Painter Minyoung Choi’s fascination with visual art initially took the form of an interest in animation. Throughout her BA and beyond, however, she developed a growing preoccupation with painting as a medium for conveying a narrative, mood or feeling within a single, fixed frame. That said, Minyoung’s works, which straddle the boundary between surrealism and real life representations, often function in relation to one another as a series of meditations on a particular theme or concept, not unlike the frames that comprise an animated film. Objects, images and patterns of light frequently recur among her paintings, creating a sense of cohesion, as if these pictures all belonged to the same dusky, strangely lit dream. Light is of utmost importance to Minyoung’s pictures, its various, radiating sources – the moon, a laptop screen, a television, a lamp – often providing the focal point of the composition. By harnessing and amplifying the effects of light upon the atmosphere of a scene from everyday life, Minyoung infuses her paintings with a singular quality of sublime fluorescence. The everyday is thus viewed through the lens of the extraordinary. As such, Minyoung conveys the vaguely unreal reality that pervades imagination, dreams and memory, and which settles over familiar environments, people and things. Minyoung Choi (b.1989, Seoul, South Korea) is a painter living and working in London. She graduated from the MFA Painting Course at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2017. Her recent solo exhibitions include ‘On Water Under Snow’, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales (2017) and ‘We Go Forward/ We Come Back’, Olvera Contemporary Art Centre, Olvera, Spain (2017). She won the Next Generation Art Prize in the WAC Award (2018) and was awarded the Henry Tonks Prize with the occasion of her completion of her degree at the Slade (2017). She was a finalist of the Gilchrist-Fisher Award (2018) and shortlisted for the Chadwell Award (2017). Recent exhibitions include: 'Prologue', Offshoot Gallery, London (2019); 'The RBA, Rising Stars', The Royal Over-Seas League, London (2019); ‘Paint: The Seen, The Unseen and The Imagined’, Messums Wiltshire, Wiltshire (2019); ‘Dream of You’, Love Unlimited, Glasgow, Scotland (2018); ‘Young London Painters’, Arthill Gallery, London (2018); and ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’, TAF The Art Foundation, Athens, Greece (2018).