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Maria
Yoon a Korean-born artist lives and works in New York City. She
holds a BFA from Cooper Union. Maria is also a Contractual Senior
Educator/Consultant for the Education Department of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
In 1994 Maria received the Alex Katz Award for a full tuition scholarship
and summer residency in Maine, at the Skowhegan School of Painting
and Sculpture.
Maria’s work has gradually evolved into the creation of installation
and performance based works, which combine various elements such
as photography-collage, drawings and video.
In 1996 Maria began experimenting with photo-collage prints dealing
with sexual crimes such as rape as well as physical and emotional
abuse. Susan Harris, then curator of the Whitney Museum of Art in
New York, selected one series of these prints titled Case #1009
in a juried show at the Viridian Gallery. This project was partially
funded by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and it
was exhibited at the Downtown Community TV Center, NY.
Since 2001 to present, Maria has begun working on a new series entitled
Maria the Korean Bride. It is a multi-media performance designed
to bring attention to the social pressure and ostracism that Maria
has endured as a first generation Korean-American unmarried woman.
Maria the Korean Bride has been funded in part by the Pollock-Krasner
Foundation, NYC Cultural Affairs, Asian Women Giving Circle and
Frankin Furnace. Some of her wedding photographs/films have been
exhibited as two-person show at the American Museum of Natural History
Multicultural Education Department and at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, NYC. These exhibitions have been reviewed in both mainstream
and Korean media.
In 2005, Maria the Korean Bride has been accepted as a fiscally
sponsored project of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC),
a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt project and continues to be exhibited throughout
the United States and Korea.
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