Join us for an artist talk with In Kyoung Chun.

In Kyoung Chun is a multidisciplinary artist born in Seoul, South Korea, and currently based in Atlanta, Georgia.  

Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, institutions, and platforms, including Poem 88, HiLo Press, Dashboard, The New Gallery (Tennessee), Emory University, Sumter Gallery (South Carolina), Stove Works, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, NADA (online), Yi Gallery (New York) and Asian Art Contemporary (New York).  

Chun’s works are included in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art, Goat Farm Arts Center, the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, the Atlanta Public Library, Georgia State University, and in numerous private collections, including that of the late master Larry Walker.

Chun was a finalist for the 2025 Atlanta Artadia Award and recently completed a three-year residency at Atlanta Contemporary. Her recent residencies also include the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts at le Moulin à Nef in France.

Chun participated in the exhibition “Celestial Bodies” at Stoveworks in Tennessee in 2025.   

She prepares for some major shows in 2026, including exhibitions at the Swan Coach House Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, South Carolina and at the Institute 193 in Lexington, Kentucky.   

Maria Britton: Second Sleep & In Kyoung Chun: Make Room are funded in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts and funded in part by a generous award from the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund of The Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina. 

Artist Statement

My practice moves between painting and site-specific installation, exploring how art can create spaces of intimacy, belonging, and dialogue. Interactive works extend the language of painting beyond the canvas, inviting viewers into environments that challenge perception and encourage connection.  

As an immigrant artist, I reflect on the shifting sense of home—both safe and fragile, stable yet impermanent. Transparent houses, suspended structures, and intimate paintings serve as metaphors for belonging, suggesting neighborhoods that are open and inclusive.  

By blurring boundaries between interior and exterior, personal and public, my work builds shared spaces where fragility and resilience coexist, and where the act of looking becomes an act of belonging.