solo Exhibition at GOBI, Los Angeles, 2026
  3. (upcoming) Work-Trade Residency at High Desert Test Site, Joshua Tree, 2026


Shape of Time, Seoul, KR (2025)

  1. Why Everyday Fails to Become Art?, 2025
  2. Ordering & Drinking Failure, 2025
  3. Becoming a Cup, Becoming a Body, 2025
  4. Necessary Objects, 2025


Los Angeles, US (2023-2025) 

  1. The Disoriented Room, 2025
  2. Pipe Cup, 2025
  3. fool-ly functioning things, 2025
  4. CuppyBreak: Cup & Drink, 2024
  5. CuppyBreak: Cups, 2023-ongoing
  6. Hire Me Under the Table, 2024


Seoul, KR (2021-2023)

  1. CuppyCafe, 2023
  2. Street Push Cart Project, 2022
  3. Prototype for How to Build a House, 2022
  4. Species of Spaces, 2022


Brooklyn, US (2019-2021) 

  1. Space As Heavy As My Body, 2021
  2. The In-Betweens, 2020-2022
  3. Void As Matter, 2021
  4. Bracket {  }, 2021


Chicago, US (2017-2019)

  1. The Coffee I Drink Everyday Is Different But the Cigarette That the Man Smokes Is the Same, 2018-2021
  2. Exit To/From, 2019
  3. Air as Experience of a Dimension of Space, 2018
  4. space study: body, 2017


London, UK (2016-2017) 

  1. untitled space, 2016
  2. architectural drawings, 2017  


Chicago, US (2014-2016)

      space study: object, 2014-2016  



©2026 최 Misty 은주 Choi


Cup & Drink, 

2024, interactive installation and performance 



With CuppyBreak, I design and sculpt a growing collection of unique cups meant to be experienced as a combination of installation and performance, where participants' experiences vary based on their answers to personal questions.

This past February, I transformed my studio into a makeshift cafe and asked visitors to answer either of the following questions:

“How do you deal with your broken relationships?” or “What is your social tool?”

Visitors would then be served coffee or tea in a unique cup based on their answer, and we would have a conversation about their response. The possibilities of cups ranged from those that were functional (yet misshapen), connected, incomplete, cracked, broken, or dysfunctional. The frustration or disappointment of being served a cup that risked spilling and making a mess soon turned into excitement, laughter, and vulnerability.