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 ↓↓)
EXHIBITIONSSolo 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
2024 Present Futures: Experiment in Feminist Futurity. Transnational Feminist Networks Symposium, Pennsylvania, PA.
2024 I Will Always Love You, Every Woman Biennial, 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
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
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.
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCES
2023 NEKST 10th International Conference of Nextgen Korean Studies Scholars, Organizing Committee, Nam Center for Korean Studies. Ann Arbor, MI.
2021 Human 7 Questions. Educational Assistant. Leeum Museum. Seoul, South Korea.
2020 Lake Full of Stars. Exhibition & Education Intern. MO Museum. Vilnius, Lithuania.
2019 Diversity Tea Table Workshop. Intern Project Director. SNU Diversity Council. Seoul, South Korea.
2019 Diversity Diversity World Workshop. Intern Project Director. SNU Diversity Council. Seoul, South Korea.
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
2024-25 Graduate Student Instructor, Class “Integrative Project” (F24, W25) with Prof. Osman Khan. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2022-23 Graduate Student Instructor, Class “Integrative Project” (F22, W23) with Prof. Rland Graf. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2020-21 Teaching Artist. “Woori Dream Tree Art Class”. A’dren Education. S ponsored by Woori Bank and Korea Mecenat Association. Seoul, South Korea.
2020 Lead Teaching Artist. “Saturday Culture School in the Attic: The Present.” ABC LAB. Commissioned by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture (SFAC). Seoul, South Korea.
RESEARCH
2023 “Unsilencing Inter-Asian Female Immigrants through Expressive Arts Performance,” Graduate Fellowship Researcher, Sponsored by Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2021 “A study on the direction of art museum education in face-to-face and non-face-to-face environments,” Assistant Researcher. Commissioned by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA). Seoul, South Korea.
2018-19 “A study of British educational art galleries that put ‘art-experience-based publicness’ into practice,” Co-Researcher, Field research in the UK sponsored by the Faculty of Liberal Education at Seoul National University. Seoul, South Korea.
2017 “A study on meta-learning that promotes diversity in the art world,” Student Researcher, Sponsored by the Faculty of Liberal Education at Seoul National University. Seoul, South Korea.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2024 Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. [$1,500]
2024 Graduate Student Arts Research Grant (GSARG). Arts Initiative, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. [$3,000]
2024 MAPAAC Sponsorship. Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission, MI. [$3,000]
2023 Chunman Art for Young Award, Second Place, Chunman Scholarship Foundation Sponsored by Samchully Group, South Korea. [$5,200]
2023 SeAH Haiam Arts and Sciences Scholarship, Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. [$2,500]
2023 Global Individual Grants (GIG), International Institute Student Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. [$5,000]
2022 Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. [$1,500]
2022 Student MicroGrant, Arts Engine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI [$1,500]
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. [$8,000]
2022 Susan Smucker and Reid Wagstaff Graduate Award, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. [$10,000]
2021 Space Lab: YET, Seoul Artists' Platform_New&Young (SAPY), South Korea. [$3,700]
2021 Young Korean Artists Award, CICA Museum, South Korea.
2021 Support for Young Artists, The Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation (GGCF), South Korea. [$2,200]
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. [$3,700]
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. [$3,700]
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 CV)
서울과 미국 미시간을 오가며 활동합니다.
개인전과 이인전
2024
(예정) 어긋난 땅에 기대기. 공동: 송석우. 트라이보울. 인천, 한국.
나는 너를 보살피고 살아남지 (I Take Care of You and Survive). 웨이브풀 갤러리. 신시내티, 미국 오하이오
2023
‘아시아’의 이름은 무엇입니까? (What Are Your Names, Asia(n)?). 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. CICA 미술관. 영 코리안 아티스트 개인전. 김포, 한국.
배러라이프를 위한 가변 도서관. 청년예술청 (SAPY). 서울, 한국.
2021
배러 라이프 라운드 테이블. 청년예술청 (SAPY). 서울, 한국.
배러라이프를 위하여. 아트스페이스 그로브. 서울, 한국.
탑돌이. 공동: 김혜린. 하얀정원. 서울, 한국.
2017
난다의 집. 공동: 김지수. 에이브릭 갤러리. 서울, 한국.
단체전
2024
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.
2021
빌라다르 2021 (VILLA D’ART 2021). 예술의 전당, 한가람미술관. 서울, 한국.
2020 이전
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.
Object 100. 암웨이 갤러리, 성남, 한국.
큐레토리얼
2023 – NEXST 제 10회 국제 한국학 컨퍼런스. 조직 위원회. 남 한국학 연구 센터. 앤아버, 미국 미시간.
2021 – 인간 7개의 질문. 교육 부서 어시스턴트. 리움 미술관. 서울, 한국.
2020 – Lake full of Stars. 교육 및 전시 인턴. MO 미술관. 빌뉴스, 리투아니아.
연구
2023 – “표현적 퍼포먼스를 통한 인터-아시아 이민자의 발화 (Unsilencing Inter-Asian Female Immigrants through Expressive Arts Performance),” 석사 펠로우쉽 연구, 미시간 대학교. 앤아버, 미국 미시간.
2021 – “대면-비대면 통합 환경 속 미술관교육의 확장 방향성 연구,” 연구 보조, 국립현대미술관 (MMCA) 커미션. 한국.
2018 - 19 – “예술 경험적 공공성을 실천하는 영국의 교육적 미술관 연구,” 2인 공동 연구, 서울대학교 기초교육원 가치탐구와 실천. 한국과 영국.
2017 – “미술계의 다양성을 창출하는 메타 교육 연구,” 학생 자율 연구, 서울대학교 기초교육원. 한국.
공공 프로그램 및 아티스트 토크
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 (Kizuna Tree Panel: Storytelling as an Act of Resistance). 토론 패널. 기획 및 진행: 치엔-안 유안 (Chien-An Yuan), 앤아버 공립 도서관. 앤아버, 미국 미시간.
2022 – Traveling Scripts. 한-아시아 사회참여 문화예술교육 교류워크숍 및 공동프로젝트. 연구 기반 교육 개발 워크샵 및 국제 펠로우쉽, 한국문화예술교육진흥원과 문화체육관광부 기획 및 후원. 티칭 아티스트 및 팀장 참여. 온라인.
2021 - 21 – 아시아 티칭 아티스트 웨비나. 교육 개발 워크샵 및 토론, 한국문화예술교육진흥원과 문화체육관광부 기획 및 후원. 토론 패널 참여. 온라인.
2021 – 배러 라이프 라운드 테이블. 시민 참여 워크샵 및 토론 프로그램. 기획 및 모더레이터 참여. 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. 시민 참여 워크샵. 기획 및 모더레이터. 하얀정원. 서울, 한국.
수상 및 레지던시
2024 – 프로젝트 그랜트. 미시간 아시아 태평양계 미국인 사무위원회 (Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission), 미국 미시간. ($3,000. 약 400만원)
2024 – 아트스페이스 이즈 유어 스페이스 레지던시 (Art Space is Your Space Residency). 웨이브풀 갤러리. 신시내티, 오하이오. ($2,000. 약 260만원)
2023 – 천만 아트 포영 2위, 천만장학재단, 삼천리그룹, 한국. (700만원)
2023 – 마이크로 그랜트 (Micro Grants). 아트엔진. 미시간 대학교, 앤아버, 미시간. ($1,500. 약 200만원)
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. ($8,000. 약 1,060만원)
2022 – 엘시 최 리 장학금 (Elsie Choy Lee Scholarship), CEW+, University of Michigan, 앤아버, 미국 미시간. ($8,900. 약 1,200만원)
2022 – 경험 공유 아카데미 예깃거리, 경기예술인지원센터, 경기문화재단 (100만원)
2021 – 스페이스랩: 아직 (YET), 청년예술청, 한국. (500만원)
2021 – Young Korean Artists, CICA 미술관, 한국.
2021 – 청년예술인 자립 지원금, 경기문화재단, 한국. (300만원)
2019 – 가치탐구와 실천 연구, 최우수상 1위, 기초교육원, 서울대학교, 한국. (500만원)
학력
M.F.A. 미시간 대학교 미술 전공, 석사. 2025.
B.F.A. 서울대학교 서양화과 전공, 창의예술교육 설계전공, 학사. 2021.