Yong Soon Min
Artist and professor Yong Soon Min was born near Seoul, South Korea. At the age of seven, she immigrated with her mother and brother to join their father in Monterey, CA. Min earned her BA, MA, and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed postdoctoral research in New York City in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program.
Min’s work has been exhibited widely at institutions including the Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; Havana Biennial Art Exhibition; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; and Seoul Museum of Art. She has curated exhibitions including THERE: Sites of Korean Diaspora for the 2002 Gwangju Biennale and transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix, presented in Seoul; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Irvine, California; and in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Min received a Fulbright Senior Research Grant; COLA Individual Artist Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; Korea Foundation grant; Anonymous Was a Woman award; Guggenheim Foundation grant; and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Visual Artist Award in New Genre. She served on the Artists Board of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the steering committee of GYOPO, a coalition of diasporic Korean artists, curators, writers, cultural producers, and art professionals based in Los Angeles. She is professor emerita at the University of California, Irvine.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records
