Taehee
taehee is a Korean American transdisciplinary artist whose work explores themes related to the fluidity of kinship, queer body, and grief with computational imaging and publishing. They are a founder of Hyperlink Press (2018-2022) and anti-bone (2023-current). They are a current MFA in Graphic Design candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University. They have completed their BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016.They collaborated with various institutions such as Eyebeam, Abrons Art Center, Asian Art Archive in America, MoMA PS1, Booklyn Inc, Yellow Jackets Collective, and Bubble T. They are also a founder of Hyperlink Press, a publication project inspired by the early 2000s queer online communities in South Korea.
Selected Works
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
Wake Me Up (inside)
Blade Study, New York, NY
2019
Walking to my grandfather's mount
UBOI, Tucson, AZ
Night in the Museum: Lunar New Year collaboration with Bubble_T & Koji Yamamoto
MoMA PS1, Brooklyn, NY
Taehee Whang: Imagining Alternative Archive
Space 1&2 Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Review Retrospective, AirSpace Residency Group Exhibition
Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
Printed Matter + EXILE Books,
NADA Miami, Miami, FL
Queer / Feminist / Praxis: Intersections of Performance, Visual Arts, and Activism
Korea and the Korean Diaspora Virtual Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
PracticePracticePractice
Space illi Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2020
No Space Just A Place: Eterotopia
Daelim Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2019
Non-Photo Pencil Blues
Office-Space2, New Brunswick, NJ
Butter My Bread
Chashama, New York, NY
Landscape X Olympia
Elsewhere Loft, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Spring/Break Art Show: Our Great Leader Will Nuke You curated by Son Kit& An/other NY
Spring/break Art Show, New York, NY
Endless Biennial
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2016
Peace Among Savages
Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Endless Biennial
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2015
Fever Dream
Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
Fairs
2023
Press Play Zine Fair
Brooklyn, NY
QTZ Fest 2023
Providence, RI
New Jersey Art Book Fair
Jersey City, NJ
2022
New York Art Book Fair
New York, NY
East Village Zine Fair
New York, NY
2021
Vancouver Art Book Fair
Vancouver, Canada
Emergence Zine Fair
Soft Surplus, New York, NY
Brooklyn Art Book Fair
Brooklyn, NY
Secret Summer Sundays
Secret Riso Club, Brooklyn, NY
Summer Zine Party Public Assistant X Cooper Garden
Brooklyn, NY
8 Ball Zine x Printed Matter Spring Zine Fair,
New York, NY
Zine COOP HK Virtual Zine Fair
Hong Kong, Online
Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair
Virtual
2020
Betty Art Book Fair
Virtual
Virtual Brooklyn Art Book Fair
Virtual
Sounds About Riso
Lucky Risograph
2019
NY Queer Zine Fest
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
Papi Juice Market
Elsewhere, Brooklyn, NY
Press Play 2019 Fair
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
2018
New York Tech Zine Fair
School For Poetic Computation, New York, NY
Brooklyn Art Book Fair
Endless Editions, Brooklyn, NY
Yellow Jackets Collective: Queer Lunar New Year Party
Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY
Awards & Grants
2021
Queens Arts Fund Award
Queens Council On The Arts, Queens, NY
City Artists Corps Grant
NYFA, New York, NY
2020
Shannon Michael Cane Award Recipient
Printed Matter, LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA
Publications
2023
Cyberfeminism Index
Mindy Seu, Inventory Press
2021
MODA Critical Review Issue 2, MA in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies program
Columbia University
Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts Anthology,
Hyperlink Press, Paper Monument, n+1
2020
“Perfect Love”, Ariana Martinez
BBC Radio 3
2019
“The Ancestral Turn”, David Xu Borgonjon,
ArtAsiaPacific
The Future Host: “Nominating the New Dead”
Hypergraphic
Femme Cryptocurrency of My Mother’s Mother and Silkworms
Money Zine, The Bettys
2018
Our Own Pantheon
They/US Magazine
AAWW: “Folds and Staples: When DIY Publishing Makes a Community”
The Margins, Asian American Writer’s Workshop
MUFF 03: THE ANIMAL ISSUE
Muff Mag
Chess
SPORTS, Endless Editions
Residencies
2022
More Art Engaging Artists Fellowship
More Art, New York, NY
Culturehub Residency,
Culturehub, New York, NY
2021
Visual Artist AIRspace Residency
Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2016
RISD Museum Fellowship
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Artists Talks & Workshops
2024
Trans-ition Trans-cendence: 3D interactive web space as a mutable narrative platform
LENS: AIGA DEC Symposium, New York, NY
Artist's Talk
Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2023
O+M lecture: Student Research Presentation
VCU, Richmond, VA
2022
Blender Research Workshop
VCU, Richmond, VA
2021
Conversation with Hyperlink Press: Queer/Feminist/Praxis for TransAsia
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Asian American Publishing
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
My Favorite Book
Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts Panel
Printed Matter Art Book Fair, New York, NY
MFA Design Seminar,
California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Zines, Community & Activism
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Navigating Queer Spaces in Seoul: by Hyperlink Press and STEAK FILM
Brooklyn Art Book Fair, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Being Apart, Being Together
Culturehub, NY Panelist
Painting Graduate Seminar
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
POWRPLNT Sanctuary
POWRPLNT, New York, NY
2017
AAA in America Facilitator
Asian Art Archive Leadership Camp
Education
2024
Masters of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2016
Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2015
Painting/Printmaking & Contemporary Art History
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK