People

Caroline Ellen Liou is an Asian-American art worker based in Los Angeles. She received a BFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and an MA in contemporary Chinese art and geopolitics at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

Christine Goo is the Senior Manager of Public Programs & External Affairs at the Norton Simon Museum. She enjoys traveling with her friends to visit museums, doing deep dives into films, and watching a ton of basketball.

Roger Kim is a multidisciplinary artist who tells stories with music, text, moving graphics, dance, and interactive electronics.

Jeanha Park is a museum registrar at the Hammer Museum, where she gets to touch artwork (with gloves), and project manager at Public-Library, where she gets to help bring creative visions to life.

Jaimie Joo is a young working professional who fell in love with art history at UC Irvine. She (mostly) thinks she is doing her best.

Chung Park is a Korean-born American artist based in Los Angeles, California. He received his BFA from Boston University and has shown his work internationally and in the US. Outside of artmaking, Chung enjoys food experiences, reading, and walking.

Alison Choi is a recent graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, CA, where she majored in History and specialized in Gender, Race, and Class in the United States. In addition to volunteering with GYOPO, Alison enjoys writing and performing music, cooking Korean food, and seven-minute morning meditations.

Considering their longest-lived locations ranging between 3-6 years, Painter-Kim is from Taegu, Seoul, Tampa, Richmond, and Brooklyn. As a part of their mutual aid practice, they provide archival technical assistance to activists advocating for community artists in the central LA area. Since 2018, they continue to live in Los Angeles, CA.

Soo Kim often employs techniques of cutting and layering in order to introduce areas of absence or disruption in what we tend to take for granted–the interpretation of photographic images. Kim believes that the lengthy process required to create her photographs infuses them with a ‘ slowness ’ that finds its counterpart in the amount of time it takes the viewer to comprehend them. Her work often incorporates narrative elements or makes references to literature. Born in South Korea, Kim moved to Los Angeles in 1980. After earning a bachelor of arts degree from the University of California, Riverside, she combined studies in critical writing, art, and film at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia for her master of fine arts. Kim lives in Los Angeles and teaches at Otis College of Art and Design.

Hannah M. Yoo is a Los Angeles-based curator, writer, and cultural programmer. Most recently, she was Assistant Curator for Exhibition Projects at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco where she organized pan-Asian-themed exhibitions and special projects. Previously, she was curatorial assistant for Korean art where she researched and developed exhibitions, publications, and public programs. She has also held positions at LACMA and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. She holds an MA in East Asian studies with a focus on art history from Stanford and a BA in art history, theory, and criticism from the University of California San Diego.

Jisoo Chung is an LA-Seoul-based artist working primarily through video, installation, and performance. Her work navigates the relationship between individuals and systems reflected on technology while considering body, space, and language. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Chung received MFA from UCLA in the area of New Genres in 2019, and BFA from Seoul National University, Seoul, in the department of paintings. She was nominated as Artslant prize showcase winner in the new-media category and commissioned by Los Angeles County Metropolitan transportation for the new digital cips project.

Kayla Tange was born in South Korea and adopted by a Japanese-American family. Her love for poetry and photography slowly progressed into a conceptual performance practice that incorporates elements of exotic dancing, where physical and psychic boundaries, sexuality, and permanence are also recurring themes. She often uses dark comedy in her performance work to explore love and longing, cultural stereotyping, and societal taboos and catharsis.

Bora is an LA-based production designer/producer in performance, film, and experiential design. She’s currently working as an animation coordinator on an HBO docuseries. In her free time, she produces independent films and art direct’s Rock n Roll band My Boyfriend.

Eugene Kim is a community music school administrator and experimental musician, cultivating a practice that reflects on pluralism, class identity, and love. He holds degrees in piano performance and composition from Oberlin Conservatory and The Royal Conservatoire of the Hague.

Daniel Kim is a Korean-American portrait and documentary photographer based out Los Angeles. His recent personal work explore themes of cultural memory and loss and how they interact with the surrounding landscape. On his off days, he splits his time between climbing outdoors, racing cars or lying on the couch with his tiny cat, CJ.

Annette M. Kim, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Sol Price School of Public Policy. She is also the Director of SLAB, the newly formed spatial analysis laboratory at Price that advances the visualization of the social sciences for public service through teaching, research, and public engagement.

Iris Anna Regn is a creative strategist, leader, and designer who draws on a background in architecture, management, social practice, and education to integrate placemaking, community building, and creative mentorship in the creation of large scale, multi-year art and design projects.

Jennifer Jihye Chun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies and the International Institute at UCLA. Her research and teaching explore the interconnected worlds of labor, gender, race, migration, and precarity in the global economy, with a comparative focus on protest politics and worker organizing in South Korea and the United States.

Jerome Reyes is an artist/researcher working with ideas of architecture and alterity and is faculty at Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts. He’s made projects for the Yokohama Triennale, Prospect Biennial, and awarded residencies at National Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art/MMCA, Korea, Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Seoul Museum of Art, and as a Researcher at Asia Culture Center, Gwangju.

Kathleen Kim is Associate Dean of Equity & Inclusion, Professor of Law & William M. Rains Fellow at LMU Loyola Law School Los Angeles. Her scholarship, teaching, and advocacy center on immigrants’ rights and the 13th Amendment through an intersectional race and gender-critical theory lens. Kathleen is also an experimental musician and composer who performs and records solo and collaborative work in avant jazz and performance art contexts.

Grace Kyungwon Hong is the Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Professor in the Department of Gender Studies and the Department of Asian American Studies at UCLA. Her research and teaching expertise is in women of color feminism, Asian American cultural production, and comparative racialization.

Jackilin Hah Bloom is an architectural designer and educator based in Los Angeles. She is Design Faculty at SCI-Arc, and principal of JHB Studio, a creative practice grounded in art and culture to produce architecture at multiple scales, dimensions, and economies.

Kang Seung Lee (b. 1978, Seoul, South Korea; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (2015). Lee has had solo exhibitions and projects at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul (2021); 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica (2020); Hapjungjigu, Seoul (2019); One and J. Gallery, Seoul (2018); Artpace, San Antonio (2017); Baik Art, Los Angeles (2017); Commonwealth and Council (2017, 2016); Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (2016); Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont (2015); and Centro Cultural Border, Mexico City (2012).

Grace Oh is an advocate for intersectional contemporary art across various cultural organizations in Los Angeles and the Managing Director of Formation Association, an award-winning architecture firm with a wide-ranging body of work. Formation Association cultivates ongoing work with LA artists which has been presented both locally and internationally via cultural channels and institutions such as the Main Museum, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, the Hammer Museum, MIT List Visual Arts Center, and the Mona Bismarck American Center for Art and Culture in Paris.

Lisa Kwon is a writer with a background in digital and social media work in the entertainment industry. Her reports on local communities and culture have been published in outlets such as Eater, L.A. Taco, TheLAnd, and Hyphen Magazine.

Abe is a writer based in Los Angeles. He contributes to Hyperallergic and supports arts education initiatives at the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.

Michelle Jihyon Kim is a student finishing her last year at the University of California, Los Angeles. Beyond her passion for filmmaking, Kim is also a Youth Advisory Council member for the nonprofit Snap Foundation where she is able to develop grants for arts-based organizations in Los Angeles.

Crystal Mun-hye Baik is Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies (GSST) at the University of California, Riverside. Prof. Baik has published widely in venues including the Journal of Asian American Studies, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Periscope/Social Text, and the Oral History Review, among other journals and anthology volumes. Her first sole-authored book, Reencounters: On the Korean War & Diasporic Memory Critique (2019) examines the everydayness of the Korean War and its racialized gendered implications through a diasporic archive of subversive memory works, including oral history projects, ‘ re-performances,’ and video installations.

Yong Soon Min received Fulbright Senior Research Grant, COLA Individual Artist Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Korea Foundation Grant, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, Guggenheim Foundation grant and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Visual Artist Award in New Genre. She exhibited at the 4th and 10th Havana Bienal, 7th Gwangju Bienal and the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Smith College Museum and LACMA; and curated THERE: Sites of Korean Diaspora for 4th Gwangju Biennale and transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix. Min served on the national Board of Directors of CAA and Korean American Museum and is Professor Emerita at UC Irvine, with MFA from UC Berkeley, followed by a postdoc at Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program.

Alex Paik is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. His modular, paper-based wall installations explore the mutability and interdependence of forms and structures. He has exhibited in the U.S. and internationally, with notable solo projects at Praxis New York, Art on Paper 2016, and Gallery Joe. His work has also been featured in group exhibitions at BravinLee Projects, Ruschman Gallery, and MONO Practice, among others. Paik is Founder and Director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, a non-profit network of artist-run spaces and organizes Correspondence Archive, an online series of conversations between artists of color.

Hannah Pae is an artist and landscape designer who focuses on ethnographic and cultural landscapes. She designs and builds gardens for the Los Angeles community.

Ginny Hwang is a Los Angeles-based plant designer of edible and native gardens with an emphasis on promoting biodiversity and closed-loop practices within smaller urban landscapes.

Laura received her PHD in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Her research re-evaluates post-1945 South Korean history by examining the history and representation of mixed-race Koreans born of and after the Korean War. Before entering the PhD program, Laura worked in nonprofit grant writing, event planning, and publishing. She loves teaching and mentoring and enjoys working with students at all stages of research.