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About

I’m a Los Angeles born and based Korean American artist and curator. My work moves between photography, film, memory, and archive, looking at how we construct identity and shared pasts through images. I’m interested in nostalgia, cinema, cultural memory, and it’s relationship to what we remember, inherit and imagine.

Selected Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

(upcoming) Seasons
422 Ord Street 2nd Fl
Chinatown, LA, CA, USA
seasons-la.com
2027

Lost and Found in LA
Opus Film Gallery
Łódź, Poland
2010

Reproduction
What Pipeline
Detroit, MI, USA
2013

LAFA
504 Chung King Court
Chinatown, LA, CA, USA
2012

Little Tremors: An Exhibition of Los Angeles Artists
Atelierhof Kreuzberg
Berlin, Germany
2010

Trance Plants
The Latch Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, USA
2007

The Fall
Black Dragon Society
Chinatown, LA, CA, USA
2002

Song Poem
Cohen, Leslie & Brown Gallery
New York, NY, USA
2002

Song Poem
Rosamund Felsen Gallery
Santa Monica, CA, USA
2001

Face-Off
The Smell
LA, CA, USA
2001

Honors

Hariban Award Presented by Benrido: Honorable Mention
International Collotype Competition
Untitled (Newhall 1998)
2026

Rencontre d'Arles Prix du Livre Shortlist
The Author Book Award
Swan Moon's Swan Moon
2026

Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards Longlist
Photography Book Award
Swan Moon's Swan Moon
2026

Press

The Guardian
‘Click bait! Kraszna-Krausz photography book award winners – in pictures’
2026

Aperture Magazine
Issue No. 263: Secrets
‘Smells Like Print’
by Aaron Schuman
2026

Blind Magazine
‘Swan Moon Rewinds Los Angeles’
by Guénola Pellen
2026

Huck (Magazine)
‘Swan Moon's Cinematic Portrait of Growing Up Korean in '90s Los Angeles’
by Miss Rosen
2026

Talks, Book Tour & Signings

Paris Photo
TBW Books
Saturday, November 14th @ 2PM 2026

NYABF MOMA PS1
TBW Books
Saturday, September 26th @ 4PM 2026

Los Angeles County High School for the Arts
Photo Department, LA, CA
Visiting Artist
Thursday, September 17th @ 3PM 2026

SFABF
TBW Books
Saturday, July 26th @ 2PM

LAABF Art Center
TBW Books
Saturday, May 9th @ 3PM

ShowLA @ The Reef
TBW Books
Saturday, February 28th @ 2PM

Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA
Live conversation with Chris Kraus
Saturday, March 7th @ 3PM

Paris Photo
TBW Books
Saturday, November 15th @ 2PM 2025

Curatorial Practice

Rainbow in Spanish Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Co-Founder
2016–2025

Organized exhibitions featuring emerging and internally recognized artsist including Kelly Akashi, Darren Bader, Vanessa Beecroft, Jennifer Boysen, Jason Burgess, Erik Frydenborg, Mark Golamco, Hannah Greely, Miyo Hernandez, Roni Horn, Ravi Jackson, Yannic Joray, Jasmine Little, Elad Lassry, Nicholas Lobo, Jake Kean Mayman, Devin Kenny, Soo Kim, Anna Kim, Lisa Lapinski, Mads Lindberg, R. Lord, Navine Mahmoud, Joyce Pensato, Marina Pinsky, Ry Rocklen, Daniel R. Small, Despina Stokou, Kenneth Tam, Mateo Tannatt, Henry Taylor, Pilar Wiley, Kandis Williams, Rosha Yaghmai, Yelena Zhelezov and many others.

Other Projects

Divided Daughters, KCHUNG Radio 2013–2020
Weekly radio program co-hosted with Julie Moon exploring Korean American identity, Experimental Music, Los Angeles Art & Culture

Selected Performances

MOCA, Los Angeles
2016

Human Resources, Los Angeles
2015

Perhspace, Los Angeles
2015

Hammer Museum
Made in L.A., Los Angeles
2013

Human Resources, Los Angeles
Cool World LA
2013

Education

Bachelor of Fine Art Photography
California Institure of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA
2001

Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts
3rd Year Spring Semester, Paris, France
2000

Los Angeles County High School for the Arts
Fine Art Department, LA, CA, USA
1997

Swan Moon

Photobook

Upcoming

Lately