I’m a self-taught Korean-American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. I work across materials and mediums including ceramics, collage, collected earth materials, family memorabilia, drawing, painting, and illustration. Through my practice, I explore memory, personal history, and the ways we are all connected to each other, to nature, and to the many versions of ourselves that exist across time.
Rooted in the earthly and the emotional, my creative practice is a moving meditation, a way of returning to myself and reconnecting with the earth and a place beyond language. I’m interested in bringing things together by layering materials, stories, and experiences and allowing them to interact with one another. I often work with inherited objects and family ephemera alongside things I’ve gathered from the natural world, like shells, moss, or stones. Repurposing these materials helps ground me in the idea that everything is part of an ongoing cycle of death and rebirth, tethering the present to what came before by giving old objects new life—learning to work with the ephemerality of everything, rather than resist it.
I’m especially drawn to patterns in nature like fungal networks linking trees underground or the quiet balance of a spiraling shell. To me, these symbiotic systems mirror the kinds of connections that exist between people—cycles of care, growth, death, and renewal.
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Beyond my core studio practice, I also love to show off and make art about my cats that I’m obsessed with, Bubbles and Beans!
My first illustrated booklet about them can be purchased on my shop soon, but in the meantime, you can follow Bubbles on Instagram :)
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Education
2018
BA Communication, Boston College
Exhibitions
2025
Up Up and Away, Chinatown Soup, New York, NY
Homecoming, Pushup Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Other Art Fair, Zerospace, Brooklyn, NY
Resonance, Warnes Contemporary x Visionary Art Collective, Brooklyn, NY
In Good Company, Pyperbleu Collective, Brooklyn, NY
Beyond the Veil, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2024
Spirit Soup Arcana, Chinatown Soup, New York, NY
Girl Dinner, Chinatown Soup, New York, NY
Eleven Eleven, Chinatown Soup, New York, NY (solo)
Wild, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023
Pearl Divers, Studio 9D, New York, NY
Love in Translation, HBX, New York, NY
Three of Cups, Chinatown Soup, New York, NY
2022
Wet Paint, Land to Sea, Brooklyn, NY
Someday, Now, Always, Chinatown Soup, New York, NY (solo)
Lunar New Year, Land to Sea, Brooklyn, NY
Residencies
2022
Chinatown Soup Residency, New York, NY
Publications
Create Magazine Issue #55: The Solstice Edition, March 2026
Hypebeast, May 2023
New Visionary Magazine, April 2022
