Injoo Whang
Primary Medium: Drawing
Other media: Ink, Installation, Wall drawing
PS122
Email: injoooo (at) gmail (dot) com
Artist Statement
My work examines the interconnectedness between the individual and the collective. Having lived in two different cultures—the United States, a western culture that is often characterized as individualistic, and Korea, my native culture, which has been characterized as a collective—this idea has raised questions for me at many different levels.
I accumulate small, individual objects or patterns and use them to create drawings or large, multipart drawing installations. When these tiny and seemingly insignificant individual pieces are gathered together, they generate a powerful existence as a collective body. The labor-intensive and repetitive process is employed to highlight and pay homage to individuals and the collective and the everyday activities of life.
Other media: Ink, Installation, Wall drawing
PS122
Email: injoooo (at) gmail (dot) com
Artist Statement
My work examines the interconnectedness between the individual and the collective. Having lived in two different cultures—the United States, a western culture that is often characterized as individualistic, and Korea, my native culture, which has been characterized as a collective—this idea has raised questions for me at many different levels.
I accumulate small, individual objects or patterns and use them to create drawings or large, multipart drawing installations. When these tiny and seemingly insignificant individual pieces are gathered together, they generate a powerful existence as a collective body. The labor-intensive and repetitive process is employed to highlight and pay homage to individuals and the collective and the everyday activities of life.
Selected Works
|  Multiple Views on the Wall - 2010 - Paper and Ink - Variable on the installation site Multiple cut-out paper patterns are put together on the wall.  Multiple Views on the Wall - 2010 - Paper and Ink - Variable on the installation site Detail of image #01  Multiple Views__0410 - 2010 - ink on paper - 12" x 12"  Multiple Views__0510 - 2010 - ink on paper - 15.5" x 18.5"  Multiple Views__0809 - 2009 - ink and watercolor on paper - 22" x 30"  Untitled - 2007 - ink on paper - Variable (thirty 14" square panels) Multi-parts drawing installation. 30 panels.  Untitled - 2007 - ink on paper - variable (thirty 14" square panels) Detail of image #06  Accretion of Breeze - 2008 - ink on paper - 32" x 60" Multi-parts drawing. 6 panels.  Squares_0410 - 2010 - gouache on paper - 22" x 30"  Multiple Views__06102 - 2010 - ink on paper - 22" x 30" |
Artist Bio
BIO
Injoo Whang received her BFA from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea, in 2000 and her MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City in 2004. She has had solo exhibitions at T-Space in Seoul, Korea, in 2006 and at Earlville Opera House Gallery in Earlville, New York, in 2009. Her work has been in many group shows, including ones at the Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY; AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Arario Gallery, New York, NY; and Lee Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. Whang received an Urban Artist Initiative grant in 2008 and a Jerome Fellowship in 2007, and she has been in several artist-in-residency programs, including the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in 2009 and the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in 2007. During the summer of 2010, she participated in the New York Foundation for the Art's Artist as Entrepreneur Boot Camp, and she currently has a studio residency at PS 122 in New York City.
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EDUCATION
2004 M.F.A. Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2000 B.F.A. Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITION
2009 Collective senses, Earlville Opera House Gallery, Earlville, NY
2006 Memories of Reconstruction, T-Space, Seoul, Korea
GROUP EXHIBITION
2010
Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists, Arario New York, NY
Still Present Pasts, Bishop Museum, Hawaii
2009
Generation VI, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
In Close Formation, Lee Gallery at Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC
2008
Asian Contemporary Art Fair, Pier 92, New York, NY
Still Present Past, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA
Other, Other, Longwood Arts, Bronx, NY
Accidental Constallation, Gallery Korea, New York,
2007
Memories, arts and the war, Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Project Diversity Queens, Meatspace Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Still Present Past, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Still Present Past, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY
Still Present Past, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005
50 Artists: Mushroom Arts 2005, Mushroom Art, New York NY
Unlimited Vision, North Water Street Gallery, Canal Fulton, OH
Still Present Past, Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley, MA
Still Present Past, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2004
Things They Carried, Aronson Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2010 NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur Boot Camp, New York, NY
2009-2010 PS122 Studio Program, New York, NY
2009 Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY
2008 Urban Artist Initiative, New York, NY
2007 Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Red Wing, MN
2007 Jerome Fellowship
2007 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE