I am a Brooklyn-based artist working across sculpture, performance, video, and installation. I create abstract portraits of bodies in mid-movement. They take on positionalities of weightedness, gravitational yield, subversion, pain, and grief. My work is a reconciliation of the human instinct to displace pain and trauma in order to withstand our capitalist systems.

The bodies in my work negotiate with constraint and separation - contained within the vessel bound by skin, and disassembled into batched-out body parts that toe the line between recognizable and indistinguishable. The choreography of flesh and mass in my work communicates a merger of somatic and psychological embodiment of personal and collective trauma.

My sculptures store the implicit memory of my actions on material, the imposition of my body lands as an imprint of a gesture or archive of a performance that is no longer present for the viewer. This directly contrasts my video-based performances that capture the action I undertake itself, bringing focus to the time-based enactment of my body on material. In my videos, my body is the site for confrontation, where in real time, I study the making and unmaking of weight on myself. In my sculptures, I work with materials that have the capacity to reveal the mark of my body – metal, latex, nylon, resin, clay, and plaster. The interplay of these materials amplify permeability, tensile stretch, and pliability of our skin held together by the structures of fascia, tissue, bone, and mass.

Press

“If grief and trauma are elsewhere implied, their individual, corporeal manifestations are magnified in Choe’s sculpture located at the entrance of the exhibition. 

Positioned where the wall and floor meet, a steel rod seems to sag under its own weight. With its surface bruised and battered, the rod is slouched over a thin string hanging from above, providing a bulwark against the form’s total collapse, recalling the unconscious physical mechanisms that enable everyday motion—life itself—to persist. “

-Amanda Chen, Impulse Magazine, June 24 2026