Heehyun Choi 최희현
b. 1994
www.heehyun.com
heehyunchoiart@gmail.com
heehyunchoiart@gmail.com
Heehyun Choi is a moving image artist and educator based in South Korea and the US. Her practice is grounded on the interest in the physicality and virtuality in projected images, the unseen beings outside the camera frame, and the subjectivity and variability of the act of seeing. Choi received her BA in Art&Technology at Sogang University and MFA in Film & Video at California Institute of the Arts. Her films have been screened internationally including at Edinburgh International Film Festival, 25 FPS Festival, Images Festival, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS), and Ann Arbor Film Festival where she received the Mariam Ghani Juror Award. She is the recipient of 2024 KAFA (Korea Arts Foundation of America) Award, WNDX x NIMAC Experimental Moving Image Award, AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship, Alison Doerner Fund for Women Pioneers in Filmmaking, the Lightning Fund by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
최희현은 한국과 미국을 기반으로 실험영화를 만든다. 영사된 이미지에서 발견되는 물성과 가상성의 뒤섞임, 카메라 프레임 밖으로 감추어지는 것들, 그리고 언제나 주관적이고 가변적인 ‘보기seeing’의 문제를 다루는 것에 관심이 있다. 서강대학교 아트앤테크놀로지학과와 캘리포니아 인스티튜트 오브 더 아츠 (CalArts) 필름앤비디오 석사과정을 졸업했다. 에딘버러국제영화제, 25FPS 영화제, 이미지스영화제, DMZ국제다큐멘터리영화제, 서울국제실험영화페스티벌에서 상영하였고 앤아버영화제에서 심사위원상을 수상하였다. 2024 카파 (KAFA Korea Arts Foundation of America) 미술상, WNDX x NIMAC 무빙이미지 어워드, 알재단(AHL Foundation) 아티스트 펠로십, Alison Doerner 여성영화인 펀드, 앤디워홀재단 및 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)의 라이트닝 펀드(The Lightning Fund)를 수상하였다.
Solo Exhibition
2025 A Motionless Movie 움즉이지안는영화, Korea Arts Foundation America Awardee Solo Exhibition, Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles 로스앤젤레스 한국문화원, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Group Exhibitions
2025 Liminal Worlds, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN, USA
2025 Kansas City Flatfile&Digitalfile, Emily & Todd Voth Artspace, Kansas City, MO, USA
2025 Water You Cannot Hold, In Other News Gallery, Kansas City, MO, USA
2024 NEW, SIX: KCAI Biennial, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO, USA
2023 Kansas City Flatfile&Digitalfile, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO, USA
2023 Double Body, Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023 < 데이터로 재환원하는 일상실천미술관 >, 대안영상문화발전소 아이공 Igong, Alternative Visual Culture Factory, Seoul South Korea
2022 When Attitudes Become Positions, AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship Exhibition, AHL Foundation Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2022 < 거울속에는소리가없소 >, 탈영역우정국 Unsounded Mirror, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, Korea
2021 < ( )는 모든 것의 고유한 울림을 >, 임시공간 In its Own Resonance, Space Imsi, Incheon, Korea
2020 < 스페이스 결 릴레이전 >, 스페이스 결 Space Kyeol Relay Exhibition, Space Kyeol, Seoul, South Korea
Screenings
2025 < 2025 부산현대미술관 시네미디어 영화 이후 > 2025 BusanMoCA Cinemedia - After Cinema, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea
2025 Herein, Out of Range, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2025 제 51회 서울독립영화제 Seoul Independent Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2025 CROSSROADS Film Festival, San Fransicso Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA, USA
2025 Wuhan bǎilin Film Fesitval, Wuhan, China
2025 서울국제실험영화페스티벌 Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS), Seoul, South Korea
2025 Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS), Iowa City, IA, USA
2025 San Diego Underground Film Festival Selections, San Diego, CA, USA
2025 Rotating Signals: The Korean Contemporary Avant-Garde, USA
2024 CROSSROADS Film Festival, San Fransicso Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA, USA
2024 25FPS Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2024 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, UK
2024 Colors, Nailed to the Mast – New Experimental Cinema, Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Houston, TX, USA
2024 서울국제실험영화페스티벌 Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS), Seoul, South Korea
2024 서울국제대안영상예술페스티벌, Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2024 Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS), Iowa City, IA, USA
2023 Forgotten Lives and Disappeared Worlds: Experimental Films, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA, USA
2023 Mur Murs Film Series, curated by Rebecca Baron and David Dinnell, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023 WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, Canada
2023 The Margins of Dream Language - Contemporary Korean Female Experimental Filmmakers, co-presented by LA Filmforum, LAND and GYOPO, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023 서울국제여성영화제 Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2023 인디그라운드 2023 독립영화 라이브러리 Indieground Independent Film Library 2023, Seoul, South Korea
2022 DMZ 국제다큐멘터리영화제 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Paju, South Korea
2022 제 48회 서울독립영화제 Seoul Independent Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2022 스페이스 셀 오픈 스크리닝 Space Cell Film Lab Open Screening, Seoul, South Korea
2022 Film Diary NYC, New York, NY, USA
2022 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2022 Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2022 Vienna Shorts Film Festival, Austria
2022 San Diego Underground Film Festival Selections, San Diego, CA, USA
2022 인디그라운드 2022 독립영화 라이브러리 Indieground Independent Film Library 2022, Seoul, South Korea
2022 Holding Binoculars, Pointing a Camera: A Cinema of Birdwatching, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
2022 Move Screen! Process Cinema! Vol. 2, Whammy Analog Media, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021 제 47회 서울독립영화제 Seoul Independent Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2021 25 FPS Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2021 Onion City Experimental Film+Video Festival, Chicago, IL, USA
2021 Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS), Iowa City, IA, USA
2021 AT THE FRINGE International Arts Festival, Tranås, Sweden
2021 Filmfort, Boise, ID, USA
2021 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 The Self and The Other, International Student Moving Image Showcase, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2021 A Concrete Cloud, The Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, IL, USA
2021 CalArts School of Film/Video Showcase, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2020 제 46회 서울독립영화제 Seoul Independent Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2020 San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA, USA
2020 서울대안영상예술페스티벌 Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2020 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, UK
2020 ULTRAcinema, Tepic, Mexico
2020 32 Girona Film Festival, Girona, Spain
2020 Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2020 인디포럼 Independent Film&Video Makers’ Forum, Seoul, South Korea
2020 서울독립영화제 순회상영회 인디피크닉 Indie Picnic, Seoul Independent Film Festival Tour Screening, South Korea
2020 Moviate Underground Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA, USA
2020 BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain
2020 32 Girona Film Festival, Girona, Spain
2020 Oxford Film Festival Project(ions), Oxford, MS, USA
2020 Onion City Experimental Film+ Video Festival, Chicago, IL, USA
2020 Laterale Film Festival, Cosenza, Italy
2019 제 45회 서울독립영화제 Seoul Independent Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2019 San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA, USA
2019 International Experimental Film Festival The Unforeseen, Belgrade, Serbia
2019 Yoni Fest, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019 CalArts School of Film/Video Showcase, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Awards and Grants
2025 서울국제실험영화페스티벌 코리안 엑시즈 어워드 Korean EXiS Award, Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS), Seoul, South Korea
2025 Juror Award, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS), Iowa City, IA, USA
2024 Korea Arts Foundation America (KAFA) Award, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2024 Kansas City Art Institute Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City, MO, USA
2023 Association of Independent Colleges of Art&Design (AICAD) Post Graduate Teaching Fellowship, USA
2023 WNDX x NIMAC Experimental Moving Image Award, Canada
2023 The Lightning Fund by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023 Kansas City Art Institute Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City, MO, USA
2022 Mariam Ghani Juror Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York, NY, USA
2021 AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship, AHL Foundation, New York, NY, USA
2021 Post Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of Film&Video, CalArts, Valencia, CA, USA
2020 Alison Doerner Fund for Women Pioneers in Filmmaking, CalArts, Valencia, CA, USA
2019-2020 The Hollywood Foreign Press Association Scholarship, CalArts, Valencia, CA, USA
2018-2021 Lillian Disney Scholarship, CalArts, CalArts, Valencia, CA, USA
Artist Talks and Events
2025 Heehyun Choi: Screening & Conversation, Co-presented by the Korea Arts Foundation of America (KAFA), Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles (KCCLA) and GYOPO, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2025 Beyond the Studio: Heehyun Choi, co-presented by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO, USA
2025 This Isn’t What It Appears: Films by Heehyun Choi & Justin Jinsoo Kim, Accent Sisters, New York, NY, USA
2025 Visiting Artist, Program in Film&Video, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA
2025 Visiting Artist, School of Art & Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2025 Visiting Artist, Cinema Department, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA
2025 Heehyun Choi Film Screening at ION Gallery, Kansas City, MO, USA
2024 < Parellel Works: 최희현 단편선 >, 소리그림 Parellel Works: Short Films by Heehyun Choi, Sorigrim, Seoul, South Korea
2024 NEW, SIX: KCAI Biennial TNT (The Noon Thing): Embodied Connections, Kansas City, MO, USA
2023 Six Films Presented by Heehyun Choi, Stray Cat Film Center, Kansas City, MO, USA
2023 서울국제여성영화제 < 쟁점 토크: 이미지, 벽 또는 가능성 > 패널 토크 Polemics Talk-Image, Walls, or Possibility, Panel discussion, Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2023 수유너머 104 소네마리 갤러리 공동체 상영 Gallery Suyunomo 104 Screening with Q&A, Seoul, South Korea
2023 Visiting Artist, School of Art & Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2022 Video Salon at Arts at Blue Roof, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Residency
2024-current Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Residency, Kansas City, MO, USA
Teaching
2025-current Assistant Professor, Photography&Filmmaking Department, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, USA
2023 Visiting Assistant Professor, Photography&Filmmaking Department, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, USA
2022 Post Graduate Teaching Fellow, New Structuralism, CalArts, Valencia, CA, USA
2021 Teaching Assistant to Chris Hill, History of Video Art, CalArts, Valencia, CA, USA
2021 Teaching Assistant to Jheanelle Brown, Seminar in Black Experimental Film&Video, CalArts, Valencia, CA, USA
2019 Teaching Assistant to John Hawk, 16mm Film Production Workshop, CalArts, Valencia, CA, USA
Education
2021 Master of Fine Arts in Film&Video, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA
2017 Bachelor of Arts and Science in Art&Technology, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea