Heesoo Kwon
Heesoo Kwon (She/They) is a Korean-born multimedia artist who considers art-making a socio-ritualistic, archival and auto-ethnographic practice. Employing 3D animation, modeling and artificial intelligence technologies as procreant, shamanic tools, she engages in the queering of familial relationships, the rewriting of mythic matrilineal histories, and the building of decentralized worlds and memoryscapes, as seen in her autobiographical feminist religion Leymusoom and her Firefly series of AI-augmented childhood photographs. In Kwon’s heterotopic hyperspaces, she abstracts (conceptions of) time and memory, transcending the burdens/legacies of sacrifice, trauma and patriarchal violence to offer instead transformative modes of liberated existence, love and community.
Selected exhibitions include Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Buk Seoul Museum of Arts, Seoul, South Korea; Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands; EFA Project Space, New York, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art San Jose, San Jose, CA; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Blinkers Art & Project Space, Winnipeg, Canada; West Den Haag, Netherlands; and WMA Space, Hong Kong. She was awarded the 2023 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia and the 2025 Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation.
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