Andrea Chung lives and works in San Diego, California. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York, and a Master of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Her recent biennale and museum exhibitions include Prospect 4, New Orleans and the Jamaican Biennale, Kingston, Jamaica, as well as the Chinese American Museum and California African American Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Art Institute. In 2017, her first solo museum exhibition took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, You broke the ocean in half to be here. She has participated in national and international residencies including the Vermont Studio Center, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in the Artfile Magazine, New Orleans Times, Picayune, Artnet, Los Angeles Times, and International Review of African-American Art, as well as a number of academic essays looking at the subject of colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean.

 “My practice is an exploration into the relationships between materials, locations, and cultural processes. I focus primarily on island nations in the Indian Ocean and the  Caribbean Sea and I am interested in labor and its complicated relationships with cultures that have developed from the descendants of people who were coerced into inhospitable colonial workforces. I make work that incorporates materials that are either significant to those cultures and their labor, or that signify broader themes of labor and migration.  I believe that I must include within my work an element of my own labor. It is not my intention to compare or equate my labor with the subjects in my pieces. Rather, I find that if I make a conscious decision to use a laborious process to cast objects in molten sugar or create elaborate cyanotype installations, then my labor itself becomes a  medium.”