Celine Choo Woon Chee

Suelyn Choo is an emerging, multifaceted Trinidadian artist and organizer. After receiving a prestigious scholarship in Art and Design from the Government of her country, she completed a BSc in Biochemistry with a minor in Women's Studies from the University of Delaware in 2017. After returning to Trinidad, she helped facilitate a collaborative mural project that foregrounded the fight against gender-based violence. Balancing a career at the Ministry of Health with compelling creative projects, she co-founded Acute An9le (@acutean9le) in 2018, which saw her directing and styling photoshoots for sharp new talent and veteran designers alike, such as IDLEWOODbespoke and Meiling Inc. Through Acute An9le, she explored the intersection of her Chinese and Indian heritages through the ornamentation of the body, which sparked an interest in presentation and perception of the self in private and public spaces. She seeks to answer these questions through work which includes self-taught painting, photography, makeup, fashion, and dance. In 2020, she showcased figure drawings in a group show at Alice Yard and collaborated with producer and DJ Blasé Vanguard on a performance, Red Envelope, that explored music, movement and fashion. In 2021, she exhibited paintings in a group show Relative and collaborated on a performance piece instigated by noted artist Chris Cozier, that was shown at the IDB Healing a Broken World virtual summit. Currently, she is beginning to develop a piece that is scheduled for performance in early 2022.