My work presents as crafted objects, informed by an exploration of my heritage as the American daughter of immigrants from Japan and Korea. Born and raised in Los Angeles, yet still deeply affected by my ancestors’ experiences of colonialism and imperialism. My work examines the history between Asia and the United States through the lens of cultural traditions, especially folk crafts, and points to current implications of that history in regards to identity and cultural exchange.
Common to all of my work are also the meditative and repetitive processes employed to make them, often a modern interpretation of the traditional craft work that it is inspired by.
Since moving to the Bay Area, my work has been exhibited at the Berkeley Art Center, Root Division, The Performance Art Institute, The Kitsch Gallery, Novel Brewing Co., and The Kearny Street Workshop, among others. In 2016, I was in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and more recently was a studio artist at Kala Art Institute. After getting an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, I worked for 10 years as a bookbinder at the local letterpress book publisher, The Arion Press, where I completed an apprenticeship in bookbinding in 2012. I currently work as a freelance bookbinder for local artists and designers and maintain a studio practice out of the Dogpatch Collective in San Francisco.
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