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  Curatorial Projects

  2019 'Aesthetics of Human Relations'
     Site Eight Gallery, RMIT University Melbourne-RMIT:ART:INTERSECT Curatorial Internship
  2019 'I, there, here'
    Solo Curated Photographic Exhibition, Ladder Art Space Melbourne
  2017 'Passage to Pusan'
    Commissioned as a curator and solo arist, Korean Cultural Centre Sydney Australia,
  2015 'Cadavre Exquis'
    Creative collaboration with diverse cultural background artists, Accelerator Gallery, Culture at Works, Sydney Australia

  Exhibitions

  2023 'Tongue-Tongs' Manningham Art Gallery.
  2020 'Mask' Mapping Melbourne 2020-21, MAV (Multicultural Arts Victoria).
    'Erasure' Assembly Point (online), VCA, University of Melbourne.
  2019 'HOLY, HONEST, CONFLUENCES' ACU Melbourne Gallery.
    'Love Letters To Feminisms' Trocadero Art Space Melbourne.
    Solo curated exhibition 'I, there, here' Ladder Art Space Melbourne.
  2017 Travelling Exhibition 'Passage to Pusan' Hedley Bull Atrium ANU Canberra.
    'Air' Creative Sapce, Sydney.
     'Passage to Pusan' Korean Cultural Centre Sydney Australia.
  2016 'Metropolis' Art Space on the Concourse, Sydney.
    'Twenty Twenty' The Old Rum Store, Chippendale, Sydney Lunar New Year Festival.
  2015 'ART+NATURE+SCIENCE 2010-2015' Culture at Work, Sydney.
    'Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition' The hall of Awa Japanese Handmade Paper, Japan.
    'Cadavre Exquis' Accelerator Gallery, Sydney.
    'Chinese New Year Interpretations' Art Studios Gallery, Gosford NSW.
  2014 'Miniprint Exhibition' ArtSmart Fine Art Gallery, Sydney.
    DUO Magazine Percival Photographic Portrait Prize, Pinnacles Gallery,Townsville Queensland.
     'Chippendale New World Art Prize' NG Art Carlton street Pop-up Gallery,Sydney.
    'Elements' Warringah Creative Space, Sydney.
    'Art in Threads' ,Brand X Gallery,The Central Sydney.
     'Crossing Boundaries 2014' Sydney Town Hall. Lunar New Year Festival.
  2013 'GCF Green-growth International Art Exhibition',Incheon Culture & Art Center, South Korea.
     'Fringe Arts at the Forum', The Italian Forum Cultural Centre, Sydney.
     'Marked by Water' Curve Gallery, Newcastle & Warringah Printmakers Studio Gallery, Sydney.
     'PerCePtion' , Balmain Watch House Gallery, Sydney.
  2012 'Fringe Arts at the Forum', The Italian Forum Cultural Centre, Sydney.
     'Leave Nothing But Prints', Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Australia
    'MAN:GAE', NSW Parliament House, Sydney.
     6th International Art Prize Arte Laguna, Arsenale, Venice Italy.
     Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City gallery.
  2011 'Mount Eyre Art Prize 2011', Rex Livingstone gallery, Sydney.
    'Medium Vinyl 2011', Hardwear gallery, Sydney.
    'Together in Harmony for 50 years', Korea Foundation Cultural Center, Seoul Korea.
    'Awake' group exhibition, Bom gallery, Seoul Korea.
     'Photography 11A' group exhibition, Brunswick street gallery, Melbourne.
  2010 'Beyond the surface of the page', Marianne Newman gallery, Sydney.
     Warringah Art Prize, Artfocus Gallery, Sydney.
     'Placemarker',Warringah printmakers studio, Sydney.
  2008 'Urban Dreaming', Toyota community spirit gallery,Sydney.
     'Bella' Changeable art exhibition, North Sydney Community centre, Sydney.
     'Into Intaglio' Regard gallery, Sydney.
     Olive Cotton Award,Tweed River Art Gallery,Australia.
    2008 Festival Art Awards, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
     Group Selection, Gallery 26, Sydney.
  2006 Kodak Photo Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
  2005 New Collectable Auction, First Site RMIT Union Gallery, Melbourne.

Photo Books
InterNation Renaissance
Serenity
My Very Personal Journey

Awards
2021 Wyndham Art Prize
2016 Blacktown City Art Prize
2016 MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize
2014/2016/2018 DUO Magazine Percival Photographic Portrait Prize
2014 24th Muswellbrook Photographic Award, Australia
2014 Chippendale New World Art Prize
2012 Gosford Art Prize, Australia
2012 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Australia
2012 6th International Art Prize Arte Laguna, Venice Italy
2012 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize Semi-finalist, Australia
2011 Mount Eyre Art Prize 2011
2010 BSG Small Works Prize, Acquisition award, Australia
2009 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize Semi-finalist, Australia
2008 Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Australia
2008/2009/2010/2011/2012 Waverley Art Prize, Sydney, Australia
2002 Fuji Photography Contest, Seoul, Korea

Acquisitions
2010 Photographic salt print 'Untitled 1','Untitled 2', Brunswick street gallery from BSG Small Works Prize
2010 Etching 'Warringah, sign of rain', Warringah council from 'Placemarker' Warringah printmakers exhibition

Publication
2017 SBS Radio Korean Interview for 'Passage to Pusan'
2015 SBS Radio Korean Interview for 'Cadavre Exquis'
2015 Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology 'Future Now', UK
2014 Crikey Art Review for 'Crossing Boundaries'
2013 Black & White Magazine issue 95 Single Image Contest Winners special issue, USA

Education
2020 Current, Master of Contemporary Art, VCA, University of Melbourne.
2019 Master of Arts Management (Distinction), RMIT University.