Esther Choi
Esther Choi is a Korean-Canadian multidisciplinary artist, historian, and educator based in New York City. Informed by her training as an architectural historian, her practice primarily focuses on architecture as a "functional" site of institutional critique and intervention. Through a variety of formats—including videos, photographs, moving image installations, participatory works, books, texts, cultural programming, and historical scholarship— her work explores entanglements between political ecology and world-making, as well as the relationship between art, activism, and social change in relational projects that aim to democratize access to representation and knowledge production for minoritized communities.
Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and written about in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 032C, Vanity Fair, and more. She has published critical essays in Artforum, Architectural Review, Art Papers, Journal of Architectural Education, and SSENSE. Choi is also the co-editor of Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else (MIT Press, 2010) and Architecture Is All Over (Columbia U Press, 2017).
Esther received a Ph.D. in architectural history and theory from Princeton University, and master of design from Harvard Graduate School of Design, an MFA from Concordia University, and a BFA in photography from Ryerson University. Choi, who is originally from Toronto, has held teaching appointments at Ontario College of Art & Design University, The Cooper Union, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and The New School.
