Michael Joo

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    Michael Joo mold making 018

    Artist Michael Joo was invited to participate in the Emanation 2017 residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts. WheatonArts Glass Studio resident artist Cooper O’Brien developed inversion molds for Joo’s installation piece of paper bags made of glass.

  • Michael Joo mold making

    Michael Joo mold making

    Artist Michael Joo was invited to participate in the Emanation 2017 residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts. Here you can see a piece hand blown glass in the form of a paper bag being released from its mold. It was a prototype for Joo’s installation piece of paper bags made of glass.

  • Michael Joo Glass Casting

    Michael Joo Glass Casting

    Artist Michael Joo was invited to participate in the Emanation 2017 residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts. Here a WheatonArts Glass Studio resident artist prepares sand molds for the casting of a wooden pallet in glass for Joo’s installation piece.

  • Michael Joo Glass Casting

    Michael Joo Glass Casting

    Artist Michael Joo was invited to participate in the Emanation 2017 residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts. WheatonArts Glass Studio resident artist Cooper O’Brien assists Creative Director Hank Adams while he pours molten glass into sand molds to create a pallet out of glass for Joo’s installation piece.

  • Michael Joo Glass Casting

    Michael Joo Glass Casting

    Artist Michael Joo was invited to participate in the Emanation 2017 residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts. WheatonArts Glass Studio resident artist Cooper O’Brien assists Creative Director Hank Adams while he pours molten glass into sand molds to create a pallet out of glass for Joo’s installation piece.

  • Michael Joo Mold Making

    Michael Joo Mold Making

    Artist Michael Joo was invited to participate in the Emanation 2017 residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts. Here you can see inversion molds being made in the WheatonArts Glass Studio for Joo’s installation piece of paper bags made of glass.

  • Michael Joo On Site Visit

    Michael Joo On Site Visit

    Artist Michael Joo was invited to participate in the Emanation 2017 residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts. Here in the WheatonArts Glass Studio he reviews with Creative Director Hank Adams pieces of a glass palate for his installation.

  • Michael Joo On Site Visit

    Michael Joo On Site Visit

    Artist Michael Joo was invited to participate in the Emanation 2017 residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts. Here, Joo is in the WheatonArts Glass Studio mold shop reviewing the mold making process for his installation piece of paper and plastic bags made of glass.

  • Michael Joo On Site Visit

    Michael Joo On Site Visit

    Artist Michael Joo was invited to participate in the Emanation 2017 residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts. Here he is getting a sense of how his installation will look in the Museum of American Glass at WheatonArts.

Michael Joo

Michael Joo is interested in the conflicts and coexistence between art and science, nature and technology, history and perception, the real and the imaginary. He has had solo exhibitions at SCAD, Savannah, Georgia (2016), Blain|Southern Gallery, London (2011), The Anchorage Museum, Alaska (2008); Rodin Gallery (Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art), Seoul (2006); MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2003); and the South Korean Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale together with Do-Ho-Suh (2001). Joo’s recent group exhibitions include: Round Table: Gwangju Biennial (2012); Transforming Minds: Buddhism in Art, Asia Society Gallery, Hong Kong (2012); Glasstress, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice (2011); NeoHooDoo: Art of a Forgotten Faith, P.S.1 MoMA, New York (2008); and In The Darkest Hour There May Be Light, Serpentine Gallery, London (2006). Joo’s work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Denver Art Museum; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul. In 2006, Joo was awarded the Grand Prize of the 6th Gwangju Biennale, along with artist Song Dong. He is a recipient of the United States Artists Fellowship (2006) as well as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1999). Michael Joo lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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