

Elliott Jun Wright, born in 1984 in Highland Springs Virginia; Is a Korean-American artist who’s mixed-media assemblages and sculptural works combine materials ranging from domestic goods like dried foods, beauty masks, vintage issues of Architectural Digest magazine and industrial raw materials such as extruded aluminum modular framing into hybrid objects where multiple and varying signifiers of "Asian identity" are isolated and collapsed together. These signifiers (often manufactured by the culture industry) act as materials for constructing identity, and how these may also be projected onto us. Wright has presented works in various group and solo exhibitions internationally including Empty Gallery, Art021 Shanghai ROC (2019); Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn NY (2019); Hester, New York NY (2015); Sculpture Center, Queens NY (2015).
PROFILE
1984 | Born in Highland Springs Virginia |
2007 | Graduated from Frostburg State University , B.F.A. |
2012 | Graduated from NYU Steinhardt , M.F.A. |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 | “ART021 SHANGHAI” EMPTY GALLERY PRESENTS ELLIOTT JUN WRIGHT , SHANGHAI ROC |
2011 | “ASSEMBLY” ROSENBERG GALLERY, NEW YORK NY |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 | “GHOST IN THE GHOST / CURATED BY DANIELLE WU” TIGER STRIKES ASTEROIDS, BROOKLYN NY |
2017 | “CCLB ANTHOLOGY III” THE LOON, TORONTO CA |
2016 | “TASTE SPA” MANILA INSTITUTE, NEW YORK NY (ORGANIZER) |
2015 | “SARA TWO” HESTER, NEW YORK NY “LUCKY DRAW” SCULPTURE CENTER, QUEENS NY |
2014 | “PREMIUM BUNDLE / CURATED BY CLAUDIA MATE” BRONX ART SPACE , BRONX NY “MARKETPLACE” 321 GALLERY, BROOKLYN NY “HALF-BAKED ANTITHESIS / CURATED BY TARO MASUSHIO” +81 GALLERY , BROOKLYN NY “I WANNA KISS YOU LIKE I KISSED YOU BEFORE” PRESENTATION BY PREETEEN GALLERY / MATERIAL ART FAIR, MEXICO CITY MX |
2013 | “UPTOWN DOWNTOWN / CURATED BY KAREN ARCHEY“ ABRONS ART CENTER, NEW YORK NY “I DON’T KNOW IT’S AN ILLUSION I DON’T CARE” ORGANIZED BY PREETEEN GALLERY / VAMIALI’S / ATHENS GR |
2012 | “EVERYTHING WAS MICHAEL BOLTON AND NOTHING HURT” PRETEEN GALLERY / MEXICO CITY MX “HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT / CURATED BY DAVID ANDREW FREY” CINDY RUCKER GALLERY, NEW YORK NY “LICHT MEHR LICHT” DEUTSCHES HAUS, NEW YORK NY NYU/MFA THESIS EXHIBITION / 80WSE / NEW YORK NY “A LA FORTUNE DU POT”RACEBROOK LODGE, BERKSHIRE MA CAN’T TOUCH THIS / IN COLLABORATION WITH MICHELLE CEJA / CURATED BY KAREN ARCHEY /ARTMICROPATRONAGE.ORG |
2011 | “YIN YANG MUSIC / CURATED BY AMY GRANAT” NON OBJECTIVE SUD , TULETTE FR “REVOLUTION OF EVERYDAY LIFE” THE SORBONNE, PARIS FR “1ST YEAR MFA GROUP EXHIBITION”THE COMMONS GALLERY, NEW YORK NY |