Professor Jane Jin Kaisen

Jane Jin Kaisen (b. 1980 Jeju Island, South Korea) lives and works in Copenhagen. Her artistic practice encompasses video installations, film, photographic installations, performance and writing. Working with non-linear layered modes of storytelling and poetic montages of image, sound, voice, and archive, she engages themes of memory, migration, gender, borders, and translation at the intersection of personal and collective histories.
 
Kaisen holds a PhD in artistic research from the University of Copenhagen, Department of Art and Cultural Studies, an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from the University of California Los Angeles, an MA in Art Theory and Media Art from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and she participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.
 She has been a visiting researcher, invited lecturer and guest teacher at various art academies, universities and study programs in Denmark and internationally.
 
Kaisen is a recipient of the New Carlsberg Foundation Artist Grant (2023). She represented Korea at the 58th Venice Biennale with the film installation Community of Parting (2019) alongside artists Hwayeon Nam and siren eun young jeong in the exhibition History Has Failed Us, but No Matter curated by Hyunjin Kim. She was awarded “Exhibition of the Year 2020” by AICA – International Association of Art Critics, Denmark for the exhibition Community of Parting at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Recent solo exhibitions include Jane Jin Kaisen: Braiding and Mending at The Image Centre (2023), Of Specters or Returns at Le Bicolore (2023), Currents at Fotografisk Center (2023) Parallax Conjunctures at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2021), Community of Parting at Art Sonje Center (2021) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2020). Other recent exhibitions and screenings: Dislocation Blues: Jane Jin Kaisen, Tate Modern (2023), Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2022), Checkpoint: Border view from Korea, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2022), Unmoored Adrift Ashore, Or Gallery Vancouver (2022).