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SoHyun Bae

SoHyun Bae (born 1967) is an American painter[1][2][3] living and working in New York. Her iconography has been described as being shaped by "a history lived from afar, therefore colored by the absence/presence of memory, doubts of otherness, longing, mythologizing and an awareness of archetypal belonging.”[4]

Education

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SoHyun Bae received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990 having spent her senior year abroad in Rome, Italy in the European Honors Program, a Master of Fine Arts from Boston University in 1994, and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School in 1997.[5]

Life

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SoHyun Bae was born in Seoul, Korea to Jongwoo Bae,[4] an Editor/Producer of Donga Broadcasting network and Hyunye Cho, an essayist and an author of children’s books. Her father’s protest against censorship by Park Chung-hee’s dictatorial regime[6] was the reason why her family came to the United States. He was a leading figure in the Donga Ilbo Blank Advertisement Incident (Donga Ilbo Baekji Gwang-go Satae). She was eight years old when her family immigrated to the United States.[4]

Early influences were: Pak Tu-jin, a Korean poet; John Walker, a British painter; Elie Wiesel, a writer and Nobel laureate; and Richard Nieburh, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University.[5]

SoHyun Bae moved to New York in 1997 where she met and worked with: Karel Appel, painter and a founding member of the Cobra Movement; and Esteban Vicente, a first generation Abstract Expressionist. In the years she lived abroad in Bologna, Italy (2003 - 2009), she met and befriended Vasco Bendini, a painter and a founding member of Arte Informale.[5]

Awards

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SoHyun Bae is the recipient of numerous awards including: The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship,[5] in Fine Arts,[1] Art 2007; The New York Foundation for the Arts,[5] Fellowship in the field of Painting, 2002; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation,[7] Inc. Grant, 2000; a Fellowship at Montalvo Art Center,[8] 2019, a Fellowship at The Corporation of Yaddo,[9] 2000; The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship[10] in conjunction with Virginia Center for Creative Arts,[11] 1996; and a full scholarship[12] to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,[13] 1993.

Exhibitions

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Her works have been exhibited world wide in numerous galleries,[14] auction houses and museums[15] including the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco;[16] Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University;[17] Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Museum;[18] Museo Nacional di Visual Artes, Montevideo;[19] Queens Museum, Sotheby’s[20] NY, and Philips de Pury & Luxembourg.[21]

References

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  1. ^ a b "SoHyun Bae". nyc-arts.org. May 14, 2015.
  2. ^ Lo, Adrienne (2015). South Korea's education exodus: the life and times of early study abroad. University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295806525. OCLC 973147808.
  3. ^ Quasha, George; Shambam, David (2003), Art is: speaking portraits in the performative indicative : a work, OCLC 320855278
  4. ^ a b c Bae, Sohyun; Diacono, Mario; Kang Collection (2011). Sublimal icons: Sohyun Bae and traditional Korean art in context : November 4-23, 2011. New York: Kang Contemporary. OCLC 913909326.
  5. ^ a b c d e "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - SoHyun Bae". gf.org. 2023.
  6. ^ "동아일보 백지 광고 사태", 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전 (in Korean), 2018-11-14, retrieved 2019-07-12
  7. ^ "SoHyun Bae - Pollock Krasner Image Collection". www.pkf-imagecollection.org. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  8. ^ "Montalvo Arts Center | Welcome". montalvoarts.org. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  9. ^ "Visual Artists". Yaddo. 2016-09-11. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  10. ^ "NYFA" (PDF).
  11. ^ "Virginia Center for the Creative Arts". VCCA. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  12. ^ "Alumni & Faculty Database". Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  13. ^ "Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture". Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  14. ^ Kang Collection; Kim, Wŏn-suk; Bae, Sohyun; Oh, Changsoon (2007). Concurrence divergence: three Korean women painters, Wonsook Kim, Sohyun Bae, Chagsoon Oh. New York: Kang Collection Korean Art. OCLC 226317082.
  15. ^ "Asian Art Museum Online Collection". searchcollection.asianart.org. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  16. ^ Archive, Asia Art. "Contemporary Korean Artists in New York". wwwhk.aaa.org.hk. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  17. ^ "Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos | Peabody Museum". www.peabody.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  18. ^ "Visit Seoul - Hangaram Art Museum". english.visitseoul.net. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  19. ^ "Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales". mnav.gub.uy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  20. ^ Sotheby's (Firm) (2014). American paintings, drawings & sculpture. OCLC 890648960.
  21. ^ "SoHyun Bae Paintings at 450 Park Avenue Opens April 25". Jay Grimm — Art Advisory. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
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