SoHyun Bae explained

SoHyun Bae (born 1967) is an American painter[1] living and working in New York. Her iconography has been described as being shaped by "a history lived from afar, therefore colored by the absence/presence of memory, doubts of otherness, longing, mythologizing and an awareness of archetypal belonging.”[2]

Education

SoHyun Bae received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990 having spent her senior year abroad in Rome, Italy in the European Honors Program, a Master of Fine Arts from Boston University in 1994, and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School in 1997.

Life

SoHyun Bae was born in Seoul, Korea to Jongwoo Bae,[2] an Editor/Producer of Donga Broadcasting network and Hyunye Cho, an essayist and an author of children’s books. Her father’s protest against censorship by Park Chung-hee’s dictatorial regime was the reason why her family came to the United States. He was a leading figure in the Donga Ilbo Blank Advertisement Incident (Donga Ilbo Baekji Gwang-go Satae). She was eight years old when her family immigrated to the United States.[2]

Early influences were: Pak Tu-jin, a Korean poet; John Walker, a British painter; Elie Wiesel, a writer and Nobel laureate; and Richard Nieburh, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University.

SoHyun Bae moved to New York in 1997 where she met and worked with: Karel Appel, painter and a founding member of the Cobra Movement; and Esteban Vicente, a first generation Abstract Expressionist. In the years she lived abroad in Bologna, Italy (2003 - 2009), she met and befriended Vasco Bendini, a painter and a founding member of Arte Informale.

Awards

SoHyun Bae is the recipient of numerous awards including: The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship,[3] in Fine Arts,[4] Art 2007; The New York Foundation for the Arts,[3] Fellowship in the field of Painting, 2002; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation,[5] Inc. Grant, 2000; a Fellowship at Montalvo Art Center,[6] 2019, a Fellowship at The Corporation of Yaddo,[7] 2000; The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship[8] in conjunction with Virginia Center for Creative Arts,[9] 1996; and a full scholarship[10] to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,[11] 1993.

Exhibitions

Her works have been exhibited world wide in numerous galleries,[12] auction houses and museums[13] including the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco;[14] Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University;[15] Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Museum;[16] Museo Nacional di Visual Artes, Montevideo;[17] Queens Museum, Sotheby’s[18] NY, and Philips de Pury & Luxembourg.[19]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Lo, Adrienne . South Korea's education exodus: the life and times of early study abroad . 2015 . University of Washington Press . 9780295806525 . en. 973147808.
  2. Book: Sublimal icons: Sohyun Bae and traditional Korean art in context : November 4-23, 2011. Bae. Sohyun. Diacono. Mario. Kang Collection . 2011 . Kang Contemporary. New York. en. 913909326.
  3. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - SoHyun Bae . gf.org . 2023.
  4. Web site: SoHyun Bae. nyc-arts.org. May 14, 2015.
  5. Web site: SoHyun Bae - Pollock Krasner Image Collection. www.pkf-imagecollection.org. en. 2019-07-12.
  6. Web site: Montalvo Arts Center Welcome. montalvoarts.org. 2019-07-12.
  7. Web site: Visual Artists. 2016-09-11. Yaddo. en-US. 2019-07-12.
  8. News: NYFA.
  9. Web site: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. VCCA. 2019-07-12.
  10. Web site: Alumni & Faculty Database. Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. en-US. 2019-07-12.
  11. Web site: Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. en-US. 2019-07-12.
  12. Book: Concurrence divergence: three Korean women painters, Wonsook Kim, Sohyun Bae, Chagsoon Oh.. Kang Collection. Kim. Wŏn-suk. Bae. Sohyun. Oh. Changsoon. 2007. Kang Collection Korean Art. New York. en. 226317082.
  13. Web site: Asian Art Museum Online Collection. searchcollection.asianart.org. 2019-07-12.
  14. Web site: Contemporary Korean Artists in New York. Archive. Asia Art. wwwhk.aaa.org.hk. en. 2019-07-12.
  15. Web site: Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos Peabody Museum. www.peabody.harvard.edu. 2019-07-12.
  16. Web site: Visit Seoul - Hangaram Art Museum. english.visitseoul.net. en. 2019-07-12.
  17. Web site: Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales. mnav.gub.uy. es. 2019-07-12.
  18. Book: Sotheby's (Firm). American paintings, drawings & sculpture.. 2014. en. 890648960.
  19. Web site: SoHyun Bae Paintings at 450 Park Avenue Opens April 25. Jay Grimm — Art Advisory. 10 April 2018 . en-US. 2019-07-12.