DIMIN is excited to exhibit Soojin Choi’s large-scale ceramic sculpture I Found You Out in the sixth edition of NADA House, at the historic Nolan Park House 17 on Governors Island.
A master of the architecture required for the medium, Choi selected one of her largest works to date to be shown outside at NADA House. Choi’s sculptures depict tangled body parts to draw attention to the otherness found as a foreigner, and her unresolved nature of finding a “home”. Pointing to unresolved emotion, Choi highlights the ambivalence of human emotion and form so viewers can empathetically interact with the figures she creates. She employs a multifaceted discipline to convey the ambiguity of emotion, employing a blend of flat and spatial surfaces, subtle facial expressions, gaze, body language, color, and brushwork.
Choi was recently quoted by the New York Times saying, “I believe we can read each other more clearly through body language, especially because I’m always thinking and speaking in two different languages, and not perfectly in either one. In some ways, I feel like a foreigner in both Korea and America now — but at the same time, I feel more empathetic for the differences between the countries, too.”
SOOJIN CHOI was born and raised in South Korea and has been based in the United States since 2010. She is currently a resident artist at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA. Choi earned her BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015 and her MFA in Ceramics at Alfred University in 2018. Choi has an impressive list of ceramic fellowships including The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA, the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT (2021-2023), the Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, MT (2019-2021), and the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, MN (2018). Choi presented her first solo with DIMIN titled “Yellow/ing” in the spring of 2024.