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




"Why Does the Everyday Fail to Become Art?"
Misty Choi Solo Exhibition

∙ Dates: October 2nd - October 30th, 2025
∙ Location: Shape of Time, Seoul, KR 



Installation view: 119 distinct porcelain cups, installed throughout the Shape of Time space using the furniture originally found in the venue.



Why must art exist? As a result of the countless artifices and systems of control the world has produced, how far have we drifted from our proper place?  Through what processes can we return to it? Can art bring us back?

Every object carries its own reason for being, and when that object is shaped by an artist’s hands, its meaning seems to grow heavier. Misty Choi proposes two axes—artifice and non-artifice, control and freedom—and asks whether these can serve as criteria that divide object from non-object, art from non-art. By using the objects directly and engaging in dialogue through them, she presses these questions with persistence and depth.

This exhibition, Why Does Everyday Life Fail to Become Art, comes into being at the intersection of the artist’s sustained practice of transforming everyday life into art and the space’s desire for art to become part of everyday scenery. Within these boundaries and questions, we hope visitors encounter many meaningful inquiries.






☺︎ special thanks to Shape of Time and Cafe MOHO ☻

Chris∙Beth
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모두 감사합니다 ♥︎ 



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