Born Seoul Korea
EDUCATION & RESIDENCY PROGRAM
| -2008 OCT |
Can Serrat
International Art Center, Barcelona |
| -2008 MAR |
Sandberg
Institute Artist Residency, Amsterdam |
| -2007-2010 |
Angels
Gate Cultural Center Studio Artist.
San Pedro |
| -2005-2007 |
Master of
Fine Arts, Otis
College of Art and Design, Los Angeles |
| -2002-2004 |
Master of
Sculpture, Sung
Shin Women’s University, Seoul
|
| -1997-2002 |
Bachelor
of Sculpture, Sung Shin Women’s
University, Seoul |
| -1999-2000 |
Language
Program at RMIT University, Melbourne
and University of Technology Sydney,
in Austaralia |
SELECTED SOLO PERFORMANCE PROJECTS
& EXHIBITION
| 2010 |
-"Planning a Year", The
Tahoe Gallery, Sierra Nevada College,
Incline Village, NV. , August, '10
-"Planning a Year-Mondays &
Sundays ",Angels Gate Cultural
Center Gallery A, San Pedro, California,
March, '10 |
| 2009 |
-"Planning a Year- Mondays",
Gallery Dam, Seoul Korea, November,
'09 |
| |
-"Rolling
a Ball", Insa Art Space, Seoul
Korea, August, '09 |
| 2008 |
-"One day Arty Show", Summer
Fish Project, Seoul Korea, December,
'08 |
| 2007 |
- "Thousand
Dollar Project #2", 'Women Artists
in Action', SomArts Cultural Center
Bay Gallery and San Francisco City Hall,
San Francisco, California, September,
'07
- "Thousand
Dollar Project" Bolsky Gallery,
Los Angeles, California, February, '07 |
| 2006 |
- "Drawing a
Line", 'Reno
Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media",
University of Nevada Reno and The Nevada
Museum of Art, Wayne and Miriam Prim
Theater, Reno, Nevada, November, '06
- "Drawing a Moment"
and "Fish Piece", 'Double
Take', Gallery Duo LA Downtown, Los
Angeles, California, July, '06
-
"Being An Alien", 'Search
for extra - Terrestrial Intelligence',
Gallery Miccle, Seoul, June, '06 |
| 2003 |
- "The
Flat Man", Insa Gallery, Seoul,
May '03 |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2010 |
- "Doin it Live:
Performance and Interaction",
Wrinkled Space, Los Angeles, California,
January, 10
|
| 2009 |
- "A DAY IN
L.A. WASHINGTON BLVD. ART CONCERT",
Outdoor event along Washington Blvd.,
Los Angeles, California, October,
'09
-"Songeun Award Exhibition",
Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea, September,
'09
-"You
make me laugh" S1F Gallery,
Los Angeles, California, May, '09
- "A series of Clandestine Performance"Collaboration
with Anthony Carfello, LA art show,
Los Angeles Convention Center, Los
Angeles, January, '09
|
| 2008 |
-'Multiple Feeds',
Democracy Forum at the National Center
for the Preservation of Democracy,
Los Angeles Downtown, California,
October, '08
- 'New
in Town?', Angels Gate Cultural
Center, San Pedro, California, June,
'08
- 'The
First Annual Otis /Sandberg Institute
Exchange Program Exhibition' in
conjunction with De
Kunstvlaai Amsterdam, Westergasfabriek
Amsterdam, Netherlands, May, '08 |
| 2007 |
- 'Greater
LA MFA' Exhibition2007, Cal state
Long Beach, Long Beach, California,
September, '07
- '1st Annual juried show' by juror
Jorge J.Pardo, Threehouse Gallery,
LA Downtown, California, August, '07
- 'Open Call LA 2007', LA Municipal
Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles,
California, July, '07
- 'On
Site at the Gate 2007' by Juror Aimee
Chang, Angels Gate Cultural Center,
San Pedro, California, April, '07
- 'Resolution', Bolsky Gallery, Los
Angeles, California, January, '07 |
| 2006 |
- 1st Korean National
juried Online Exhibition
- 'Greater LA Master of Fine Art Exhibition
& Film Screening', California state
University Long Beach, Long Beach, California,
August, '06
- ' 6147'show, Los Angeles, California,
July, '06
- '4 persons video screening and performance
show', Mae Bong space, Seoul, June,
'06
- 'Mid Residency show', Bolsky Gallery,
Los Angeles, California, May, '06 |
| 2004 |
- 'Sungshin Sculpture association
exhibition', Moran Gallery, Seoul, June,
'04 |
| 2003 |
- 'Two person's Short Film Exhibition',
Seoul Municipal Museum, Seoul, January,
'03 |
| 2002 |
- 'Sukchon Lake outdoor sculpture
Exhibition', Seoul
- 'Sungshin MFA Mid Residency Exhibition',
Duckwon Gallery,Seoul , June, '02 |
| 2001 |
- 'Sungshin University Graduate Exhibition',
Sujeung Gallery,Seoul, November, '01 |
AWARD, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIP
2009
-  Arts
Council Korea, Visual Artist 2009 Fellowship(Project,
Exhibition,
Travel support)
- Seoul
Foundation for Arts and Culture, Visual
Artist 2009
Fellowship
(Project, Exhibition Support)
- 9th
Songeun Visual Arts Award, 2009
2008
- Can
Serrat International Art Center Artist
Residency Fellowship.
(Project, Accommodation support)
- The
finalist grant for the 2008 Metro neighborhood
Poster Project/Koreatown.(Project
support)
- Arts
Council Korea Visual Artist 2008 Fellowship
(Project
Support)
- Otis
college of Art & Design, Los Angeles
/ Sandberg
Institute
Amsterdam Residency Exchange Fellowship.
(Travel,
Project, Accommodation support)
2006
- University
of Nevada, Reno, Department of Art / The
Benna
Foundation for Excellence in the Fine Arts
/ The
Sheppard
Fine Arts Gallery / The Nevada Museum o
fArt /
The
Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center
(Travel,
Project
support)
CURATORIAL EXHIBITION
2009
-
"Tricycle White Cube", Seoul Korea,
September, '09
-"Flying
White Cube" Vol 2, Flying White Cube
Gallery, Los Angeles,
California, May, '09
-"G3
Inauguration Exhibition", Project
Room G3, San Pedro,
California, April, '09
2008
- "The
First Annual Otis Sandberg Institute Exchange
Program
Exhibition" in conjunction with
De Kunstvlaai,
Amsterdam,
May, 2008
- "Flying
White Cube" in conjunction with
De Kunstvlaai,
Amsterdam,
May, 2008
2006
- "4
persons video screening and performance
show",
Seoul,
June, 2006
LECTURE AND ARTIST TALK
2010
-
Artist Talk, The Tahoe Gallery, Sierra Nevada
College.
Incline
Village
-
Artist Talk, Barnes & Noble The Grove
mall, Los Angeles
-
Artist Talk, Wrinkled Space , Los Angeles
2009
-
Artist Talk, Insa Art Space, Seoul
2008
-
Artist Talk, CanSerrat International Art
Center, Barcelona
-
Artist Talk, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam
2007
-
Artist Lecture, 'Reno Interdisciplinary
Festival of New
Media",
University of Nevada Reno, Reno
-
Artist Lecture, Meabong Space, Seoul
-
Artist Talk, Otis College of Arts &
Design, Los Angeles
PRESS AND REVIEWS
-"Doin it Live: Performance and Interaction"
Catalogue Essay, January 2010
- Tucker
Neel, "Planning a Year", Exhibition
Catalogue essay, November 2009
- Choong
Hwan Koh, "Planning a Year",
Critical Essay, November 2009
-Choong Hwan Koh, "Exhibition
"Rolling a Ball" at Insa Art Space"
Review on Public Art Magazine, September,
2009
-"Exhibitions
and shows for the Weekend", Munhwa
Broadcasting Corp.(MBC), August 8th, 10:55am
-"Sojung
Kwon Solo Exhibition", JungAng
Daily, August 8th, Culture page 21.
-"Interview
with Sojung Kwon" by Julienne Lin,
ArtSlant, August 26th, 2009
-"Solo
Exhibition of Sojung Kwon at Insa Art Space",
Han Kyung Daily, August 11th, 2009
- "Art upon art at Project Room G3",
by Vy Pham, District Weekly, April 15th,
2009
- "Angels
Gate exhibit greets creativity of new artists"
by Shirle Gottlieb, Press-Telegram, Long
Beach, CA July 31st, 2008
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"HanKyung", Korea, December
22nd, 2008
-
"JoongAng Daily", San Francisco,
September, 2007
- "Angels
Gate Interview" Up at the Gate,
August, 2007
- “Misul Saekye” Magazine. (Korea)
April, 2004
Hosted a weekly TV Show “Media+Art”(features
local media artists), Sep,2003-Feb,2004
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