Minah Son

Minah Son
b. 1973, Busan, Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, Republic of Korea

With the support of the Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism of Korea, Korea Arts Management Service, and the grant program Fund for Korean Art Abroad.

Minah Son pursues her artwork by focusing on a system that is composed of and uses specific value and rules of which she transforms into visual art. In the long and expanded Minah Son Letter (Barcode Letter) project, she interrogates the fabricated meanings and values; and in the project where she shares things with neighbors, she questions the value of objects. She delves into how “value” is constructed through these works that involve installation, object creation, community projects, and performance art. Minah Son graduated from the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts in 2000, and majored in fine arts at the Berlin University of Arts, receiving a degree as Meister Schüler. She was a participant in Island You Want to Visit Project (Shinan, 2019); Art Gyeonggi Artist (2019) and was a resident artist for 2011-2018, Gyeonggi Creation Center Residence, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Residency Studio, 2008. She organized the projects, Strolling House, using diverse media in 2016, Boundary and Difference - Nomadic Gyeonggi Art Festival and The Sister Is Here: Our Transgänger, as part of a special exhibition for the Seoul Photo Festival in 2016. She has had five solo exhibitions and completed twenty or more individual art projects. At present, she is looking into various ways of concretizing her artistic values and expressivity, and art projects.