*Fluency-non Native
*Hugh and Guilliaume
*But, you don’t.
*I am no longer waves
*mychandelierchohab
*don’t worry, we can make it work
*at and away
*cheers with me
*as if nothing happened
*take us somewhere
*moving trailer
*orbit here
*temporary souvenir
*is ghost marching next to me?
*the work of rest
*real DMZ project
*it's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to
*lobby project for Dacheongho museum
*one nail drives out another
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Jin Heewoong (b. 1985, Korea) is a Korean interdisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. His practice explores how overlooked materials and everyday infrastructures reveal the aesthetic, economic, and social systems that shape daily life. Through subtle tensions between order and disorder, his installations activate the quiet histories embedded in found and industrial objects.
His recent work turns toward the lived experience of migration and the nearly invisible colonial gaze that moves through language, naming, and adaptation. The repeated mispronunciations of his name—Heewoong becoming “Hugh” in Toronto or “Guillaume” in Montreal—opened a broader inquiry into how names operate as tools of blending in the West. This extends to the ways immigrant and second-generation communities alter or reinvent names to navigate dominant linguistic norms. Across video, writing, and installation, Jin examines these negotiations between visibility and assimilation, fluency and distortion, belonging and estrangement.
Jin holds a BFA and MFA in Painting from Cheongju University and an MFA in Sculpture from Concordia University. His work has been presented at Dazibao (2024), Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (SIGHTINGS 39, 2023; IGNITION, 2022), Centre MAI (2023), Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto (2022), Peripheral Hours, Montreal (2019), Cheongju International Craft Biennale (2017), and the Real DMZ Project at Art Sonje Center (2015).
His recent work turns toward the lived experience of migration and the nearly invisible colonial gaze that moves through language, naming, and adaptation. The repeated mispronunciations of his name—Heewoong becoming “Hugh” in Toronto or “Guillaume” in Montreal—opened a broader inquiry into how names operate as tools of blending in the West. This extends to the ways immigrant and second-generation communities alter or reinvent names to navigate dominant linguistic norms. Across video, writing, and installation, Jin examines these negotiations between visibility and assimilation, fluency and distortion, belonging and estrangement.
Jin holds a BFA and MFA in Painting from Cheongju University and an MFA in Sculpture from Concordia University. His work has been presented at Dazibao (2024), Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (SIGHTINGS 39, 2023; IGNITION, 2022), Centre MAI (2023), Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto (2022), Peripheral Hours, Montreal (2019), Cheongju International Craft Biennale (2017), and the Real DMZ Project at Art Sonje Center (2015).
Solo Exhibition
2024 Work of rest, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada
2023 I am no longer waves, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, SIGHTINGS 39, curated by Julia Eilers Smith, Montreal, Canada
2017 Orbit Here, One and J+, Seoul, Korea 2015 One Nail Drives Out Another, SALT Art Gallery, Gwangju, Korea 2015 It’s not where you take things from - It’s where you take them to, Cheongju Creative Studio, Cheongju, Korea 2013 Random Access, Salon_Vit, Cheongju, Korea
Selected Group Exhibition
2023 Migrant instability, Centre MAI, Montreal, Canada
2022 at a distance-from within, Projet Casa, Montreal, Canada
2022 Le présent, modes d’emplo at Maison de la culture Janine-sutto, Montreal, Canada
2022 Ignition 17, Leonard & Bina Art gallery, Montreal, Canada
2020 At and Away, Peripheral Hours, 8947 Saint-Urbain, Montreal, Canada
2019 Moving Trailer, rented truck, 2540 Rue Moreau, Montreal, Canada
2019 Exhibition In The Sky, Park Jarry, Montreal, Canada
2018 Flat Edge, Dacheongho Museum, Cheongju, Korea
2018 Peripheral Hours, 8947 Saint-Urbain, Montreal, Canada
2018 Moving Trailer, rented truck, Montreal, Canada 2017 Moving Trailer, rented truck, Montreal, Canada
2017 Re-craft, Cheongju Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea
2016 Illuminate the Jungdong, Artist’s room, jungdong small museum, Daejeon
2016 Document The traces of 10 years, The future of the 10 years, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju
2015 Real Dmz Project 2015 <Lived time of Dongsong>, Art Seonje center, Seoul, Korea
2015 8yoill noons, Barim Media Space, Gwangju, Korea
2015 Is, Art Space One, Seoul, Korea
2014 Ghost Memories, Cheongju Creative Studio, Cheongju, Korea
2014 7sense&sensibility, Cheongju Creative Studio, Cheongju, Korea
2014 Art Goshi Project Part 1, Barim Media Space, Gwangju, Korea
2012 our wedding performance, Agit, Busan, Korea
2012 Soundscape, Woomin Art Center, Cheongju, Korea
mychandelierchohab
2017 Re-craft, Cheongju Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea
2014 mycheongjuchandelierchohab, Daecheongho Museum, Cheongju, Korea
2013 mycheongjuchandelierchohab, Cheongju Cultural Industrial Complex, Cheongju, Korea
2013 mycheongjuchandelierchohab, Scheme Museum, Cheongju, Korea
2012 mycheongjuchandelierchohab, Cheongju Creative Studio, Cheongju, Korea
Residency Program
2015 8yoill noons meta-residence Project, Barim Media Space, Gwangju, Korea
2014 Cheongju Creative Studio, Cheongju, Korea
2014 Barim Media Space, Gwangju, Korea
2011 Art Firm, Cheongju, Korea
Collection
Private collection, Ssangri gallery, Daejeon, Korea
Grant and funding
2025-2026 Canada art council, Reserch and Creation
2024-2025 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Exploration et recherche
2022-2023 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Vivacité
2021 Canada art council, digital publiction
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2024 Work of rest, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada
2023 I am no longer waves, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, SIGHTINGS 39, curated by Julia Eilers Smith, Montreal, Canada
2017 Orbit Here, One and J+, Seoul, Korea 2015 One Nail Drives Out Another, SALT Art Gallery, Gwangju, Korea 2015 It’s not where you take things from - It’s where you take them to, Cheongju Creative Studio, Cheongju, Korea 2013 Random Access, Salon_Vit, Cheongju, Korea
Selected Group Exhibition
2023 Migrant instability, Centre MAI, Montreal, Canada
2022 at a distance-from within, Projet Casa, Montreal, Canada
2022 Le présent, modes d’emplo at Maison de la culture Janine-sutto, Montreal, Canada
2022 Ignition 17, Leonard & Bina Art gallery, Montreal, Canada
2020 At and Away, Peripheral Hours, 8947 Saint-Urbain, Montreal, Canada
2019 Moving Trailer, rented truck, 2540 Rue Moreau, Montreal, Canada
2019 Exhibition In The Sky, Park Jarry, Montreal, Canada
2018 Flat Edge, Dacheongho Museum, Cheongju, Korea
2018 Peripheral Hours, 8947 Saint-Urbain, Montreal, Canada
2018 Moving Trailer, rented truck, Montreal, Canada 2017 Moving Trailer, rented truck, Montreal, Canada
2017 Re-craft, Cheongju Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea
2016 Illuminate the Jungdong, Artist’s room, jungdong small museum, Daejeon
2016 Document The traces of 10 years, The future of the 10 years, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju
2015 Real Dmz Project 2015 <Lived time of Dongsong>, Art Seonje center, Seoul, Korea
2015 8yoill noons, Barim Media Space, Gwangju, Korea
2015 Is, Art Space One, Seoul, Korea
2014 Ghost Memories, Cheongju Creative Studio, Cheongju, Korea
2014 7sense&sensibility, Cheongju Creative Studio, Cheongju, Korea
2014 Art Goshi Project Part 1, Barim Media Space, Gwangju, Korea
2012 our wedding performance, Agit, Busan, Korea
2012 Soundscape, Woomin Art Center, Cheongju, Korea
mychandelierchohab
2017 Re-craft, Cheongju Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea
2014 mycheongjuchandelierchohab, Daecheongho Museum, Cheongju, Korea
2013 mycheongjuchandelierchohab, Cheongju Cultural Industrial Complex, Cheongju, Korea
2013 mycheongjuchandelierchohab, Scheme Museum, Cheongju, Korea
2012 mycheongjuchandelierchohab, Cheongju Creative Studio, Cheongju, Korea
Residency Program
2015 8yoill noons meta-residence Project, Barim Media Space, Gwangju, Korea
2014 Cheongju Creative Studio, Cheongju, Korea
2014 Barim Media Space, Gwangju, Korea
2011 Art Firm, Cheongju, Korea
Collection
Private collection, Ssangri gallery, Daejeon, Korea
Grant and funding
2025-2026 Canada art council, Reserch and Creation
2024-2025 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Exploration et recherche
2022-2023 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Vivacité
2021 Canada art council, digital publiction
︎ Instagram