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AAWAA ARTISTS
Kay Kang
KAY KANG
301 Main St., #10E (415) 817-1688
San Francisco, CA 94105 kangkay@hotmail.com
Education
M.A., Printmaking, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
B.S., Audio Visual Education, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 University of Stockton, Stockton, Ca
2008 Stanford Art Space at Stanford University, California
2007 Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
2005 Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, California
2000 SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, “Waiting Room” – An Installation,
1999 Korean American Museum, Los Angles, California
1998 Broward Community College, Pembroke Pines, Florida, “Jachui: Vestiges”
1994 San Francisco state University, San Francisco, California
Selected group Exhibitions
2009 “Control”, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, Ca
2008 “Ancient City, The Art of Urban Transformation,” Hayes Valley Market
Street Gallery, San Francisco, Ca
2007 “Cheers Muses”, Chinese Cultural Center, San Francisco, California
2007 SomArts gallery, San Francisco, Ca, (S)kinship: African & Asian
2005 Seoul Museum of Arts, Seoul, Korea
2002 Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, “Shikishi”
2002 Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California “Bay Area, Currents 2002”
2002 San Francisco Arts Commission China Town Commununity Gallery
San Francisco, California, “Slowly Enter
2001 Wolks Gallery, San Jose, California, “Book Nooks Show”,
2001 Euphrat Museum, De Anza College, Cupertino, California, “Passing”
2000 Creative Arts Center, Palo Alto, Ca, “Artist’s Book and Sketchbook”
1999 SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, Ca, “Asian American Women Artists”
1998 Art Core Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, “Igniting the Edge, Gorging New Geographies, Categories, and Identities”, “Women’s Caucus for Arts”
1998 Pro Arts, Oakland, CA, “New Arts”
1997 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, Three Person Exhibit
1996 SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “The Day of the Dead”
1996 Women’s Caucus for Arts, Group Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas
1995 Kyung In Museum, Seoul, Korea, “Korean Artist’s Abroad”
Teaching
2009 Panelist – College art Association, Los Angeles, Ca
2002 Panelist – A Transpacific Artists’ Dialogue – U.S. Women Artists and
Mongolian Women Artists, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco
2001 Artist residency in Trans Maseerrl Centrum, Belgium
2000 Slides Lecture, Son Jose City College Arts Department, Ca
1997 – 1998 Instructor at City College of San Francisco, CA, Continuing Education
1996 Slide Lecture, Broward Community College, Pembroke Pines, Florida
1992-1995 Instructor, San Francisco Korean Arts Center
Bibliography
Virginia Pelley, “Women in Control”, The San Francisco Examiner, August 6, 2009
Robert Taylor: “Shikishi”, Gift of Art for the New Year, Bedford Gallery
Amy Reiko Sadao: Review, “StoreFrontLive”, Site-Specific Installation, Black Flash,
Canadian Journal, Summer 2001, Vol. 17, 3
Reena Jana: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery Exhibition, Asian
Art News, May/June issue, 1997
Un Kyung Lee: “Korean Artists Abroad”, The women’s News, Dec.,5, 1995
Public Collections
Hannes and Linda Lamprecht, Tiburon, California
Camino Medical Center, Mountain View, California,
Minyard & Morris LLP, Newport Beach, California
Oracle, Redwood City, California
SAP of America, Electronics, Germany, Foster City, California
Music West Records Company, San Rafael, California
Selected Private collections
Bob Wall, San Francisco, California
Marlane Lindi, Foster City, California
Leslie Katz, San Francisco, California
James Riggs, San Francisco, California
Trent Norris, San Francisco, California
Amit May, San Francisco, California
Craig Katz, Seattle, Washington
Kevin Weber, San Francisco, California
Jeff and E Lawrence, San Rafael, California
Leslie Rogers, San Francisco, Ca
Richard Gostya, Hillsborough, California
Statement
A central theme in my art – and issue in my life – is alienation/assimilation of the immigrant in a foreign culture. As a Korean woman in the United States, I have been confronted with the obvious issues of race, language and geography, but I have been also struggled with the cultural conflict that exist for women born in Asian cultures who must learn to cope with a new and starting social model in the west.
My work has a very special relevance in today’s world. I speak in a voice that talks directly to the experience of the Diaspora of Asian feminine identity and the experience of female submission in a male dominated society. Many of my works coalesce around a common theme; Korean patriarchal customs.
The inspiration for my installation “It’s A Girl!!”, speaks to an old Korean tradition for communicating the birth of a new born. When a female is born, charcoal is attached to a hemp rope and hung outside of the front door; but when a boy is born, red peppers, signally joy, are hung on the rope. This work is composed of three door jams hinged to each other, with hemp rope nailed and hung across them. Charcoal pieces, about 4’x3” each in size are treaded through these hemp ropes. Written on these charcoal pieces are Korean female names. Dried red peppers, which represent the birth of a male, are strewn on the floor.
Another strong Korean tradition involves the naming of daughters. In the old days, many Korean parents named their new born daughters male names at birth, in hopes that their mothers would bear sons instead of daughter in the future. Although this tradition is now not widely practiced, many women in my generation were given male names and today continue to wear this badge.
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