Hae Young Ji is a video artist who works with game engines to construct digital environments extending into sound and VR. She develops virtual worlds in which reality fractures and time is reconfigured, crossing boundaries between virtual and physical worlds. Within these shifting environments, she investigates how identities are dismantled and re-formed amid rapid change, engaging questions of unstable borders, migration, and uncertain futures.
Her practice unfolds through speculative narratives and fluid identities traversing multidimensional potential worlds. Drawing on Asian folklore, ecology, scientific thought, and science fiction, she constructs terrains where ancient memory and imagined futures intersect.
2017–2020
MA in Fine Arts, ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts), Zurich
2010
MA in Design, Domus Academy, Milan
2007–2009
Product Design, SADI, Seoul
2001–2006
BA in Computer Engineering, Hongik university, Seoul
2025
PAX Art Award, Nomination (Emerging artist)
2024
DA Z award, Digital Art Zurich, Honourable mention
2022
Prix Photoforum 2022, Nomination
2024
Swiss Interactive Session, Geneva International Film Festival
2022
Swiss Interactive Session, Geneva International Film Festival
"Non-Functional Thoughts", The Wrong Biennale, Online (2025)
"CREATURES COMFORT" KUNSTSURFER, Online (2025)
"DA Z screening", Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich (2024)
"Volume of air trapped between the earth and the sky", HAAM Gallery, Punjab (2024)
"Porvir", quarta a sabado, São Paulo (2024)
"Collective Imaginary Studies", one gee in fog, Geneva (2023)
"Prix Photoforum 2022", Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel (2022)
"We are so many here - Regionale 23", Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2022)
"Internal Clocks, Culterim Gallery, Berlin" (2022)
“Wired Magic”, HEK, Basel (2021)
“MATERIAL WORLDS – STORIED MATTER”, E-WERK, Freiburg (2021)
"BE THERE Design Festival", Hong Kong (2019)
2025
Production grant, Pro Helvetia, Zurich
2025
Work grant, Fachausschuss Film und Medienkunst BS/BL, Basel
2023
Work grant, Fachausschuss Film und Medienkunst BS/BL, Basel
2024
Piscina #1 – Porvir, Piscina art magazine, Sao Paulo
2024
IN A NUTSHELL, Z-KUBATOR WHAT’S UP, Zurich
2023
The Whole Technoshamanic Catalog, Umbigo magazine, Portugal
2022
WAVES program by Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
2021–2022
What’s Next_Studio, Zurich
2024
Swiss Interactive Session, GIFF 2024, Geneva
2022
Swiss Interactive Session, GIFF 2022, Geneva
2022
Atmosphäre, Design und Wohlbefinden (part 2), HGK, Basel
2022
Atmosphäre, Design und Wohlbefinden (part 1), HGK, Basel
2012–2015
UX design consultant, FRUM
2011–2012
Product designer, HANSKIN
For video + portfolio requests or any other inquiries, please contact me.
jhy.basic@gmail.com
