Mimi O Chun is an artist whose soft sculptures reveal the ironies and inequities inherent to a late-capitalist economy. She re-contextualizes iconography borrowed from consumerist culture to create works that vacillate between parody and pastiche — embodying Horace’s conviction that “artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than severity alone.” 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.

Social

• Instagram: @mimiochun

• Twitter: @mimiochun

• LinkedIn

Press / Interviews

• Southwest Contemporary: Review: Mimi O Chun: It’s all cake at SMOCA

• So Scottsdale!: Art Imitating Life

• ArtNews: Take a closer look at these booths you have to see at SPRING/BREAK 2024

• Fast Company: Smart Cultural Criticism, In Sugar Cookie Form

• Ignant: Artist Mimi O Chun Creates Hipster Artisan Goods Out Of Plush

• Bon Appétit: This Artist Fashions Plushy Toys to Look Like Artisanal Hipster Foods

• Eater: Cheeky Artist Turns Hipster Foods Into Adorable Plush Toys

• Anthology Magazine: Stuffed Hipster Emblems

• The Macro: Employee #1 General Assembly

• Dwell: A Miniature Midcentury World Comes to Life in This Kickstarter

• Of a Kind: The Insider (interview)

• Kern and Burn: A Conversation with Design Entrepreneurs

• We are NY Tech (interview)

Contributions

• Curious Feast: 100 Postcards by 10 Artists

• Gather Journal F/W 2015: Issue No. 6: Magic

• Rec Rec Rec: Recipes for Recreational Reciprocity, Makeshift Dec 2015: Issue No. 14: Harvest

• White Zinfandel F/W 2012: Issue No. 3 Food Fights

• Kern and Burn: A Conversation with Design Entrepreneurs

• The AIGA Guide to Careers in Graphic and Communication Design

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

Recognition

• 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

Board Member

• Future Now

• AIGA New York

Contact

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