I am an artist working in photography and installation.
I use photography’s illusionistic qualities to encourage dialogue whether it be digging up what was meant to be buried or examining the image boundaries between the fake and the real.
Before my long stay as a Texas resident, I grew up in South Korea during the height of the violent democratic protests. Because of this experience, I currently examine today’s geopolitics through the lens of the oil extraction craze in West Texas. My work is informed by early thinkers of photography such as Walter Benjamin and Frederick Douglass who grappled with the promises and failures of the photographic medium. It is also informed by my background staying in sites of high tension such as post-war Korea or the boom or bust economy of the Texas oil fields. I am the winner of 2025 PH Museum Grant (3rd place). Author and artist of “Basin Recipe Cards,” published in Nourish and Resist by Yale Univ. Press. I hold a B.A. from Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies in South Korea, an MFA in Arts Administration from Texas Tech University Theatre and Dance, and a second MFA from Texas Tech University School of Art. I currently serve as Assistant Professor of Photography at Hope College in Holland Michigan.
C.V.
Houston Fotofest Biennale, Wolfcamp Catalogue, Sawyer Yards Studio Houston TX, 2022
Solo Exhibitions
Jan 2027 Permian Ribbons, Midland College, Midland TX
Sept 2027 Permian Ribbons, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux LA
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
Scarab Club, SPE Midwest Member Juried Exhibition, 2025Group Exhibitions
2027 (February) Conditions of an Image, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
2026 Society of Photographic Education (SPE) Midwest Member Juried Exhibition, The Ohio State University, Hopkins Hall Lobby & 146 Project Space
2026 Fotofocus Biennial, Fotofocus: Afterimage Portraiture as Memory, Studio San Giuseppe, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, OH, September,. 18-Oct 31
2025 Society of Photographic Education (SPE) Midwest Member Juried Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI (Juror: Kat Goffnett, Assistant Curator of Collections, Cranbrook Art Museum),
2024 New Faculty Exhibition, DePree Gallery, Hope College, Holland, MI
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 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.)