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  1. What did the horse know about the war?
  2. I have a small body, but I want to become an adult with good posture.
  3. Becoming beetle
  4. Fate work (1)
  5. How to be human (1964-2024)
  6. Welcome to my island
  7. I'm so full of desire; I want to eat salmon and drink coffee and eat cake.
  8. First bike
  9. Fish ferments
  10. three phantom translations
  11. you move, you are being moved, you are movement
  12. tank helmet
  13. enter here
  14. curatorial
  15. & others
about / contact / cv
Sumin Hwang

About


Sumin Hwang is a Brooklyn-based artist, arts worker, and researcher interested in Korean anti-colonial resistance, refusal/nonperformance, monstrosity, constructions of personhood, and queer performance cultures. She has produced and/or shared work with groups such as the Brooklyn Museum, Lawndale Art Center, Vermont Studio Center, NYC Makerspace, stop-gap projects, Chinatown Soup, School for Poetic Computation, C Magazine, FAR-NEAR, and Sleepy Cyborg Gallery. She is from San Diego, CA, Houston, TX, and the Korean Peninsula. 

Contact


suminchwang@gmail.com
@suuuminhwang


CV


Education
Rice University (2018 - 2022; Houston, TX)
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Art and Art History

School for Poetic Computation (2022, 2024; New York, NY)
Teaching and Learning as “Primitive Hypertext”
Relational Reconstructions

Exhibitions
2025
fold - stop-gap projects (Columbia, MO)
Studio Residency Exhibition - Chinatown Soup (New York, New York)

2024
The Brooklyn Artist’s Exhibition - Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, New York)

2022
In Real Life - EV Gallery (New York, New York)
The Big Show - Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX)
FREE! Divine Guidance - Rice University (Houston, TX)

2021
As Yeast - Sleepy Cyborg Gallery (Houston, TX)
into blue - Sleepy Cyborg Gallery (Houston, TX)
amongst the trees they built - Emergency Room Gallery (Houston, TX)

Residencies & Fellowships
2025
Studio Residency - Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT)
Futureworks Community Giveback Fellow - NYC Makerspace (Brooklyn, NY)

2024
Studio Residency - Chinatown Soup (New York, NY)

2022
William C. Camfield Curatorial Fellowship - Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, TX)

Publications
Becoming beetle, at stop-gap zine archive
                                      Interspecies Library
FAR-NEAR 2024 Lunar New Year
“This File Cannot Be Found”, C Magazine (Issue 156, Craft)

Awards
Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship - Vermont Studio Center (Johnson,VT)
Mavis C. Pitman Memorial Prize in the Arts - Rice University (Houston, TX)
Mavis C. Pitman Exhibition Grant - Rice University (Houston, TX)

Press
Brooklyn artist Sumin Hwang pulls theory off the page and onto the body - Whitehot Magazine
다양한 인종: 개성 강한 작가 작품 대거 한자리에 - The Korea Times
Brooklyn Museum’s New Show Gathers a Who’s Who of 200+ Artists From the Borough - artnet