EDUCATION
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
Juried & Group
AWARDS
AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS
MEDIA
APPEARANCES
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
PAPERS
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SELECT EXHIBITIONS CURATED
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION
Curriculum Vitae
MFA Photography, School of Art, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 2018
MFA Arts Administration, School of Theatre and Dance, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 2009
BA French, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2000
2023- Assistant Professor of Photography, Hope College, Holland, MI
2019-2023 Lecturer (full-time), University of Texas Permian Basin, Odessa, TX
2012-2015 Electronic Media Coordinator, Texas Tech University Libraries, Lubbock, TX
2023 Wolfcamp Catalogue, Dallas College Brookhaven, Dallas, TX
2022 2022 Houston Fotofest Biennale, Wolfcamp Catalogue, Sawyer Yards Studio Houston TX. Curated and curatorial essay written by Kevin Chua PhD., (Associate Professor of Art History, Texas Tech Univ.)
2022 Suspension of Disbelief, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX
2022 Wolfcamp Catalogue, Solo Exhibition, Annual Geoscience Symposium, UT Permian Basin, Odessa, TX Curated and curatorial essay written by Kevin Chua PhD., (Assistant Professor of Art History, Texas Tech Univ.)
2019 Photo Expo, Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery, UT Permian Basin, Odessa, TX
2018 Photo Expo, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Texas Tech University Landmark Arts Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2017 Suspension of Disbelief, Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, TX
2024 Wolfcamp Catalogue, Screening Room, PH Museum Days International Photo Festival, Bologna, Italy (International jury: artists Brea Souders, Leonardo Magrelli, Felicity Hammond, PH Museum director Giuseppe Oliverio).
2023 Honorable Mention, Joyce Elaine Grant Awards (Juror: Shana Lopes, PhD
Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX
2021 Embracing Change, Society for Photographic Education South Central (SPESC) Member Juried Exhibition, SP/N Gallery, University of Texas at Dallas (Juror: Christopher Blay, former editor, Glasstire.com)
2021 7th International Exhibition and Publication on New Media Art,
CICA Museum, Kimpo, South Korea
2020 The Curated Fridge, Autumn Show, curatedfridge.com (Jurors: Raymond Thompson Jr. and William Camargo, visual artists)
2020 Community Art Gallery, City of Odessa, Odessa TX
2019 Annual Permian Basin Juried Art Exhibition, Ellen Noel Art Museum, Juror’s Choice Award, Odessa, TX (Juror: Tina Fuentes, Professor, Texas Tech Univ.)
2019 SPE Multi-cultural Caucus International Juried Exhibition, Adrian College, MI (Jurors: Arthur Fields, assistant professor Vincennes Univ. & Priya Kambli, professor, Truman State Univ.)
2019 CLIP International Juried Exhibition for works on Paper, Charles Adams Studio Project (CASP) Lubbock, TX (Juror: Ghislaine Fremaux, Associate Professor, Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX)
2018 #tpsNewVisions, Texas Photographic Society, Tammy Cromer Gallery, Dallas, TX, First Place Award, (Juror: Kenda North, Professor, University of North Texas, Dallas, TX)
2017 Lenscratch, Sleight of Hand, lenscratch.com, (Juror: Grant Gill, Editor of Lenscratch)
2017 Manipulated Untruth, Charles Adams Studio Project (CASP) Lubbock, TX (Juror: Briana Burnett, Instructor: Austin College, Sherman, TX)
2017 SPESC student juried exhibition, Waco, TX
2017 Illuminance Juried Art Exhibition, Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX
Juror: Brett L. Erickson, Hastings Collage, Santa FE, NM)
2016 Indian Photofest, Breaking Boundaries VI, Hyderabad, India.
2016 Auckland Festival of Photography, Breaking Boundaries VI, Auckland, New Zealand
2016 Art Through the Lens, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY (Juror: Sarah Stolfa, Executive Director, Philadelphia Photo Art Center, PA)
2016 Imagined Realities, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT (Juror: Todd Chambers, artist)
2016 West. Far. West., Texas Tech School of Art at Chinati Weekend, Marfa, TX
2015 Ping Yao International Photography Festival, Breaking Boundaries VI, Pingyao, China (Juror: Susan Dooley, Chair, Nassau Community College, SUNY, NY)
2015 Student Juried Exhibition, Society for Photographic Education South Central (SPESC), First Place Award, Norman, OK (Jurors: Jennings Sheffield, assistant professor, Baylor; Arthur Fields, assistant professor, Vincennes University, IN)
2014 Georgetown Art Hop, Georgetown, Texas (Juror: Susi Brister, Instructor, St. Edwards Univ. Georgetown, TX)
2024 New Faculty Exhibition, DePree Gallery, Hope College, Holland, MI
2016 Marfa Intensives: a devised theatre project, Marfa, TX (Texas Tech School of Theatre and Dance)
2016 Group Exhibition Transference of Place, Lubbock, TX (exhibit in collaboration with Texas Tech School of Art graduate students)
2025 Jacob E. Nyenhuis faculty development grant, Hope College ($4,900)
2024 Patron for the Arts Grant, Hope College, photographic artist Gregory Eddi Jones exhibition, workshop, and lecture AI and Photographic Art, Holland, MI ($4,300)
2023 Highly Commended, Belfast Photo Festival International Open Submission, Belfast, North Ireland, U.K.
2023 Honorable Mention, Joyce Elaine Grant Awards (Juror: Shana Lopes, PhD (Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
2022 National Photography Award, Texas Photographic Society, Curator: Kevin Chua, PhD. (Associate Professor of Art History, Texas Tech Univ.) Juror: Marni Shindelman (Associate Professor of Photography, Univ. Georgia, Athens) ($2,000)
2022 Innovate Artist Grant ($550)
2022 UT Permian Basin, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects ($3,000)
2022 UT Permian Basin, Department of Geoscience ($3,000)
2021 UT Permian Basin, College of Arts and Science ($2,000)
2020 Odessa Arts Council Cultural Tourism Grant ($25,000)
2018 Graduate Prize for Creative and Scholarly Work, Texas Tech Humanities Center Research Conference, “Food &…, Lubbock, TX
2018 Travel Award, Society for Photographic Education South Central (SPESC) Regional Conference, Baton Rouge, LA
2018 Texas Tech University Hazelwood CVPA Summer Scholarship, ($3000)
2018 Texas Tech University Summer Graduate Research Fellowship, ($2000)
2018 Texas Tech University School of Art Rick Dingus Fellowship, ($1000)
2018 Texas Tech University Hazelwood Graduate Fellowship, ($1000)
2018 Texas Tech University Graduate Research Scholarship, ($1000)
2017 Texas Tech University School of Art Fellowship, ($1000)
2017 SPE Student Awards for Innovation and Imaging (Awards and Recognition Committee Chair: Rebecca Nolan, Savannah College of Art and Design)
2015 Travel Award Society for Photographic Education South Central (SPESC)
Regional Conference. Norman, OK
2015-2017 Helen Devitt Jones Scholarship, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX ($1000)
2015 Regional Gold Addy Award, American Ad Federation, TX
2013 Distinguished Staff Award, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2024 “Placing Displacement: Stacking Collapsing, and Staking by Yuna Kim” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. Volume 9.1-2.
2024 “The CarbBasin Recipe Cards,” Nourish and Resist: Food and Transatlantic Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art, Editors: Leslie Wolff (Assistant Professor of Art History, Florida State Univ.) Hannah Ryan (Assistant Professor of Art History, St. Olaf College), Yale University Press
2022 “Cataloguing the Wolfcamp” New Media Art 2022, CICA Press.
2021 “Photographic Arts and Fake News.” Fake News: Lesson Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences. Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).
2015 Litsey, Ryan. Amy Kim, Susan Hidalgo, Kaley Daniel, Julie Barnett, Shannon Jones, Kenny Ketner, “Interactive Kiosk at the Texas Tech University Libraries.” Journal of Access Services, 12:31–41.
2023 Story of Art in America (Season 3), Dir. Christelle Bois, as featured artist, Amazon Prime Video Streaming
2023 “Cataloguing the Wolfcamp” National Conference, Society of Photographic Educators, Denver, CO, March 16-18
2022 “Taming Taste: The CaribBasin Recipe Cards.” Nourish and Resist: Food an Feminisms in Global Contemporary Art of the Caribbean, Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS), Santiago, Chile, Dec 4-8
2022 “From Rooftop to Laptop: Photographic Art(ifice)” Fake News: Lesson Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences, National Conference, Society of Photographic Educators, Virtual, Jan 22
2018 “Faking Our Way Towards the Truth: Still Lives of Raphael Peale and Sharon Core.”, Texas Tech Humanities Center Research Conference, Lubbock, TX, March 27-30
2016 “Faking Our Way Towards the Truth: Still Lives of Raphael Peale and Sharon Core.” Society of Photographic Educators Regional Conference (SPESC), Hunt, TX , Oct 13-16
2018 “Altering Surfaces and Making the Optical Tangible.”, Society of Photographic Educators Regional Conference (SPESC), Baton Rouge, LA.
2022 Common Occurrences: Four Korean Artists Living in the U.S, Artists: Sangmi Yoo (Professor, Texas Tech Univ.), Mizin Shin (Assistant Professor, Univ. of Rochester), Ray Im, Yuna Kim
2022 Water Works, collaborative exhibition with Ellen Noel Art Museum Artists: Daniel Miller (Associate Professor of Sculpture, Univ. of Iowa), Melisa Haviland (Professor of Printmaking Ohio Univ.), Becky Wilkes, Joshua Duttweiler (Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Texas A&M Corpus Christi) Collin Bradford, Jess Benjamin, Kathleen Vance, Rebecca Riley, Stefan Petranek (Associate Professor Foundations, Photography, Indiana Univ.)
2021 Figuring-out the Past: Transcendent Embodiment of Ancient Mexican Art, private collection (2021) (guest curators: Catharina Santasilia (PhD); Robert Pickering, (PhD), Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, Univ. of Tulsa)
2021 From the Inside Out Katie Hargrave (Associate Professor of Art Univ. of Tennessee Chattanooga), Meredith Laura Lynn (Assistant Curator, Florida State Univ. Tallahassee)
2021 On Island, solo exhibition by Philippine-based artist Lui Medina, interviewed by guest scholar Kevin Chua(PhD), (Associate Professor of Art History, Texas Tech Univ.)
2020 Balas y Jaulas, solo exhibition by Angel Cabrales (Associate Professor of Sculpture, Univ. Texas El Paso)
2020 Ground Truth, solo exhibition by art collective Julie Anand (Professor of Photography, Arizona State) and Damon Sauer
2020 Whose Got a Price on Their Head? (2020), solo exhibition by Cody Arnall, (Associate Professor, Texas Tech Univ.)
2019 Black Velvet, solo exhibition by Jarred Elrod, (Associate Professor of Graphic
Design, University of Florida Gainesville)
2019 Archiving Home, two-person exhibit by visual artist Emily Gui and poet Joshua Edwards
Society for Photographic Education (SPE), Cleveland, OH