Sei Ryun Chun
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2022
Open Spring Festival & Zen Art Show 

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2022
무시무종 Without Beginning and Without End

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2021 
CAMINO 

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2021
Catskills Story - Without Beginning and Without End

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2021
Sensibility Blooming with Han Ji

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2020
Sang Joon Park Open Studio and Sei Ryun Chun Tea 
Ceremony

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2019
Catskills Story

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2019
​생명과 창조 - 3 인전

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2019
​Book Publishing 
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2019
​NY 2 SEOUL 

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2019
OMNE

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​Sei Ryun Chun 20th Solo Exhibition

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2018 
Ubiquitous

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2018
Ubiquitous 

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2018
Rounded

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2017
Envisioning Habitats
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2017
Eternal

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2017
Dynamic Dimensions

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2017
Ubiquitous

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2016
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2016
​-Jung-Jum

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2015
-Piermont Public Library Gallery

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Ubiquitous
-Bergen Performing Arts Center, Intermezzo Gallery
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2015
-New Millennium Bank

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2015
 -OM (옴)
-Suwon Haenggungjae

2015
 -OM (옴)
-New Millennium Bank 

2014
-Shadows and Light 
-Rutgers,The State of University

2014
-STRATA OF TIME: the layers of tradition 
-Korean Cultural Service New York

2013 
-Fragrance of Tea
-Korean Cultural Center Washington D.C.


2011
-OM 옴
-Hutchins Gallery, C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, Brookville, NY

2011
-JPEG04  Feb. 2011
-Da Gallery, New York , NY

Artists must consider the public for whom they are making art. Today’s artists are breaking the limitations of medium and genre and adapting to the prevalence of mass-media. By using various digital and other technologies to combine a diversity of sensory experiences, art forms and cultural traditions, artists are finding a rich language that speaks to their contemporary audience through direct experience.

While contemporary artists have been struggling to define what is or is not art, the opportunity for the public to express themselves using the great variety of technologies available has been growing faster than in any other period. The current complex of social information, the spreading Internet, and digital media and devices have changed human relationships and the nature of the artist’s social contributions. However, we cannot expect technology to provide a vision of culture or artistic philosophy. That is the role of the artist.

Given our unique cultural heritage as Koreans, we have to comprehend how our own concept tradition and community crashes against the values of the modern internet culture. In ancient Korea, though art was created by subjugated people, such as women and lowly artisans, their work was artistically vibrant, innovative and valued by the larger society, such as we can see during a traditional tea ceremony. Individual artists agreed on a common language and as their work, useful items such as traditional textiles and pottery, served social functions, it can thus be considered to be a form of social media. Today this unique social harmony finds a new expression in the renaissance of the digital culture.

In this performance, artist and curator Chun Sei Ryun is going to lead a traditional Korean tea ceremony during which musician Jung Jae Youn will play the Kayakum, a Korean string instrument. The performance will be enveloped in a digital media environment, created by ongoing video-recording by Atto Kim and photography by Sang Mi Kim. The four artists in this exhibition will focus on the connections and disconnections between tradition and modern life, the nature of social space, and the transience of the moment. This event will break the restrictions of genre and form.

In addition to the tea ceremony, there will be a video installation, photography and computer art by the participants. 

Art director (Tea Ceremony/Installation): Sei Ryun Chun
Kayakum musician: Jung Jae Youn
Video artist: Atto Kim
Photograph: Sang Mi Kim. 



Using digital and other technologies to combine a diversity of sensory experiences, art forms, and cultural traditions,
the artists in this show hope to speak to their contemporary audience through direct experience.
The current complex of social information- the spread of the Internet and hand-held digital devices - has changed human relationships and the nature of the artist's social contributions. However, we cannot expect technology to provide a vision of culture or artistic philosophy. That is the role of the artist. 

Given our unique cultural heritage as Koreans, we have to comprehend how our own concept of tradition and community crashes against, or meshes with, the values of the modern internet culture. In ancient Korea, though art was created by subordinate people, namely women and artisans, their work was artistically, vibrant, innovative and valued by the larger society, such as we can see during a traditional tea ceremony. Individual artists agreed upon a common language, and as their work- useful items such as traditional textiles and pottery-served social functions, it can thus be considered to be a form of social media. Today this unique social harmony finds a new expression in the renaissance of the digital culture. In this performance, artist and curator Sei Ryun Chun is going to lead a traditional Korean tea ceremony during which musician Ja Young Chung will play the kayakum, a Korean string instrument. She also created images which is response by sound using digital technology - processing(programming language) The performance will be enveloped in a digital media environment, created by ongoing video-recording by Atto Kim and photography by Sang Mi Lee. The four artists in this exhibition will focus on the connections and disconnections between tradition and modern life, the nature of social space, and the transience of the moment.


2010

 -Hommage Soo Keun
 -Chelsea West Gallery, New York, NY 

Time Tremor

The Nature around me motivated myself to use specific media, such as sand, earth and tea leaves. The images depict certain scenes from nature such as birds in the sky and the wind in the trees. With time and space, horizontal and vertical lines, respectively, intertwining each other, we have fate and destiny meeting at the intersecting spot. In this moment we have eternity. During this eternal sanction, meditation occurs and I can produce artwork in peace and harmony.
The main materials I have used are the Korean traditional drum and musical CDs. I took tea leaves and naturally dyed the Korean traditional drums. The bird represents freedom and the will to live. Birds fly freely as men wish to fly freely. Man tries to become birds and have dreams and inspirations. I used beads because they are dots individually; however combined together they form one line. Such as beads on a string, form a necklace. I used wires instead of strings because wire is malleable and I can make any shapes. This becomes a sculpture. I envision jewelry as a piece of wearable sculpture, I made beads out of tea leaves and paper. Beads represent circles, which symbolizes eternity and oneness with nature.

2010
-The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, New York, NY

2009

2008 
-Public Art (Bank)

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