EDUCATION
2003
Master of Fine Arts in Art (Installation / Performance / Community-based Art)
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
2000
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics / Sculpture (High Distinction)
California College of Arts, Oakland / San Francisco, California
1996
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Arts and Crafts (ceramics/ Fabric Arts)
Seoul Women's University, Seoul, Korea
TEACHING
2004-present
Assistant Professor of Art, Expanded Media - University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Courses:
All levels of Performance Art
Foundation and Life drawing classes

Independent Studies / undergraduate and graduate students

Special Topics in Art, Collaborative Production in Body and Sound Art
2003
Art Therapy Instructor: In My Own, Inc., Columbus, OH
Courses:
Therapeutic Drawing Workshops for adults with mild developmental disabilities
2001-2003
Graduate Teaching Associate (Teacher of Record): The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Courses:
Foundation Drawing and Ceramic Sculpture Classes
CREATIVE RESEARCH
COMMUNITY-BASED ART PROJECTS
1) P.E.A.R.L (Performing to Empower Awareness & Reinvent Lives) Project:
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Principle Investigators:
So Yeon Park and Carol Bradbury
Utilized Disciplines:
Monologue Performance, writing, cognitive thinking skills and documentary film / video
Community:
Current and former female inmates of Topeka Correctional Facility, Topeka, Kansas
Period:
October 2007 to November 2008
2010
P.E.A.R.L Project Part 4 - Documentary Film Screening of P.E.A.R.L Project 2008,
Marvin Auditorium, Topeka Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, KS
2008
P.E.A.R.L Project Part 3 - Live Monologue Performances by Parolees from Topeka Parole Office (TPO),
Anne Evans Gallery, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
P.E.A.R.L Project Part 2 - Video Documentation of Performances by Inmates from Topeka Correctional
Facility (TCF), Small Gallery, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
P.E.A.R.L Project Part 1 - Live Monologue Performances by inmates from TCF, I-Cell Visiting Area,
Topeka Correctional Facility, Topeka, KS
2) Story Telling and Listening Series:
Principle Investigators:
So Yeon Park
Utilized Disciplines:
Performance, Installation, Live-stream video projection, Textile Art and Drawing
Community:
[STL series II.] At risk youth in Kansas City, MO, U.S.A
[STL series I.] Indigenous Canadian Storytellers and Artist October 2007 to November 2008
Period:
June, 2005 - September, 2007
2007
Story Telling and Listening Series IV: "The Inner Room of Women" (Women's community based art in
conjunction with IASK Changdong NAtional Art Studio Resident cy and NAtional Museum of Contemporary Art
Korea), Changdong Studio Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Story Telling and Listening Series III: "The Site of Mothers and Daughters" (Women's community-based art
in conjunction with Where Euclid Walked: Invitational Group Exhibition, Curator: Ju Hyung Jo), Seoul Museum
of Art (SEMA), Seoul, Korea
- Public Performance with women participants on August 23
- Installation and Video Documentation from August 24 to September 30
Story Telling and Listening Series II: "Tapping into Urban Youth" (Youth community-based art), The YMCA
Theatre and Chameleon Arts and Youth Development Consortium, Kansas City, MO
2006
Story Telling and Listening Series I (Indigenous Canadian community-based art in conjunction with Visual
Thematic New Works Residency and Aboriginal Storytelling Residency), Telus Studio, The Banff Centre
Alberta, Canada
3) Inter-Faith Chanting / Praying Ceremony
Principle Investigators:
So Yeon Park
Utilized Disciplines:
Performance, Chanting, Praying; live sound by various religious practitioners
Community:
Canadians of various religious faiths
Period:
September 2004 - February, 2005
2005
Inter-Faith Chanting / Praying Ceremony (Religious community-based art in conjunction with Five Holes
 
Series: Listen!, Curator: Paul Couillard, Fado Performance Art Centre), Alumni Hall of Victoria College,
 
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
4) Four Caskets Project
Principle Investigators:
So Yeon Park
Utilized Disciplines:
Sculpture, Installation Performance, Music composition and Costume design
Community:
Local participants in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio
Period:
January, 2003 to August, 2004
2004
Four Caskets Project II (Community-based art in conjunction with: Window to Sculpture Emerging Artist's
Exhibition Series for 2004 - 2005, Curator: Deirdre Lauer), The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
- Installation and Community participation from August 21 to September 17
- Outdoor ceremonial performance with 3 performers on August 21
2003
Four Caskets Project I (Community based art as MFA thesis exhibition)
- Installation and community participations, Hopkins Gallery (Curator: Prudence Gill), The Ohio State
  University (OSU), Columbus, OH
- Outdoor ceremonial performance with 48 volunteer performers the Oval at OSU, Columbus, OH
PERFORMANCE / INSTALLATION ART
2002
Blacking, String, Backing (Internet based dual-site performance), Studio V, Columbus, OH
Stitching and Attaching (Internet based dual-site performance), Studio V, Columbus, OH
2001
Human Relation  (Performance- installation), Sherman Studio Art Center, OSU, Columbus, OH
Web Corner  (Performance-installation), Sound Stage, Hasket Hall, OSU, Columbus, OH 
Sand Walker (Performance - live streaming video installation), Clean Space, Sherman Studio Arts Center,
OSU, Columbus, OH
2000
돌=Dol=Stone  (Mix-media sculptural installation as B.F.A Exhibition), Isabel Percy West Gallery,
California College of the Arts (CCA), Oakland, CA
1999
Ritual   (Outdoor performance-installation), The Marine Headland National Park, CA
Gen der. (derivation)  (Performance-installation), CCA, Oakland, CA
1996
Transition  (Terracotta sculpture exhibition), CCA Center Gallery, Oakland, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Yeon hee dong 195 project: 100 ideas and 10000 combinations I (Korean artist community-based
collaborative art project with Korea/Norwegian artists and curators managed by Artists Lee Joo-Young and Jan
Christensen), Space Yeonheedong195 (Alternative Art Space), Seoul, Korea
Where Euclid Walked - Yeon Hee dong 195 project: 100 Ideas and 10000Combinations II
(Project investigators: Artist, Lee Joo-Young), Seoul Museum of Art (SEMA)
 
- Alternative Installation from August 24 to September 30
 
- Public Round Table Talk on August 24
No Made (Open Studio Exhibition by 13 Artists in Residency), IASK Changdong National Art Studio, Seoul,
Korea
Story Telling and Listening II: Tapping into Urban Youth (Work in progress) Chameleon Art And Youth
Development Consortium in conjunction with Southern Graphics Council Conference 2007, Kansas City, KS
2005
A Piece of Peace (Mail art), The Charles B.Wang Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Video: 1MIN - 1800 Frames 2005 (Performative video art, Curator: William A. Ortega), City Without Walls
(an urban gallery for emerging art), Newark, NJ
Transitions: KU Art Faculty Artists Explore Change, (Juried Exhibition of Five KU Faculty Artists,
Guest curator: Elizabeth Dunbar from Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, KS), The Spencer
Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS

Corporate Woods Exhibition  (KU Art Faculty Exhibition), Shook Hardy & Bacon, Overland Park, KS
2004 - 2009
Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Art & Design Building, University Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2002
Visual Sound System (Interdisciplinary multi-media performance with dancers, computer programmers,
sound artists and video artists), Studio V, OSU, Columbus, OH
SORI (Ohio Short Film and Video Showcase, Curator: Jennifer Lange), Film/Video Theater, The Wexner
Center For the ARts, Columbus, OH
Stringing (Collaborative and multi-media interactive performance with multi Max / Jitter, midi file, Curator:
Professor Dan Boord), Drake Union, OSU, Columbus, OH
AdaPT (Associate for Dance and Performance Telematics, Curator: Professor, Johannes Birringer), Studio V,
Columbus, OH
The Maze - Journey - House (Raw) Project (Collaborative telepresence performance, Curator: Professor.
Johannes Birringer) Studio V, Columbus, OH
2000
California College of the Arts Alumni Exhibition (Sculpture), San Francisco, CA
1996
The 2nd Mu Do So Group Exhibition (Ceramic Sculpture), Kyung In Gallery, Seoul, Korea
B.F.A Graduation Group Exhibition (Ceramic Sculpture), Seoul Women's University Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1995
The 1st Mu Do So Group Exhibition (Ceramic Sculpture), Kyung In Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1994
The 13th Toro Group Exhibition (Ceramic Sculpture), Dog Bang Shinsegea Gallery, Seoul Korea
1993
The 12th Toro Group Exhibition (Ceramic Sculpture), Ba Tang Gol Gallery, Seoul, Korea
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2007
International Artist Studio Program Korea (IASK) the National Art Studio, Changdong (3 months)
2007
Artist in Residence (6 months)
Chameleon Arts and Youth Development Consortium, Kansas City, KS
2006
The Visual Thematic, New Works Residency (5 weeks)
The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
GRANTS / FUNDS, AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2010
Course Development Grant "Research for a Summer Study Abroad to South Korea"
(with Professor Yoonmi Nam), Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, KS
2008
Community-based Art Program Developing Grant through Arts in Prison "P.E.A.R.L (Performing to
Empower Awareness & Reinvent Lives) Project" The Schowalter Foundation, Newton, KS
Shimomura Research Fund "P.E.A.R.L Project" University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2007
General Research Fund "Story Telling and Listening Series III The Site of Mothers and Daughters"
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
General Research Fund "Story Telling and Listening Series IV: Inner Room of Women"
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2006
Shimomura Research Fund "Story Telling and Listening I" University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Teaching Grant "Educational DVDs as supplemental teaching tools for time-based media classes in Art
Department", Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2005
The School of Fine Arts Travel Fund (Travel to Banff), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Best Practice Institute Instructional Fund "Changdong Ratio", University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
New Faculty General Research Fund "Changing Ratio", University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Fado Artist Fund "Inter-Faith Chanting/Praying Ceremony" supported by Toronto Art Council, Canada Council
for the Arts and Canadian Heritage, Toronto, Canada
2004
Faculty International Travel Fund (Travel to Toronto) University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2003
The Edith Fergus Gilmore Art Material Grant for Arts "Four Caskets Project" The Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH
2001
Ohio Short Film and Video Showcase Award The Wexner Center For the ARts, Film/Video Theater,
Columbus, OH
The Edith Fergus Gilmore Travel Grants for Arts The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
2007
Visiting Artst LEcture: De Jin University, Seoul, Korea
Liaison/Advisor:  The exhibition of two female artists invited from Korea and Spain: “The Wall of Invertebrate
Flowers” by Spanish artist, Carmen Gonzales, Seoul Foundation of Women and Family, Seoul, Korea
Panelist:   Roundtable Public Discussion in conjunction with Yeonheedong195 Project: 100 Ideas and
10000 Combinations, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2006
Artist lecture: Visual Art Thematic New Works Residency, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada

2005
Artist lecture:  Co-presentation (So Yeon Park & Yoonmi Nam), "Diasporic Korean Artists in America: Two
Personal Accounts” in conjunction with conference “Korea Today”: Culture, Society and International Relations
prior to the dedication of the University of Kansas Korean War Memorial, Spencer Museum Auditorium,
Lawrence, KS
Artist lecture:   “Tour Du Jour” program in conjunction with the exhibition, “Transitions: KU Faculty Artist
Explore Change,” Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Artist lecture:  Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Artist lecture:  Co-presentation (So Yeon Park, David Bowen and Judy McCrea) “The Overview of the KU
Art Department for the New Generation Society of Lawrence,” University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Moderator:   “Between Identities: COLLISION (Interarts-Interdisciplianry-International) Symposium 2005”,
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2004
Bilingual (Korean/English) Research Interviewer, Strategic Research Group, Inc, Columbus, OH
2002
Ceramic Art Library Assistant, Baggs Memorial Library, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2001
Research Assistant, The photographic documentation of Ruth Asawa’s public sculpture in the Oakland
Museum as a part of publication “Fresh Talk/Daring Glaze: Issues in Asian American Visual Arts” by
Elaine H Kim, The University of California Press UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Studio assistant, for Ceramic artist, Jim Melchert, Berkeley, CA
REVIEWS, PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA ATTENTION
2009
Kim, Yun In, “Making Present Tense in a Dialog”, Season 18: A curatorial project by Session 18 of l’Ecole
du Magasin, March 16, France.  (Story Telling and Listening Series II. & III.)
2008
Rombeck, Terry, “ Parolees to Perform Personal Monologue”, Lawrence Journal World, September 23,
Lawrence, KS (pg. 1C color repro and text). (PEARL PROJECT)
Fray, Jesse, “After prison, an artistic rebirth”, Lawrence Journal World, September 26, Lawrence, KS
(pg. 3A color repro and text).  (PEARL PROJECT)
Fray, Jesse, “ Female felons take center stage at Lawrence Arts Center”, Channel 6 News, September 22,
Lawrence, KS.  (PEARL PROJECT)
Boyle, Mark, “After prison, an artistic rebirth”, Channel 6 News, September 26, Lawrence, KS.

(PEARL PROJECT)

Fray, Jesse “Pearl Project aimed at making life outside prison crime free”, Channel 49 News (ABC),
September 22,Kansas City, KS. (PEARL PROJECT)
2007
“ 2006-2007 International Artists Studio Program, Korea (IASK) Changdong & Goyang ”
[Catalogue], National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea  (pp. 29& 91-color image and text). 

(Story Telling and Listening Series I.)

“ No-Made Open Studio” [Catalogue], IASK national art Studio, Changdong and National Museum of
Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (pp.118-121–color images and text).
(Story Telling & Listening Series I.-IV.)
“ Where Euclid Walked” [Catalogue], Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (pp. 33-41-color images and text). 
(Story Telling & Listening Series III: The Site of Mothers and Daughters)
“ Yeon hee dong 195 Project ” [Poster& Article Publication] supported by Seoul City Art Foundation,
Art Council of Korea and Royal Norwegian Embassy, Seoul, Korea.(Color images and text)
Jeong, Eun Young, “Regarding the Pain of Others”, Ewha Women’s University Press (Issue 57),
September 11, Seoul, Korea. (pg.8 B&W repro and text).  (Story Telling &Listening Series I.-IV.)
Cho, Chaehee, “Enjoying modern art from Seoul Museum of Art”, YONHAP News and The Chosun IIbo,
August 25, Seoul Korea. (Story Telling & Listening Series III.)
Veneruso, Tara, (director), “RISK: At Risk Girls Behind The Camera”, Documentary Film, Kansas City, KS. 
(Story Telling and Listening II: Tapping into Urban Youth)
2006
“FIVE HOLES Series: Listen! ” [Catalogue], Fado Performance Art Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
(Inter-Faith Chanting/Praying Ceremony)
2005
Artist’s Video Manuscript for Archive, “Interview with So Yeon Park”, Fado Performance Art Centre,
Toronto, ON, Canada.  (Inter-Faith Chanting/Praying Ceremony)
“2005 Transitions: KU Faculty Artists Address Change” [Catalogue], Spencer Museum of Art,
Lawrence, KS (pp. 22-25-color images and text). (In Transition-Performative Video Installation)
Paget, Midge, “Change inspires KU faculty art work”, Lawrence Journal-World, March 20,
Lawrence, KS.  (In Transition-Performative Video Installation)
Bly, Lyz, “September Mourning”, Cleveland Free Times, August 25, Cleveland, OH
(Four Caskets Project II.)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
Member since 2006
Phi Beta Delta, Alpha Pi Chapter, Honor Society for International Scholars
Associate member since 2005
Center for East Asian Studies, The University of Kansas
Member in 2006
Story Telling Network