Fragmentary Memories on Death

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• Photographer
  Jinyoung Koh, United States
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Jinyoung Koh is a photographer studying for his MFA with a concentration in photography from California Institute of the Arts. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently taking pictures of staged situations about sin, influenced by his experience as an Emergency Medical Assistant in South Korea. His work alludes to a sense of alienation and vulnerability in a social context. The directed situations express, paradoxically, the discomfort and fear of reality through wit and parody in order to suggest a metaphorical connection between society and imagery.

• Biography
  Jinyoung Koh is a photographer studying for his MFA with a concentration in photography from California Institute of the Arts. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has exhibited at Burren College of Art, Newtown Castle, Ballyvaughan, Ireland; Westmoreland County Community, Youngwood, Pennsylvania; Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Chicago, Iillinois; St. Lukeâ??s Episcopal Parish Hall, Sequim, Washington; Nippon Steel USA Inc., Chicago, Iillinois; San-cheong Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea; and Sang-gok Gallery, Seoul, South Korea. In the summer 2008, he was an Artist-In-Residence at the Burren College of Art in Newtown Castle, Ballyvaughan, Ireland. He is currently taking pictures of staged situations about sin, influenced by his experience as an Emergency Medical Assistant in South Korea. His work alludes to a sense of alienation and vulnerability in a social context. The directed situations express, paradoxically, the discomfort and fear of reality through wit and parody in order to suggest a metaphorical connection between society and imagery.