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


places; space, body, identity, and relationship 



Misty Choi’s practice is grounded in the phenomenon that people, whether willingly or by force, move from one place to another and experience opacity and non-placement. After relocating to different cities in her 20s, Choi experienced cultural and physical dislocation that continues to inform her practice in displacement, misfit, and embodied resistance through sculpture and performance. She reorients everyday gestures and objects to challenge normative relationships between body, object, and space. Her works often invite humor, encouraging audiences to rethink control, conformity, and vulnerability through shared encounters.

최은주 (미스티 최)의 작업은 이동과 이주 경험에서 출발하여, 개인이 새로운 환경 속에서 마주하는 낯섦과 부적합성,그리고 소속의 불안정성을 탐구한다. 다양한 도시를 오가며 형성된 문화적·신체적 전위 경험은 신체가 공간과 사회적 시스템 속에서 어떻게 조율되고 학습되는지에 대한 지속적인 질문으로 이어졌다. 수행적 조각, 인터랙티브 설치, 공간 개입, 건축적 프로토타입, 영상, 아티스트북 등 다양한 형식을 통해 일상적 사물과 환경의 기능과 방향성을 전복하는 상황을 구축해왔다. 뒤집힌 공간에서 수도를 사용하거나 기능을 상실한 컵을 통해 일상의 행위를 수행하는 작업은, 신체가 공간에 ‘적합하게’ 작동해야 한다는 사회적 규범을 드러내고 이를 낯설게 만드는 방식이다. 이러한 실천을 통해 익숙한 환경을 새롭게 인식하게 하고, 신체와 공간의 관계가 어떻게 구성되고 학습되는지를 탐구해왔다.






Contact q.mistychoi@gmail.com
Instagram @misty.study
cv

©2026 최 Misty 은주 Choi