Beyond the Studio: Heehyun Choi

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 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, CROSSROADS, 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, and The Lightning Fund by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. She is currently teaching as an Assistant Professor in the Photography & Filmmaking department at the Kansas City Art Institute.