Soo Sunny Park

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WomenLight Artists, Collected Light vol. 1 (hardcover book)

Published by LightCollective, Soo Sunny Park is one of 40 Artists included in a new book, book launch schedule: Nov 14, 2022, ISBN: 9781739141608 https://lightcollective.net/light/ing/women-light-artists https://www.lightecture.com/women-light-artists-volumen-1/ https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/arc129/30

One Thing Well: 22 Years of Installation Art (hardcover book)

Long before immersive art became commonplace, Rice Gallery was one of a handful of spaces in the nation devoted to commissioning site-specific installation art. Now the Gallery’s 22-year history has been chronicled in One Thing Well, book includes all of the 72 site-specific installations commissioned by the Gallery, remarkable series of installations from from 1995 to 2017, when the Gallery closed.

Recent Work

Expanded Present, commissioned, FUTURES exhibition, Smithsonian, Arts + Industries Building, Washington, DC (Nov.17, 2021- July6, 2022)
Soo Sunny Park: Viewing Filter (Veil of Vision), solo show, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (March 25 - August 14, 2022)
Iridescence, group show, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA (July 17, 2021 - July 31, 2022)
Public Art Project, Kansas City Municipal Art Commission, KC Internat. Airport, MO (installed Dec.2022)
Public Art Project, Boston Children's Hospital (installed April, 2022)

Press about FUTURES:

The Smithsonian looks toward the "Futures", CBS Sunday Morning, CBS New, Jan.23, 2022
ExpandedPresent by S. Park at the Smithsonian AIB, w AshleyMolese, Gensler Design, video 12/1 link
At the Smithsonian, an Architectural Treasure Looks Ahead, For the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, the long-closed Arts and Industries Building reopens for a glimpse of the future, New York Times, By Laura van Straaten, Oct.19, 2021
Immerse Yourself in Five Futuristic WorldsSmithsonian’s “Futures” exhibition features commissions by Beatriz Cortez, Nettrice Gaskins, Soo Sunny Park, Devan Shimoyama, Tamiko Thiel and /p, Smithsonian Magazine, Smart News, June 15, 2021

Upcoming Shows and Events:

Solo Exhibition, OgdenContemporary Arts, Ogden, Utah

Press:

Artist Soo Sunny Park on Liminal Spaces and Casting Light as a Sculptural Material, Design Boom, June 18, 2021
DATMA’s LIGHT2020 Brings Art, Design, and Technology to “the City That Lit theWorld”, HYPERALLERGIC, June 25, 2020
Whereto Safely See Art? Motor Up To New Bedford’s Downtown Light Show, BostonGlobe.com, June 17, 2020
DATMAKicks off ‘LIGHT 2020’ in June, The Herald News, Entertainment, May 28,2020
Artist Soo Sunny Park Seeks the Elusive Self in a Material World, Valley News, March 9, 2018
Imaginary Spaces Within, Sculpture Magazine, by Jan Garden Castro, International Sculpture Center, page 30-37, December 2017
Word of Mouth, The Immersive World of Artist Soo Sunny Park, NHPR radio, June 16, 2017
Take Magazine article, Stretching the Form, Feb. 20, 2017
19th Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, Islamicartsmagazine, and Alwasatnews, Dec. 14, 2016
10 Contemporary Artists Inspiring Fashion Right Now, Vogue Australia, Vogue.com.au, Nov.16, 2016
Delpozo, Prêt-à-Couture spring-summer 2017 collection inspired by Soo Sunny Park, Vogue US, Vogue Japan, Vogue Mexico, Vogue Spain , Allure, Mayahorikawa, ParisSocialDiary, FashionWeekDaily, Refinery29, ModaOperandi, Wallpaper
Cartier, From Gemstones to Folktales: Inspirations of Three Female Artists, Quartz, Oct. 2016
An Art Crawl Through the Spring 2017 Collections, Vogue USA, Vogue.com, by Laird Borrelli-Persson, Oct.12, 2016
Light Whisperer, ArtPreminum Magazine, spring 2016 (article)
Making Order From Ang uish, A Picture and A Poem Series, The New York Times, T-Magazine, 9/11/2015 issue. Harpeth Perforation, drawing commission by NYT, created in response to David Baker's poem: Pastoral

Other Exhibitions:

Summer 2020, Photo-Kinetic Grid (solo show), LIGHT 2020 by Massachusetts Design Art & Technology Institute, installation located at University of Massachusetts College for Visual & Performing Arts, New Bedford, MA
HUMANS, 28th edition of Miniartextil, Ex Chiesa di San Francesco, Como, Italy (9/29-11/18)
Photo-Kinetic Grid, You are Here: Light, Color, & Sound Experiences, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, 4/7-7/22/2018 (group) video
BioLath, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (solo)
Luminous Muqarna, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT (solo)
Luminous Muqarna, Islamic Arts Festival, 19th, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates (solo)
Unraveling Neon, in Sustaining Life Exhibition, Waterfall Mansion Gallery, 5th Floor, NYC,9/2016
Unwoven Light, Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, MI, 10/2016 (solo)
Unwoven Light, Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, 6/2016 (solo)
Hybrid Objects, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA, 6/2015 (solo)
Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residency (invitational) and Silver Linings (solo), Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, summer 2015
Permanent Public Sculpture, Keelung Railway Station, Taiwan, 7/2015
Lumière - Play of Brillants, curated by Light Collective, Éléphant Paname, Paris, France, 3/2015 (group)
Boundary Conditions, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, 2014~spring2017 (solo)
Unwoven Light: Soo Sunny Park, Rice Gallery, Houston, TX, 4/2013 (solo)
Soo Sunny Park: Vapor Slide, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 11/2012 ~ 3/2013 (solo)
New Art >> New Hampshire V, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene, NH, 8/2012 ~ 11/2012 (group)
Permanent Collection, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC, 7/2012 ~ 8/2012 (group)
Capturing Resonance, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, 9/2011 ~ 7/2012 (solo)