About
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SoHyun Bae is an American painter living and working in New York. She is the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Fine Arts, 2007; the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in the field of Painting, 2002; the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Grant, 2000; a Fellowship at Montalvo Art Center, 2019; a Fellowship at The Corporation of Yaddo, 2000; the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in conjunction with Virginia Center for Creative Arts, 1996; and a full scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1993. SoHyun Bae received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, 1990; a Master of Fine Arts from Boston University, 1994; and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School in 1997 having studied with the Nobel Laureate, Elie Wiesel. Her works have been exhibited world wide in galleries and museums including the Asian Art Museum of SF, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Museum, Museo Nacional di Visual Artes in Montevideo, Queens Museum, Sotheby’s, NY and Philips de Pury & Luxembourg. She has collaborated with the Martha Graham Dance Company. She was invited as a Guest Artist for Graham + Google, 2018 where she drew the dancers in 3D using Google’s latest technology. She was also invited as a Guest Artist in the MGDC Studio Series - GrahamDeconstructed: Steps in the Street with SoHyun Bae, 2019 where she drew the dancers LIVE.
LINKS TO RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2019 Channel 13, NYC-ARTS, Martha Graham Studio Series, September 24, 25, 2019
2019 Oberon’s Grove, “GrahamDeconstructed: Steps in the Street,” September 26, 2019, Oberon
2018 The New York Times, “In the Dance Lab with Math Graham,” May 25, 2018, Gia Kourlas
2015 Channel 13, NYC-ARTS, SoHyun Bae at RH Contemporary Art, May 14, 2015 Christina Ha
RESUME
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Wind, Water, Stone: SoHyun Bae and Choong Sup Lim, Skoto Gallery, New York City (two-person)
2024 SoHyun Bae at 375 Hudson Street, New York City
2021 Nature of Water, Skoto Gallery, New York City
2020 Bearing the Burden, NAVA Contemporary Art, New York City/San Francisco
2018 SoHyun Bae, Philips/450 Park Ave, New York City
2015 SoHyun Bae, RH Contemporary Art, New York City
2011 Subliminal Icons: SoHyun Bae and Traditional Korean Art IN CONTEXT, Curated by Mario Diacono, Kang Contemporary, New York City
2009 Adorned/Unadorned: SoHyun Bae/Fathi Hassan, Skoto Gallery, New York City (two-person)
2008 Persimmons and Birds: SoHyun Bae, Philip Kang Gallery, Seoul
2005 Wrapped Shards, Skoto Gallery, New York City
2004 An Ode to the Women of Josun Dynasty, Nikola Rukai Gallery, Toronto
2000 SoHyun Bae, Skoto Gallery, New York City
1998 Kore, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
1997 Painting as Prayer, Harvard University Center for World Religions, Cambridge
1997 An Ode to the Women of Josun Dynasty, Harvard University Yenching Institute, Cambridge
1994 SoHyun Bae, Harvard University Hilles Library Art Gallery, Cambridge
Selected Group Exhibition
2024 Asian-American Abstraction: Historic to Contemporary, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York City
2024 (Re)Work It! Women Artists on Women’s Labor, Whittemore Gallery, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2023 Blue Air, TechnoSonics Festival 2023. Rotunda Dome Room, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
2022 Blue Air, The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, New York City
2022 30th Anniversary Group Show, Skoto Gallery, New York City
2019 GrahamDeconstructed: Steps in the Street with SoHyun Bae, Martha Graham Studio Series, New York City
2019 Summer Selections, Hollis Taggart, New York City
2018 Graham + Google, New York City
2018 Art New York with Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Pier 94, New York City
2018 Sympathetic Magic, Westbeth Gallery, New York City
2017 Group Show, Skoto Gallery, New York City
2016 Art New York, Pier 94, New York City
2014 Archive of Korean-American Artists, Part 2, Queens Museum and Korean Cultural Center/Ahl Foundation, New York City
2013 Paint: Selected Artists, Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto
2012 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto
2012 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Skoto Gallery, New York City
2011 Group Exhibition, Skoto Gallery, New York City
2011 SoHyun Bae's Egg Woman II on View March 16 - November 14, 2011, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco
2010 Abundance, Kang Collection, New York City
2010 Group Exhbition, Skoto Gallery, New York City
2009 Triple Light: SoHyun Bae, Shil-Il Kim, Ran Hwang, Museo Nacional di Visual Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay
2009 Group Exhibition, Skoto Gallery, New York City
2008 The Korean International Art Fair, Seoul
2008 The Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai
2008 Gallery Artists, Skoto Gallery, New York City
2007 Korean Artists in the World: New York, Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Museum, Seoul
2007 Concurrence Divergence: Three Korean Women Painters - Wonsook Kim, SoHyun Bae, Changsoon Oh, Kang Collection Korean Art, New York City
2007 The International Asian Art Fair, New York City
2006 The International Asian Art Fair, New York City
2006 Contemporary Art Asia, Sotheby's, New York City
2006 Mostly Ink, Kang Collection, New York City
2006 Group Exhibition, Rosenberg and Kaufman Fine Art, New York City
2004 Selected Works, Skoto Gallery, New York City
2004 San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia, San Francisco
2004 Per l'Europa, Bibliotecca Lame, Bologna
2003 Group Exhibition, Rosenberg and Kaufman Fine Art, New York City
2003 Works on Paper, Sanford L. Smith & Associates, Ltd., New York City
2003 The International Art Fair, Chicago
2003 New American Paintings, Nikoa Rukaj Gallery, Toronto
2003 Hundred Years, Hundred Dreams, Space World, Long Island City
2003 On and Off the Wall: New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellows, Philips, de Pury & Luxembourg, New York City
2003 The Affordable Art Fair, New York City
2003 Arts of Asia & oceania Show, Santa Monica
2003 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto
2002 Group Exhibition, Andrew Bae Gallery, Chicago
2001 Presence, Skoto Gallery, New York City
2001 Stories, Gallery Korea, New York City
1994 Thesis Exhibition, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston
1993 Juried Group Exhibition by Lois Dodd and Rosemary Trockel, The Bowery Gallery, New York City
1992 Alumni Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Desig, Providence
1992 Invitational Exhibition, De Havilland Fine Art, Boston
1990 Group Exhibition, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland
1988 Group Exhibition, Princeton University, Princeton
1986 Group Exhibition, Yale University East Rock Institute, New Haven
Awards
2007 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Fine Art
2002 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
2000 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Grant
1996 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Artist Residencies
2023 Le Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France
2019 Lucas Artist Residency, Montalvo Arts Center
2000 The Corporation of Yaddo
1996 Virginia Center for Creative Arts
1993 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Full Scholarship
1991 Vermont Studio Center Critic's Scholarship
1986 Chautauqua Summer Institute Jenning's Scholarship
Collections
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Keven Stolle Collection
Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Kang Collection, New York City
Woods Collection, Lincoln, NE
Mario Diacono, Boston, MA
Neal, Gerber and Eisenberg, Chicago, IL
The Ritz Carlton Hotel, Dubai
Numerous Private Collections
Education
1997 Harvard University, Master of Theological Studies
1994 Boston University, Master of Fine Arts
1990 Rhode Island School of Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts
1990 European Honors Program, Rome, Italy 1989 - 1990
Experience
2023 Zoom Lecture/Studio Visit with Graduate students at Harvard Divinity School (Spiritual Paths to Abstract Art taught by Ann Braude, Director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program and Senior Lecturer on American Religious History)
2023 Slant Podcast with Dana Tai Soon Burgess
2023 KSACS Speaker, Columbia University
2023 Fellows Council Representative to the VCCA Board of Directors
2022 Guest Speaker, Korean-American Student Conference, US and Korea
2021 Zoom Lecture/Studio Visit, Graduate students at Harvard Divinity School (Spirituality and Art taught by Ann Braude, Director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program and Senior Lecturer on American Religious History)
2021 Featured Artist, First Glance, a special preview event featuring artists: SoHyun Bae, Bill Jacobson and Pat Lipsky for Long Views, an online art auction for the Virginia Center for Creative Arts
2021 Executive Member, Fellows Council at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Mt. San Angelo, VA
2019 Guest Artist, Martha Graham Studio Series, GrahamDeconstructed: Steps in the Street with SoHyun Bae, New York City
2018 Guest Artist, Google + Graham, Google, New York City
2017 Guest Speaker, Memorial for Richard Niebuhr, Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus, Memorial Church, Harvard University, Cambridge, Boston
2012 Juror, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowships and Individual Artist Awards for Maryland and New Jersey, Baltimore
2012 Guest Critic, Graduate Students Final Critiques, Boston University School of Fine Art, Boston
2011 Guest Critic, Graduate Students Final Critiques, Boston University School of Fine Art, Boston
2010 Judge Panel for Visual Art, The Corporation of Yaddo
2008 Lecturer, Guest Critic, Rhode Island School of Design European Honors Program, Rome
2006 Juror, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grants Program (Painting), Boston
2005 Guest painter, Final Critiques, Academia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano
2003 Artist Talk, Philips, de Pury ad Luxembourg, New York City
2002 Lecturer, Artist & Audience Exchange, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York City
2000 - 1998 Archivist, Assistant to Karel Appel, New York City
1998 Assistant to Esteban Vicente, New York City
1997 Curator, About Drawing April 9 - May 9, 1997, Harvard University, Cambridge
1996 Professor of Painting, University of New Hampshire, Durham
1996 Tutor of Visual Art at Cabot House, Harvard University
1997 - 1995 Painter of Dioramas, The Peabody Museum Photo Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge
Publications
2019 Channel 13, NYC-ARTS, Martha Graham Studio Series, September 24, 25, 2019
2019 Oberon’s Grove, “GrahamDeconstructed: Steps in the Street,” September 26, 2019, Oberon
2018 The New York Times, “In the Dance Lab with Math Graham,” May 25, 2018, Gia Kourlas
2015 Channel 13, NYC-ARTS, SoHyun Bae at RH Contemporary Art, May 14, 2015 Christina Ha
2015 The Chicago Times, "SoHyun Bae, Solo Exhibition in New York at RH Contemporary Art," March 13, 2015, Mee-soon Bae
2015 The Korea Times of New York, "SoHyun Bae in Manhattan at RH Contemporary Art," March 27, 2015, Hee-Eun Choi
2015 Sky Voice Special Issue, "Wrapped Shards, SoHyun Bae in New York at RH Contemporary Art," February 28, 2015, Bong-soo Moon
2009 La Diaria, "Corea en Montevideo pasando por Nueva York," September 23, 2009, Riccardo Boglione
2009 The Korea Times of New York, "Adorned/Unadorned: SoHyun Bae, 1.5 Generation Artist," March 25, 2009, Park Won Young
2009 The Korea Central Daily of New York, "SoHyun Bae: Adorned/Unadorned," March 25, 2009, Sukie Park
2008 Philip Kang Gallery, "SoHyun Bae," October 29, 2008, David Cohen
2008 Philip Kang Gallery, "SoHyun Bae's Birds," October 29, 2008
2008 City Shinmoon, City Gallery, "SoHyun Bae," October 31, 2008
2008 Kukminilbo Kukinews, "Dormant Wings," November 3, 2008
2008 Double A Magazine, "Sohyun Bae at Philip Kang Gallery: Persimmons and Birds," Nov/Dec Issue, 2008
2007 Korean Herad, "Artists Bring Holiday Cheer from New York," November 23, 2007, Jean Oh
2007 Gyung-Hyang-Shin-Moon, "Korean Artists in the World: New York," Novermber 26, 2007, Im Young Joo
2007 Han-Gyeo-Rae, "Their Art, After Korea, New York," November 13, 2007, Im Jong Ub
2007 Moon-Wha-Il-Bo, "Korean Contemporary Art in New York," November 14, 2007, Shin Sae Mi
2007 Mae-Il-Gyung-Jae, "Korean Artists Active in New York," November 9, 2007, Han Bae Sun
2007 The Korea Times of New York, "Rich and Meaningful Touch," September 6, 2007, Jin-Hae Kim
2007 The Korea Central Daily of New York, "Three Women Artists: Kim Wonsook, Bae SoHyun, Oh
2007 Changsoon," September 20, 2007, Sukie Park
2007 The New York Times, "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Announcement of the 2007 United States and Canadian Fellows," April 6, 2007
2007 Korea Central Daily of New York, "SoHyun Bae Receives the Guggenheim Fellowship," April 7, 2007, Sukie Park
2007 The Korea Times of New York, "SoHyun Bae Receives the Guggenheim Fellowship," April 7, 2007, Jin- Hae Kim
2007 Il Resto del Carlino, "Ha vinto SoHyun Bae, l'Americana di Bologna," 18 Aprile, 2007, Lorella Bolelli
2007 Associated Press Korea, "Artist, SoHyun Bae, wins the Guggenheim," April 11, 2007, Chaehee
2006 Korea Central Daily of New York, "SoHyun Bae at The International Asian Art Fair," March 31, 2006, Oon- sook Kim
2006 The Korea Times, "SoHyun Bae at Sotheby's," September 15, 2006, Heung-Keun Kim
2005 The Korea Times of New York, "SoHyun Bae: Wrapped Shards," February 22, 2005, Jin-Hae Kim
2005 The Korea Central Daily of New York, "Wrapping the Shattered World," February 25, 2005, Sukie Park
2005 The Segye Times, "Memories of Korea," February 19, 2005, Jessica Park
2005 Skoto Gallery, "Configuring Wrap," February 17, 2005, George Quasha
2003 The Korea Central Daily of New York, "SoHyun Bae," June 28, 2003, Oon-sook Im
2003 The Korea Central Daily of New York, "SoHyun Bae," May 8, 2003, Oon-sook Im
2002 The Korea Central Daily of New York, "SoHyun Bae -- Rceipient of The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship," June 8, 2002, Oon-sook Im
2002 Open Studios Press, "New American paintings," No. 38 Northeastern Competition
2001 The Segye Times, "SoHyun Bae -- Feature Artist at Space World," July 30, 2001, Ok-ki Kim
2001 The Segye Times, "Absorption on Ground 31," April 30, 2001, Ok-ki Kim
2001 The Korea Times of New York, "SoHyun Bae at Gallery Korea," March 7, 2001
2001 The Korea Central Daily of New York, "SoHyun Bae at Gallery Korea," March 14, 2001
2000 The Segye Times," 1.5 Generation Artist SoHyun Bae Debut Solo Exhibition in New York," October 27,
2000 The Korea Times of New York, "Interview with SoHyun Bae -- An Ode to the Women of Josun Dynasty," November 4, 2000, Jin-Hae Kim
2000 Skoto Gallery, "SoHyun Bae's Sisterhood," October 13, 2000, Alexi Worth
2000 The New Yorker, "Short List," December 11, 2000
1998 Boston Sunday Herald, "Shared Korean heritage informs divergent art," July 12, 1998, Mary Sherman