ART BASEL PARIS 2026

His work begins where the belief that we can fully understand and control our bodies and feelings starts to falter.

Using materials such as silicone, concrete, plaster, hair, metal, and mechanical systems, Choi creates sculptures that evoke the body without resolving into a single human figure.

Bodies are cut, fragmented, and opened; hair and fluids emerge from their surfaces.

Suspended forms sag, motorized sculptures fall, and others cry endlessly before the viewer.

These material states and repetitive movements reveal how control and failure, intimacy and violence, shame and seduction become entangled within the same body. For Choi, sculpture is less a means of representing the body than a medium for making visible what the body conceals, leaks, performs, and ultimately fails to govern.

Haneyl Choi received his BFA in Sculpture from Seoul National University and his MFA in Fine Arts from Korea National University of Arts, and is based in Seoul. Choi has presented solo exhibitions at P21, Seoul (2022); Arario Museum, Seoul (2021); and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2018). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions held at P21, Seoul (2026, 2025); Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong (2025); the 15th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2024); P21, Seoul (2024); Esther Schipper, Seoul (2024); Esther Schipper, Berlin (2023); Para Site, Hong Kong (2021); Karma International, Zurich (2021); Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul (2020); Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (2020); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon (2019); and the Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul (2018), among others. His works are held in major institutional collections including the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; and the Daegu Art Museum.