HaeAhn Woo Kwon

HaeAhn Woo Kwon

BornNationalityBased In
1984N/AToronto, Halifax
Biography

HaeAhn Woo Kwon is a visual artist whose work centres primarily on drawing, sculpture, and installation, probing strategies of the makeshift and improvisation. Informed by vernacular architecture in the urban environment of her native South Korea, her practice recombines and transforms everyday objects, highlighting a tension between a culture of excess and the resourcefulness born of crises. In addition to her independent practice, she frequently collaborates with Canadian artist Paul Kajander as HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander. Threading given and family names together, their practice challenges identificatory constructs such as gender, ethnicity, and patriarchal lineage. ...

Selected Artworks
The Parasite
HaeAhn Woo Kwon
The Parasite, 2016
5.1 x 25.4 x 25.4cm
Piss Moon Showerbase
HaeAhn Woo Kwon
Piss Moon Showerbase, 2021
24.1 x 31.8 x 3.2cm
Untitled (legs)
HaeAhn Woo Kwon
Untitled (legs), 2022
59.7 x 45.7cm
No One Said So
HaeAhn Woo Kwon
No One Said So, 2022
45.7 x 15.2cm
Gallery Representation
Awards
Master of Fine Arts Scholarship2018
Master of Fine Arts Scholarship2018
Toni Sherman Graduate Scholarship2016
International Graduate Student Scholarship2016
Margaret Priest Graduate Scholarship2016
Margaret Priest Graduate Scholarship2016
Toni Sherman Graduate Scholarship2016
International Graduate Student Scholarship2016
International Artist Fellowship2015
International Artist Fellowship2015
Cheongju Artist Residency2012
Cheongju Artist Residency2012
The Sarah Cooper Hewitt Fund Prize for Excellence in Art2009
The Sarah Cooper Hewitt Fund Prize for Excellence in Art2009
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