Artist Statement
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The pursuit of one’s happiness in the course of suffering inspires my artistic approach, and it is a recurrent theme. I captured images that challenges arise in an atmosphere that stems from the experience of immigrants, inequality, racism, social injustice, and climate change. I also consider human nature and how it project to the environment. The research subject matter is the mutable relationship between humans, nature, and technology. How are their power and status changing and evolving in analog data, and how does their value shift in the time and space of the physical/spiritual world? I twist subject matter in artworks and portray them using abstract symbolism.
In studio practice, I use discarded materials and manufactured components repurposed and transformed into sculptures. My physical interaction with the materials condenses data, information, consumer history, and the mystical qualities of found fragments of life. I’m interested in continuously conducting action by covering surfaces and revealing a purpose as meditation and prayer that contains the rules of the problem-solving process. I position them alongside biodegradable and eco-friendly materials, such as mushrooms, bloodworms, compositing ceramic pods, and living plants. I often combine technological elements, such as mechanical movement and lights, video, and projection mapping.
Idiosyncratic narratives in sites where these different kinds of objects are integrated and congregated with their own history and origin story. Each artwork creates actions between elements that enhance a spectator’s sensuous experience with intangible matter such as sounds, tactile elements, smell, humor, and emotion. Curiosity through immaterial ingredients is a form of exaggeration of physical elements. Moreover, It allows me to communicate with the public through reinterpretation and reconstruction of an aesthetic perspective on inconvenient but considerable issues.
Through rituals, the working process has the potential to revitalize forms that have lost their desirability. At the same time, It it a metaphor for finding sparks in the darkness that lift one's own spirit. I am a dreamer and I reflect on the utopia and dystopia of the symbiotic relationship between humans, nature and technology. I present images in ways that may elicit discomfort. However, it is significant in my practice that they are interrelated and interdependent with the world.
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Education
BA. Journalism, Sungkonghoe University, Seoul, S.Korea, 2008
School of Art Institute of Chicago 1 year course of study, 2014-2015
BFA. Fine Art, School of Visual Art, New York, 2021
MFA. Sculpture, Boston University, 2023
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Change Tides-I3C group Exhibition, Hopkinton Center for the Art, MA, USA
2024 Water Wave in the Bottle_Two person show, School Salone, Somerville, MA, USA
2024 Water Fall; Digital Soup residency, Fountain street art Side walk gallery, Boston,
2023 “ A way of Thinking”; Digital Soup residency at Cyber Art Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2023 Face of Shadow, Water: ancient Greek philosophy and in Western alchemy, LaguanaART.com Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA, USA
2023 Millennium Bug, Ramp Collective, Boston, MA, USA
2023 Intersection: Artistic Dialogues in Boston Graduate Fine Arts Community, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2023 View 1, Ramp Collective, Boston, MA, USA
2023 Boston MFA Mixer: Above and Below An Angel holds life and light shine them, Nancy and Edward Roberts Gallery, Lesely University College of Art and Design, Boston
2022 Two-person Exhibition: Emotional Urination, 855 Commonwealth Gallery, Boston
2022 Perspective : Micro to Macro: Trail to Eden Garden, Emerson College Media Art Gallery, Boston, USA
2022 Unfolding: Clumsy Spirits, Trails to Eden Garden, Online Exhibition, USA
2022 Burning Man Decompression: Happy Wife, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY, USA
2022 Fisk House Open House: Clumsy Spirits, Boston University Woman Guild, Boston, USA
2022 Boston foundation And Dumamis: Bang Bang, Ozymandias, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, USA
2022 “Banging the Door”: Trail to Eden Garden, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, USA
2021 God of Water, Bower Union, NY, USA
2021 June Tenth Celebration in Harlem: The Freedom Day, Tision Café, NY, USA
2019 Cyborg Family, Open Studios SVA BFA Fine Arts, NY, USA
2019 Burning Man Decompression: Electronic Metropolis, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY, USA
2019 A Dream of Electric Sheep, School of Visual Art, NY, USA
2019 Electronic Metropolis, Le Poisson Rouge, NY, USA
2017 Sparks in Darkness, Portable Space Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2016 ORI am Dreaming, Performance in Fringe Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2015 Lakes of Fire, Illuminate Tree, Chicago, USA
2015 Illuminate Tree, Burning Man Festival, Nevada, USA
CONFERENCE
2023 SculptureSlam, New England Sculpture Association, Boston, MA, USA
2022 Women and Masks Conference: These Boobs Made for Walking, Boston University, USA
Award
2023 Cultural Sector Recovery Grant, Mass Cultural council, MA, USA
2021-2023 Boston University, MFA Sculpture,Scholarship, MA, USA
2020 School of Visual Art, Fine Art Department Grant, NY, USA
2014 School of Art Institute, Merit Scholarship, Chicago, USA
Publish
July 2007 - Aug 2007 : Puchon International film Festival
Aug 2007 - Sep 2007 : Jecheon International Music & Film Festival
Sep 2007 - Nov 2007 : World Calligraphy Biennalle of Jeollabuk-Do
Sep 2007 - July 2008 : Studied of operation activation plan of Festivals of Uijeongbu City
July 2008 – Sep 2008 : Jecheon International Music & Film Festival
Sep 2008 – Oct 2008 : Hanseong Baekje Cultural Festival
2017 Korea drama Festival
2017 Gyeonggi-Do Sihung local festivals management study
2017 Local Cultural Expert Placement Project Achievement Study
