Jeannie Rhyu
Jeannie Rhyu is an interdisciplinary artist based in Queens, New York, whose practice encompasses painting, printmaking, ceramic sculpture, and installation. Rhyu traces the roots of her emotional impressions by deconstructing and reimagining her cultural visual traditions, excavating the structural remnants of cultural collective memory. Her works focus on the displacement and dislocation of collected images and how they become distorted and transformed through translation and across generations, placing her within a long lineage of Korean modern artists of the 20th and 21st century who have embraced new movements like impressionism and surrealism while incorporating their personal recollections. By researching ancient artifacts, ritual and ceremonial objects from museums, historic photographs from digital archives, and visual motifs from documented history, Rhyu discovers a symbolic language that connects her to her roots in Korea and Canada. The lasting traces of global migration inform Rhyu’s exploration of humanity’s place within the natural world.
Jeannie Rhyu received a B.A. from Columbia University in the City of New York in Architecture and Visual Arts, and received an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Columbia University School of the Arts. She received fellowships and awards from the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies. Rhyu’s work has been exhibited internationally in shows in New York, New Bedford, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing, and London. She has given artist talks and workshops at Columbia University, 92NY, Kingsland Wildflowers, and other community organizations.