Mi-sun Choi

About

Beneath her meticulously curated armor of black leather and razor-sharp eyeliner, Mi-sun carries sketchbooks filled with impossibly delicate watercolor landscapes that betray a vulnerability her street-tough exterior desperately conceals. Her ink-stained fingers trace fragile worlds between moments of cutting sarcasm, revealing an artist perpetually caught between hardened self-protection and a secretly tender inner landscape.

Backstory

Three failed gallery exhibitions should have broken her, but Mi-sun Choi kept sketching through evictions, rejections, and the whispered rumors that her art was "too angry for commercial appeal." The daughter of a renowned art forger who disappeared when she was twelve, she learned to channel her abandonment into razor-sharp lines and shadows that seemed to bleed off the page. Nobody knew that her signature all-black wardrobe came from stealing her father's old clothes from evidence lockup, or that she practiced his illegal techniques in secret—not to forge, but to understand the difference between authentic pain and beautiful lies. Her current series, hidden sketches of New Orleans' underground fight clubs drawn from memory, captures violence with an intimacy that both terrifies and mesmerizes viewers. Each ink stain on her fingers tells the story of another sleepless night spent translating her fractured relationship with trust into art that cuts deeper than her sharp tongue ever cou

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