Artist Studio Visit: Jena H. Kim & Changha Hwang

Thursday, March 26, 2015 1:00-3:00pm
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
323 W. 39th Street, Studio #901, NY 10018
Please contact AHL Foundation at 516-983-3935 or info@ahlfoundation.org
Program Fee: $20.00

Jena H. Kim was born in Busan, Korea, Jena H. Kim received her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and Science and her MFA from Yale School Art. Since 2002, her work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art, Queens; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York; Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles; Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea; Paik Hae Young Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Tenri Gallery, New York; Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York; and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea. Recent solo exhibitions were held at Gallery HO in New York and Next Door Gallery in Seoul, Korea. In 2004, Kim received the 8th Korean Arts Foundation of America award. She was accepted to Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program in 2007, attended a residency program at Santa Fe Art Institute in 2013 and returned from her six-month residency at MMCA Chang dong International Artist Residency Program in 2014.

Changha Hwang is a painter living and working in New York City. He was born in 1969 in Seoul, Korea. He received his BFA from Parsons School of Design and acquired his MFA in Painting from Hunter College City University of New York. Hwang has had numerous solo exhibitions in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Korea and United States since 2002. Recent group exhibitions include TEN, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York; Shades of Time, Queens Museum of Art, Queens; Operating System, Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, New York; Children of Grid, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens; and Continuing Color Abstraction, The Painting Center, New York. He was the recipient of The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant in 2014.

Kim and Hwang are a married couple who share their studios. The studio visit will be conducted in a intimate setting followed by a Q & A seessuion.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.