Sy Choi (b. 2001, Seoul)
She captures various symptoms in hyper-connected digital era such as fake nostalgia, ghost images, and ambiguous identity with herself’s experienced background. her work investigates how Western modernity and its mediated images shape cultural imagination and identity. Her practice traces the asymmetries of cultural translation, recalling how media representations normalize distant and unattainable worlds as familiar. In her sculptural practice, Choi questions the notion of “home” as both an abstract ideal and a fragile social construct, revealing how displacement unsettles the boundaries between belonging and estrangement. In between of reality and illusion, she weaves them as possible scenarios and her work situates everyday perception within broader negotiations of power, memory, and cultural transmission in the digital era.
Education
2025- MFA Master, HFBK Hamburg (Prof. Kader Attia), Germany.
2020-2025 BFA Bachelor, College of Art, Kookmin Univ, Seoul, Korea.
Duo / Group Exhibitions
2025 25th Dutch Design Week <Past. Present. Possible> - The Boundaries of Sight / Albert van Abbenhuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Trans-ヴィジョン비전 / Syndicate Tak, Takamatsu, Japan.
Spiralis Fantasma / Ray Project Seoul, Seoul, Korea.
SCOUT / Gallery Imazoo, Seoul, Korea.
2024 Entropy Spike - 24th Kookmin Univ. Bachelor graduate exhibition / K-Art Gallary, Seoul, Korea.
ASYAAF: Asia Students & Young Artists Art Festival (curated by Chosun Ilbo Press) / Seoul, Korea.
I Saw Your Ghost from Television - Solo Exhibition Project / K-Art Gallary, Seoul, Korea.
Stipens / Awards
2023-2024 KOSAF Art Sports Vision Scolarship, Korea.
2021 2nd Korean Colored Pencil Competition , Korea.
이인전 / 단체전
2025 제25회 더치 디자인 위크 Past. Present. Possible. - The Boundaries of Sight / Albert van Abbenhuis, 아인트호벤, 네덜란드
Trans-ヴィジョン비전 / Syndicate Tak, 다카마쓰, 일본
SCOUT
2024 제24회 국민대학교 졸업전시 Entropy Spike
ASYAAF 아시아프 / 백성희장민호예술극장, 서울, 대한민국