Biography 

soJin Chun (born 1978, Seoul, Korea) 

soJin Chun is a Korean in the diaspora who has lived in Bolivia and Canada. She is a community coordinator and visual artist based in Toronto. soJin holds a bachelor of arts in applied arts from Toronto Metropolitan University, a certificate from the Maine Digital Workshops, and a master’s in communications and culture in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University and York University. soJin has participated in many residencies across Latin American countries, including the Association of Horto’s Residents (self-directed), Horto at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, at the Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei, Taiwan, and at Kiosko Gallery in Bolivia. Her practice is instructed by collaboration, and she has worked extensively with BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ community. In 2022 she began the ongoing project Archive of Resistance. 

soJin Chun’s studio work is in video, photography, and installation, and her practice is fueled with a whimsical and humorous approach to reflect on cultural multiplicity and complexities of immigration through local narratives. Her work has been part of the collective exhibitions Colour of Women (2022), curated by Tamara Toledo, at Sur Gallery, Toronto, the collective screening I Am Telling You I Am Really Here (2020), at the Franz Kaka Gallery, Toronto, and the collective screening Street Art-Actions: (Micro)Sound Cartography (2019), co-curated by Tito Rivas and Jorge David García, Hemispheric Institute, New York.