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Esther M. Choi is a multidisciplinary artist– scholar whose practice examines how systems of representation shape our understanding of nature, history, and cultural value. Drawing on training in photography and architectural history and theory, she works across photography, time-based media, and critical writing. Through an ongoing deconstruction of the still-life genre—guided by materials that trace shifting boundaries between the natural and the postnatural—her work investigates intertwined narratives of identity, migration, industrialization, extraction, and colonialism.

Her projects often take research-driven forms, moving between image-making, text, and long-term conceptual inquiry. In addition to visual work, she develops platforms and publications that foreground collective knowledge production and sustained cultural exchange.

Choi is the author of Le Corbuffet, a conceptual artist’s book published by Prestel, and the coeditor of Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else (MIT Press) and Architecture Is All Over (Columbia University Press). Her writing appears in leading art and design journals and publications.

She has taught internationally and previously held tenured and senior academic appointments. Her work circulates internationally through exhibitions, publications, and research-based platforms.