Assistant Professor of Painting
John Hee Taek Chae is an artist and educator whose work is interested in the hybridization and mutation of visual culture primarily through painting. John received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010 and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2020.
His previous solo exhibitions include Hallucination at D. D. D. D. (New York, NY), A Dark and Bloody Ground at Institute 193 (Lexington, KY), Shed Your Eyes at MARCH (New York, NY), and Make. Believe. at MOCA Jacksonville (Jacksonville, FL), among others, and he was awarded the MacDowell Fellowship in 2021 and was a Yaddo Fellow in 2022. He was the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Scholar in Residence at the University of Houston in 2023.
PAINTING MFA Alfred/Düsseldorf 