Past Residents
Past Resident2010: GyeongGi Cultural Foundation
Sungyeon Park
Sungyeon Park graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London, UK with a MA in Fine Art in 2007 and a MFA at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea in 2001. Park’s subjects come from small voices within ordinary lives and are concerned with social issues related to visual language and individual experience. Park has received several grants including an Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2006. She had a solo show in 2009 titled still lives; small voices by Arts Council Korea and GyeongGi Cultural Foundation. Park participated in the Art Omi International Artist Residency in New York.
Sungyeon Park, Whispering Wall, 2009, Sound installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Sungyeon Park, On Her Own Birthday, 22 October 1941, 2008, Video, 3:48 min. Courtesy of the artist
Sungyeon Park, Her Grey Hair, 2007, Handmade wooden brush and video, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Sungyeon Park, still lives; small voices, 2010, Video installation, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist an Total Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Sungyeon Park, The Girl I left Behind Me, 2009, Bricks and sound installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Residents from South Korea
Past Resident2010: CEC Artslink, Inc
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva is a curator and art critic from Sofia, Bulgaria. Her research focus and curatorial practice are centered on the relations between the aesthetics of form and current social and political issues within the new generation of Bulgarian artists. Recently, she carried out a series of projects that dealt with the cultural features of the local context, among them The Temptation of Chalga (2009), curated in collaboration with Vessela Nozharova, and The Bold and The Beautiful (2010). In 2009, she was invited as a guest curator at the 15th Week of Contemporary Art in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, with Alter Ego, a project discussing the artists role in the global processes of political and supranational growing.
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva (1977, Bulgaria) holds a Master Degree in Art History from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia. In 2010, she enrolled in a PhD program at the Institute for Art Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2003, she has been the curator of the Cibank Gallery, where she has organized more than 80 exhibitions. Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva is a committed art critic and writes a column for Kultura, Bulgaria’s foremost culture and art weekly. She is also an independent consultant on contemporary art to several Bulgarian weekly and monthly pubications. In 2008, she co-founded the Art Affairs and Documents Foundation (A.A.D.F.), the sole association of young curators in Sofia.
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva, The Temptation of Chalga, 2009, Installation view. Courtesy of the curator and Sofia City Art Gallery. Photo courtesy of Vessela Nozharova
Daniela Kostova, Body Without Organs, 2006, Installation view. Courtesy of the curator. Photo courtesy of Vessela Nozharova
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva, Alter Ego, 2009, Installation view. Courtesy of the curator and Center for Contemporary Art
Nikoleta Marković, Alternative Economies, 2009. Courtesy of the curator
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva, The Bold And The Beautiful, 2010, Installation view. Courtesy of the curator and Raiko Aleksiey Gallery. Photo courtesy of Simeon Stoilov
Past Resident2010: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Aihua Hsia
Aihua Hsia’s work challenges the notions of boundaries and containment within the human psyche. She explores the collective unconscious by revealing the presence of a shared human essence. Through the employment of the ancient Buddhist sculpture technique, “Datsukanshitu,” Hsia incorporates her Chinese roots, the natural world, and the traditional past into her work. Hsia’s work has been nationally and internationally exhibited at Gifu Municipal Culture Center, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan; and 2 x 13 Gallery, New York. Aihua Hsia was born in Taipei Taiwan in 1973, and received a BFA in Sculpture at National Taiwan University of Arts and an MFA in Sculpture at Okinawa Prefecture University of Arts.
Aihua Hsia, Between Dream and Dark, 2010, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, wood, and mineral pigment, 118 × 36 × 2 in. (299.72 × 91.44 × 5.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Aihua Hsia, Warabi Hime, 2004, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, wood, and mineral pigment, 59 × 114 × 271/2 in. (149.86 × 289.56 × 69.85 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Aihua Hsia, Between Dream and Dark – Fairy, 2010, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, and wood, 271/2 × 75 × 171/2 in. (69.85 × 190.5 × 44.45 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Aihua Hsia, Meiden and Asura, 2010, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, and wood, 391/2 × 981/2 × 271/2 in. (100.33 × 250.19 × 69.85 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Aihua Hsia, From Forest, 2007, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, wood, and mineral pigment, 118 × 821/2 × 231/2 in. (299.72 × 209.55 × 59.69 cm). Courtesy of the artist
