Born in South Korea, she received her Master in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the recipient of the 2018-2019 ArtBridge Fellowship at Pratt Fine Arts Center. This summer she just completed a public art commission that can be viewed on 1st Avenue in Downtown Seattle in the form of crosswalk paintings and street signs for the Seattle Department of Transportation and Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
Past honors include the Nippon Steel Presidential Award, the LeRoy Neiman Foundation Fellowship at the Ox-Bow School of Art and The Women’s Studio Workshop Artist Residency. In 2015, she was selected as one of twelve artists nationwide at the 21st Juried Exhibition at the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles and was the invited guest artist for the group exhibition Hungry Ghosts hosted by the Asian American Women Artists Association at the historic Manilatown Center Gallery in San Francisco. Her work can be found in collections nationally and internationally, such as the Joan Flasch Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Women’s Studio Workshop, the Artists’ Books Collection at the Rikhardinkatu Library of Helsinki, De Anza College, University of California Berkeley, the San Francisco Public Art collection and the City of Seattle Fresh Perspectives Art Collection.
She has exhibited at Diaspora Vibe Gallery, SomArts Gallery, Asia Society San Francisco, Ox Bow Gallery, the Euphrat Museum, Manilatown Heritage Foundation Gallery in San Francisco, the Asian American Women Artists Association, Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, Method Gallery, Seattle Center and Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture. Her work can be seen locally at Suzanne Zahr gallery.
She has taught at institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Harrington College of Design, University of California at Berkeley, California College of Art and De Anza College.
