SIENNA MYOUNG SU KO
CONTACT
Email: sienna.m.ko@gmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siennako_art/
Sienna Myoung Su Ko is interested in the moment when two contrasting components coexist and balance each other. She especially focused on tensions between perfection and imperfection, graphic aspects and painterly aspects, synthetic and natural, intentional and accident. In her paintings, she uses a combination of mixed media: spray paint, interference paint, fluorescent paint, varnish to explore texture, surface, and color.
EDUCATION
2012 – 2016 Rhode Island School of Design, Painting,
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A), RI, United States
2009 Seoul Art High School, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2006 – 2009 Yewon Art School, Seoul, Republic of Korea
EXHIBITION
2020 7th Annual Abstract Sanctuary, Portland, Oregon, United States
2019 Wave, Burst, Brick, Geroge Lawson Gallery, Emeryville, CA, United States
2018 32nd Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA, United States
2018 Small works show, Main Street Art, Clifton Springs, NY, United States
2017 Solo Exhibition “Interplay”, Studio 301, Brooklyn, NY, United States
2017 Geoform Group Exhibition, Jan Kossen Gallery, NY, United States
2016 Honorable Mention, "Light & Color 2016," Bauhaus Prairie Art Gallery
2016 May Exhibition, Sprout Gallery, RI, United States
2016 All that we can handle, Memorial Hall Gallery, RI, United States
2016 Painting Department Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, RI, United States
2015 DRI 5th group exhibition "Y", Gallery IS, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2014 DRI 4th group exhibition "Némo", Ara Art Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2014 RISD Selected Paintings Department Show, Memorial Hall Gallery, RI, United States
2013 RISD Selected Paintings Department Show, Memorial Hall Gallery, RI, United States
2013 DRI 3rd group exhibition, Young And Wild: [락앤고 (樂&苦)], Gallery the Space, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2013 Foundation Exhibitions: Design, Spatial Dynamics, Waterman Gallery, RI, United States
2013 Foundation Exhibition: Drawing, Waterman Gallery, Waterman Gallery, RI, United States
2009 The 1st Solo Exhibition, Gallery Gak, Seoul, Republic of Korea
AWARD
International Society of Acrylic Painters, Jack Richeson and Co. Award
RISD Scholarship ($103,360, 4 yrs total)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018 Associate Gallery Manager, George Lawson Gallery, CA, United States
2017 Assistant Instructor, PI Art Center, NY, United States
2017 Assistant Instructor, New York Art Studio, NY, United States
2015 Interpreter at MOA* International Environment Exhibition, Republic of Korea
2014 Gallery Monitor, Memorial Hall Gallery, RI, United States
2014 Moveable Studio**, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2013 Docent, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2013 Foundation Teaching Assistant for Spacial Dynamics, Rhode Island School of Design, RI, United States
2012 Art Therapy Internship Seoul Child Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
* MOA (Maehol Open Air Art Symposium) aims to further greater understanding of human nature and the world through restorative creative action and engagement and in so doing aims to leave a healthier environment - the heritage of the future - to posterity.
** Moveable Studio is a series of week-long workshops with RISD alumni around the world leading to the design and construction of urban temporary installations
OTHERS
2014 – 2015 President of DRI*
2013 Vice-president of DRI
* DRI is a group that annually holds student-curated exhibition over the summer in the Republic of Korea