30 Emerging Artists to Watch During Frieze Week
The artists below, born primarily since 1980, hail from cities from Vienna to Johannesburg, Kano to Toledo, and work with subject matter from emoji to sexuality. Five standouts from the list—Jesse Greenberg, Thaddeus Wolfe, ruby onyinyechi amanze, Aki Sasamoto, and Sara Cwynar—have been profiled at greater length.
Mimi Jung
b. 1981, Seoul, South Korea. Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Available at: Sight Unseen OFFSITE, entryroom
When she’s working on her own—as opposed to with her husband for their L.A. furniture studio Brook&Lyn—Mimi Jung creates sumptuous-yet-minimal, woven-natural-fiber wall-hangings that are just begging to be touched. Her works at Collective are more sculptural and design-based, yet equally tactile: four blue-green curvilinear steel-framed pieces that can fit together or sit independently.