jinseok choi

jinseok choi is an interdisciplinary artist, fabricator, and community organizer exploring labor, materiality, and collectivity through sculpture, installations, performance, and community-based projects. His recent works have been shown at various art venues, including ArtCenter College of Design, Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA), Human Resources Los Angeles, and MAK Center for Art and Architecture. He has participated in residency programs, such as Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, The Studios at Mass MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, Ucross Foundation, and Treasure Hill Artist Village (Taipei). He received the grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Art (FCA), Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA), and CERF+. He was also shortlisted for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Grant (2020), Prospect Art (2023), Hopper Prize (2023), and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2024). As a public event organizer deeply involved in local art scenes, he co-founded an artist-run space, Space 1, in Seoul, South Korea, in 2012, and also an artist-run initiative, MOTOR, in Los Angeles, in 2021. He received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2018 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles.