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Education

2020 – MFA Rinehart School of Sculpture in Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, US *Certificate in the College Teaching of Art at Maryland Institute College of Art

2010 – BA Beauty Art at Youngsan University, Busan, South Korea

 

Solo Exhibition

2021 Feb – ‘Encounter the insensible’ Latitude Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Feb – ‘Stages of Life: Aura is Intentionally Around Us’ Fred Lazarus IV Center, Baltimore, MD
2019 Feb – ‘Reminiscences’ Great White Wall at Gateway, Baltimore, MD

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Selected Group Exhibition

2022
Sep – ‘20x21 Exhibition’ Decker Gallery, 1301 W Mt Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD
Aug – ‘LA Art Project(4 person show)’ 5505 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Feb – ‘Adorned’ Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Art Center(The Smithsonian Affiliation), Solomons, MD

2021
Oct – ‘ID, Please: Five Korean Diaspora Artists’ Korean Cultural Center/Embassy of the ROK, Washington DC
Sep – ‘Asia in Maryland’ Asia Arts & Culture Center, Towson, MD
Aug – ‘Keeping it Together’, Julio Fine Arts Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Jul – ‘Eye of the Beholder’ Circle Gallery, Maryland Federation of Art, Anapolis, MD
Apr – ‘2021 Annual Member Image Show’ present by Washington Sculptors Group [virtual]
Feb – ‘Gibson Island Gallery 2-Person Show’ Gibson Island Club House, Gibson Island, MD

2020
Nov – ‘2021 ICA Flat Files’ ICA Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Nov – ‘Finding Necessities’ ICOSA Big Museum, Austin, TX
Sep – ‘Sculpture NOW 2020’ Presented by Washington Sculptors Group, McLean, VA
Aug – Public Sculpture ‘Where Do We Come From’ located in Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
Jul –‘Creating a Voice, Speaking Out Against Social Injustice’ by Philadelphia/TRI State Artist Equity Association,
INC, Wayne PA, https://www.artistsequity.org/creating-a-voice-1
Jun – ‘Safe House’ Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, www.safehouse2020.com
Jun – ‘Grad Show III’ https://2020.micagradshow.com/, Online Exhibition
May – ‘Im.migration’ www.temporaryroom.net, Online Exhibition
Feb – ‘Daydreams’ MICA Decker Library, Baltimore, MD
Jan – ‘Pitch and Pulse’ Broadmead, Cockeysville, MD, US

2019
Oct – ‘Identity: Smashing Label’ MICA Main Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Oct – ‘Suspended Disbelief’ Leidy Gallery at Fred Lazarus IV Center, Baltimore, MD
May – ‘Of Nature and Identity’ Hamilton Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Apr – ‘NASAD Exhibition’ MICA Fred Lazarus IV Center, MD

Mar – ‘So Far from Home’ The Crown, Baltimore, MD
Feb – ‘MICA Trustee Dinner Pop-up exhibition’ 81 Mosher Building, Baltimore, MD
Jan – ‘Intersecting Spaces’ Broadmead, Cockeysville, MD

2018
Nov – ‘Fresh Picked Rhinos’ Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Jun – ‘Let’s Connect Philly’ Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
Apr – ‘Beautiful Darkness’ Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Apr – ‘April is Art’ Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2017
Dec – ’19 Cabinets’ Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Apr – ‘April is Art’ Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2009
Oct – ‘Beauty Art Graduation Exhibition’ City Hall, Busan, South Korea
Jun – ‘Beauty Art Festival’ Busan Women’s College, Busan, South Korea
Jul – ‘International Beauty Olympic’ Changwon Convention Center, Changwon, South Korea

2008
May – ‘Korea Bodypainting Runaway Show’ COEX Convention Center, Seoul, South Korea

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Awards, Grants, Fellowship, and Residencies
2022
Feb – 2nd Place Cash Award ‘Adorned’ Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Art Center(The Smithsonian Affiliation),
Solomons, MD
2021
May – Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT (October 1st, 2019 VSC Fellows)
2021
ICA Flat Files Program member artist, Baltimore, MD
Washington Sculptor Group member artist, Washington DC
AICAD Teaching Fellowship - Nominated
2020
Jun-Aug –Franconia Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Internship Residency, Shafer, MN
Jun – The Spruce Art Residency, Indian, PA(Postponed)
Apr – Presidential Scholarship 2020 Summer Workshop, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village,
CO(Postponed)
AICAD Teaching Fellowship - Nominated
The Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture – Nominated
May – Certificate in the College Teaching of Art in Maryland Institute College of Art
2019
Apr – Student Program of the Year, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Apr – Outstanding Achievement in Leadership Award, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Aug – Merit Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (Aug 2018 – May 2020)
2009
May – Nuri Scholarship, Nuri Business Group, Busan, South Korea
2008

Sep – 1st Prize in Mixed Media; 3D sculpture emphasizes on nails, Beauty Art Festival, Busan, South Korea
Jul – 1st Prize in Fashion Tattoo Creative Design; International Beauty Olympic, Korea
May – 3rd Prize in Body Painting; Body painting inspired by work of Gogh, Korean Make-Up Competition, Korea
2006
Mar – Merit Scholarship, Youngsan University, Busan, South Korea (Mar 2006 – Feb 2010)

Artist Talks and Publications
2022
Aug - US Metro News https://usmetronews.com/magazine/5183
July - The Korea Daily LA https://news.koreadaily.com/2022/07/31/society/education/20220731190157906.html
2021
Aug - The Korean Times DC http://dc.koreatimes.com/article/20210825/1377579
May - Artist Talk, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
2021
Oct - Artist Talk, Korean Culture Center, Washington DC
Apr – Artist Talk, Washington Sculptors Group, Washington DC
2020
Nov – Artist Talk, ICOSA Big Museum, Austin, TX
Oct –Artist Talk, Sculpture Now 2020 by McLean Place for Art https://vimeo.com/476042458
Oct –The Washington Sculptor 2020: No.3 Fall Page 11
Jul – WCCO Finding Minnesota, Interview 1:40
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/video/4633888-finding-minnesota-franconia-sculpture-park/
Rinehart Catalog ’19- ’20, Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD

2019
Rinehart Catalog ’18- ’19, Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
Nov – Artist Talk, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
May – Artist Talk, Hamilton Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Feb – Artist Talk, Broadmead, Cockeysville, MD
Feb – Voice of the Residents Vol 40, No 6 Page 3, and 17 articles ‘Creative Scene’ by Jane Elkinton
Highlight Feature on Bmore Art Instagram by Cara Obra
https://www.instagram.com/p/BwrVPDihnXL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
2018
Highlight Features of the Rinehart School of Sculpture on the MICA website
https://www.mica.edu/art-articles/details/rinehart-school-of-sculpture-exhibition/
2009 Beauty Art Graduation Exhibition Catalog Vol. 3

Experience
2022
Jan – Current; Director of Kids and Youth Art: NewYork School of Art, Vienna, VA
2021
Oct-Dec; Instructor New York School of Art, Vienna, VA
Teaching - Sculpture, Art Foundation, Craft & Cooking Art, and Portfolio Prep.
2020
Jun – Aug; Artist Intern: Summer 2020 Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
Jan – May; Teaching Intern: Spring 2020 Advanced Working/Furniture Design, Maryland Institute College of Art

Instructor: Ann Walsh, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Jan – May; Teaching Intern: Spring 2020 Modern and Contemporary Korean Art and Culture Maryland Institute
College of Art Instructor: Mina Cheon, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2019

Aug – Dec; Teaching Intern: Fall 2019 Accumulation and Metaphor, Maryland Institute College of Art Instructor: Susie Brandt, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Aug – Dec; Teaching Intern: Fall 2019 Green WoodWorking, Maryland Institute College of Art Instructor: Ann Walsh, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Jan – May; Teaching Intern: Spring 2019 Moving Image I, Johns Hopkins University - Maryland Institute College of Art Film Center Instructor: Nadia Hironaka, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2018

Aug to 2020 May – Graduate Program Manager, Center for Student Engagement, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2009

Mar to 2010 July – Full Time Instructor: Basic Henna Design, and Advanced Henna Design, With&CO Seoul, South Korea.