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Thomas Kong Interview, Jon Lovisetto
Thomas Kong Interview, Jon Lovisetto
Asian American Art Oral History Project
Artist bio: Thomas Kong is an artist working in collage and assemblage, using advertising, packaging and other surplus material from his convenience store, Kim's Corner Food, located in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago.
Kim's Corner Food features an evolving installation of Kong's work, and is open to customers and visitors 7 days a week from 8AM - 8PM at 1371 W. Estes Ave, Chicago, IL 60626.
The Back Room, an experimental project space in the store's former stock room, operated from October 2015 – March 2019, and has now closed. Bio from: https://thomaskong.biz/
Tori Hong Interview, Eliza Lemus
Tori Hong Interview, Eliza Lemus
Asian American Art Oral History Project
Artist Bio: Tori Hong is a self-taught visual artist exploring homelands and homecomings. In order to create meaning out of the often ambiguous, disruptive, and generative spaces they occupy, Hong creates narrative-driven illustrations, portraits, and zines. The people Hong centers in their work are LGBTQ Asian Americans and people with marginalized identities. Hong is based in Minneapolis, MN.
Dwight Sora Interview, Jay Lee
Dwight Sora Interview, Jay Lee
Asian American Art Oral History Project
Artist Bio: Dwight Sora is half-Japanese (father) and half-Korean (mother) actor who grew up in the Chicago suburb of River Forest. He has studied the Japanese martial art of aikido since 1993, when he was an exchange student attending Waseda University in Tokyo. He holds a rank of sandan (third degree black belt).
Debra Yepa-Pappan Interview, Alexandra Kelstrom
Debra Yepa-Pappan Interview, Alexandra Kelstrom
Asian American Art Oral History Project
Artist Bio- Debra Yepa-Pappan is a contemporary Native American/Korean artist. She started out in design and photography, and then decided to use photography as her medium to create digital art. Coming from a strong Jemez Pueblo background, Debra incorporates themes of stereotyping, othering, and collectivism into her artwork. She also implements some of her Asian identity into her work to embrace her mixed identity.
Artist bio written by Alexandra Kelstrom.
Kuna Na Interview, Edward Kim
Kuna Na Interview, Edward Kim
Asian American Art Oral History Project
Artist Bio:
“I like to self-identify as an artist first, and then a woman, and then as a teacher, and then as an Asian/ Korean But as an artist, it has to be universal. It’s a large picture. I’d like to be part of the large picture rather than just an Asian American.”
Kuna Na is a Korean-born artist who teaches a diverse group of pre-kindergarten students in Chicago. She and her husband, Jim, reside in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. They opened an art gallery together in their community and named it mn Gallery after the first initials …
Jin Soo Kim Interview, Jin Woo Kim
Jin Soo Kim Interview, Jin Woo Kim
Asian American Art Oral History Project
Artist Bio: jin soo kim was born in 1950 in Seoul, during the Korean War. In 1974, after receiving her B.S. from Seoul National University, kim left Korea. Upon arriving in Los Angeles, the severity of the culture shock was such that after eight months, she moved to a remote rural town Macomb Illinois, forty miles east of the Mississippi River. She began studying art in Western Illinois University while working at a hospital as a registered nurse.
In 1983, kim went on to receive an MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since then, her work …
Mike Park Interview, Ben Rogers
Mike Park Interview, Ben Rogers
Asian American Art Oral History Project
2010 interview with Mike Park from Asian Man Records by Ben Rogers