Artist Profile: Jay Chung

Overview
Jay Chung is a Dallas-based painter whose practice investigates the body as a site of disappearance, memory, and transformation. Working primarily in oil on canvas, Chung engages with themes of migration, marginality, and the unspeakable through layered, monochrome compositions. His current work emphasizes subtle reduction, exploring absence, silence, and the residual marks of feeling. Drawing from a deep interest in emotional nuance and perceptual ambiguity, his paintings invite viewers into the liminal space between form and formlessness. Chung’s approach is intuitive, rigorous, and emotionally charged—focused on what lingers after the image fades.