Toys, Selected
Geumhyung Jeong
May 9 - July 26, 2025
Opening Reception, May 9, 2025, 6–8pm
Free RSVP here.
Choreographer and performance artist Geumhyung Jeong (b. 1980) employs puppets, mannequins, and machines in her performance pieces that explore bodily connection through the techniques of contemporary dance, puppet theater, and the visual arts. Through interactions with inanimate objects that appear to be human, Jeong interrogates narratives of eroticism, the nature of animacy, and the dynamics of power at play when two bodies interact. As the boundary between man and machine becomes evermore blurry, Jeong invites machines into the most intimate aspects of human experience. Canal Projects will host the artist’s first New York solo exhibition this summer, allowing an unfiltered look at the artist’s boundary-breaking work.
Geumhyung Jeong (b. 1980 in Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Seoul, Korea. Jeong has participated in performing arts festivals internationally and had solo exhibitions in international contemporary art institutions including: Upgrade in Progress, FMAV Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena (2020); Homemade RC Toy, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2019); Private Collection: Unperformed Objects, Delfina Foundation, London (2017); Tate Live: Geumhyung Jeong, Tate Modern, London (2017); Private Collection, Atelier Hermès, Seoul (2016).
She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including: The Milk of Dreams, The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2022); Copenhagen – Red Light Green Light (In the Realm of the Senses), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2022); Immortality, The 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg (2019); APT9 The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane (2018); ANTI, AB6 The 6th Athens Biennale, Athens (2018); The Public Body 02, Artspace, Sydney (2017); The Promise of Total Automation, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2016); Surround Audience: New Museum Triennial 2015, New Museum, New York (2015); The Beast and the Sovereign, MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporan de Barcelona, Barcelona (2015); East Asia Feminism: FANTasia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); Gesture, WKV Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2014); Burning Down the House, The 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2014). In 2016 Jeong was the winner of the Hermès Foundation Missulsang Award and in 2014 of Zürcher Theater Spektakel Kantonalbank Acknowledgment Prize. In 2009 she won the Excellence Award for Alternative Vision at the Seoul New Media Art Festival and in 2007 Dokkebi Award at the Chuncheon International Mime Festival.