2019 AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship Recipients Exhibition
June 22 – August 23, 2020
Online Exhibition
AHL Foundation Viewing Room
Dayeon Kim | Judy Junghee Koo | Woojin Lee | ChaeWon Moon
Curated by Joel Carreiro and Young Jeon
AHL Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting artists of Korean descent, is pleased to present Vitamin K, an online exhibition featuring the recipients of the 2019 1st Annual AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship running from June 22nd to August 23rd, 2020. Curated by Hunter College Professor Jeol Carreiro and AHL Curatorial Fellow Young Jeon, this exhibition features the work of Dayeon Kim, Judy Koo, ChaeWon Moon, and Woojin Lee. These artists are distinguished not only by the clarity and force of their respective bodies of work but also by their difference from one another. Each has located an area of interest that is uniquely their own and has developed relevant and effective methodologies for its exploration. This range constitutes a healthy sign that these artists are not bound to one set of concerns, style, or precedent but feel confident to freely identify and pursue their own personal artistic directions. Whether revitalizing conventional forms or inventing new ones, they offer fresh perspectives and rich experiences.
Dayeon Kim challenges the history of the ideal human figure, exemplified by the perfect European male body and its inherited value system, through paintings, sculpture, and performance works that deliberately distort the human body, courting the grotesque and the “disordered.”
Judy Koo’s paintings function like visual poems, combining elements of everyday life to form images that resonate visually, emotionally, and psychologically.
Woojin Lee explores the corporate environment as a habitat with a particular atmosphere, rituals, priorities, and social relations, seeing the officescape as a rich terrain of the artistic subject matter.
Chaewon Moon borrows the look, language, and authority of textbooks, guides, and manuals to co-opt their logic and propose instead an unpredictable world of deadpan humor and whimsy.
The 2019 AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship has been made possible by generous support from the Dow Kim Family Foundation.
Dayeon Kim
Bi-polar, 2019
ceramics and epoxy
11 1/4 × 16.5 × 9.5”
Dayeon Kim (b.1989) is originally from South Korea and obtained a BFA at Sungshin Women’s University in 2014. She recently received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. She has exhibited several group shows in NYC and Korea, presented performances at: Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, New York, Gwangju International Performance Art Festival, Korea, OPEN SPACE “Survival” Festival Berlin, Gallery Stiftelsen 3,14 Bergen, Norway, L´MONO Bilbao, Spain, Platform Vaasa, Finland, Livery Gallery, Marseilles, France
Judy Junghee Koo
Born with Fair Hair 2019
oil on canvas
26” × 30”
Judy Junghee Koo(b. 1991, South Korea) is a Korean-American artist working in and around New Jersey and New York City. She holds an M.F.A. in Fine Art from Hunter College at the City University of New York in 2020, and a B.F.A. in Visual Arts from Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University in 2015. She has shown her work at Central Park Gallery, Los Angeles; The Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, and University galleries. She was an artist-in-residence at the Chautauqua School of Art, and a recipient of The AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship.
Woojin Lee
Officescapes (Installation View) dimensions variable
Woojin Lee is a New York-based artist and designer born in Seoul, Korea, who reimagines mythological corporate environments, characters, and objects from a historical context within our technology-driven society. </br> </br> Selected exhibitions include Officescapes at the parafictional New York gallery, The Wiggle Room; Relativity and Sense Exposed at the Compton Goethals Gallery; and as a curator for the collective group show, WEAR(E), at The Urban Garden Room in New York. Woojin was a New York foreign correspondent for G Colon Magazine in Seoul and published her book, NY2587days: A record of creative encounters in NY, in 2014. </br> </br> Selected awards include the 2020 Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Award, the AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship 2019, the Red Dot Award, two Creativity Media & Interactive Awards, four Creativity International Awards, and the Connor Award. Woojin received an MFA in Digital Interdisciplinary Art Practice from The City College of New York, an MS in Communications Design from Pratt Institute, and a BFA in Crafts from Kookmin University in Seoul. Woojin has taught at Pratt Institute, the City College of New York, and the Fashion Institute of Technology.
ChaeWon Moon
Untitled, 2019
digital decal, acrylic paint on ceramic tile
6” × 6”
ChaeWon Moon is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn. Her practice focuses on the inevitable failure behind the situation that only needs an ideal result from the process. She borrows pictures and texts from manuals and reassembles them into a non-functional system. The work reflects her interest in the tension between order and playful illegibility, and also ambivalence caused by this conflict. By deconstructing and rebuilding the structure of the manual, which is designed to point the answer or the goal, she parodies familiarity and perfection. Moon’s work have been exhibited in group exhibitions across the US, including Carnation Contemporary(Portland, OR), CIRCA Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Ejecta Projects (Carlisle, PA), Ground Floor Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). Recently she received Artist Fellowship from AHL Foundation, and selected as a member of 2020 Glogau Artist Residency in Berlin, Germany.
