Artist Bio
Valery Jung (정) Estabrook is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the themes of cultural expansion and assimilation through digital media, sculpture, and installation. Estabrook was born in Florida and grew up on an organic Asian pear farm in rural southwestern Virginia. She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Brooklyn College and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University. In 2018 she received the Gold AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award, an annual award recognizing artists of Korean heritage in the United States. In 2020 she was a Vermont Studio Center Fellow and the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow at University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities. She currently resides in Albuquerque where she teaches classes in Interdisciplinary Art and manages the ARTSLab at the University of New Mexico.