Hongik University is a private university in Seoul,South Korea. Founded by an activist in 1946,the university is located in Mapo-gu district of central Seoul,South Korea with a second campus(branch campus) in Sejong. In addition,Hongik University(Seoul campus) is universities in Korea.
Hongdae is a neighborhood in Seoul,South Korea near Hongik University,after which it is named. It is known for its urban arts and indie music culture,local shops,clubs and entertainment. The area is located in Mapo-gu in the western end of Seoul,stretching from Seogyo-dong to Hapjeong-dong.
Jang Yoon-jeong is a South Korean trot singer,commonly referred to as “The Queen of Trot”. Jang debuted in 1999 and became well-known in 2004 when her single "Eomeona!" topped the charts. The song is often credited with helping re-popularize trot music in South Korea. In 2017,a Gallup poll found that Jang was the third-most popular singer in the country. She often appears on the KBS 1TV 'Golden Oldies ’,as well as other singing programmes.
Carrie Mae Weems is an American artist working in text,fabric,audio,digital images and installation video,and is best known for her photography. She achieved prominence through her early 1990s photographic project The Kitchen Table Series. Her photographs,films and videos focus on serious issues facing African Americans today,including racism,sexism,politics and personal identity.
Marilyn Minter is an American visual artist who is perhaps best known for her sensual paintings and photographs done in the photorealism style that blur the line between commercial and fine art. Minter currently teaches in the MFA department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Yoshiko Shimada is a Japanese printmaker and performance artist who has been referred to as "Japan’s premier feminist and antiwar artist."
Huma Mulji is a Pakistani contemporary artist. Her works are in the collections of the Saatchi Gallery,London and the Asia Society Museum. She received the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in 2013.
Coco Fusco is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist,writer,and curator whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. Fusco's work explores gender,identity,race,and power through performance,video,interactive installations,and critical writing.
Jin-Me Yoon is a South Korean-born internationally active Canadian artist,who immigrated to Canada at the age of eight. She is a contemporary visual artist,utilizing performance,photography and video to explore themes of identity as it relates to citizenship,culture,ethnicity,gender,history,nationhood and sexuality.
Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie is a Seminole-Muscogee-Navajo photographer,museum director,curator,and professor. She is living in Davis,California. She serves as the director of the C.N. Gorman Museum and teaches at University of California,Davis.
Takuma Nakahira was a Japanese photographer,critic,and theorist. He was a member of the seminal photography collective Provoke,played a central role in developing the theorization of landscape discourse (fūkei-ron),and was one of the most prominent voices in 1970s Japanese photography.
Nina Kuo is a Chinese American painter,photographer,sculptor,author,video artist and activist who lives and works in New York City. Her work examines the role of women,feminism and identity in Asian-American art. Kuo has worked in partnership with the artist Lorin Roser.
Carmelita "Carm" Little Turtle is an Apache/Tarahumara photographer born in Santa Maria,California,on June 4,1952. Her hand-painted,sepia-toned photographs explore gender roles,women's rights and the relationships between women and men. Little Turtle's constructed photographic tableaux cast her husband,her relatives,and herself as characters in a variety of Southwestern landscapes that serve as backdrops to the dynamics of interpersonal relationships.
Chinese influence on Korean culture can be traced back as early as the Goguryeo period;these influences can be demonstrated in the Goguryeo tomb mural paintings. Throughout its history,Korea has been greatly influenced by Chinese culture,borrowing the written language,arts,religions,and models of government administration from China,and,in the process,transforming these borrowed traditions into distinctly Korean forms.
Sarah Hobbs is an artist. Hobbs is from Lynchburg,Virginia. She lives and works in Atlanta.
JeeYoung Lee is a South Korean visual artist. She graduated from Hongik University in Seoul and received the Sovereign Art Prize in 2012. Her photographs are held in the Kyoto Photographic Museum in Japan,the Incheon Foundation for Art and Culture,and Seoul's OCI Museum.
Yoon Mee-hyang is a South Korean human rights activist,politician,and author. She was the former head of the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan,an organization dedicated to advocacy for former comfort women,who were forced into sexual slavery during World War II. She is the author of 25 Years of Wednesdays:The Story of the "Comfort Women" and the Wednesday Demonstrations.
Phyllis Galembo is an American photographer living in New York City.
Ha Chong Hyun is a South Korean artist. Today,through his Conjunction series (1974–present),Ha is best known as a leading practitioner of the Korean monochrome art trend known as Dansaekhwa. However,the arc of Ha's practice from the 1960s to the present is more fundamentally characterized by his wide explorations of materiality and ways of challenging the conventions of art making.
Tejal Shah is an Indian contemporary visual artist and curator. She works within the mediums of video art,photography,performance,drawing,sound work,and spatial installations. Shah explores topics in her work including the LGBTQ+ community,sexuality,gender,disability,and the relationship between humans and nature. She lives in Mumbai.
