Chunbum Park (also known as Chun) is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in Painting and Photography that contain their ideas concerning gender fluidity and performativity, racialization of beauty and anti-racist aesthetics, and Northeast Asian culture and heritage.

Growing up in the patriarchal society of South Korea as a boy and even upon coming to America, Park hid their interests in exploring a more feminine side of their psyche because they believed at the time that transgender-ness or queerness did not exist or was abnormal.

But upon attending art school and taking classes at the Art Students League of NY, Park found themself repeatedly painting female forms in their own image. Upon becoming aware of this proclivity, Park changed their pronouns during graduate school at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2021.

Using the concepts of gender fluidity and performativity and the Japanese model of onnagata, who are male performers of femininity in Kabuki theatre, Park makes paintings that also address the theme of the racialization of beauty and its cure, anti-racist aesthetics (according to Shirley Anne Tate). In the Western-dominated realm of beauty where the majority of supermodels and Hollywood actresses are white, and minorities are under-represented, Park makes a stand for a Northeast Asian beauty with their idealized depictions in their paintings. Park questions why the Northeast Asian characters in Japanese anime have physical appearances that do not resemble the Northeast Asian phenomes (such as monolids, wider and rounder nose, and black or dark hair), but they appear to have signs of whiteness or western identity (such as colored hair, large eyes with double eyelids and colored irises, and narrow pointy nose). The solution, guided by the philosophy of the anti-racist aesthetics, seeks a hybrid beauty that borrows from other people and their beauty practices while retaining the original Northeast Asian identity.