Susan Lee-Chun is founder, investor, employee, and infrastructure of the Suz: a faux-corporation managing three distinct egos. The essence of the Suz-- assimilation, independence, and mediation-- form the trident of otherness that Lee-Chun addresses in her self-referential examination of race and identity politics. Like classical Greek theater, the Suz mask familiar instances of personal and group agendas including home exercise videos, tea ceremonies, and the act of seeing. Lee-Chun’s elaborate performances, their artifacts, and multi-media documentation present an acute lexicon of anthropological franchising as it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish from the assumption of dominant Americana.
Susan Lee-Chun was born in Seoul, Korea, and lives and works in Miami. Since studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004, MA), Susan Lee-Chun has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and held residencies at the Bemis Center in Omaha, NE, Three Walls in Chicago, IL, and McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina (2011). Her work is in important public and private collections, including the Miami Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.