SoHyun Bae

    • Wrapped Shards Splitting Moon
    • rice-paper and pure pigment on canvas
    • 81×81 inches
    • 2003

ABOUT THE ARTIST

SoHyun Bae received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990 and a Master of Fine Arts from Boston University in 1994. She then proceeded to study religious philosophy at Harvard University where she received a Master of Theological Studies in 1997 having worked with the Nobel Laureate, Elie Wiesel. SoHyun Bae has received numerous awards some of which include: the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Fine Arts, 2007; the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in the field of Painting, 2002; the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Grant, 2000; a Fellowship at The Corporation of Yaddo, 2000; the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in conjunction with Virginia Center for Creative Arts, 1996; and a full scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.