Soo Sunny Park
| Type | Artist Female |
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| URLs | Artist's page Youtube Artist talk Wikipedia Other Interview in Sculpture Magazine |
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| Artist in residence | 2005 | Studio Residency | Cité Internationale des Arts | Paris, France | |
| Award | 2001 | Best of St. Louis 2001 | Best Sculptor, Criticsʼ Choice Award, River Front Times | St. Louis, USA | |
| Artist in residence | 2000 | Artist Residency | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture | Skowhegan, USA | |
| Award | 2000 | 1st Place Award, | 19th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition | Birmingham, USA | |
| Scholarship | 1994 | Trustee Award, Four-Year Scholarship | Columbus College of Art and Design | Columbus, Ohio |
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| Group exhibition | 2018 | Photo-Kinetic Grid, You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences | North Carolina Museum of Art | Raleigh, USA | |
| Group exhibition | 2017 | BioLath | Currier Museum of Art | Manchester, USA | |
| Festival | 2016 | Luminous Muqarna | Islamic Arts Festival, Art & Science, Sharjah Art Museum | Vereinigte Arabische Emirate | |
| Solo exhibition | 2015 | Silver Linings | Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art | Nashville, USA | |
| Group exhibition | 2015 | Lumière - Play of Brillants | Light Collective | Paris, France | |
| Solo exhibition | 2014 - 2019 | Boundary Conditions | New Britain Museum of American Art | New Britain, USA | |
| Solo exhibition | 2013 | Unwoven Light | Rice University Gallery | Houston, USA | |
| Solo exhibition | 2007 | Soo Sunny Park: Modified Thoroughfare | Banvard Gallery, Knowlton School of Architecture | Columbus, USA | |
| Solo exhibition | 2003 | Bio-Structure: Metra Geo | Kranzberg Exhibition Series, Laumeier Sculpture Park & Museum | St. Louis, USA | |
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| Research & teaching | professorship | Professor of Studio Art | Dartmouth College | Dartmouth, USA |
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Fundings and grants
Paris, France
Cité Internationale des Arts, Studio Residency
Awards
Birmingham, USA
19th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition, 1st Place Award
Education
Bloomfield Hills, USA
MFA Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Education
Columbus, USA
BFA, Painting and Sculpture, Columbus College of Art and Design
Places of residence
, USA
Born
Seoul, Korea
Places of residence
New Hampshire, USA
“My work challenges the boundaries between sculpture, installation, and drawing.”
Park’s work reconfigures and redefines aspects of different mediums to construct pieces which fall in between them. Her sculptures are drawings, her drawings are sculptures, and her installations are a combination of both. Her materials are chosen for their liminal quality, manipulated to explore what lies between inside and outside, sculpture and drawing, vision and perception, and objects and their shadows. Her recent work incorporates light as an essential material, through which elements such as projection, reflection, and shadows travel.
https://www.abigailogilvy.com/soo-sunny-park (6.01.2020)
Over the last fifteen years, my work has moved toward casting light as a sculptural material. I reconfigure boundary materials—fencing, plastic, glass,sheetrock—to expand and explore a variety of liminal spaces between inside and outside, sculpture and drawing, vision and perception, objects and their shadows.
Light is usually treated as a liminal being: something that mediates our visual awareness of the world, but not something that we see in and of itself. In my work, light is not just a means by which the form is seen, but part of what constitutes the work of art. Light is a sculptural material, not because without it one cannot see the forms, but because without it there is no projection, reflection, translucency, or shadow, so the drawing/ sculpture is not complete.
https://www.soosunnypark.com/sculpture-installation (6.01.2020)
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Silver Linings | 2015 | Soo Sunny Park | |
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Unwoven Light | 2013 | Soo Sunny Park | |