Valery Jung (정) Estabrook

valery@valeryestabrook.com
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twitter: @KoreanFanDeath

ABOUT

Valery Jung (정) Estabrook grew up on an organic Asian pear farm in rural southwestern Virginia. Her multicultural background and early exposure to nature informs her artistic practice, which spans sculpture, video, installation, and social intervention. She holds a BA in Visual Art from Brown University and completed her MFA in Painting and Drawing at Brooklyn College.

In 2018 Estabrook received the Gold AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award, which recognizes artists of Korean heritage. She was the 2020 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow at University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities. In 2022, work from her "anti-commemorative" coin series The Impeach Mint documenting the political response to COVID-19 and its human toll was acquired by Bank of Canada Museum. 

Valery currently teaches classes in interdisciplinary art at the University of New Mexico where she also serves as the lab manager for UNM's ARTSLab, a transdisciplinary research facility for emerging media.