Education
1991 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1989 MFA in Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1985 BA, Double Major in Fine Art and History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Solo Exhibitions
2012 melo, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
2005 Something New, The Kitchen, New York, NY
2002 Average Female (Perfect), Matrix Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2000 Two or Three Corridors, Whitney Museum at Philip Morris (now Altria), New York, NY
1997 Borrowing”, Art in General, New York, NY
1996 Interior Schemes, Lombard/Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Raw/Cooked: Ulrike Muller, collaborative drawing project with 100 artist, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Herstory Inventory: 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
2011 mise en place, Recess Gallery, New York, NY
2008 transPOP: Artists in Residence, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2007-9 transPOP: Korea Vietman Remix, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea; San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam; The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Marie’s Story, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University, New York, NY
2006 Reality/Play, Orchard, New York, NY
Last Minute, Orchard, New York, NY
2004 Harlem Postcards, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2001 Mega-Wave: Towards a New Synthesis, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
BodySpace, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2000 Invisible Boundary: Metamorphosed Asian Art, Niigata Prefectural Civic Center Gallery, Niigata, Japan, and Utsonomiya Museum, Utsonomiya, Japan
KOREAMERICAKOREA, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Man + Space, The Third Gwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea
1999 Shelf Life, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, NY
1997 Home Life, State University of New York, Old Westbury, NY
1996 The Power of Suggestion: Narrative and Notation in Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Landscape Reclaimed: New Approaches to an Artistic Tradition, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1995 Altering History/alternating stories, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Live/Work, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Familiar Places, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Drawings & drawings, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, Holland
1994 De Ideale Plaats, Haags Centrum voor Aktuele Kunst, The Hague, Holland
La Lengua, Temistocles 44, Mexico City, Mexico
1993 Trade Routes, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1992 Selections Fall ‘92, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1991 Dismantling Invisibility: Asian and Pacific Islander Artists Respond to the AIDS Crisis, Art in General, NY
Warp and Woof: Comfort and Dissent, Artists Space, New York, NY

Selected Catalogues and Books
Amor, Monica. Alterando Historia/alternando historias, Caracas, Venezuela: Museo de Bellas Artes (October 1995-March 1996).
Butler, Connie. “Dissent at Home,” Warp and Woof: Comfort and Dissent. New York: Artist Space, 1991.
Butler, Connie. The Power of Suggestion: Narrative and Notation in Contemporary Drawing. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art (Nov 3, 1996 - Jan 26, 1997).
“From the Land of Porcelain,” in Renee Green, ed. Negotiations in the Contact Zone/Negociacoes na Zona Contacto. Lisbon, Portugal: Assirio & Alvim, 2003.
Kim, Sun Jung, ed. KOREAMERICAKOREA. Seoul: Artsonje Center, 2000.
Kwon, Sowon, dongghab, Vermont College of Fine Art, 2010.
Kwon, Sowon, “A Calendar and Two Searches” in Fever Variations, Gwangju Biennale 2006 catalog. Seoul, Korea: Designhouse and Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 2006.
Man + Space. The Third Kwangju Biennale. Kwangju, Korea: Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 2000.
Marcoci, Roxanna, Diana Murphy, and Eve Sinaiko, eds. New Art. New York: Harry Abrams, Inc., 1997, p.80.
Molesworth, Helen. “Domestic Rearrangements: The Art of Choice,” Interior Schemes, New York: Lombard/Freid Fine Arts, 1996.
Singer, Debra. Two or Three Corridors, New York: The Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, 2001.
Trippi, Laura, Trade Routes, New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art (Sept 10 - Nov 7, 1993).
Yang, Alice. “Sowon Kwon’s interior schemes,” Why Asia? Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Yang, Christina. live/work, Queens, New York: Queens Museum of Art, 1995.
Yokohama 2001 International Triennale of Art. exhibition catalog. Yokohama, Japan: The Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale, 2001.
Zuckerman Jacobson, Heidi. average female (Perfect), Berkeley, California: Matrix Gallery, University of California Berkeley Art Museum (January 27 - March 24, 2002).

Selected Periodicals
Baker, George. review. Artforum, XXXIX, no. 7 (March 2001):147.
Davey, Moyra. review. “dongghab by Sowon Kwon,” Editor’s Choice, Bomb 117 (Fall 2011).
Ferguson, Russell. “Reproducing the Average Female,” Documents, vol. 1, no. 3 (Summer 1993):101-2.
Karmel, Pepe. “Depicting the Multiculturalism of Queens,” The New York Times (Sep 1, 1995)” C23.
Kwon, Sowon. “dongghab,” X-TRA, vol. 10, no. 4 (Summer 2008): 31-5. http://www.x-traonline.org
Kwon, Sowon. “A Calendar and Two Searches,” media-N: The Online Journal of the New Media Caucus, v. 02, no. 02 (Spring/Summer 2006): 19-25. http://newmediacaucus.org/media-n/2006/v02/n02
Kwon, Sowon. “Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan, 15th-19th Centuries,” Time Out New York (December 5-12, 2002).

Awards
2004-5 Media Arts Residency Award, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1997 Artist in Residence, Art in General, New York, NY
1995 Artist Fellowship for Sculpture, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY
1993-4 Artist in Residence, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY