Seonna Hong
Photo by Michael Wong
Profile
Seonna Hong was born and raised in Southern California. She graduated with a B.A. in Art from Cal State University Long Beach and continued to hone her craft teaching art to children. Her paintings are quietly narrative and often autobiographical. Children are her protagonists and they drift through landscapes with animals and music as their guide. In 2004, she received an Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Production Design for her work on "My Life as a Teenage Robot." Hong continues to show her work in shows and galleries around the world, most notably with Kaikai Kiki, Tokyo, Japan in 2008. Her illustrated book 'Animus' (Baby Tattoo Books) is now in it's 3rd printing.
Career
| BA, California State University, Long Beach | |
| 1973 | Born of Korean descent in Los Angeles |
| 2006 | Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant recipient |
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| 2004 | Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Background Styling for "My Life As a Teenage Robot" |
| 2012 | Persistence of Vision, LeBasse Projects, Culver City, CA |
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| 2008 | Viscery Loves Company / Kaikai Kiki Gallery (Tokyo) |
| 2007 | Our Endless Numbered Days Oliver Kamm / 5BE Gallery（NY） |
| 2006 | Seonna Hong: SubUrban / Knoxville Museum of Art（Knoxville） |
| 2005 | People In The City / Sixspace（Los Angeles） |
| 2004 | Animus Oliver Kamm / 5BE Gallery（NY） Railroad / Sixspace（Los Angeles） |
| 2003 | Princess/Sixspace（Los Angeles） |
| 2014 | LA Wood Show, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA Parallel Universe, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Art of Truancy, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY Space // Squared, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| 2013 | Post It Show, GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA These Friends 4, THIS Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2012 | PULSE MIami, LeBasse Projects, Miami, FL Space//Form, Breeze Block Gallery, Portland, OR ISM: 10 Exhibition, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA Blacked Out, Hurley Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA These Friends 3, THIS Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA Fresh StART 2012, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA Printed Matter, GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2011 | PULSE MIami, LeBasse Projects, Miami, FL Benefit for GR2, GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Support: Artists Unite For Japan, Art From the Ashes, Royal T, Los Angeles, CA Momentum, LeBasse Projects, Culver City, CA These Friends 2, THIS Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2010 | Post It Show, GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Sanrioʼs Small Gift Miami, Miami, FL Pattern Recognition, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA Sugipop!, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH Unleash the Beast, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA Group Show, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Taipei Ed Emberley and Friends, Scion Installation, Culver City, CA A Visual Dialogue, Bo Lee Gallery, Bath, England |
| 2009 | Beach Blanket Bingo, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, NY “+2” Summer Group Show, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY 15 Year Anniversary Show, GRSF, San Francisco, CA Brood Work, Eagle Rock Center For the Arts, Los Angeles, CA I Know What Youʼre Thinking, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY |
