Michael Joo (New York)

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Michael Joo creates narratives that explore places, people and objects through reinterpreting perception, combining scientific language and research. This results in work that is a documentation of process, all through a combination of techniques associated with sculpture, painting, photography and printmaking, from chemically treatment to silver-coating to photography. His major solo and group exhibitions of his include: Radiohalo, Blain|Southern, London (2016); Drift (Bronx), The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York (2014); Transparency Engine, SCAD Moot Gallery, Sham Shui Po (2014); Michael Joo: Drift, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut (2014); Michael Joo, M Building, Art Basel Miami Beach 2013, Miami (2013); Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2015); The Space Where I Am, Blain|Southern, London (2014); BloodFlames, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (2014); Come Together: Surviving Sandy, curated by Phong Bui, Industry City, Brooklyn, New York (2013); Amor Fati, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York (2013); P.S.1 MoMA, New York (2008); the South Korean Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale together with Do-Ho-Suh (2001); The Whitney Biennale, New York, (2000).

Michael Joo, Bodhi Obfuscatus (Space-Baby), 2005. Mixed media, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of artist.