Sowon Kwon

Adjunct Instructor

Sowon Kwon is an artist based in New York City working in a range of media, including sculptural and video installations, animation, drawing, printmaking, artist books, and writing. Her projects have explored coincidence, constructions of interiority, historical memory, and portraiture; and have been featured in Triple Canopy magazine; The Poetry Project; and Broodthaers Society of America. She has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Simon, Seoul; The Kitchen, New York; Matrix Gallery/UC Berkeley Art Museum; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her work has also been featured in many group exhibitions in the US and abroad: New Museum, New York; ICA Boston; MOCA Los Angeles; Queens Museum, New York; Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco; Artists Space, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Artsonje Center, Seoul; the Gwangju Biennale; the Yokohama Triennale; and San Art, Ho Chi Minh City. She currently teaches at Parsons The New School and is a contributor to 4 Columns magazine. 

Kwon is a recipient of fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts in Sculpture, The Asian Cultural Council, and The Wexner Center for the Arts in Media Arts. She holds a double major B.A. in Fine Art and History of Art from the University of California in Berkeley (1985); an M.F.A from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY (1988); and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (1991).

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Sowon Kwon

fiction07, 2019

22 x 22"

pencil, charcoal, false eyelashes on paper

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