Artists 예술인

Ramsay Liem is a professor of psychology at Boston College. He directs the "Korean American Memories of the Korean War" oral history project and teaches in the Asian American Studies Program as well as the psychology department. He has spoken widely about the oral history work and is preparing a book manuscript based on his research. He is the founder of several Korean American community organizations and member of and consultant to numerous Asian American organizations. For this exhibit, Prof. Liem researched and edited the oral histories included in the exhibit. He is the Project Director for the exhibit and responsible for fundraising together with Deann Borshay and Yul-san Liem.

Ji-Yeon Yuh is an associate professor of history and director of the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern University. She is currently writing a book on diasporic Koreans based on oral histories conducted in the United States, China, South Korea, and Japan. She is the only U.S. historian exploring the Korean War from the perspective of diaspora through the medium of oral history. Prof. Yuh serves as historical consultant and wrote the historical text for the exhibit as well as the accompanying catalog.

Deann Borshay is the Producer/Director of the Emmy Award-nominated documentary, FIRST PERSON PLURAL, which was broadcast nationally on PBS as part of the acclaimed documentary series, Point of View (POV). FIRST PERSON PLURAL had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2000 and received numerous awards. Ms. Borshay is also past Executive Director for the National Asian American Telecommunications Association. For this exhibit, she created a video installation about Korean orphans and a biographical clip of one woman's reunion with family in North Korea. She also shared in the preparation and design of oral history presentations (e.g. video and audio), and in fundraising.

Injoo Whang received her BFA from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, South Korea and her MFA (Fine Arts) from the Parsons School of Design. She has exhibited her work in Korea and the United States and describes her work as using "humble" or "fragile" materials to magnify the paradoxical sense of making something out of nothing. In her most recent work she used torn up paper and vinyl curtain metaphorically healing wounds and divisions in life through the creative process. Ms. Whang created "A Girl with a Tank" for the exhibit, an installation inspired by paradoxical memories of the war. She also collaborated on several other pieces.

Ji-Young Yoo received her BFA from Hong Ik University in South Korea, her MFA from City College of New York, and her MA in Media Studies from The New School in New York. She has shown in numerous exhibits in Korea and the United States and organized the group exhibition "Diaspora, Difference, Division: New Works" in New York City. She worked as a miniature builder for the Korean War Memorial Museum in Korea and includes issues of Diaspora and Korean culture among her interests. Ms. Yoo created three multi-media installations for this exhibit, shared in producing several others, and serves as the Exhibit Designer.

Yul-san Liem received her BFA from the School of the Visual Arts in New York City. She is a community artist and activist whose paintings and installations treat themes of war, division and resistance. For this exhibit Ms. Liem designed and built the "Bridge of Return" and "Our Puzzle", both interactive installations that invite viewers to become participants in the process of remembering, reconciling and creating. She also shared in producing several other STILL PRESENT PASTS pieces and in designing the exhibit's graphic materials. She serves as the project's Administrative Coordinator.

Erica Cho is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her work has exhibited at institutions such as The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Japanese American National Musuem, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, RedCat Gallery, The National Museum of Women in the Arts and in festivals worldwide, such as Optica, Festival Internacional de Vídeo Arte, The London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Expresión en Corto International Film Festival and VCFilmFest: The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. She earned her MFA from UC Irvine and BFA from Penn State University, was honored as one of Out Magazine’s Out100 for her remarkable contributions to LGBTQ culture, and has received awards from Creative Capital, The Third Wave Foundation, and the California Community Foundation. Cho was also honored as the Robert Motherwell endowed visual art residency fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Massachusetts and has collaborated extensively with local Los Angeles community organizations such as The Heart Project, Self Help Graphics, and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Youth Arts and Education. In Still Present Pasts, Cho has contributed the stop-motion animation "Our Cosmos Our Chaos", an experimental look at the Korean War exploring the connections between mystical practice and political consciousness through Korea's turbulent history and ancient animistic traditions. She maintains the blog Chunk Food at http://www.wegotmoves.com/chunkfood/.

Sukjong Hong received her BA in architecture from Yale University. She is currently a Masters candidate at Cornell University's Department of City and Regional Planning. Her research interests are in gender and development, especially in the context of food security, migration, and economic transition in Asia. These interests were spurred by the farmer movement in South Korea and the sustained food and energy shortages experienced by people in the DPRK. She has worked most recently with immigrant youth in Queens, New York, on issues of immigration, education, and the myth of the American Dream using media as a tool for empowerment and dialogue. She contributed "My Mother Used to Tell Me" to STILL PRESENT PASTS, an installation based on one woman's oral history that expresses kinship with and compassion for the "enemy."

Young Soon Min is an accomplished visual artist and Chair of the Studio Art Department at UC Irvine. She is a recipient of a Visual Artists Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Ranging in media from photography to installations, her work has been exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art/New York City, Camerawork Gallery/London, Kumho Museum/Seoul, Fourth Baguio Art Festival/Philippines, Museum Folkwang/Germany, and in two Havana Biennials/Cuba. Her work includes numerous pieces incorporating themes of division and the lasting imprint of war on Koreans and Korean Americans. She has contributed "Defining Moments," an embodied chronology of significant events relating to the artist's personal and political history. (Six 20x16" silver gelatin prints with etched glass).

Grace M. Cho is a biracial Korean American who was born in Pusan, Korea and moved to the U.S. as a young child. She is author of the book, Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War. Both her academic and performance work deals with how trauma travels across boundaries of time and space. She has performed several pieces on trauma and Diaspora.

Hosu Kim is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department for Study of Culture and Society, Drake University. As a native of Korea, she came to the United States in the early 1990s. She is currently working on the book, A Virtual Mothering (working title), a cultural critique of the emergent figure of the Korean birthmother in popular media. As a performing sociologist, Hosu Kim is also interested in the ways in which performance generates affective relationships with audience and readers.

Hyun Lee emigrated from Korea to the United States with her family in 1980. She is a social justice activist and is formerly the Director of the Chinatown Justice Project of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities, a racial justice organization in New York City. In this position she organized immigrant youth, low-income tenants, and street vendors in New York City's Chinatown. She is currently studying acupuncture.

Carolina McNeely is an actor, director, and educator. She is delighted to be directing the original play "6.25: History Beneath the Skin." In addition to her directorial work, Carolina performs in New York and regional theatre, film, and television; writes and adapts for the stage; teaches acting workshops at The City University of New York; and coaches privately. Having studied theatre and film in the U.S., Asia, and Europe, she completed her M.F.A. at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Seung-Hee Jeon is a Senior Editor of Asia: a Magazine of Asian Literature and a Fellow at the Korea Institute, Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Seoul National University and more recently in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. Her recent dissertation entitled “Rethinking Truth after ‘the Age of Extremes’: An Analysis of the Chronotope of Anamnesis in Autobiographical Narratives by Pak, Klüger, and Kogawa” examines a dynamic concept of truth embodied in memoirs by women survivors of the Korean War, the Japanese Internment, and the Holocaust. An accomplished translator and literary critic, she published many articles on Korean and English literature and translated and co-translated contemporary Asian and English literature and literary theories. Currently finishing a book tentatively entitled Writing War: Trauma and Truth after ‘the Age of Extremes’, she is also working on the autobiographical representations of postwar Korean history as well as the changing dynamics in cultural discourses surrounding women’s sexuality in Korea. She is a founding member and former co-president of Korean Women’s Studies Institute, a founding member of Boston Korea Friendship Association, and a former board member of Transition House, New England’s first shelter for battered women. For ‘Still Present Pasts,” Dr. Jeon served as linguistic consultant for the exhibit and catalogue, and provided translation in Korean and English.

Young Sul is a Systems Administrator at Harvard University. He received a BA in Economics from Trinity College, Hartford. He has worked in the Technology industry for the past 15 years in both the private and academic sectors. He also maintains his own mailing list on Korean affairs, and supports and advises non-profit organizations in the care and feeding of their technical infrastructure. He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Wol-san Liem is a scholar and activist who has lived and worked in New York City and Seoul, South Korea. She received her B.A. from Columbia University and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at New York University. Her research focuses on U.S. cultural policy in South Korea during the Korean War and post-war years and its relation to discourses of modernization and Korean American immigration. She has worked as a high school teacher in New York City schools and as the International Solidarity Director for the Migrants Trade Union in South Korea. She developed and wrote the Teacher and Student study guides for Still Present Pasts.