Beautifully curated, Make Room becomes a pseudo-neighborhood, positioning Chun’s depictions of celebration, routine, and home life as experiences that exist within community, not a vacuum. Juxtaposing constrictive structures with whimsical arcs of color and line, Chun’s fluid shifts in materiality diversify the portrayal of her iterative subject matter. In this manufactured village, solitude (or, more pointedly, individualism) becomes just another illusion.

Excerpt of the Review by Stephanie Allen, July 06, 2026

In Kyoung Chun’s creative practice moves between painting and site-specific installation. Interactive works extend the language of painting beyond the canvas, inviting viewers into environments that challenge perception and encourage connection. As an immigrant artist, Chun reflects on the shifting sense of home—both safe and fragile, stable yet impermanent. Transparent houses, suspended structures, and intimate paintings serve as metaphors for belonging, suggesting neighborhoods that are open and inclusive. By blurring boundaries between interior and exterior, personal and public, her work builds shared spaces where fragility and resilience coexist, and where the act of looking becomes an act of belonging.

In Keep Walking, Chun exploits the expanse of bare paper to float geographically disparate vignettes — figures, stray objects, fragments of architecture — into an intimate, cohesive field that reads like a dreamlike aerial view of a city, with the sheet loosely mounted to celebrate the organic buckling of dried watercolor.

Excerpt from the Review by Kevin Storer