Linda Inson Choy has a BA from Mills College in Oakland, California and an MA in Contemporary Korean Art from San Jose State University, San Jose, California. She has worked as Curatorial Assistant at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, for the Korean Art Department from 1996 to 2004 where she has held a major role in organized several major exhibitions culminating in "The Age of Enlightenment: Art of Korea's Goryeo Dynasty" in 2003.
Since 2006 she has worked as an independent curator specializing in Korean art and has curated such exhibition as "The Offering Table: Contemporary Korean Women Artists" at Mills College in Oakland, California in 2008. There are several on-going projects both in Korea and in the bay area involving contemporary Korean art. More information on the projects can be found in "Recent Projects" pages.
Linda Inson Choy was invited to be Curator in Residency at Incheon Art Platform, in Incheon, Korea during the spring of 2011 where she collaborated with resident artists and staff to further disseminate contemporary Korean art with Incheon Art Platform. Again, in the fall of 2011 she was invited to be research curator at Gyeonggi Creation Center where she participated in workshops with resident artists, visiting scholars and other research curators. There are several exhibitions in the planning stages as a result of the two residencies.
Linda Inson Choy has both presented papers and organized panels for the College Art Association's annual conferences in 2009, 2010 and 2011. She will once again present a panel at the next CAA annual conference in 2012 on the topic of Asian American Women Artists and their role in the context of greater art communities.
Coming Fall 2012!
It's Personal! Tales Visualized by Asian American Women Artists will open on October 17, 2012 at Los Gatos Art Museum (www.museumsoflosgatos.org). Uniquely qualified to address a growing segment of American society with compelling works of art that will challenge the prevailing stereotypes, the Asian American women artists in It’s Personal! Tales Visualized by Asian American Women Artists promises to engage the public with culturally relevant visual perspectives. The art works in the exhibition will be diverse in medium with subject content that express personal and collective experiences of the artists that will enlighten the viewing audience with shared similarities and differences. The history of Asian America is not widely disseminated beyond the immediate Asian communities and the artists in this exhibition explore personal sources for her own inspiration.
Since 2006 she has worked as an independent curator specializing in Korean art and has curated such exhibition as "The Offering Table: Contemporary Korean Women Artists" at Mills College in Oakland, California in 2008. There are several on-going projects both in Korea and in the bay area involving contemporary Korean art. More information on the projects can be found in "Recent Projects" pages.
Linda Inson Choy was invited to be Curator in Residency at Incheon Art Platform, in Incheon, Korea during the spring of 2011 where she collaborated with resident artists and staff to further disseminate contemporary Korean art with Incheon Art Platform. Again, in the fall of 2011 she was invited to be research curator at Gyeonggi Creation Center where she participated in workshops with resident artists, visiting scholars and other research curators. There are several exhibitions in the planning stages as a result of the two residencies.
Linda Inson Choy has both presented papers and organized panels for the College Art Association's annual conferences in 2009, 2010 and 2011. She will once again present a panel at the next CAA annual conference in 2012 on the topic of Asian American Women Artists and their role in the context of greater art communities.
Coming Fall 2012!
It's Personal! Tales Visualized by Asian American Women Artists will open on October 17, 2012 at Los Gatos Art Museum (www.museumsoflosgatos.org). Uniquely qualified to address a growing segment of American society with compelling works of art that will challenge the prevailing stereotypes, the Asian American women artists in It’s Personal! Tales Visualized by Asian American Women Artists promises to engage the public with culturally relevant visual perspectives. The art works in the exhibition will be diverse in medium with subject content that express personal and collective experiences of the artists that will enlighten the viewing audience with shared similarities and differences. The history of Asian America is not widely disseminated beyond the immediate Asian communities and the artists in this exhibition explore personal sources for her own inspiration.