Assistant Professor of Studio Art

Born in Seoul, Korea, Soo Sunny Park has received her B.F.A. in painting and sculpture from Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio and a M.F.A. in sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. After a residency in Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME (2000), she worked actively in St. Louis as an installation artist and a Lecturer at the Washington University in St. Louis, MO. In year 2001, she was awarded with the River Front Times “Best of 2001, Sculptor of St. Louis”. Park is a recipient of Joan Mitchell M. F. A. Grant, Grand Prize winner of 19th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Cité Internationale des Arts Studio Residency, Paris, France.

Park’s selected group exhibitions include: “The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art”, National Academy Museum, New York, NY, “2007 Invitational Show”, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, “Strip Minds”, U.M.F. Art Gallery, University of Maine at Farmington, ME, “6595 MILES (10614 KM)”, Network Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, MI and The Total Gallery, Chongno-Gu, Seoul Korea, “Erga Topika: Work on Site”, Thomas Jefferson School, MO, “The Distance Between Us”, Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Joan Mitchell Foundation”, CUE Art Foundation, Chelsea, NY, “New Works by Jeri Au, Cheonae Kim and Soo Sunny Park”, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO, “Exposure IV: The Space In-Between”, Park Avenue Gallery, MO. Her selected solo shows include; “Fractal Immersion”, Reeves Contemporary, Chelsea, NY , “Liminal Engagement”, FireHouse Gallery, Burlington, VT, “Transmission”, FCA 2001-02 Project, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO, “Bio-Structure: Metro-Geo”, Kranzberg Exhibition, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO. Selective publications include: “Soo Sunny Park: Playing with Light and Space”, International Sculpture Center, Sculpture Magazine, (April 08), “The Immutable and the Impermanent: Soo Sunny Park”, International Sculpture Center, Sculpture Magazine, (June 2004), “Soo Sunny Park at Laumeier Sculpture Park”, Art in America, (April 2004), “Forum for Contemporary Art”, New Art Examiner, (July 2001).

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