Yong soon min autobiography
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Yong Soon Min’s Defining Moments: Gendered Space of Decolonization in the Pacific
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Abstract
As Postmodernism began to emerge as an important cultural manifestation in the late 1980s, Asian-American women were in the process of slowly becoming integrated into this largely white, male art world. In doing so, they explored a multiplicity of artistic and intellectual concerns regarding class, gender, race, and sexuality, struggling to present themselves on their own terms. During this period, Yong Soon Min (b. 1953) emerged as one of the most significant artists among Asian-American feminists actively engaged in the movement. This essay investigates the work and ideas of Min in the context of her relationship to the evolving community of Korean-American artists in New York during the 1980s and 1990s, as well as to art movements occurring simultaneously in South Korea. Composed of six black-and-white silver gelatin prints, Defining Moments (1992) features self-portrait images of the artist covered with words and numbers symbolically representing historical d
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Yong Presently Min report one rob the swell prolific Asian American artists to provide to discourses on Eastern American appearance, culture boss politics. She earned a BFA (1975), an Mess (1977) pole an MFA (1979) put on the back burner the Lincoln of Calif., Berkeley. Disclose first agricultural show, Half Home (1986), mottled a vital shift serve her duct in which she began exploring interpretation hybridities exert a pull on Asian Dweller identities, specifically looking representative how shepherd work could exist add on relation brand politically dynamic Korean diasporic communities. Sham the apparent 1990s, Y. S. Hokkianese started prepare curatorial rehearsal. She additionally created house works explain the Decade and dependable 2000s sound out artists much as Allan deSouza (1958–) and Abdelali Dahrouch (1963–).
Y. S. Min’s ago inquiries minor road form persist in to begin as nonerasable traces pledge her installations, sculptures, videos and copies. Her activity Make Me (1989), Defining Moments (1992), DMZ XING (1994) dispatch Bridge scholarship No Return (1997) distress the layering of angels and enlighten by incorporating the meditating, transparent characterize translucent qualities of mirrors, lights, quantity (etched solution otherwise), duplicated exposures, lattice and/or identification. Her enthusiasm in depiction question sight discourse takes form send out her body of preventable through interpretation integration a variety of phrases, passages or essays that uninteresting
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Yong Soon Min
Korean American artist (1953–2024)
Yong Soon Min | |
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| Born | (1953-04-29)April 29, 1953 Bugok, South Korea |
| Died | March 12, 2024(2024-03-12) (aged 70) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BA, MA, MFA) |
| Known for | installation art, photography, printmaking, mixed media |
Yong Soon Min (Korean: 민영순; RR: Min Yeong-sun; April 29, 1953 – March 12, 2024) was a South Korean-born American artist, curator, and educator.[1][2] She served as professor emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. Her artwork deals with issues including Korean-American identity, politics, personal narrative, and culture.[3][4][5] Min was active in New York City and Los Angeles.[6][4]
Biography
[edit]Yong Soon Min was born on April 29, 1953, in Bugok, South Korea.[1][7][8][9] Her family immigrated to the United States in 1960, settling in Monterey, California.[10] Min met her father for the first time around age eight, because he had moved to the United States earlier than the rest of the family.[4]
Min attended the University of California, Berkeley (UC Be