Michael joo artist biography
Michael joo artist biography
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Michael Joo
Korean-American contemporary artist
Michael Joo is a contemporary artist known for using a combination of scientific language, processes and complex structures that speak to liminality, access, and transmission.
Much like Joseph Beuys, Joo uses various media such as sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting, further referencing cultural heritage, identity, and natural history.[1] He currently lives and works in New York, New York, as a Senior Critic in Sculpture at Yale University.
He also teaches at Columbia University in the MFA program.[2]
Early life and education
Michael Joo was born into a Korean family in Ithaca, New York.[3] Joo's parents immigrated from South Korea in order to seek graduate studies at Cornell University.
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He lived in a small community that focused on academics. Joo grew up between New York state and Minnesota. By influence of his late father, Joo grew up “half in the lab and half on the ranch” as h