AHL Forum: Artists Tai Hwa Goh, Miru Kim, Michelle Y. Lee, Hyo Jeong Nam
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
6:30 – 8:00 PM
Place: Flamboyán Theatre (Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center)
107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002
Artist: Tai Hwa Goh
Received her MFA degrees from the University of Maryland and Seoul National University, and also a BFA from Seoul National University. She is currently in the Studio Program at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and has had numerous residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Evergreen Museum and Library Residency at Johns Hopkins University, Key Holder Residency at the Lower East Side Print Shop, and the NARS Foundation. Goh’s awards and recognitions include a grant from the National Endowments for the Arts for the Chashama Window Program, Smack Mellown Hot Picks, and Prince George County Art Council Grant among many others. Her most recent and upcoming solo exhibition projects include Wave Hill Sun Room, William Paterson University, Union University, Azarian Mccullough Gallery at St. Thomas Aquinas College.
Artist: Miru Kim
Miru Kim is a New York-based artist and explorer. Her first series, “Naked City Spleen” is based on her exploration of urban ruins such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, sewers, catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards. Her next series, “The Pig That Therefore I am” juxtaposes her skin against the pig’s skin in industrial hog farms to explore the changing relationship between humans and animals. Her latest series, “The Camel’s Way” has followed her journey to deserts around the world, including the Arabian Desert, the Sahara in Mali, Morocco, and Egypt, the Thar in India, and the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, where she lived with desert nomads, slept in caves, and photographed herself with camels.
Miru’s work has been highlighted by countless international publications and online media, and is now in public collections including National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul Museum of Art, Hanmi Photography Museum, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Borusan Contemporary Turkey, Addison Gallery of American Art. Currently she is working on a book about her two-year long adventure in the Arabian Desert, based on her blog, callmenoora.com.
Artist: Michelle Y. Lee
Michelle Y. Lee (b. 1981, Los Angeles California) is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Her works have been featured in international exhibitions, festivals and magazines including Hearing Landscapes Critically at Harvard University, Boston, MA; 80 WSE Gallery, NYC, New York; the Pingyao Photography Festival, Pingyao, China; 2013 Philosophy and Arts Conference, NYC, New York; Boda Center for Visual Arts, Seoul, South Korea; Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico; Sala Rekalde, Bilbao Spain; Schindler House/MAK Center, Los Angeles, California; Wolgan Sajin: Monthly Photo Magazine Korea and Glamour Magazine, France. Lee received her BFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2006 and MFA from New York University in 2013. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Artist: Hyo Jeong Nam
Hyo Jeong Nam is a Korean-born artist, living and working in New York. She received her M.F.A at Pratt Institute in New York and B.F.A from Kyonggi University in Korea. Since she graduated from Pratt, she had eight solo shows.
In 2013, she had solo show at Yegam Art Space and a two person show at AHA Fine Art. She also participated in many group exhibitions in other galleries, museums and art fairs in US and Korea, such as Kips gallery, SICA, chashama, Scope Art Fair, Red Dot Art Fair, and Fountain Art Fair. She was a resident at Gallery Aferro, Ox-Bow and
Vermont Center with a full scholarship.
Guest Critic: Keith Schweitzer (Director/Co-Founder of The Lodge Gallery)
Keith Schweitzer is the Director/Co-Founder of The Lodge Gallery, located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Schweitzer was named as a “Young New York Art Dealer To Watch” by artnet in 2015. He is also Director of Public Art for Fourth Arts Block, the non-profit leadership organization for Manhattan’s officially designated Cultural District in the East Village (Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund Award 2012, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) ArtWorks Award 2013). He was a founding member of No Longer Empty, serving as Director of Exhibitions and Curator from its inception in 2009 through 2011. Working with a focus in New York City for more than 12 years, his high-profile collaborative exhibitions, events and installations frequently combine internationally recognized artists, institutions and organizations with local emerging artists and neighborhood-specific themes.
Guest Critic: Cindy Rucker (Director of Cindy Rucker Gallery)
Cindy Rucker is a New York-based gallerist and curator. Her eponymous space on the Lower East Side, whose exhibitions have been featured in The New York Times, Art in America, Time Out New York, New York Magazine and ArtReview to name a few, has been a fixture on the LES art scene for the past 9 years. In addition to promoting her roster of emerging and mid-career artists, she is enthusiastic in her support for young artists.
