SoHyun Bae

SoHyun Bae received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990 having spent her senior year abroad in Rome, Italy in the European Honors Program, a Master of Fine Arts from Boston University in 1994, and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School in 1997.[5]

SoHyun Bae was born in Seoul, Korea to Jongwoo Bae,[4] an Editor/Producer of Donga Broadcasting network and Hyunye Cho, an essayist and an author of children’s books. Her father’s protest against censorship by Park Chung-hee’s dictatorial regime[6] was the reason why her family came to the United States. He was a leading figure in the Donga Ilbo Blank Advertisement Incident (Donga Ilbo Baekji Gwang-go Satae). She was eight years old when her family immigrated to the United States.[4]

Early influences were: Pak Tu-jin, a Korean poet; John Walker, a British painter; Elie Wiesel, a writer and Nobel laureate; and Richard Nieburh, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University.[5]

SoHyun Bae moved to New York in 1997 where she met and worked with: Karel Appel, painter and a founding member of the Cobra Movement; and Esteban Vicente, a first generation Abstract Expressionist. In the years she lived abroad in Bologna, Italy (2003 - 2009), she met and befriended Vasco Bendini, a painter and a founding member of Arte Informale.[5]

SoHyun Bae is the recipient of numerous awards including: The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship,[5] in Fine Arts,[1] Art 2007; The New York Foundation for the Arts,[5] Fellowship in the field of Painting, 2002; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation,[7] Inc. Grant, 2000; a Fellowship at Montalvo Art Center,[8] 2019, a Fellowship at The Corporation of Yaddo,[9] 2000; The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship[10] in conjunction with Virginia Center for Creative Arts,[11] 1996; and a full scholarship[12] to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,[13] 1993.

Her works have been exhibited world wide in numerous galleries,[14] auction houses and museums[15] including the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco;[16] Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University;[17] Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Museum;[18] Museo Nacional di Visual Artes, Montevideo;[19] Queens Museum, Sotheby’s[20] NY, and Philips de Pury & Luxembourg.[21]