SUI PARK
ARTIST BIO & ARTIST STATEMENT
Sui Park, currently based in New York, creates 3-dimensional organic forms in generic and biomorphic shapes. Through these forms, she attempts to express seemingly static yet dynamic characteristics of our evolving lives. While they resemble transitions and transformations of nature, the forms are to capture subtle but continuous changes in our emotions, sentiments, memories, and expectations.
Park weaves and connects traces and tracks of subtle changes into organic forms. The organic forms are made with mass-produced industrial materials, in particular, monofilament and cable ties. They are non–durable, disposable, trivial, inexpensive, and easily consumed materials. But, when she weaves and connects them, they are transformed into organic visualizations. She wants them to be creating lasting moments, evoking, and encapsulating our precious thoughts.
Sui Park often finds these moments from nature. She thinks nature allows us to pause and find things that have been overlooked and are inspiring. Nature provides her room to find breakthroughs and answers and gives her time to ponder into thoughts. Through her work, she wants to bring to our attention the moments that nature allows us to find and look forward to. She presents nature in abstract and porous ways so that they can be filled with our thoughts and moments.
Sui Park has been invited to numerous solo exhibitions, including "Biomorphic Structure" at MONO PRACTICE in Baltimore, MD, "Beneath the Surface" at Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Washington D.C., "Mostly Cloudy" at Platform-L Contemporary Art Center in Korea, and "Uncommon Landscapes" at Art FLUX Harlem in New York, among many others.
Park also has been selected to participate in public art projects, including "The 6th Edition Georgetown GLOW, Pompom" public art project and "Sprout" in Washington D.C., "Karen, just one more on top" at PS41 Crocheron in Queens, NY, "Floating Imagery" at Pelham Art Center in Pelham, NY, and "Playtime" at Metropolitan Pavilion in New York. Sui Park's works are in the public collection of Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in the University of Oregon in OR, Saks Fifth Avenue in NY, Chautauqua Institution in NY, Hotel Four Seasons in Maldives Voavah, and SNP Transfer Philadelphia in PA.
Park won numerous awards from Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum in Slovak Republic, Greater NY Arts Development Fund in NY, The American Art Company in WA, Katonah Museum of Art in NY, NICHE Awards Professional Winner in MD, and many more.
Sui Park earned MDes Interior Architecture at Rhode Island School of Design in RI, BFA Environmental Design at Maryland Institute College of Art in MD, and another BFA and MFA in Fiber Arts at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea.