Intended Audience
Heesoo Kwon Artist Lecture
Monday, September 26 @ 4:45-5:45 p.m., Glendening Annex
Heesoo Kwon is a visual artist and anthropologist from South Korea and currently based in Oakland, California. Kwon received her Master of Fine Art from UC Berkeley in 2019. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Et Al, San Francisco and CICA Museum and Visual Space Gunmulsai, South Korea. She has participated in group exhibitions at the CICA Museum; the Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley; Root Division, San Francisco; SOMArts, San Francisco; and Embark Gallery, San Francisco, among others. In 2012 Kwon received the Female Inventor of the Year Award from the Korean Intellectual Property Office. Her other accolades include the Young Korean Artist Award from the CICA Museum and the Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize for Photos and Art Practice from UC Berkeley.
Co-sponsored by the Lecture and Fine Arts Committee, the Artist House Residency Program, and the Department of Art and Art History.