January 2008
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Ideology of Paradise / Hiroshi Watanabe
Hiroshi Watanabe was born in Sapporo, Japan and currently living in Los Angeles. His photographic series The “Ideology of Paradise” turns its lens to the richness of North Korea, a country that is self-described as paradise. His understanding of the country was colored by stories of the political kidnapping of Japanese nationals, the governmental abuse [...]
Versus / Susan Lee-Chun
Susan Lee-Chun was born in Seoul, Korea in 1976 and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is a performance-based artist currently living in Miami, working in an interdisciplinary manner. BMoCA is featuring her “Versus” series, an integrated project including photographs, video, and installation, that investigates alter egos: Sue and Sioux. These characters represent two sides of [...]
A Taste of China / Wang Jing
BMoCA is happy to host guest curator Dr. David Raddock, who is an expert on China and one of the first scholars to publish on Chinese avant-garde art. With a doctorate in Chinese Studies and Political Science from Columbia University, David taught Asian Politics at the University of Texas and intermittently worked as Research Associate [...]
In Transition / Yumi Roth
Yumi Janairo Roth was born in Eugene, Oregon and raised in Chicago, Illinois and Reston, Virginia. One side of her family hails from the Philippines while the other side can be traced to the early American settlers, positioning Roth as both subject and agent of colonialism. Her work as an artist is not rooted separately [...]
