Korean-born, Los Angeles-based artist, Kyong Boon Oh is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, painting, photo/video collages, and sculptural installations, blending spiritual practice with art. Her art—a meditative ritualistic craft shaped by her father’s legacy, her struggles with physical illness, and her immigrant identity—maps the complex terrain of assimilation, nostalgia, and belonging, situated between chaos and order. Through her evolving practice, which now includes community engagement initiatives like the “Flow with Medium” workshop and historical research like “6.25 The Korean War Project,” she aspires to reveal personal histories as communal destinies that transcends time and space. She is a founding member of SSGOC (Stone Sculptors Guild of Orange County). Her studios are located in Orange County, CA. Her work has been exhibited at Crafton Hills College Gallery, Triton Museum of Art, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, ReflectSpace Gallery in Glendale Central Library, Art Share LA, Launch LA, Korean Cultural Center LA, Huntington Beach Art Center, Marks Art Center, Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, and Lois Lambert Gallery in Santa Monica among others. Her work is currently nominated for Best of the Net in Art and has been featured in LA Times, Flaunt, The Offing, Asbarez, Asia Journal, Pasadena Star News, FUTURO magazine, Art Matters by Edward Goldman, The Korea Daily. She participated in Quinn Emanuel and Ellsworth Artist Residency and has received several grants including Lakers In the Paint Grant and Community Engagement Creative Grant.
Transcendent end is hidden in our own depths, waiting for the chance to occupy a conscious moment. I try to discover and reveal the moment through my art practice. Weaving influences from Handicraft, Expressionism, and personal and historical narratives rooted in my father’s legacy and my Korean immigrant Christian heritage with traditional, geological, industrial and commercial materials along with the discarded, I re-contextualize them with the modernist artistic approaches and narrative deconstructions to contemplate overlooked narratives, while projecting possible identities for the marginalized and providing a commentary on redemptive identity. Using the interior-exterior juxtaposition of my sculptures and the tangled, infinite form in both subtractive and additive mediums as a metaphor of dislocation, nostalgia, and desire for belonging, my art, situated between chaos and order, emotion and meditation, navigates the complex and often uncharted terrain of the displacement. Viewing the repetitive crafting method as a physical pathway for the mind and as the continuity of time and considering the meditative excavation of personal and historical narratives as a place of reconciliation, I hope my art transcends time and space with aspirations for redemption, so beyond the melancholia, this unresolved longing for places or communities or ideals, alludes to transcendence of the self.
EDUCATION
BFA, SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
BS, Mathematics, Korea University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
‘Prayers’, Quinn Emanuel Artist Residency Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA 2025
‘Chorus of The Displaced’, Crafton Hills College Gallery, Yucaipa, CA 2024
‘Walk Slowly – Unknown Path’, Lois Lambert Gallery, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA 2023
‘GIL (path)’, Launch LA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2022
‘ON THE PATH’, Lois Lambert Gallery, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA 2022
‘New Talent II’ Contemporary Art Workshop Gallery, Chicago 2003
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
‘Weaving Wombspace : Love-Making in the Constellations’, A Poco Art collective, CA, 2025
‘PERSONAL DATA: WHAT IS A PORTRAIT?’, Huntington Beach Art Center, CA, 2025
‘Moon and Stars’, Marks Art Center, Palm Springs, CA 2025
‘Primarily in the Right Hemisphere’, Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide, Lois Lambert Gallery, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA 2024
‘Plateaus: Art that Resonates’, Art Share L.A., CA 2024
’(Be)Longing: Asian Diasporic Crossings’ ReflectSpace Gallery, Glendale Central Library, Glendale, CA 2024
’The Paths We Cross: Perspectives from the Korean Diaspora‘, The University of Hawaii at Hilo, HI 2024
‘MOON & STARS: Los Angeles Asian Women in Art’, BG gallery, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA 2024
‘Ellsworth Artist Residency Alumni gallery’, Art Share L.A., CA 2024
‘Nomad II’, The Del Amo Crossing, Torrance, CA (Curated by Torrance Art Museum) 2023
‘Contemplating Boundaries’, Korean Cultural Center LA, CA 2023
‘Artists in Residence: The Ellsworth Artist Residency Program’, Art Share L.A., CA 2023
‘AAPI Celebration’, BG gallery, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA 2023
