ABOUT LEA

(Ye Gyoung Choi)

Born in South Korea (1989)

based in Oslo

2021​

• (Coming Up) Visual Artist for a symposium at Ultima Festival in Oslo and Montreal, Nordic countries, and Quebec l 09/2021

• (Coming up) Mayfly, Oslo l 2021

• (Installation and performance) Mellomrom, Kampen Omsorg+, Oslo l 06-08/2021

• Urban Bee Farm Project, Ulvenbigård, Ulven, Oslo l 05/2021-Present

• Ellen Ugelvik's research group Performing Precarity at Oslo National Academy of Music l 2019-2022

• Film screening at [The AEC European Platform for Artistic Research in Music EPARM 2021] with Performing Precarity led by Ellen Ugelvik l 19/03/2021

• Video Workshop Consultant for NOTAM(Norwegian Centre for Technology in Music and Art), Oslo l 2021

• [Film] Trailers for  'Periferien Festival' led by Nymusikk (Jennifer Torrence) l 08/2020-07/2021

• [Film] Trailer for Den Lokale Venneforening, Oslo l 07/ 2021

2020

• Social Art Award (Book), Institute for Art and Innovation e.V, Berlin l 02/2020

• Koumaria 2020 in Sellasia, Medea Electronique, Greece (Postponed due to COVID-19) l 05/2020

• Film Documentations for Goodbye Intuition, Norwegian Academy of Music l 2020

• Film for '5 minutter igjen' and 'Music & Health', Pinquin x Ultima l 2020

• Film Documentation for Folk og Dyr, BEK l 12/2020

• Stage development, Sign designs, and construction for Center U, Claire de Wangen l 2020

• Development Goals Forum (Partner with UN), Virtual Reality team (Visual Artist), Oslo l 2020

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2011- 2019​​​​

• Official Selection(Gironzalon) Amarcort Film Festival, Rimini, Italy l 11/2019

• Farm, Degree Show, kunstnernes hus, Oslo l 05/2019

• OGA VideoArt Exhibitions 2018/2019, Rome l 10/2018

• HAFFI International Film Festival, South Korea l 30/06/2018

• They Had Four Years, Generator, Dundee l 05-06/2018

• En Person is available to buy at Good Press, Glasgow l 06/2018

• MISS READ: Berlin Art Book Festival 2018 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin l 04-06/05/2018

• Elementene, Black Box, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Oslo l 26-28l02l2018

• Coming Soon(The Normal Pavillion;https://www.thenormalpavillion.xyz)l 01/10/2017

• Coming Soon; It's Coming- Tontine, Glasgow l 08-16/06/2017

• Congratulation! at Glue Factory, Glasgow l 10/03/2016

• Blind Friday at Tontine, Glasgow  l 27/11/2015

• Notice of Public Execution at Reid Building, Glasgow l 19/10/2015 ​

• Another Ordinary Day; Out of Order Performance at Bourdon, Glasgow l 22/04/2015

• Value of the art-Installation in Bourdon, Glasgow | 05/2014

• Reputation Barter - Amsterdam and Kelvingrove Park l 2014

• Find Me If You Can-Performance-Reid Building, Glasgow | 03/2014

• Who The Heck Is Lea-Performance-Glasgow School of Art |03/2014

• Sky Burial- Performance-Glasgow School of Art | 03/2014

• Gummy Landmine- Mackintosh Building, Glasgow  |03/2014​

• Pea in Pee, The Art School Gallery, Glasgow | 28/02/2014​

• Not Worth the Paper, The Art School Gallery, Glasgow | 14/10/2013

• Laughing Tree Gallery (Group Exhibition), Seoul | 16/09/2011

• Pub HBC, Seoul (Solo Exhibition)| 15/11/2011

Education

• Oslo National Academy of Arts/ Kunstakademiet -Master of Fine Arts (08/2017-05/2019)

• [First Class]Glasgow School of Art- Painting and Printmaking-Bachelor of Fine Arts(Hons) (2016-17)

• Glasgow School of Art- Painting and Printmaking BA (2013-16)

• Arts Council Norway- Ny­utdannede Kunstnere scholarship (2019)

• Government (Scotland)International Scholarship Award for GSA(2013/14)

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Collective

• Ellen Ugelvik's research group at Oslo National Academy of Music l 2019-2020

• Video Documentation for Goodbye Intuition, Oslo National Academy of Music l 2020

• Technical Assistant for Claire de Wangen Production l 10/2019

• Marked På Paul's at Paul's Boutique with Ida Ribu and Stina Bråthen l 07/04/2018

• Degree Show After Party; Stage design(Vic Bar) with Trendy Sexy l 17/06/2016

• Daemonologie; Stage design (The Art School) with Trendy Sexy l 28/10/2016 https://www.instagram.com/trendysexy/

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Commissions 

• Video work for SNITTS, Bortenfor l 11/2019   https://www.facebook.com/events/407312833529525/

• Video Installation and work for Prom of the Dead, Ingensteds l 01/11/2019   https://www.facebook.com/events/91252305244678   https://www.facebook.com/lea.choi.5/videos/2977151912313607/

• Video work for ingensteds x Øya, Oslo l 08/2019      https://www.facebook.com/events/630636120745069/

• Video work for Bortenfor x Øya, Oslo l 08/2019     https://www.facebook.com/events/2417893715158633/

  Video work for ingensteds x Øya, Oslo l 08/2019   https://www.facebook.com/events/470198190453048/

• Video work for Bortenfor x SNITT, Oslo l 02/2019 https://www.facebook.com/events/380149019228311/

• Poster and video work for Nyttårsfest, Ingensteds, Oslo l 12/2018   https://www.facebook.com/events/659392911124959/

• Video work for Nick The Record x Rulefinn, Oslo l 10/2018       https://www.facebook.com/events/1795711910477065/

• Video work for Hey Hey Guy x Hysteric, Oslo l 19/09/2018         https://https://www.facebook.com/events/708214236197000/

• Poster design for Ingensteds x Øya, Oslo l 08/2018​​

• Video work for Ingensteds x Øya, Oslo l 08/2018​​https://www.facebook.com/events/238903626870259/

• Video Works for Ingensteds x Øya, Oslo l 08/2018​​https://www.facebook.com/ingenstedsoslo/videos/1736980443076339/

• Video Works for Bortenfor x Øya, Oslo l 08/2018​​https://www.facebook.com/events/1900036086726169/?notif_t=event_calendar_create&notif_id=1529657627320907

• Video Works for Music for Weapon, Ingensteds x Øya, Oslo l 08/2018

       https://www.facebook.com/events/1935776053419614/

• Bortenfor LASSEN PÅ TERRASSEN Poster, Oslo l 26/05/2018

• Bortenfor Dagen derpå Bloody Mary spesial's poster, Oslo l 18/05/2018

• Ingensteds 5år jubileum's poster, Oslo l 25-26/05/2018 

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Publishing​​​

• Social Art Award, Institute for Art and Innovation e.V, Berlin l 02/2020

• Language, Oslo National Academy of Arts, LEA,  Oslo l 05/2019

• En Person - Self-Publishing, LEA, Oslo l 03/2018

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Press​

• Art & Education (Ye Gyoung Choi) 06/2019          https://www.artandeducation.net/schoolwatch/271362/beyond-the-individual-expanded-sculpture-and-the-social-at-the-academy-of-fine-art-oslo 

• Kom nærmere, Kunstkritikk, 28/05/2019                                                      https://kunstkritikk.no/kom-naermere/

• Subjekt, Avgangsstudentene albuefekter om oppmerksomheten, men skaper helhet av det 14/05/2019                                                                                        https://subjekt.no/2019/05/14/avgangsstudentene-albuefekter-om-oppmerksomheten-men-skaper-helhet-av-det/?fbclid=IwAR1UEJGVNKfKn5vULPAyPrzM0z2ORaYniPbBCCSrNVwjBNSKgss7TclpCn4

• HAFFI Festival- Elementene 30/06/2018                                                                                      HAFFI Festival Catalog. pdf

• Interview for They Had Four Years, the Skinny - 09/05/2018 ​http://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/emerging-artists/they-had-4-years

• Interview for They Had Four Years, the Skinny Issue 152- 05/2018

• Generator Project- They Had Four Years 09/05/2018                    http://generatorprojects.co.uk/project/they-had-4-years-2018/                         

• Interview with The Vile Arts Radio Hour-Leying it on The Line               http://www.subcity.org/shows/thevileartsradiohour/9ad96

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Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2017

• The Scotsman, Visual Language by Susan Mansfield- 17th/June/2017   https://pressreader.com/@nickname12999301/csb_z1uFP52M0F1KmoRPamObdeT2OPFoERuC_tEYGuWczHoeJu8TCTmRZpyBjElsMbG9

• Glasgow School of Art Press-8th/June/2017                 http://gsapress.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/recycled-wire-and-wool-recycled-stone.html

• The Herald-Visual Art review   http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/15351332.Visual_Art_review__Glasgow_School_of_Art_Undergraduate_Degree_Show/?ref=rss

• The Herald Newspaper                                                                                           https://ibb.co/cqPACk

• The Herald Newspaper​-Students highlight the art of recycling in show          https://ibb.co/cJsC05

• The Skinny-GSA degree show 2017                                                    http://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/emerging-artists/gsa-degree-show-2017-its-a-riot

• The Scotsman- Art review: Glasgow School of Art Degree Show   http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/art/art-review-glasgow-school-of-art-degree-shows-1-4475623

• Artist Info- Instagram                                                               https://www.instagram.com/p/BVSFURbB5BV/?tagged=gsadegreeshow&hl=en

• A-N performance as part of Fine Art Degree Show at Glasgow School of Art​               https://www.a-n.co.uk/media/52495457/

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