최 Misty 은주 Choi 


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

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-current) 

  1. The Disoriented Room, 2025
  2. fool-ly functioning things, 2025
  3. CuppyBreak: Cup & Drink, 2024
  4. CuppyBreak: Cups, 2023-ongoing
  5. 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


Prototype for How to Build a House,

2022, cherry, pine, plywood, epoxy, gravel, OSB, polyurethane, paint, dimensions variable (186x100x50cm)
 


This work is based on Gaston Bachelard’s “Memory is a wardrobe.”
— I interpreted the line as “The closet remembers everything”. 
Furniture is like a witness who is always there and watching every event. 
In particular, cabinets such as wardrobes and chests of drawers were thought to be objects in which my memories, time, space, and attitude toward them were condensed in one place, given that their structure and use are to organize, contain, and store possessions. 

In this flow of thought, the series of words, “furniture-memory-house-space-story-characters…”, came to mind. 
And I wanted to give the conceived images created by those words a shape. 
In the process of working, I felt that I was building a house as a carpenter as I processed and refined various types of wood one by one. It is “building a house”.



Spaces change and disappear, but growing up in that space, I remember very specifically the color and smell of the room. Moreover, what thoughts and emotions I was feeling in that place. In designing this “furniture-house-sculpture”, I brought a lot of memories from my childhood. After completing it, the work felt like a person. Facing this piece of furniture, I feel like encountering myself.