CHUNA CHUGAY
Chuna Chugay is a Koryo Saram, born in Moscow, Russia. Chuna makes paintings, animations, and graphic novels. Rooted in their research on ethnic identity of Koryo Saram, also known as the Soviet Koreans, Chugay's work focuses on issues of representation and ethnical erasure by depicting the stories and faces of Koryo Saram. In 2023 Chuna received Newman and Cox Public Action Grant to collect oral history interviews with children of the 1937 Deportation survivors. Being a multidisciplinary artist, Chuna tells the story of both the ethnic cleansing and modern lives of Koryo Saram through various storytelling techniques.
Chuna has experience with graphic design. Creating marketing materials for Museum of the Moving Image (NYC), during a Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Museum Fellowship. They have made posters and promotional materials for student projects and events, including continued work for SILO, Bennington's longest running journal of student arts and letters. Chuna has receiver work as a visual director and illustrator for comic book Prototypia.
exhibitions:
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Anti-war fundraising posters to support Ukraine, Bennington Museum, Summer 2022, Curated by the BOUNDScollective . https://benningtonmuseum.org/bounds-collective/
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PROTOTYPIA : visual director,CAPA, Bennington College, Fall 2022
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SILO: curator, Bennington Community Market, Fall 2023
contact info: chugayav@gmail.com
instagram: @chuna_v