![Yong Soon Min, Photo from KISSSSS, Photographer David Kelley[94]](https://imca.uci.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Yong-Soon-Min-Photo-from-The-Kisssss-Photographer-David-Kelley94.png "Yong Soon Min, Photo from The Kisssss, Photographer David Kelley[94]")
KISSSSS by Yong Soon Min
October 5 – December 14, 2024
NOTE VENUE: Contemporary Arts Center at Claire Trevor School of the Arts on the UCI Campus, Building 721 in Irvine, CA. Open Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6 pm
Curated by Bridget R. Cooks, Ph.D.
This exhibition features Professor Emerita Yong Soon Min's last artworks before her untimely passing on March 12, 2024. It includes Still/Incessant, an artist book that revisits her longstanding interest in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)—the liminal space between North and South Korea—as well as research and notes for her unfinished artwork, KISSSSS and Both Sides Now. Co-sponsored by UC Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute & Museum of California Art and Claire Trevor School of the Arts, with generous support provided by the Center for Critical Korean Studies and Claire Trevor Society.
October 5 – December 14, 2024
Public memorial: October 5, 12 – 2 pm
Public opening reception: October 5, 2 – 6 pm
Admission is free and open to all.
PARKING: Mesa Parking Structure. Discounted Parking available.
Photo credit: Yong Soon Min, Image from KISSSSS. Photograph by David Kelley, 2024