A little about me:
I was born in South Korea and currently live and work in Los Angeles. I worked as an international shoe designer for 2 decades before returning to make art in 2009. My work consists of painting, sculpture and photography, medium designated by each project.
My practice can be divided into two types of cognitive processes: one that takes many months involving research, rigorous planning and designing, as well as engineering skills; the other relies solely on intuition and spontaneity, although the subject matters or concept of the work may be contemplated before the actual physical work. The seemingly disparate genres in my practice have an undercurrent that deals with deconstruction and reconstruction, physically and psychologically, at least that is my intention.
My real-time portrait painting series titled, “lunch Portraits” (a tribute to Frank Ohara’s Lunch Poems) that started in 2015 – in which I try to level the stereotypes by mixing the real with imagined background – is a platform where I document my community in an organic and spontaneous manner, offering a place of dialogue and warmth in a cold market driven art world.
Education
Art Center College of Design in Pasadena BA
Fashion Institute of Technology BA
Exhibition History
Solo Shows
2022 “Cloudy With A Chance Of Sunshine” Tetrapod gallery, Los Angeles
2021 “Piccola Stanza Dove Succede Tutto” Track 16 gallery, Los Angeles
2021 “Redreaming My Borrowed Dreams In Colors Of Spring 2022, When Everything Will Be Ok”. Cooper Design Space/Track-16, Los Angeles
2021 “Undique” Paintings and Sculptures, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Los Angeles
2020 “A Portrait Of An Art World”, LSH gallery, Los Angeles
2018 “A Painting Show”, Arcana Books, Los Angeles
2017 “Planes and Structures” 18th St. Art Center, Los Angeles
2017 “Blind Spot” PostLA Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 “Here and Elsewhere” A portrait show, Industrial Mill Galllery, Los Angeles
2015 “Designare, Intentio, Planum” Wedge Gallery, Woodbury University, Los Angeles
2014 “Saudade Paintings,” Matrushka Construction, Los Angeles
2014 “No Logo: Prêt-à-porter Spring 2015,” (West LA College Art Gallery), Los Angeles
Group exhibitions
2022 “Storm Before Calm” Praz Delavallade, Los Angeles
2021 “Funhouse” Rory Devine Fine Art, Los Angeles
2020 “Archive Machine” Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles
2020 “We Are Here, and Here We Are” Public Art Exhibition, Durden Ray Gallery, Los Angeles
2020 “The Gallery Is Closed” Online Exhibition “Three day Weekend”, Blum and Poe Broadcast, Los Angeles
2019 A Step Beyond, Otis College Of Art and Design, Los Angeles
2019 Lava On Sand, Wolf & Galentz Gallery, Berlin
2018 LA Looking, Lava Projects, Los Angeles
2018 A Holiday Show, The Atrium @ Helms Bakery Design Center Los Angeles
2018 2018 Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery
2017 “Futopia” Blam/Durden Ray Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 “The Night Opens” Blam Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 “The Gun Show” Liz’s Loft, Los Angeles
2016 “Play” Los Angeles Municipal Gallery
2015 “Mask” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA
2015 “Cultural Conversations” Korean Cultural Center – Grant Winners Exhibition, Los Angeles
2013 “MAS Attack” Torrance Art Museum, Sculpture and Photograph, “The Cave” and “Return to Xylem”
2013 “200 Clams” XYV Gallery, “Que faire, que faire, Je ne sait quoi faire” Los Angeles
2011 “Anarchy” Post Gallery, “Caulfield’s Jacket In A Slough” Los Angeles
2009 “Clutter” Andrew Shire Gallery, 3 Sculptures : “Beginning Of The End”, Los Angeles
