Chunbum Park

Chunbum Park

Born in Seoul, South Korea / Works in Palisades Park, NJ
BIO
Chunbum Park (Korean alphabet: 박준범, Chinese characters: 朴準範), also known as Chun, is an artist from South Korea, where they were born in 1991. They received their BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2020 and their MFA in Fine Arts Studio from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2022, where they changed their pronouns. Born a male, Park likes to cross dress and depicts themselves as a woman in their paintings. They are the inventor of the ArtBid art auction card game and run the Emerging Whales Collective (currently merged with the Office Space Gallery website), where they interview other artists. In 2023, Park began writing exhibition reviews for various online and print magazines, including the New Visionary Magazine. They currently reside in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.
"My art has been like a mirror with which to examine myself. Why am I often attracted to this kind of beautiful imagery, dealing with femininity, eroticism, and sexuality in my work? I am trapped in my own male way of seeing, or the male gaze, and I cannot escape this nature despite my desire to become a woman in my fantasy. This is a contradiction - the desire to become a woman and my maleness that exercises the male gaze."
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