I ponder the notion of identity and continuously question racial and ethnic divide. My work evolves through a gradual thought process beginning with the selection of ordinary objects used in routine daily consumption. These manufactured goods, like items in a time capsule, represent and preserve ideas of culture. Based upon my observations of social relationships and my personal experiences as an immigrant, I transform groupings of these mundane objects, whether spoons, bottle caps, recycled plastic soda bottles, folks,coins,caution tapes or bowling balls, into installations that depict contemporary narratives of humanity.

Biography

I was born in South Korea in 1957. I received my BFA from Pratt Institute.  I exhibited at Exit Art, NY; the Drawing Center, NY; the Sculpture Center, NY; Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Queens Museum of Art, NY; Long Island University; Dartmouth College; Wake Forest University; Skidmore College; ADA Gallery Richmond, VA; Montserrat College of Art, MA; Randolph Macon College, VA;  Wave Hill Bronx, NY; Islip Museum, West Islip, NY; Korean American Museum LA, CA; dm contemporary Millneck and New York, NY; Maxwell Davidson Gallery NY; Y Gallery New York, NY; Sideshow, Williamsburg, NY; Lesley Heller NY; Defrost Galerie Cent Paris, France; Jamaica Center for Art and Learning, Queens; Pierogi  Brooklyn NY; and Sabina Lee Gallery Los Angeles, CA.  

I also created a permanent sculpture for PS 270 in Queens, NY. 

My works have been reviewed in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe and other publications.

I live in Jackson Heights, NY.