Hoyeon Chung’s work began with a focus on human-to-human relationships and has matured into capturing the process of recording and replaying the memories of those connections. Against the backdrop of time’s continuous nature, her series of collections has evolved from using vibrant colors and solid materials to incorporating softer materials in pastel tones, all while deeply exploring how each material influences the overall visual composition.

Under the theme of “Time,” Hoyeon Chung has participated in 15 solo exhibitions and over 100 group exhibitions at home and abroad since 2010. Her most recent body of work highlights permeable material, constructing organic shapes with polyester mesh. Each work contains a record of the artist’s choices in its construction, including brush strokes of color and serged edges. Both resilient and delicate, voluminous but airy, the material allows Chung to allude to thoughts, memory, and inspirations beyond the tangible. In 2017, as a member of Korea’s leading artists, she was invited to the V&A International Makers Workshop, and her works are housed at Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Wallace Library, and Seoul National University Hospital. She is currently a professor at the Department of Metal Craft Design at the Seoul National University of Science and Technology.