About

I am a Korean adopted at three months into a Texan American family. My work deals with complex experiences of my cultural displacement and separation from my birth family. I left Korea when I was six years old. Texas was my first taste of the United States, and the culture shock was jarring. I soon after moved to Northern Virginia.

Art became a very important outlet for expression as I have always had strong emotions and no words to access those early, pre-verbal traumatic experiences.

I received my BFA from The Maryland Institute, College of Art in 2004, concentrating in painting, printmaking and figurative sculpture. I then received my Masters in Acupuncture at the Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts in 2009 and later continued my training in Somatic Experiencing Trauma Therapy and Touch Therapy for Early Developmental Trauma.

It would be five years later, after the passing of my beloved father, that I would find my way to a ceramics class at the local community arts center known as the Workhouse, in Lorton Virginia.