Born in Seoul, Korea, 1973

Lives and works in New York City

Earned her BFA and MFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She also attended a nine-week residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2009). She has received the Korea Arts Foundation of America (2008), Yonkang Art Award (2011), Franklin Furnace Fund (2010), SEMA Young Artist Grant (2010), and Arts Council Korea Grant (2010, 2014).

Solo exhibitions include The Flesh and the Book, Doosan Gallery, New York (2013); Gravity and Lightness, DOOSAN Art Center, Seoul (2013); A Time Too Late, a Time Too Early, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York (2010); And the Ship Sails On, Cais Gallery, Seoul (2010); Hardboard Sky, Corridor Gallery, New York (2010); and Now You See It, Now You Donʼt, KCCLA, Los Angeles (2009). Her upcoming solo exhibition is at the Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura, Portugal (2014).

Group exhibitions include Videosphere: A New Generation, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2011); Crying, Seasaw, Tear, Between: New Video, Norton Museum of Art, Florida (2012); Roppongi Art Night Screening, Mori Museum of Art, Tokyo (2012); and Keeping It Real, CU Art Museum, Colorado (2012).

Statement:  My work explores the evasive nature of authentic desire. By focusing on the tension between “real” desire and “fake” objects of desire, as embodied by images—in the broadest sense of the word—my work presents “real fakes” and “imageless images.”

My work is thus concerned with making real fakes by forthrightly showing artifice without the concealment of ambiguity. This refusal to deny the actual substance of the materials with which I make art reveals the authenticity of these faked, imaginary worlds so that the product, as an artwork, is paradoxically a fake that, notwithstanding its artifice, is authentic and, thus genuine.

My goal is to create a new visual space in which artifice evaporates through the very naked presentation of images as naked materials. This “honest artifice” would ultimately lead one into an experience of reflection about one’s own nostalgia.