Joo Hwang (b. 1964, Seoul)

Joo Hwang’s portrait and landscape photographs adopt a sophisticated aesthetic while exploring identity issues including gender and diaspora. Her major projects include East Village (1995-1996), which examines the alienated identity of a female Asian immigrant in New York, Temporary Warehouse (2011), which records the displacement of the city's artificial nature and buildings, and Her Portrait (2016), which studies on the female figure using image manipulation and photography techniques commonly used in cosmetics advertisements. Joo’s works capture unfamiliar images of familiar beings as metaphorical reflections that expand discussions about the social, cultural, and political backgrounds and conditions to which they belong and reveal the complex backgrounds that constitute contemporary identity. She participated in SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA.