My practice echoes around the intersection of botanical symbolism, historical memory, and the ritualized navigation of grief. I investigate the multi-layered role of floral—as vessels of cultural memory and as metaphors for mourning—while engaging with the complexities of Han. ’
This Korean ethos is a transmissible social construct that embodies the grief of the historical memory of past collective trauma, manifesting its significance as an experience shaped by history, power, and resilience. By deconstructing its colonial origins as a racialized stereotype, my practice situates Han as a site of transformation.
Flowers function as internal mediators—not only between the material and immaterial but also as an intersection of the postcolonial, the individual, and the collective. By layering painting and drawing mediums, I dissolve the formal boundaries of representation to investigate the interplay between individual trauma and collective histories.
Rooted in the literary metaphoric techniques from 20th-century Korean poetic anthologies, I associate painting with an intuitive longing for relief. I convert mark-making into a ritualized exploration of grief and the emotional resonance of cultural memory by engaging flora as both symbolic vessels and ritualized objects, drawing on their presence in Korean shamanic ceremonies, funerary traditions, and ancient tombs where petals accompanied the dead.
EDUCATION
2024 Rhode Island School of Design BFA Painting
SOLO EXHIBITION
2024 | No Leaf Will Be Shaken, Space 776 Gallery, New York, NY
2023 | Supulneoul / Forestwaves, Nua Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
GROUP EXHIBITION
2025 | Inside my Outside and Outside my Inside, Kunstraum LLC, Brooklyn, NY
2025 | Language of Visibility- Li Tang Community 5th anniversary show, BLANC, New York, NY
2024 | Living room hours, Site, Brooklyn, NY
2025 | I Can’t (Un)see it, All Street, New York, NY
2024 | Desire - Body without organs, Aspace, Brooklyn, NY
2024 | Site#003, Cooper Park Grass Fields, Brooklyn, NY
2024 | Senior Group Show, Memorial Hall, Providence, RI
2024 | RISD Painting Senior Show Pt. 2, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2020 | The Color of My Land, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
2019 | Painting Triennial Exhibition, WoodsGerry Gallery, Providence, RI
RESIDENCY
2025 | NARS Foundation Residency Season III