2025
June - NARS / Open Studio @ J&M Studios, Brooklyn, NY
April - “Thinggy of Their Town” Hillyer Gallery, Washington D.C.
February - More Than Teachers: Art Exhibit, US Arts Center, Vienna, VA
2024
“Create – Inspire – Empower” The PARC at Tysons, Tysons, VA
“High in Fiber: A Fiber Arts Exclusive Exhibition” Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
“Maternal & Offspring,” Sculpture Now Juried Group Exhibition, McLean, VA
2023
“Something Still Singing” Kreeger Museum, Washington DC.
“Queering Nature” Sandy Spring Museum, MD
“Thingumabob World” Solo show, 636 Art Gallery, Seoul Korea
Washington DC Ground Artist show, Kimboseong Art Center, Seoul Korea
“Balanced” Asian Arts & Culture Center, MD
“Thingumabob Society” Solo Show, Burlington City Art, VT
“Thingumabob Mirea(Future)” Solo Show, Korean Consulate, Washington DC
2022
“In Orbit” Anderson Ranch Art Center, CO
“Trash” Local Project Gallery, NYC
“Interconnected” KCS Center, NYC
“Reimagining Peace to Come” Maryland Hall, MD
“HMAA Aneal Show” Korean Culture Center, Washington DC
MFA Thesis Show, Katzen Museum, Washington DC
Asia North 2022, Stillpoint Gallery / Moter House, Baltimore MD
“Boundless Show” Korean Culture Center, Washington DC
AU MFA Show, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC
2021
Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Art Center, MD
“Asia In Maryland 2021”, AA&CC TU, MD
“Unknown World” Solo Show, Korean Consulate, Washington DC
“Infinite Spectrum” Riverside Gallery, NJ
2019-1991
2019 - “Four Season” Solo Show Korean Consulate, Washington DC
2019 - “Crossing” Show, Western Gallery, Las Angeles, CA
2018 - Invitational Show, NARS, New York
2017 - Invitational Solo Show Chungjoo International Biennale, Chungjoosi, Korea
2016 - Invitational Solo Show at Gallery HAC, Augusta GA
2015 - Invitational Solo Show at Hire Grounds, Augusta GA
2014 - Invitation Solo Show at Gallery Doo, Seoul, Korea
2013 - Invitational Solo Show at Vineyard at Florence, TX
2013 - Cherish Solo Art Show at NEWALL, Seoul, Korea
2012 - Invitation Solo Show, Korea Environment Minister, Rio+20, Seoul, Korea
2012 - Invitational Solo Show at Hill Design & Gallery, Georgetown TX
2011 - Invitational Solo Show at Gallery J, Austin TX
2011 - Invitational Solo Show at Gallery Woomyung, Hanam-si, Korea
2010 - Invitational Solo Show at AW Convention Center, Seoul, Korea
2010 - International Exchange Artists show, Dongkyung Department Gallery, Nagano, Japan
1991-2009 - Numerous invitational solo and group shows
Exhibitions
Featured Exhibitions
Intersection of Cultures
July 3 - August 2, 2021
Consulate General of the Republic of Korea
I seek my origin and identity as I change cultures from Korea to America as seen through my work. Using industrial materials (zip-ties) and natural material (hay) of juxtaposition materials to create the appearance of tension and harmony simultaneously.
I am inundated in the material, Western world. People use, then dump plastic materials regularly and they don't realize how much plastic they discard each day. It fills our living environment and consumes our living spaces. These plastic materials are useful, harmful, and increasingly occupy our environment; It inspires emotion and fear of living in this world. I try to find a means to differentiate the meaning between these materials in my work, a departure from that fear and emotion. I laid together juxtaposition materials of hay and emphasized the cycles of nature instead of simply resigning to the eventual decay and unconscious cluttering of my world.
I was born in the Korean countryside, exposed to and watched my parents' craftsmanship. My father made "Jipshin" (hay shoes), "Mangteagi” (hay bag), "Mungsuk” (hay carpet), "Kwangjoori" (food baskets) with rice hay, while my mother displayed sewing, knitting, embroidery, and crochet. Korea's rice hay is used for heating, agriculture, and the construction of home goods to more broad use in the Korean tradition instead of merely feeding animals in America. The differences noted between the Korean and American cultures create a new form of cross-cultural lifestyle; naturally creating an intersection of cultures in the forms of my artwork.
This show will present the notion of the industrial societal issues, and identifies the work of uniqueness based upon living in the intersection of the two cultures.
Riverside Gallery Group Show
June 2 - June 15, 2021
My life is filled with a plethora of experiences in the use of common materials found on my parent's farmland during my youth in South Korea, those used as I experimented with during my art and art crafts education as well as those associated with being a mother and homemaker in today's modern materialistic art world. From an early age, I searched for various objects; broken ceramics, glass, bottle caps, weeds, sand and soils, all to create my personal imaginary world. I vividly recall my parent's garden fence made of empty bottles, inverted and placed into the soil. I watched the beautiful sunshine reflect on this recycled fence. We used plastic containers to form pencil holders, soap containers, plant pots, and much more. I learned from this and found I could create human figures with sand next to the stream. Soil, with the application of water, were the materials of choice to build the walls of threedimensional house diagrams and other home goods as seen from above. As a farm girl, I watched plants sprout, produce flowers and fruits as they transitioned though their respective life cycles. I was most intrigued in watching dried seeds eventually sprout in their quest to reach maturity. Interestingly, my parents would wrap dry seeds in a blanket, then leave them on our warm floor. I watched the seeds as they sprouted, then placed into the rich soil to grow and achieve their fruitful life. I find myself playing with the various materials that I consume and use during my daily life. After use, these products are perceived to be useless and worthless. I transform this waste into meaningful, appreciated and aesthetic art forms (Alchemy) in my quest to communicate to society. All living things have similar life cycles; birth, growth, maturity and transition to death comprise the basic concepts of my work. My works exist somewhere between a growth in the floral world and a beast in my imaginary unknown species kingdom. My work practice requires a repetitious or redundant effort to produce similar grass or feather shapes as I build a formed creature. This perpetual activity inspires and facilitates a meditation stage in the progress of my work. Although the textures of the materials appear to be that of feathers, pedals or sprouts, they are rough and austere. My works represent the transition through the passage of time in all living things.