Y. David Chung - Biography

Y. David Chung is a visual artist known for his multi-media installations, paintings, drawings, prints, and public artworks. Chung's work has been shown throughout the country in exhibitions at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Asia Society, the Walker Arts Center, the Wadsworth Atheneum, Project Rowhouses, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Gwangju Bienniale, the Tretyakov Gallery of Art (Moscow),the William's College Museum of Art and a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria.

Chung is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Washington Mayor's Art Award, the Lila Wallace Readers's Digest Fund-Artist at Giverny Fellowship, the Artslink Collaborative Projects Fellowship and the Rosebud Best of Show Film and video Award (with Matt Dibble)..

David Chung has been commissioned to design permanent artwork for the Rosslyn Metro Station, VA and the New York City Public Art Program. He has also collaborated with Tom Ashcraft in the design, fabrication and installation of public artwork for the Maryland State Highway Administration (Mt. Rainier) and the Arlington County (Virginia) Public Art Program.

David Chung was born in Bonn, Germany. He attended the University of Virginia, the Corcoran College of Art and Design (BFA) and George Mason University (MFA). Chung has been Artist-in-Residence at Duke University, William's College, Wellesley College, the University of California Berkeley and the Whitecliffe College of Art and Design in Auckland, New Zealand. Chung is on the faculty of the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Chung has worked with composers Pooh Johnston and Charles Tobermann on experimental opera works which have been staged throughout the United States. In 1999, Chung, Johnston and Tobermann, co-wrote The Wishing Tree, a one act opera, with the musical ensemble Roksonaki, which was staged in Almaty, Kazakhstan.