Sook Jin Jo’s  upcoming exhibition at the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College  in Old Westbury, New York will focus on exploring and  creating an in-depth discussion around  a wide range of her works and their relationship to each other. The exhibition will present her works in three categories: wooden assemblages / installations, photographs and performance / video / documentaries in three connected gallery rooms.

Korean born, New York based artist Sook Jin Jo is a multidisciplinary artist. Since 1985 she has produced drawings, collages, sculptural assemblages, performances, photographs, videos, installations, public works and architecture. 

Sook Jin has exhibited internationally and has been the subject of 34 solo exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia, including the “Walter Gropius Master Artist Series”, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia (2011); A project collaboration with Immigrants from Latin America, Tenement Museum, New York, NY (2009); “A Mid-Career Survey of the Work of Sook Jin Jo” at the Arko Art Center, Seoul (2007) and over 100 group exhibitions, including the “Lodz Biennale”, Lodz, Poland; the “Gwangju Biennale,” Korea; the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea; Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Korea; Maier Museum of Art, Virginia; and Seoul Museum of Art, Korea.

Sook Jin is a recipient of many distinguished awards, fellowships, grants and commissions, including  a commission from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; a Master Artist in Residence Fellowship, Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida;  Örebro AiR  Fellowship in Örebro, Sweden;  the iaab Fellowship (Christoph Merian Stifung Foundation) in Basel, Switzerland; the Hachonghyun Foundation Artist Award in Seoul, Korea; a Korea Arts Foundation of America (KAFA) Award in Santa Monica, CA; a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in New York, NY; the Sacatar Foundation Residency Fellowship in Brazil; and a Socrates Sculpture Park Artist Fellowship in New York, NY.

Sook Jin Jo’s upcoming exhibition will include some important wooden works along with her large-scale photo installation entitled “Seoul Cross” (two editions of which are in the collections of two museums in Korea).  Also, it will include her photographs of disappearing buildings -- abandoned warehouses, factories, hospitals and homes  --  that were taken over the last 20 years in a number of  countries, but have not been exhibited anywhere.  The relationship  between the photos and her wooden works would create a great deal of interesting and inspiring conversation. 

Please visit Sook Jin’s Instagram, Facebook and her website for more information.