Jung Hee Choi

Jung Hee Choi, artist/musician, works in video, performance, sound and multi-media installations. Choi's work has been presented in the U.S., Europe and Asia, including FRAC Franche-Comté, France; Berliner Festspiele, Germany; Dia Art Foundation, Guggenheim Museum and MELA Foundation Dream Houses, NYC; FRESH Festival, Bangkok; Korea Experimental Arts Festival. The New York Times listed Choi's Tonecycle for Blues performed by her Sundara All Star Band as one of The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017. Commissioned by MELA Foundation, her video sound performance and installation, RICE, was chosen as one of The 10 Best of 2003 in the December Artforum. Choi, disciple of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in the classical Kirana vocal tradition, founded with them The Just Alap Raga Ensemble in 2002 and has performed as vocalist in every concert, including those at the MELA Dream House, the Pandit Pran Nath Memorial Tribute Tour in Berlin, Karlsruhe and Polling, Germany in 2012, the Yoko Ono Courage Award ceremony, the Guggenheim Third Mind Live and the Merce Cunningham Memorial celebration in 2009. Her work is in the collection of Frac Franche-Comté, MELA Foundation and Dia Art Foundation. Choi graduated BA summa cum laude, and received her MA in art and sound from NYU. Choi has been the director of the presentation of Young and Zazeela's installations and performances including the Centre Pompidou-Metz, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and LA Philharmonic 100 year celebration performance of The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer in Dream Light. Choi's works are currently being presented concomitantly with Zazeela's light and Young's sound creating a continuous collaborative Sound and Light Environment in the MELA Dream House in New York.