Chuna Chugay: Chin to Eye
Koryo-Saram Landscapes
May 8th — June 5th 2026 at 368 E 8th Street
🔻Programming🔻
During the run of the exhibition we conducted a walkthrough, a Q&A with Sur Rodney Sur, and hosted class groups.
🔻ART WORKS 🔻
Chuna Chugay (they/them) is a nonbinary Koryo-Saram artist born and raised in Moscow and currently based in New York City. Their work investigates the legacy of the 1937 ethnic cleansing of Koryo-Saram from the Russian Far East to Central Asia, drawing from oral history research, archival materials, and personal memory. Working across painting and graphic storytelling, Chugay explores how histories of forced migration and cultural erasure persist across generations.
Grace Muller (she/her) is a Los Angeles-born, New York-based artist and organizer. She uses drawing, performance, installation, to recontextualize the contents of her everyday life. As an archival assistant at Allied, she participates in the stewardship and future planning of the organization’s archival holdings. Muller also hosts the weekly pop music radio show Lilypad with DJ Leggings. Her partnership with Chugay on this exhibition is born from their friendship and mutual trust.
Chuna Chugay, That Same Wind, panel detail