Oh Kyung Jang
OKJ
Oh-Kyung Jang
: interdisciplinary artist
About
The body is central to my work. Its sensations, memories, and internalized logic shape the way I come to know and inhabit the world.
My practice is abstract self-portraiture: translating interior experience into form, tracing the textures of an inner life that resists simple articulation. This inquiry is rooted in the personal, yet the self it examines is never entirely one's own—it is shaped through contact with others.
In mapping my own interior terrain, I seek to understand how a self is continuously formed at the intersection of the individual and the social—treating subjective experience as a site where personal interiority and broader social perception converge.
Education
2018 (M.A candidate) Department of Korean Language and Literature in the Graduate School, Pukyung University, Busan, Korea
2013 (B.A) Department of The Arts, Arts in Contexts: Dance and Music, The New School, New York, USA
Oh Kyung
Jang
The body has always been my starting point. This non-verbal language taught me how to exist in the world, and my artistic path has been a persistent attempt to find forms that can carry what the body knows before language can name it. I have spent years working as a dancer, improviser, and performance artist.
Two pivotal experiences led me to transition my practice from dance into sculptural and spatial forms. The first was the experience of ‘stasis’ at my mother’s deathbed—a moment that lodged itself in me as a spatial memory, where my body froze in irreconcilable contradiction to the love I felt for her. The second came through a knee injury, during which my internal sensations sharpened to an acute clarity, carrying both intense emotions and vivid images. The urgent desire to capture these fleeting states, to transmute them into tangible structures, now forms the foundation of my research and practice.