ABOUT ME

Chelly Jin (she/her) is a Korean American new media artist employing technology as a conduit for expressing and exploring spaces between belonging, performing, and healing. Her practice weaves experimental methods with interdisciplinary forms: expressive and poetic programming, co-opting algorithms for self-inquiry, and bridging web, multimedia, installation, movement, sound, and performance.

She is currently an MFA candidate in Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she earned her BA in Design Media Art and Digital Humanities. Her most recent performances, underoverwhelmed() and do.we.touch, were shown at Experimental Media Arts, LA and A+E Lab, UK.

CONTACT
chellyashleyjin@gmail.com

CV

Updated January 2024 

Education

2026 MFA (pending) Design Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (expected June 2026)

2018 BA Design Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

2018 Digital Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (Minor) 

2017 King’s College London, London, United Kingdom (Digital Humanities, Study Abroad)

2016 Korea University, Seoul, South Korea (Korean Contemporary Art + Media, Exchange Program)

2014 Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea (Korean language classes)

Selected Awards and Grants

2023-2024 Graduate Opportunity Fellowship Program

2018 Undergraduate Research Center Travel Grant

2018 Anderson Ranch Fellowship Scholarship

2018 UCLA Design Media Art Department Travel Grant

2017 UCEAP IEO Global Blogger Scholarship

2017 Dean's Honors List

2016 Korea University International Summer Exchange Fellow Scholarship

Exhibitions

2024 Solo Performance, ssuukkdduukk, Experimental Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2023 Solo Performance, underoverwhelmed(), Experimental Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2018 Solo Exhibition, Hypnagogia, California NanoSystems Institute, Los Angeles, CA  

2018 Authentication Error [Solved], Experimental Digital Arts, Los Angeles CA

2018 DIS-, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Co-Lead Curator with Jen Agosta)

2017 Machinc Unconscious, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Co-curator)

2016 DROOL, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Co-curator)

Professional Experience

2024 

(pending) Part-time Faculty, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO 

(pending) Part-time Faculty, UCLA Social Software Summer Institute, Los Angeles, CA 

Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (Interactivity [Lauren McCarthy], Winter 2024)

2023

Artist Assistant and Stage Manager for Lauren McCarthy's project Saliva Retreat, Los Angeles, CA

2019 - 2023

Senior User Experience Designer, Microsoft, Seattle, WA 

2019 

Part-time Faculty, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO 

Publications 

Matthew Conlen, Sara Stalla, Chelly Jin, Maggie Hendrie, Hillary Mushkin, Santiago Lombeyda, and Scott Davidoff. 2018. Towards Design Principles for Visual Analytics in Operations Contexts. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 138, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173712