Mimi O Chun is an artist whose soft sculptures reveal the ironies and inequities inherent to a late-capitalist economy. She recasts and re-contextualizes iconography borrowed from consumerist culture to create works that vacillate between parody and pastiche. Mimi works primarily in fabric, incorporating finishing techniques such as appliqué and embroidery to render objects in painstaking detail.

Mimi earned her Bachelor of Fine Art from Carnegie Mellon University and her Master of Fine Art from Yale School of Art. Her work has been published by Fast Company, Bon Appétit, White Zinfandel, Gather Journal, Makeshift magazine, and Princeton Architectural Press. Her first solo museum exhibition, Mimi O Chun: It’s all cake, was held at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art from 2021-2022. Mimi lives and works in New York City.

Recognition

IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards)
Communication Arts
Key Art Awards
Art Director Club Awards
Type Director's Club
Print Regional Design Annual
Small Graphics: Design Innovation

Jury

Scholastic National Art & Writing Awards
Re-inventing NYC.gov Hackathon
Samsung Smart App Challenge
Cut&Paste Global Champs

Lecturer / Panelist

Maine Startup and Create Week
UC Berkeley School of Information, Infocamp
Design Museum Foundation SF, UNITE Design x Entrepreneurship
AIGA/NY + General Assembly, Introduction to the NYC Design Community
Facebook presents: When _____ Companies _____ Great Designers
TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, Design Office Hours
Morningstar, Designing for Scale
Barnes & Noble, Brand Case Study

Critic

Yale School of Art, MFA Graphic Design
Parsons The New School of Design, MFA Graphic Design
Pratt Institute, MPS Design Management
GSAPP Columbia University, M.Arch Information Design
California College of the Arts, BFA Graphic Design (Thesis Committee)
Rutgers University, BFA Graphic Design
The Cooper Union, Continuing Education, Graphic Design

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Future Now
AIGA New York

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