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Recent Press:
Articles:
- Immersive installations by Soo Sunny Park are soaked in reflection and transformation, STIR World, April 2023
- Unwoven Light: An iridescent net of chain link by Soo Sunny Park, link from The Kids Should This, Iridescence: What creates nature’s shifting rainbows? The Beautiful Science of Iridescent, PBS.
Books:
- WomenLight Artists, Collected Light vol. 1 (hardcover), 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), 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
- Smithsonian “FUTURES” to Unveil Five New Commissions by Leading Contemporary Artists
- 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:
- Exhibition, OgdenContemporary Arts, Ogden, Utah, USA
- Exhibition, Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, Korea
Other:
- 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 Anguish, 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)
Selected Press:
- FLOW OF LIGHT, Time Magazine, The Culture (7/2013)
- On View/ Soo Sunny Park’s “Unwoven Light” at Rice Gallery, Hi-Fructose Magazine (6/24/2013)
- In the Studio Summer Theme: Innovative Low Cost Museum-Quality Art by Risa Puno and Soo Sunny Park, International Sculpture Center Blog, (6/19/2013)
- 22 Dreamy Art Installations You Want To Live In, BuzzFeed DIY (5/23/2013)
- Shimmering Chain-link Fence Installation by Soo Sunny Park, Colossal (5/10/2013)
- First Look: New Sparkling Chain Link Fence Sculpture, My Modern Met (5/8/2013)
- Soo Sunny Park, Alec Soth Examine Place In Cranbrook Art Museum Exhibitions,The Huffington Post (11/16/2012)
- Keeping Contemporary at the deCordova, Art New England, By Susan Mulski (7/2012)
- Playing with Light and Space, Sculpture Magazine, By Jan Castro (4/2008)
- Sunny, One So True, River Front Times (12/2002)
- Best Sculptor, River Front Times (2001)
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