BIO

Diane Chi Hong is a practicing artist and architect working in the United States. She studied fine arts at the Fiorello LaGuardia High School of the Arts in New York City and architecture at Cornell University and Columbia University.

Central to her art practice is the drive towards inquiry and experimentation. She experiments with the process of making itself which she believes involves simultaneously the act of making and unmaking; creation and destruction as intertwined forces. She explores the bounds of artistic expression through various disciplines, mediums and genres and embraces the uncertainty of the process which she follows not always knowing where it will eventually lead. As a life-long student of art history, she draws from the art of the past, in order to connect with the themes and ideas that have shaped art history and ultimately sees art as a vehicle for engaging with the present condition and grappling with existential concerns.

Her recent work focuses on paintings and drawings that exist somewhere between figuration and abstraction. These images intentionally leave meaning open to interpretation in the hope of entering into a dialogue with the viewer.

CV

Diane Chi Hong
Born in 1969 in Seoul, South Korea
Resides and works in Austin, Texas, USA

EDUCATION

1998: Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University, New York, USA
1993: Bachelor of Architecture, Cornell University, New York, USA
1988: Fiorello Laguardia School of the Arts, New York, USA

EXHIBITIONS

2024 Vessels - Handle With Care, AARC Art Exhibit, Austin, TX
2003 Future Ec(h)os Renewable Brooklyn Exhibit, Brooklyn, NY