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I log the quantity of time in the drawing. Life is sustained only for a limited period of time. My interest is to record this kind of time, life-ridden but limited. In a daily life, time is segmented. Each segmentation has a different length. What I do, what I think, and what I feel are replaced with the empty-minded length of marks, in the same way as the landscapes are transformed to repeated pencil lines in the Agnes Martin’s drawings. I begin with a line, and repeat lines. A line, drawn with dark graphite or acrylic paint, marks a ‘moment’ on the paper. By repeating lines, the moments grow into an ‘occasion.’ The occasion, accumulation of moments, is finally reborn as a metaphorical entity. The impulse for tracing, recording, and marking moments is inescapable.

So I draw.

Erin Chon

Erin Chon, a drawer/painter, works on paper. She draws a grid of a rectangle or a circle and fills it with small dots. Through this repetitive labor of drawing dots, she wants to visualize the amount of time. The time she explores is not a linear structure of past-present-future, but time as a mass with weight. The mass of time she records in her drawing is the time she spends in her studio for work. She is trying to find a balance between the two forces, the 'time of daily life' (undrawn), and the 'time of art' (drawn). Currently, she lives and works in a studio located in Seoul. She received a BFA in Fine Arts from Seoul National University and an MFA in Fine Arts from the University of Iowa. She has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions and also through social media.

erinyschon@gmail.com

Education

The University of Iowa, 2007-2009 - MFA (major in Drawing and Painting, minor in Printmaking) School of Art and Art History

The University of Alabama, 2005-2007 - MA (Sculpture), Department of Fine Arts

The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995-1996 - Graduate program (Metalworking), Department of Fine Arts

Seoul National University, 1994 - Graduate program, School of Fine Arts

Seoul National University, 1990 - BFA (Design) School of Fine Arts

 Residency Program

 Vermont Studio Center with Artist Grant Award. 1/2/2011~1/28/2011 

Exhibitions and Competitions

“Identical Days” Solo Exhibition - 12/21/2021 ~ 2/4/2022, Gallery Sogongheon, Seoul

“Hours” Solo Exhibition - 2/15/2020 ~ 2/27/2020, MK Gallery, Virginia, USA

“Recording/Drawing II” Solo Exhibition - 6/3/2019 ~ 6/16/2019, Gallery The Folk, Seoul

“Recording/Drawing I” Solo Exhibition - 4/19/2019 ~ 4/30/2019, Ye-Sool-Ga-Bang: Kunst One, Seoul

“Artistic Records: Art as a Record of the Emotional Past” Group Show w/ Selected Artists - 6/1/2018 ~ 6/28/2018, Korea Culture Center, Washington D.C., USA

“Pop-up, Pop-up Show” Group Exhibition, Curated by Erin Chon - 4/6/2018 ~ 4/15/2018, 10176 Baltimore National Pike, Maryland, USA

“Wings Bestowed On The Wingless Birds” Collaborative Work with Hyom Kang - 8/2015 DMC Gallery, Seoul

“Serial Relations” Works on Paper Group show - 3/26~6/8/2014 Peninsula Museum of Art, San Francisco

“Do-Do” Group show - 12/2013 Gallery P1, Seoul

“Drawing + Chair” Collaborative Exhibition with Sang-Kyu Kim - 4/2013 DMC Gallery, Seoul

“Artspital : Healing Project 2012” - 5/2012 Samchangdong Gallery (Popup), Seoul

“R.E.S.P.E.C.T” - 2/2012 ~ 3/2012 Peter Paul Luce Gallery, Cornell College, Iowa

The Exhibition for IUI & Broken Shop - Group Show - 11/2011 Kunstdoc Gallery, Changsungdong, Seoul, S.Korea

The Inaugural Exhibition for the International University of Imagination - 10/2011 Gallery Space 15, Tongindong, Seoul, S.Korea

“Drawing Party - Tell Me More” - Oct. 1st~ 7th 2011, Metro Gallery in Gwangju, S. Korea - Sponsored by Gwangju Branch of Korea Fine Arts Association

"Other i's?"  Collaboration with John Engelbrecht (photograph) - 6/2011 TimesClub at Prairie Light Bookstore, Iowa City, IA

"We Never Fall Apart; We Never Fall Together" Painting Group Show - 1/2011, Eva Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA

"Hannah", Poetry and Painting - Group Show - 2010, The Burford Gallery, Iowa City, IA

"Domestic Games-Part II" Solo Show - 12/2009~1/2010, The BS Gallery, Iowa City, IA

“Displacement”-Group Show - 7/2009, Quad City Airport Gallery, Rock Island, IL

MFA Show - 5/2009, Studio Arts Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

“Domestic Games”-Drawings by Youngsoon Chon: Solo Show - 4/2009, Burford Gallery, Iowa City, IA

The 16th Annual Juried Show 2008-MacRostie Art Center - 8/2008, MacRostie Gallery, Grand Rapids, MN

2008 National Juried Competition: Works of Art on Paper - 7/2008 Long Beach Island Foundation, Long Beach Township, NJ

Des Moines Art Center’s Iowa Artists 2008: Drawing-Juried - 4/2008~8/2008, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

The 42nd Galex International Juried Show - 3/2008, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL

“Tic Tac Toe” Recent Drawings-Solo Show - 2/2008, Eve Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA

The Korean Student Art Show-‘Moon’ - 10/2007, Art Building West Gallery, University of Iowa, IA

The 1st Loyola National Works on Paper-Juried - 7/2007, Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago, IL

The 2nd All Media National Juried Exhibition (ANJE II) - 6/2007, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL

Master of Art Thesis Exhibition - 3/2007, Woods Hall Gallery, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

The 20th McNeese National Works on Paper-Juried - 3/2007, Abercrombie Gallery, Lake Charles, LA

The Student Show-Juried, Best in Show - 3/2007, Woods Hall Gallery, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Drawing on Alabama-Juried - 1/2007, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

It came from Tuscaloosa-Graduate student show - 11/2006, Huntingdon College Art Gallery, Montgomery, AL

The Student Show-Juried - 10/2005, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

The Down East Sculpture Exhibition-Juried, Second Place Award - 10/2005, East Carolina University, NC

Le Petite XII – Juried - 11/2004~1/2005, Alder Gallery, Coburg, OR

Seoul National University Alumni Exhibition - 4/2002, Do-San Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Talismans/SNAG-Juried - 5/1999, Washington University’s Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO

Student Award Show-Juried - 5/1996, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI

Bags and Baggage-Juried - 3/1996, Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN

Art in Daily Life - 5/1994, Fusion Gallery, Seoul, Korea

BFA Show - 12/1993, The Art Gallery, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Awards

The 8th Annual S&AM Art Materials Competition - Second Place Award - 4/2009, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

The 16th Annual Juried Show 2008-MacRostie Art Center - First Place Award - 8/2008, MacRostie Gallery, Grand Rapids, MN

The 20th McNeese National Works on Paper-Juried - The Juror's Mention Award - 3/2007, Abercrombie Gallery, Lake Charles, LA

The Student Show-Juried - Best in show - 3/2007, The University of Alabama, AL

The Down East Sculpture Exhibition-Juried - Second Place Award - 10/2005, East Carolina University, NC

Thames Fellowship, The University of Alabama - 2005~2006, Department of Fine Arts

Graduate Fellowship, Seoul National University - 1994, Department of Fine Arts

Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, Seoul National University - 1992, 1993, 1994, School of Fine Arts

Publications

2010 hannah(han'na)n., curated and edited by Andrew D. Moeller

2008 Iowa Artists 2008 Drawing by curator, Amy N. Worthen