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KPOP THE BROADWAY MUSICAL

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As global superstars put everything on the line for a special one-night-only concert, they face struggles both cultural and personal that threaten to dismantle one of the industry’s hottest labels. Featuring a cast of K-pop and musical theater stars, with 18 Broadway debuts, KPOP is a multimedia experience that explores the relentless discipline, raw talent, and commercial ambition behind the international sensation.

KPOP has the distinction of being the first musical on Broadway celebrating Korean culture and it is the third Broadway musical that highlights API heritage with API representation in the cast and creative team.

Join us for a conversation with the creative team behind the scene and cast members as they prepare to make their Broadway debut.

 

KPOP
THE BROADWAY MUSICAL
INSPIRED BY THEGLOBAL MUSIC PHENOMENON
Hybrid Program

Monday, October 24, 2022 | 6 PM (EDT)


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350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017

 

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About the Speakers:

HELEN PARK (Music & Lyrics, Music Production & Arrangements) is best known for her work as composer-lyricist and music producer for the upcoming Broadway musical, KPOP, for which she is a three-time Drama Desk nominee and recipient of a Lucille Lortel Award and Richard Rodgers Award. Additionally, Park co-wrote songs for the Oscar-nominated Netflix animated musical film Over the Moon, directed by Academy Award-winning animator Glen Keane. She holds an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program and is an alumnus of the advanced BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop.
 

BOHYUNG (Tiny) is proud to be making her Broadway debut in KPOP. She is a veteran K-Pop star, debuting as a member of SPICA as well as performing as a solo artist. She has performed at KCON LA, KCON Abu Dhabi, Rainbow Festival, Immortal Songs, King of Mask Singer, amongst others. @bohyungkim
 

KEVIN WOO (Jun Hyuk) is honored to make his Broadway debut in KPOP. As a successful Korean-American singer-songwriter and former member of K-pop boy band U-KISS, he dedicates this to his South Korean heritage. @kevinwoo_official

 

Global Financial Leaders Forum 2022

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The Maekyung Media Group, The Korea Society, Korea Finance Society, and Korea Investment Corporation are co-hosting the Global Financial Leaders Forum 2022 on October 12, 2022. This annual flagship event brings together leading figures from the finance community across the world to discuss emerging trends in today’s finance landscape and exchange insights on new pathways for investment. This year, the forum will be convened in a series of high-level panels under the central theme of “Ultra Leading Strategy Under Ultra Tightening Era”.

This is an invitation-only event.

 

GLOBAL FINANCIAL LEADERS FORUM 2022
Ultra Leading Strategy Under Ultra Tightening Era

The Westin New York at Times Square
270 W 43rd St, New York, NY 10036

October 12, 2022 | 5 PM (EDT)

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5:00 PM | Registration 
5:20 PM | Program

Alongside the 2022 GFLF, Maekyung, The Korea Society, KFS, and KIC will co-host two relevant events: the 2022 New York Money Show on October 11 and the K-Wall St. Platform on October 12 at The Korea Society, before the GFLF. If you are interested in learning more about the events, please check out their websites as well.

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5:00~5:20 | Registration

5:20~5:35 | Opening Session

    Seungjoon Chang, Vice Chairman, Maekyung Media Group
    Thomas Byrne, President & CEO, The Korea Society
    Byung-hwa Chung, Consul General of the Republic of Korea in New York

5:35~5:40 | Congratulatory Session

    David Rubenstein, Co-Founder, The Carlyle Group

 
5:40~6:10 | Session I: Navigating the Economy in a Volatile and Uncertain Time

    Jacob Lew, 76th US Secretary of the Treasury | Managing Partner of Lindsay Goldberg

    Moderator:
    Yup Kim, Head of Investments, Private Equity, CalPERS

6:10~6:30 | Session II: Navigating Investment Landscape

   Jae S. Yoon, CIO, New York Life Investment Management | Chairman, NYLIM Asia

6:30~6:50 | Session III: Changes and Future of US Financial Market

   Ethan Harris, Head, Global Economics Research, Bank of America Global

6:50~7:10 | Session IV: Investment Strategies in Current Markets

   Thomas Lee, Managing Partner, Fundstrat Global Advisors
    

7:10~7:15 | Closing Remarks

    Sandor Hau, Co-Chairman, Korea Finance Society

7:15~8:00 | Dinner

8:00~9:00 | Networking Session (Cocktail Party)

  

About the Speakers:

Jacob Lew
76th US Secretary of the Treasury | Managing Partner of Lindsay Goldberg

Career

    * 2017 to present: Managing Partner, Lindsay Goldberg
    * 2013 – 2017: 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury
    (under President Barack Obama – succeeded Tim Geithner)
    * 2012 – 2013: 25th White House Chief of Staff
    During the Obama and Clinton administrations: Director of the Office of Management and Budget
    * 2006 – 2008: COO, Citigroup
    * 2001 – 2006: Executive vice-president of operations, New York University
    * 1993 – 1994: Special Assistant to the President under Bill Clinton
    * Worked also as an attorney in private practice

Education

    * A.B., Harvard College
    * J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

Jae S. Yoon
CIO, New York Life Investment Management | Chairman, NYLIM Asia

Jae is the Chief Investment Officer of New York Life Investment Management, LLC (NYLIM). He serves as the Chairman of the Investment Governance Committee, responsible for the oversight of the investment performance of the strategies managed by NYLIM’s boutiques and affiliate portfolio teams. He also leads the Multi-Asset Solutions (MAS) team, which manages third-party multi asset strategies and economic analysis for New York Life.

Jae joined the firm in 2005, managing the investment risk and strategy efforts at NYLIM’s investment affiliate MacKay Shields. Previously, he was Head of Quantitative Research, Analytics and Risk Management at Western Asset Management and Head of Risk and Performance for the Pacific and European Regions at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in Tokyo and London, respectively. He also worked at JP Morgan Securities in Asia as regional head of Risk Management Control for Fixed Income and Equity Derivative Trading. He has worked in the financial services industry since 1991.

He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Operations Research.

Ethan Harris
Head, Global Economics Research, Bank of America Global

Ethan Harris is the head of Global Economics Research at BoA Global Research. He coordinates the global economics forecast and publication and manages the developed markets economics team. Harris regularly ranks highly in investor polls and forecast surveys.

Before coming to BoA Securities, Harris was the chief U.S. economist at Lehman Brothers. He also worked as an economist at Barclays and JP Morgan and spent nine years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he was an assistant to the president and head of the Domestic Research Division. Harris is a founding member of the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, a member of the World Economic Forum Community of Chief Economists and a member of the Economic Advisory Committee of the American Banker Association. He is the author of Ben Bernanke’s Fed.

Harris earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Clark University and a PhD in economics from Columbia University, where he was a University Fellow.

Thomas J. Lee
Managing Partner, Fundstrat Global Advisors

Thomas Lee is a Managing Partner and the Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors. He is an accomplished Wall Street strategist with over 25 years of experience in equity research, and has been top ranked by Institutional Investor every year since 1998. Prior to co-founding Fundstrat, he served most recently as J.P. Morgan’s Chief Equity Strategist from 2007 to 2014, and previously as Managing Director at Salomon Smith Barney. His areas of expertise include Market Strategy, Small/Mid-Cap Strategy and Telecom Services.

Mr. Lee received his BSE from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Finance and Accounting. He is a CFA charterholder and is an active member of NYSSA and the NY Economic Club

Moderator:

Yup Kim
Head of Investments, Private Equity, CalPERS

Message in a Bottle: Broadcasting to North Korea

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Join us for this discussion about the outside world’s attempts to reach the North Korean population through media, with Dong Hyuk Lee, Chief of Voice Of America’s Korean Service, and Dr. Jieun Baek, Fellow with the Korea Project and the Applied History Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, in conversation with Korea Society policy director Jonathan Corrado.

 

Message in a Bottle: Broadcasting to North Korea
Virtual Program

Thursday, October 6, 2022 | 12 PM (EDT)

 


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New York, NY 10017

 

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About the Speakers:

 
Jieun Baek
 

Jieun Baek is a Fellow with the Korea Project and the Applied History Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center where she focuses on North Korea policy. She is the author of North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society, and is the founder and co-director of Lumen, a non-profit organization that works to make information available to all North Koreans. Prior to receiving her doctorate in Public Policy at the University of Oxford, she was a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center, and worked at Google headquarters for several years where, among other roles, she served as Google Ideas’ North Korea expert. Baek received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard. She is a proud Los Angeles native.

 
 
Dong Hyuk Lee
 

Dong Hyuk Lee joined Voice of America (VOA) in May 2006 as Chief of Korean Service with more than 12 years of journalism experience, including two years as managing editor at a Korean newspaper. His experience as a reporter and news manager has proved to be a good asset for the service as it embarked on a major program enhancement. Before joining VOA, Mr. Lee worked for three and half years at Radio Free Asia. As senior editor, he led a news team producing a daily news program at the Korean Service. Since 1992, Mr. Lee has closely followed bilateral relations between the U.S. and North Korea, U.S. policy on North Korea, and inter-Korean politics. He has interviewed key U.S. officials handling security issues around the Korean peninsula and nuclear proliferation, including: Robert Joseph, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, and Stuart Levey,  U.S. Under Secretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. His notable work includes exclusive coverage of Ri Myung Hun, a North Korean basketball player who pursued a career in the NBA from 1997 to 1999, which received nation-wide attention in both South and North Korea. As a veteran journalist specializing in U.S.-North Korea relations, Mr. Lee has appeared on U.S. and South Korean news outlets, including Fox Business’ “Mornings with Maria” and KBS. A native of South Korea, Mr. Lee holds a master’s degree in Communication from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has completed a master’s degree program in Applied English Linguistics from University of Wisconsin at Madison.
 

 

Author Talks: Lee Geum-yi

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“Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history and transforming them into moving, compelling, and uplifting stories. I loved Willow from the first page to the last. Loved her courage, and her tenacious, yet caring, beautiful soul. The Picture Bride is the ultimate story of the power of friendship—a must read!” — Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Three Sisters

While reading a book on Korean-American immigration history, Lee Geum-yi stumbled across a photo of three picture brides – young women who left their homes in Korea to marry men whom they knew nothing about. Of the three, only one had a name listed, and there was no information about them. With no record of their lives before or after the photograph, she was seized by an inconsolable desire to bring these women—stuck permanently in a black-and-white photo—back to life. From this desire, Lee Geum-yi’s The Picture Bride was born.

Set in 1918, The Picture Bride follows the journeys of three young women: Willow, who comes from a family of Korean independence activists; Hongju, whose husband died two months into marriage; and Songhwa, who was ridiculed by the children in her village, just for being a shaman’s granddaughter. Unfortunately, the social standing of these three women, who left their country and families with dreams of a new world, doesn’t change much in Hawaii. Yet, through the power of friendship and found family, they forge ahead, creating a new kind of American dream.

The Picture Bride is a celebration of immigrant visionaries, adventurers and trailblazers; a beautiful tale of the power or selfless love; and a thought-provoking story that invites important conversations on colonialism and cultural identity. Perhaps put best by Lee Geum-yi, who hopes this story will find resonance with readers today:

Stories of these three immigrant women, I believe, will deeply resonate with American readers today. … I sincerely hope that all of those who find The Picture Bride will find a piece of their own story in this book.

In this episode of Author Talks, Lee Geum-yi discusses her career in Korea and her English debut.

Author Talks: Lee Geum-yi

Tuesday, October 4, 2022 | 5 PM (EDT)

 

 

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About the Speaker:

Lee Geum-yi was born in 1962, in her grandmother’s house in a small, mountainous village in Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea. She became enthralled with the charms of storytelling early on, having spent her childhood under the influence of her grandmother’s bedtime stories. Since then, Lee has published over fifty books in South Korea, and her work has been translated around the world. Beloved by readers and literary critics alike, many of her books have been adapted into TV series, musicals, and webtoons. Lee Geum-yi lives in Seoul, South Korea, with her husband, son, and her old rescue dog, Lulu. The Picture Bride is her first novel to be translated into English.

Young Min Moon | The Share for Those Who Remain

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September 15 – December 9, 2022|
Artist Talk : Tuesday, October 25, 2022 5 PM ET|

In his paintings Young Min Moon depicts Jesa, a Confucian ritual for commemoration of the deceased, which was one of the earliest memories he holds while growing up in the military regime of South Korea in the 1970s and 80s. Despite the gender politics now associated with the ritual today due to its patriarchal nature, Moon insists on exploring the legacy. For him, the ritual holds multiple layers of meanings: an occasion of silence utterly severed from the violent era of his childhood, a means of remembering the deceased, and a tradition that may be discontinued in the age of globalization.

Moon’s paintings are also a way of honoring women’s labor for the patriarchal tradition, and an invitation to the celebration of familial ties that are largely inaccessible for diasporic Koreans. In his solo exhibition at The Korea Society, Moon also complicates his relation to the legacy of Jesa by situating it in relation to Catholicism that impacted the Confucian tradition in Korea.

The Korea Society Gallery is open only by appointment. The appointment must be made at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled visit. To make an appointment, please contact info@koreasociety.org.

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 10 AM-4:30 PM
Summer Hours during the month of August: Monday-Thursday 10 AM-4:30 PM
By Appointment Only

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ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Young Min Moon is an artist and critic whose work reflects his migration across cultures and his awareness of the hybrid nature of identities forged amid the complex historical and political relationships between Asia and North America. Moon has shown his art in many exhibitions in South Korea and North America, including Sansumunhwa, Art Space Pool, Kumho Museum of Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Kukje Gallery, Smith College Museum of Art, and the Carpenter Center at Harvard University, among others. Moon published his essays on contemporary Korean art in a wide range of publications, including Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader (MIT), and a chapter in A Companion to Korean Art (Wiley). He serves on the editorial board for the online journal Trans Asia Photography. Moon is a professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst and a recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship and Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.

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North Korea-China Relations after The Singapore Summit

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Join us for this roundtable and podcast recording on North Korea-China Relations after The Singapore Summit, with Dr. Seong-Hyon Lee, senior fellow at the George H. W. Bush Foundation and a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. In conversation with policy director Jonathan Corrado, Dr. Lee’s talk explores the evolving relationship between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, with a special focus on the time period between the U.S.-DPRK Summits in Singapore (June 2018) and Hanoi (February 2019). Dr. Lee scrutinizes documentary footage of the summits, reviews official Chinese and North Korean documents, and utilizes interviews with people in the know to reveal how Xi gradually increased his influence over Kim through their five summit meetings between March 2018 and June 2019. The talk concludes with some policy implications for the North Korean nuclear issue under the current Biden-Xi administrations.

 

North Korea-China Relations after The Singapore Summit
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 | 11 AM (EDT)

The Korea Society
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New York, NY 10017

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Dr. Seong-hyon Lee is a senior fellow at the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations and a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He is the former director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the Sejong Institute in South Korea. He is a graduate from Grinnell College, Harvard University, and Tsinghua University (Ph.D.). He was 2013-14 Pantech Fellow at Stanford University (APARC), Salzburg Global Fellow, and James A. Kelly Korean Studies Fellow (non-resident) of Pacific Forum CSIS. He specializes in China-DPRK Relations, China-South Korea Relations, and U.S.-China Relations. He is the author of the book, “The U.S.-China competition: Who will rule the world?” Books Garden (2019). In 2020, he gave the JTBC television’s Distinguished Lecture (JTBC 차이나는클라스) on U.S.-China relations. He gave lectures and talks at the Council on Foreign Relations (a closed-door session), Harvard Kennedy School, Stanford University, RAND Corporation, University of Pennsylvania, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Hudson Institute, and the National Assembly, among others. He has briefed South Korean presidential candidates and advised business entities such as Samsung.

 

Happy Hour with Korean Influencers

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Join us for an evening of conversation and networking with a diverse mix of Korean social media influencers and content creators.

Meet a group of young influencers from Korea! They are active on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, with audiences ranging from tens of thousands to millions of followers. These influencers create content on topics ranging from politics to fashion and lifestyle, presenting their unique point of view on everything from world history and North-and-South-Korea relationship to LGBTQI representation and rights in Korean society and international cooperation in East Asia. Using different formats – music, comedy, parodies, mukbang, interviews, reaction videos, dances, business, education, and training – these young Korean influencers represent the new way of social organization and communication that is fast becoming the standard in Korea as well as around the world.

Participating Influencers:

Jongryul Park of Mango Couple; Lala Kim and Minsu Son of Enjoy Couple; Jungjoo Hur of Dew Sisters; Seonozzi; Youngdae Kim of Gunggeumso and Sihyun Moon.

 

Happy Hour with Korean Influencers
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 | 5-7 PM (EDT)

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Free Chol Soo Lee: Screening and Q&A

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“A powerful indictment of systemic racism and the criminal justice system” – The Chicago Reader

“Extraordinarily moving… what documentary filmmaking should strive for” – RogerEbert.com

Join us for the riveting documentary FREE CHOL SOO LEE, opening at IFC Center on August 12. A MUBI Release, this revelatory Sundance selection from journalists Julie Ha and Eugene Yi chronicles the story of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean-American whose wrongful murder conviction ignited an unprecedented social movement. Drawing on rich archival footage and personal accounts, the film forms an urgent testament to the power of collective action and the human cost of incarceration.

In 1970s San Francisco, 20-year-old Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee is racially profiled and convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. Sentenced to life, he spends years fighting to survive until investigative journalist K.W. Lee takes a special interest in his case, igniting an unprecedented push for social action that would unite Asian Americans and inspire a new generation of activists.

Nearly five decades later, award-winning journalists Julie Ha and Eugene Yi excavate this largely unknown yet essential history in their riveting Sundance selection Free Chol Soo Lee. Combining rich archival footage, firsthand accounts, and narration drawn from personal writings, this poignant documentary paints an intimate portrait of the complex man at the center of a movement and serves as an urgent reminder that his legacy is more relevant than ever.

All film showings will take place at IFC Center, 323 6th Avenue.

The Korea Society will host a special Q&A with Julie Ha and Eugene Yi on Sunday, August 14th, after the 5:50 PM showing.

Use a special discount code KOREASOC, which can be applied to any showings; online purchase only.

 

Armistice Day Salute 2022

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Join us for a video tribute to honor the service and sacrifice of Veterans of The Korean War in a program produced in partnership with The Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) and The Korea-US Alliance Foundation (KUSAF). Released to mark the anniversary of the 1953 Armistice, this program features: current Republic of Korea Minister of National Defense General Lee Jong-sup, Korean War Veterans area commander Salvatore Scarlato, Society president and CEO Tom Byrne, Korean Consul General Ambassador Byung Hwa Chung, Korea Society board member and former Commander Gen (Ret.) Walter “Skip” Sharp, KDVA Chairman and former Commander Gen (Ret.) Vincent K. Brooks, and Gen. (Ret) Seung Jo Jung, 37th Chairman of the ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff.

 

 

2022 Armistice Day Salute

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

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Artist Talk: Heeseop Yoon

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Although her intricate installations are often so large that they spread over walls onto ceilings and floors, Heeseop Yoon thinks of her work as freehand drawings. All of Yoon’s works are based on real spaces with vast messes, such as basements, workshops, storage spaces, or “places where everything is jumbled and time becomes ambiguous without the presence of people.” Based on photographs, Yoon draws freehand without erasing; based on her own drawings, she creates her enlarged wall drawings using black tapes. In the final installation, her miscalculations and corrections are visible, as Yoon is interested in how memory and perception constantly adjust both for herself and for her viewer, and the paradox that the more she corrects her work, the less legible the drawing becomes.

“The more I see, the less I believe in the accuracy or reality of the images I draw.”

Yoon, whose solo exhibition Agglomeration is on view at The Korea Society Gallery June 9 – August 25, 2022, talks about her career and work.

 

 

Artist Talk: Heeseop Yoon

Tuesday, July 12, 2022 5 PM (EDT)
Video release

 

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Gallery hours: (M-F) 10 AM – 4:30 PM by appointment

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ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Heeseop Yoon has had solo and two-person shows at Cityway Gallery, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Triple Candie, March Gallery, and Bose Pacia, all New York; Arario Gallery, Seoul; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ; OZ Arts, Nashville, TN; and at Sapar Contemporary, New York. She has also shown with Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA; William Holman Gallery, New York, NY; Crossing Borders, Periphery Space Gallery, RI; and Drawing in Space, Des Moines Art Center, IA.

Yoon has exhibited in museums and art centers internationally, including MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; The Bronx Museum, New York; Seoul Arts Center, Korea; China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and Media Art Center, Beijing; and has participated in several residencies such as the Lower East Side Printshop, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation; Skowhegan School of Painting, and Artist Alliance Inc., all New York, and Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany. Her first public mural installation is located at the Italian Market in Philadelphia.