| JIAE HWANG |
Born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1981, emerging artist Jiae Hwang moved to the U.S. at the age of 13. In 2005, she earned a B.F.A. from New World School of the Arts in Miami, where she now lives and works. A recipient of the 2005 Hollywood All-Media Juried Biennial Best in the Show Award, Hwang has exhibited her work widely, including at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Serpentine Gallery, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; and the Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, where she has had several solo shows. Hwang was included in the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and her work is represented in the Miami collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Rubell Family, and Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz.
Informed by her experience of having grown up in Seoul and transplanted, as a young teen, near the NASA Space Center and Disneyworld, Hwang’s art is a free-floating blend of childhood memories, subconscious thoughts, and daydreams of fantastical adventures. Her new-media installations, video animations and delicate drawings include magical narratives of weightless creatures floating in outer space, and ghostly, pale-blue self-portraits drawn on multiple layers of Mylar, X-rays of her internal universe. Hwang’s whimsical, cartoon-like drawings of schoolgirls capture the complex mix of innocence, subversiveness, and uncertainty typical of pre-teen girls as they navigate their way within the wider world.
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