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Education
2009 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2003 MFA, School of The Art Institute of Chicago
2001 BFA, School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Now you see It, now you don’t
KCCLA, Los Angeles
2007 Le Vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd’hui
Galerie Gana Beaubourg, Paris, France
When All The Lovers In The World Are On The Phone At Once
Gallery Factory, Seoul
2004 Video Landscape: Real Fake
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Transcape
Gallery Loop, Seoul, Korea
Two Person Exhibitions
2008 The Only Thing That I Believe, Kasia Kay Art Project, Chicago
Selected Exhibitions & Performances
2009 30 years of Korean Art in New York, Queens Museum, NY
Opening, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Gyeonggi
USB, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
New York 9+1, Cais Gallery, Seoul
Aljira Emerge10, Aljira contemporary, NJ
Magnetic Power, Lee C Gallery, Seoul
Queens Internation 4, Queens Museum, NY
Another Masterpiece, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea
2008 Course Sepia Gallery / Alkazi Collection, NY
2007 Kobe Biennale, Kobe, Japan
Video Scope, Scope Art Fair, New Hampton
Incarnation, Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY
Counterpoint, Space C, Seoul
Pampering, Video Circa, Circa Fair, Puerto Rico
Six Ruminations on Recurrence, Sepia Gallery, NY
2006 Benefit Auction, White Box Gallery, NY
Pool Art fair, Miami
Pipe Lines, Nars Foundation
Ssamzle Video Show, Ssamzle Theater, Seoul, Korea
Asian Contemporary Art Week, NY
Open Studio, Ssamzie Art Space, Seoul Korea
Moving Time/Nam June Paik + 30 int'l Video Artists, Gallery Korea
2005 Pool Video Fair, Pool Art, Miami
From the Artist's Studio:Wish You Were here, The Living Room, Miami
White, Nova Gallery, Chicago
AIM 25, Bronx Museum, NY
Everybody Paints, Molar Productions, Chicago
Counterpoise, Whitebox Gallery, NYC
Greatest Hits, Soap Factory, MN
Blue, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Portraits and Landscapes Video Salon, Alternator Gallery, BC, Canada
2004 Butternut Ink, Asian American art Centre, NY
2003 Perspective 2003, Ormeau Bath Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
Sweet Dreams(curated by Franklin Sirmans), Soap Factory, Minneapolis
MFA Thesis Exhibition, SAIC, Chicago
2002 Reconfiguring Pop, Gallery 2, Chicago
Asia in Midwest, Andrew Bae Gallery, Chicago
2001 Art Windows Agnes B, Chicago
BFA Exhibition, SAIC, Chicago
Transpace Obsession, 1926 Place, Chicago
Screening Pris Project Room, Paris, France
2000 Nuees, Gallery st.Eustache, Paris, France
Boutique de robe de Marie, SEche Art Project, Paris, France
Literier, Gallery st.Eustache, Paris, France
Untitled, G2, Chicago
Opening, The Spareroom, Chicago
1999 Untitled, Gallery 2, Chicago
Confession, 1926 Place, Chicago
Scratchy, Insight Art, Chicago
Castle of Imagination, Internation art Fetival, Poland
Selected Reviews and Publications

Benjamin Genocchio, "A Decade of Emergence" The New York Times, August 28 2009.
Woo-Je Sung, "Why the Swan Swims in a Bathhouse?"; Wolgan Misool, May 2009.
Jieun Kim, "Serious Humor, Earnest Reflection"; Weekly Dong-A, April 1st 2009.
Feature in "Inside Portfolio"; Section, Art in Culture, February 2008.
Han-Seung Ryu, Wolgan Misool, December 2007.
Kyung Kim, "Let's pretend we're swans"; Harper's BAZAAR November 2007.
Benjamin Genocchio, "Korean Artist Mix, and Nature Mingles"; The New York Times August 19, 2007.
Harry Perlmutter, "Moving Time"; Art Asia Pacific.
Eleanor Hartney. "Introduction"; in Eight Korean Artists. AHL Foundation, Inc. 2005.
Jeeyeon Kim. "Blue"; in Gana Art. Gana Art Center. 2005.
Lydia Yee. "Introduction"; in AIM 25. The Bronx Museum. 2005.
Carol Becker. "Intimate, Immediate, Spontaneous, Obvious Educating the Unknowing Mind"; in Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art. The University of California Press. 2004.
Michael Workman. "Crossing the Divide"; in New City. October 28, 2004.
The Korea Daily November 13, 2004.
The Korea Times October 16, 2004.
The Korea Times September 14, 2004.Jessica Park. "Asian American Contemporary Art Now"; in The Segye Times November 2004.
Karin Bamford. "Putting it all into Perspective" in Northern Ireland Visual Arts Forum, November 2003.
Duncan Ross. "Belfast: Perspective 2003 at Ormeau Baths" Circa 106, Winter 2003.
Ann Klefstad. "Sweet Dreams and Opposing the Opposition" at mnartists.org. October 2003.
"Culture Walk", KBC, (Korean TV Broadcast in US, Interview) August 2003.
Audrey Michelle Mast. "SAIC's 2003 MFA Exhibition" in Fnews Magazine. May 2003.

Awards / Distinctions
2009 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2008 Changdong International Artist Studio Program, Korea KAFA Award
2008 Aljira emerge, Aljira Center for Contemporary art, NY
2006 Ssamzie Space Residency Program, Ssamzie Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2005 Artist in Market PlaceProgram, Bronx Museum, NY
AHL Foundation Artists Award
2003 Steve S. Kang Young Artists Fund
2002 Steve S. Kang Young Artists Fund
2001 James Nelson Foundation Fellowship
Parsons Fellowship
2000 Odyssey Travel Grant: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1999 Goat Island Summer Residency, Chicago
Collections
New York Public Library
Modern Art Museum in N.Y
Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, South Korea
Ssamzie Collection
Various Private Collections
Lectures / Professional Activities
2004 Chicago Cultural Center: public tour and artist talk
School of the Art Institute of Chicago: artist talk and discussion at interdisciplinary seminar
The Korea Society New York: artist talk and discussion
2000-2003 Founding Member of The Spareroom, a Chicago-based Time Art Organization and Performance Space.
2003 Juror, senior thesis show, Kaywoon School of Art and Design, Gyeonggi-on, South Korea
2002 School of the Art Institute of Chicago: lecture, Dept. of Fiber & Material Studies