Jung Hee Choi is a New York-based multimedia artist whose work explores human consciousness through immersive environments that blend sound, light, and visual media. Drawing on traditional and experimental techniques, as well as Eastern philosophy and natural elements like smoke, she creates meditative spaces where dualities—such as presence and absence—coexist and invite introspection.

Her installations, often involving cyclical soundscapes and layered projections, emphasize the transient and constructed nature of reality. Choi’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Dia Art Foundation, Guggenheim Museum, and Berliner Festspiele, and is part of the permanent collections of FRAC Franche-Comté and Dia Art Foundation. She holds an MA in art and sound from NYU.Senstad has presented solo exhibitions at venues such as SL Gallery (New York), Galleri JMS (Norway), Houston Center for Photography, and the International Fine Arts Consortium (New York). Her immersive works have been featured in major exhibitions and biennales, including the 55th and 56th Venice Biennales, the Bruges Triennale, and at institutions such as Kai Art Center (Estonia), He Xiangning Art Museum (China), and Athr Gallery (Saudi Arabia). Notable large-scale and public projects include The Sugarcane Labyrinth in Louisiana and permanent installations at Zendai MoMA (Shanghai) and the Wolfe Center for the Arts (Ohio, with Snøhetta).

Senstad’s work is held in international collections and has received support from numerous cultural foundations. Her practice continues to bridge art, architecture, and sensory experience through investigations of light, space, and the poetics of perception.

Education

B.A., summa cum laude, New York University

M.A. in Art and Sound, New York University

Academic, Teaching, and Curatorial Positions

• Teaches raga at the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music, New York (since 2008)

• Guest lecturer at School of Visual Art, New York

• Guest lecturer at École supérieure d’art (now La Haute école des arts du Rhin), Mulhouse, France

• Producer / Director: co‑founder and vocalist of The Just Alap Raga Ensemble (with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela) since 2002

Selected Works, Projects & Major Presentations

• Black: Trans: May: Light — solo drawing exhibition, The Korea Society, New York, 2019

• Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest (series, 2007– ) — environmental compositions with video, evolving light‑point patterns, drawing, incense, performance, sound

• Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Ensemble Version with 4:3 and 7:6 — premiered 2015 with Sundara All Star Band; live performances 2015, 2016, 2017 at Dream House, New York, etc.

• The Tone‑field: perceptible arithmetical relations in a cycle of eight Indian raga scale permutations, 17 VIII 17 – 18 IV 07 — sound installation converting Dream House into a 24‑hour modal cycle environment; August 2017–April 2018

• Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest IX — multimedia installations & sound environment at Dia’s Dream House, New York, 2015

• Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest V — FRAC Franche‑Comté, Besançon, Centre d’art mobile, SONIC/Le Quai, Mulhouse, France; 2011‑2012

• RICE (video sound performance & installation commissioned by MELA Foundation) — selected “One of the 10 Best of 2003” in Artforum

Residencies, Memberships & Collaborations

• Disciple of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela since 1999; formal traditional Kirana gandha bandh red‑thread ceremony in 2003

• Co‑founder of The Just Alap Raga Ensemble (2002)

• Collaborations in presentation / direction of Young & Zazeela’s installations/performances: Centre Pompidou‑Metz, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; LA Philharmonic centennial; etc.

Collections & Recognition

• Works held in the collections of FRAC Franche‑Comté, France; Dia Art Foundation

• Tonecycle for Blues, by Sundara All Star Band, listed as one of The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 by The New York Times

• RICE chosen one of The 10 Best of 2003 in December Artforum

Published Writing

• “SOUND: A Basis for Universal Structure in Ancient and Modern Cosmology” — essay in Festschrift Antonio T. de Nicolás: Poet of Eternal Return (2014)