Okyoung Noh is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living and working in Seoul, South Korea; Los Angeles, CA; and Ann Arbor, MI.
Using community engagement, performance, video, and installation, Noh focuses on various manifestations of dehumanization that the bodies of Asian female diasporas exhibit.
(한국어는 아래 ↓↓)
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2024 I Take Care of You and Survive. Wave Pool Gallery. Cincinnati, OH.
2023 Can You Welcome Me. Czong Institue for Contemporary Art (CICA) Museum. New Media Conference Solo Exhibition. Gimpo, South Korea.
2022 Making Better Water. CICA Museum. Young Korean Artists 2022. Gimpo, South Korea.
2022 A Living Library for a Better Life. Seoul Artist’s Platform_New & Young (SAPY). Seoul, South Korea.
2021 Better-Life Round Table. Seoul Artist’s Platform_New & Young (SAPY). Seoul, South Korea.
2021 For ‘Better Life’. Art Space Grove. Seoul, South Korea.
2-Person Exhibitions
2024 Leaning Against the Wrong Place. with Seok Woo Song. TriBowl. Incheon, South Korea.
2023 aZn luv luv t0ur. with Caroline Yoo. Duderstadt Center. Ann Arbor, MI.
2021 Go-Around Pagoda. with Hyerin Kim. Jarbin Blank. Seoul, South Korea.
2017 Nanda's House. with Jisu Kim. A-BRICK gallery. Seoul, South Korea.
Group Exhibitions
2025 Stop-Loss. Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. (forthcoming)
2024 Present Futures: Experiment in Feminist Futurity. Transnational Feminist Networks Symposium. Philadelphia, PA.
2024 I Will Always Love You. Every Woman Biennial, La MaMa. New York, NY.
2023 Surface. Athens Institute for Contemporary Art. Athens, GA.
2023 We Are Here Because They Were There. Ann Arbor Art Center. Ann Arbor, MI.
2023 Chunman Art For Young Award Exhibition. Samchully Building. Seoul, South Korea.
2023 As Far As Here. Green Road Studio. Ann Arbor, MI.
2021 VILLA D’ART 2021. Seoul Arts Center, Hangaram Museum. Seoul, South Korea.
2020 Ironic Square. Seoul National University. Seoul, South Korea.
2019 Giriung-Dap. Woosuk Gallery. Seoul, South Korea.
2018 A×B CROSS PRODUCT. Woosuk Gallery. Seoul, South Korea.
2016 Korean Universities Art Award Exhibition. HOMA Hongik Museum of Art. Seoul, South Korea
2016 Object 100. Amway Gallery. Bundang, South Korea.
Video & Film Screenings
2025 “Shadowing.” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Film Expo. The Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2025. Columbus, OH. (forthcoming)
2025 “I Take Care of You and (We) Survive.” Celestial Bodies. Stove Works. Chattanooga, TN. (forthcoming)
2025 “Chimera.” Official selection, Indie Short Fest, Los Angeles, CA.
2024 Chimera. Toronto International Women Film Festival. Toronto, Canada.
2024 Chimera. KYLYN APIA Arts and Culture Festival. Ann Arbor. MI.
2024 Cowboy Dreams. A Preview Screening of Cowboy Dreams. Sometimes Space. Ypsilanti, MI.
2024 Shadowing. Freep Film Festival. Detroit, MI.
2024 Welcome to My Beautiful Home. Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Independientes. Lecheria, Venezuela.
2024 Shadowing. Lightworks Festival. Ann Arbor, MI.
2023 What Are Your Names, Asia(n). Ann Arbor District Library. Ann Arbor, MI.
Community Engagement
2024 “Care and Survive,” participatory workshop co-led by local massage therapist Lisa Wang. Wave Pool Gallery. Cincinnati, OH.
2022 “Traveling Scripts.” theater workshop. Asia Teaching Artist Exchange Workshop and Joint Projects. Korea Arts & Culture Education Service (KACES). Online.
2021 “Better-Life Round Table.” participatory workshop. Seoul Artist’s Platform_New & Young (SAPY). Seoul, South Korea.
2021 “Building Better-Life Cairns with Our Great Hope.” participatory workshop. Jarbin Blank. Seoul, South Korea.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2025 MASS MoCA Residency, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (forthcoming)
2024 Art Space is Your Space Residency. Wave Pool Gallery. Cincinnati, OH.
ARTIST TALKS & LECTURES
2024 Exhibition Opening Artist Talk. Tribowl. Incheon, South Korea.
2024 Artist Talk. Void Tea House. Ann Arbor, MI.
2023 “Artist Q&A.” Artist Talk at Ann Arbor District Library. Ann Arbor, MI.
2023 Guest Critic. Class “Cinematic Projection” (F23) at the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI.
2023 “Curator/Artist Talk.” Artist Talk at Ann Arbor Art Center. Ann Arbor, MI.
2023 Guest Critic. Class “Methods of Inquiry” (W23) at the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI.
2023 “Kizuna Tree Panel: Storytelling as an Act of Resistance.” Discussion Panel. Ann Arbor District Library. Ann Arbor, MI.
2022 Visiting Lecturer. Class “Professional practice” (F22) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2022 “Making Socially Engaged and Community-Based Art Projects.” Artist Lecture. GyeongGi Artist Experience Sharing Academy: Yegitkkori. Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation (GGCF). online, South Korea.
2021 “Asia Teaching Artist Exchange Webinar.” Discussion Panel. Korea Arts & Culture Education Service(KACES). Online.
2021 “Artist Talk with Okyoung Noh: The Artist in a Garden.” Jarbin Blank. Seoul, South Korea.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2024 Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2024 Graduate Student Arts Research Grant (GSARG). Arts Initiative, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2024 MAPAAC Sponsorship. Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission, MI.
2023 Chunman Art for Young Award, Second Place, Chunman Scholarship Foundation Sponsored by Samchully Group, South Korea.
2023 SeAH Haiam Arts and Sciences Scholarship, Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2023 Global Individual Grants (GIG), International Institute Student Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2022 Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2022 Student MicroGrant, Arts Engine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2022 Engaged Pedagogy Initiative Graduate Fellowship, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI.
2022 Elsie Choy Lee Scholarship, Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2022 Susan Smucker and Reid Wagstaff Graduate Award, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2021 Space Lab: YET, Seoul Artists' Platform_New&Young (SAPY), South Korea.
2021 Young Korean Artists Award, CICA Museum, South Korea.
2021 Support for Young Artists, The Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation (GGCF), South Korea.
2019 The First Prize, Undergraduate Student Group Research Competition, Faculty of Liberal Education, Seoul National University, South Korea.
2018 The Value and Practice Undergraduate Group Research Fellowship, Faculty of Liberal Education, Seoul National University, South Korea.
2017 Student Research Award, Faculty of Liberal Education, Seoul National University, South Korea.
2016 Fine Art Award, 3rd Korean University Art Competition, Sinwonart, South Korea.
2016 Megastudy Scholarship, Megastudy Foundation, South Korea.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mandira Banerjee. “Curator Conversation – ‘Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity.” Annenberg School for Communication News” UPenn News. 2024;
Gigi Twachtman. “Wave Pool Reimagines its Purpose in Camp Washington Through Innovative Initiatives.” CityBeat. 2024;
Minyoung Son. “The work of two artists who listened to loss.” Kiho-Ilbo. 2024;
Incheonin. “Okyoung Noh and Seokwoo Song’s two-person exhibition 'Leaning Against the Wrong Place' Tribowl exhibition.” Incheonin. 2024;
Leejin Kim. Breath: New Media Art 2024. CICA Press. 2024;
Marley Boone. “Diasporic Distillations: "We Are Here Because You Were There" at A2AC Explores Works by Asian American / Asian Artists.” A2Pulp. 2023;
Jeongwoo Kim. “Opening of ‘Chunman Art for Young’ Exhibition.” Daily Korea. 2023;
Mingyu Park. “Chunman Scholarship Foundation revealed the works of 30 next-generation artists discovered through a contest” Financial Today. 2023;
Seoul Artist’s Platform_New & Young (SAPY). YET 4. SAPY Archives. 2022;
Leejin Kim. CICA Art Now 2022. CICA Press. 2022;
The Bridge Company. 2021 Asia Teaching Artist Exchange Workshop Publication. Korea Arts & Culture Education Service. 2021;
Noh, Okyoung, et al. Go-Around Pagoda. Arumdaum. 2021;
Youngdon. “For a Better Life: How the myth of a better life consumes beings.” Brunch. 26 Nov 2021;
Kim, Jungsu. “Artist Okyoung Noh visualized the dual nature of a Better Life.” Hyun-dai Religion, July-Aug. 2021;
Sung, Jiyun. “The exhibition, Go-Around Pagoda, at Jarbin Blank.” Gwanak Happy Magazine, 26 May 2021;
Boomer Gallery, “The New Artist: Ohkyoung Noh.” Boomer Gallery Magazine, Mar. 2021;
Seoul Citizen Hall, “Anonymous Records.ppg Series: Interview with Artist, Okyoung Noh.” Anonymous Records. ppg. 28 Nov 2020;
Noh, Okyoung, and Chaerin Jung. “A study of British educational art galleries that put ‘art-experience-based publicness’ into practice.” Faculty of Liberal Education in Seoul National University, 2019. Web. 2019;
Oneleaf. “Exhibition Sceneries: Giriung-Dap Woosuk Gallery.” Naver. 24 Jul 2019;
ARTCALL. “Challenger Artist: Okyoung Noh.” ARTCALL Korea. 2016. Accessed 11 Aug. 2019;
ORGANIZATIONS
GYOPO. Korean diaspora art org based in LA. volunteer, 2023.
IS/LAND. AAPI performance collective based in Ann Arbor and Chicago. member. joined in 2022.
Better-Life Association. a year-long project group. founder. 2021 - 2022.
The Korean Society for the Study of Educational Principles (KSSEP), member. joined in 2018.
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, 2025.
B.F.A. Seoul National University, Major in Painting, Minor in Creativity and Arts Education, 2021.
한국어 CV︎︎︎
서울, 미국 미시간과 로스앤젤레스를 오가며 활동합니다.
개인전과 이인전
2024어긋난 땅에 기대기. 공동: 송석우. 트라이보울. 인천, 한국.
나는 너를 보살피고 살아남지 (I Take Care of You and Survive). 개인전. 웨이브풀 갤러리. 신시내티, 미국 오하이오
2023
‘아시아’의 이름은 무엇입니까? (What Are Your Names, Asia(n)?). 개인전. 앤아버 공립 도서관. 앤아버, 미국 미시간
아시안 러브러브 투어 (aZn luv luv t0ur). 공동: 캐롤라인 유. 듀더스털트 센터. 앤아버, 미국 미시간.
2022
배러한 물 만들기. 개인전. 시카 미술관. 영 코리안 아티스트 개인전. 김포, 한국.
배러라이프를 위한 가변 도서관. 개인전. 청년예술청 (SAPY). 서울, 한국.
2021
배러 라이프 라운드 테이블. 개인전. 청년예술청 (SAPY). 서울, 한국.
배러라이프를 위하여. 개인전. 아트스페이스 그로브. 서울, 한국.
탑돌이. 공동: 김혜린. 하얀정원. 서울, 한국.
단체전
2025Stop-Loss. 스템스 갤러리, 미시간 대학교. 앤아버, 미국 미시간. (예정)
2024
현재하는 미래들 (Present Futures: Experiment in Feminist Futurity). 국제 여성주의 네트워크 심포지엄, 펜실베니아 대학교. 필라델피아, 미국 펜실베니아.
나는 당신을 영원히 사랑할 거예요 (I Will Always Love You). 에브리우먼 비엔날레. 뉴욕, 미국 뉴욕주.
2023
Surface. 아테네 컨템포러리 아트 인스티튜트. 아테네, 미국 조지아.
그들이 저기에 있었기에 우리가 여기에 있다 (We Are Here Because They Were There). 앤아버 아트 센터. 앤아버, 미국 미시간.
천만아트포영 수상전시. 삼천리 빌딩. 서울, 한국.
캔 유 웰컴 미 (Can You Welcome Me). CICA 미술관. 뉴미디어 컨퍼런스 전시 시리즈. 김포, 한국.
As Far As Here. 그린로드 스튜디오. 앤아버, 미국 미시간.
이전
빌라다르 2021 (VILLA D’ART 2021). 예술의 전당, 한가람미술관. 서울, 한국.
구 부러진 사각형. 서울대학교. 서울, 한국.
지리응:답. 우석갤러리. 서울, 한국.
A×B CROSS PRODUCT. 우석갤러리. 서울, 한국
한국 대학 미술 공모전 수상 전시. 홍익미술관, 서울, 한국.
스크리닝
2025 아시아 학회 (AAS) 영화 엑스포. 아시아 학회 연례 컨퍼런스 2025. 콜롬버스, 미국 오하이오. (예정)
2025 전시 Celestial Bodies. 스토브 워크스 (Stove Works). 미국 테네시. (예정)
2025 인디 단편 영화제 (Indie Short Fest), 로스 앤젤리스, 미국 캘리포니아.
2024 토론토 국제 여성 영화제. 토론토, 캐나다.
2024 KYLYN APIA 예술 및 문화 축제. 앤아버, 미국 미시간.
2024 영화 “Cowboy Dreams” 프리뷰 스크리닝. 썸타임즈 스테이스 (Sometimes Space). 입실렌티, 미국 미시간.
2024 프리프 영화제 (Freep Film Festival), 디트로이트, 미국 미시간.
2024 국제 독립 단편 영화제 (Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Independientes). 레체리아, 베네수엘라.
2024 라이트워크 페스티벌, 앤아버, 미국 미시간.
공공 프로그램 및 아티스트 토크
2024 오프닝 아티스트 토크. 진행: 유승아. 트라이보울. 인천, 한국.2024 보살피고 살아남기 (Care and Survive). 공공 프로그램. 작가. 웨이브풀 갤러리. 신시네티, 미국 오하이오.
2024 아티스트 토크. 진행: 송민영. 공백찻집. 앤아버, 미국 미시간.
2023 아티스트 앤 큐레이터 토크. 진행: 마난 데씨 (Manan Desai). 앤아버 아트 센터. 앤아버, 미국 미시간.
2023 키즈나 트리: 저항의 실천으로서 스토리텔링. 토론 패널. 기획 및 진행: 치엔-안 유안 (Chien-An Yuan), 앤아버 공립 도서관. 앤아버, 미국 미시간.
2022 Traveling Scripts. 온라인 참여형 퍼포먼스. 작가. 한국문화예술교육진흥원. 온라인.
2021 아시아 티칭 아티스트 웨비나. 토론. 한국문화예술교육진흥원. 온라인.
2021 배러 라이프 라운드 테이블. 워크샵. 작가. 청년예술청 (SAPY). 서울, 한국.
2021 정원의 예술가: 노오경 아티스트 토크, 기획 및 진행: 홍예지, 작가 참여. 하얀정원, 서울, 한국.
2021 배러 라이프 공든 탑 쌓기. 워크샵. 작가. 하얀정원. 서울, 한국.
레지던시
2025 MASS MoCA 레지던시. 메사추세츠 현대미술관. 노스 아담스, 미국 메사추세츠. (예정)
2024 아트스페이스 이즈 유어 스페이스 레지던시 (Art Space is Your Space Residency). 웨이브풀 갤러리. 신시내티, 미국 오하이오.
수상
2024 프로젝트 그랜트. 미시간 아시아 태평양계 미국인 사무위원회 (Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission), 미국 미시간.2023 천만 아트 포영, 천만장학재단, 삼천리그룹, 한국.
2023 마이크로 그랜트 (Micro Grants). 아트엔진. 미시간 대학교, 앤아버, 미시간.
2022 참여적 교육학 이니시에이티브 펠로우쉽 (Engaged Pedagogy Initiative Fellowship). 미시간 대학교. 앤아버, 미국 미시간.
2022 수잔 스머커와 레이드 왁스터프 석사 어워드 (Susan Smucker and Reid Wagstaff Graduate Award), University of Michigan, 앤아버, 미국 미시간.
2022 엘시 최 리 장학금 (Elsie Choy Lee Scholarship), CEW+, University of Michigan, 앤아버, 미국 미시간.
2022 경험 공유 아카데미 예깃거리, 경기예술인지원센터, 경기문화재단
2021 스페이스랩: 아직 (YET), 청년예술청, 한국.
2021 Young Korean Artists, CICA 미술관, 한국.
2021 청년예술인 자립 지원금, 경기문화재단, 한국.
2019 가치탐구와 실천 연구, 최우수상, 기초교육원, 서울대학교, 한국.
학력
MFA 미시간 대학교 미술 전공, 석사. 2025.
BFA 서울대학교 서양화과 전공, 학사. 2021