Yeju & Chat is is an interdisciplinary collaborative practice of NYC-based artists/designers Yeju Choi and Chat Travieso. With backgrounds in art, architecture, urban design, graphic design, and education, Yeju & Chat has been creating site-specific, community-based, and socially engaged public art projects since 2013. Often through close observation and engagement, and with playful imagination, their work focuses on reinforcing social bonds in our surroundings and public spaces. Yeju & Chat is a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design.

Yeju Choi is a designer and educator, and co-founder/collaborator of Yeju & Chat. She runs a design practice Nowhere Office focusing on projects in civic, public, and cultural realms, across various mediums including printed matter, identities, websites, and site-specific, community-based public art. She has been teaching at Yale School of Art since 2012 and has been a visiting critic, held workshops and lectures at Columbia University, Cornell University, City College of New York, Rutgers University, The New School, and Seoul National University among others, in graphic design, architecture, and urban design departments. She served as a public design fellow at the Center for Urban Pedagogy and a designer-in-residence for Performa. Her work has been recognized and published internationally by AIGA, Artplace, Type Directors Club, Typojanchi, :Output award, Graphic, Étapes, etc. She holds a B.F.A from Seoul National University and an M.F.A from Yale University where she received Norman Joondeph Prize and Phelps Berdan Award.

Chat Travieso is an artist, designer, and educator, as well as co-founder/collaborator of Yeju & Chat. He creates participatory, architectural, and research-based projects that reinforce social bonds in public spaces and interrogate the histories and policies that have shaped the built environment. His past work has been commissioned by or organized in collaboration with the NYC Department of Transportation, the NYC Parks Department, Hester Street, The Architectural League of New York, Design Trust for Public Space, and WHEDco. His research has been supported by grants from the Graham Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts, and honors include the YoungArts Jorge M. Pérez Award and United States Artist Fellowship in Architecture & Design. He has taught at Yale School of Architecture, Columbia GSAPP, Parsons School of Design, Spitzer School of Architecture at City College, and Pratt Institute. He holds a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an M.Arch from the Yale School of Architecture.

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