In Kyoung Chun’s creative practice moves between painting and site-specific installation. Interactive works extend the language of painting beyond the canvas, inviting viewers into environments that challenge perception and encourage connection. As an immigrant artist, Chun reflects on the shifting sense of home — both safe and fragile, stable yet impermanent. Transparent houses, suspended structures, and intimate paintings serve as metaphors for belonging, suggesting neighborhoods that are open and inclusive. By blurring boundaries between interior and exterior, personal and public, her work builds shared spaces where fragility and resilience coexist. Her art constructs safe, quiet, joyful spaces in a turbulent world — propositions about how we might live with one another — then opens them up to bring the viewer inside. “In Kyoung Chun: Make Room” is on view at halsey_institute through July 25, 2026. The exhibition is funded in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission, which...