Andrea Chung lives and works in San Diego. A mixed-media artist, Chung creates prints, collages, sculptures, and various pieces in other mediums. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design and an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. Recent shows include Prospect 4 New Orleans and the Jamaican Biennial, in Kingston, and her work has also appeared in the Chinese American Museum and the California African American Museum, in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Art Institute. In 2017, Chung’s first solo museum exhibition, You broke the ocean in half to be here, took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She has participated in national and international residencies, including at the Vermont Studio Center, McColl Center for Art and Innovation, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in Artfile Magazine, the Times-Picayune, Artnet, the Los Angeles Times, and the 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.
