JUNE PAK

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June Pak was born in Seoul, South Korea, and now lives in Toronto, Canada. She holds a BFA from York University and a MFA from the University of Windsor. Her time-based and digital media projects explore the human-ness found in the fragmented Self. She currently teaches time-based media and interdisciplinary courses at the University of Western Ontario. Her single-channel videos and media installations have shown at various venues throughout Canada, the US and Europe since 1996.

 

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SELECTED SOLO/ TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2009    YYZ Artist Outlet (in conjunction with the Images Festival), Toronto, CA (with Louise Noguchi)
2008    As Is Project Space, 347 Montrose Ave. Toronto, CA (with Janis Demkiw)
2004    Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, Canada
            Truck Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2002    Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
            Media City 8: International Independent Film and Video Festival – off-site installation, Windsor, Canada
1999    the Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ SCREENINGS


2009    CAFKA09: Veracity, Kitchener, CA (upcoming in September)
            Ritual and Repetition, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, USA
2008    One Dimensional Space, Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON, Canada
2007    Scope NYC Art Fair- part of [PAM]-Perpetual Art Machine- installation, Lincoln Centre, NYC, USA
            Ritual and Repetition- screening, Richmond Center Gallery, School of Art, Western
            Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA
           ://self-portrait – a show for Bethlehem – a show for Peace, MACRO- Museo de Arte
            Contemporaneo Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
2006    Dowsing for Failure, Open Space, Victoria, Canada
            ://self-portrait – a show for Bethlehem – a show for Peace
                     Al Kahf Gallery/ Bethlehem International Centre, Bethlehem, Palestine
                     MAC- Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santa Fe, Argentina
                     Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy
            Tracce di un seminario, Assab One, Milan, Italy
            PI: Performance & Intermedia Festival- screening, OFFICYNA Art Space, Szczecin, Poland
2005    Untitled: 17 Young Artists, Ventura XV, Milan, Italy
            Aesthetics of Resistance, Ex-Ticosa - Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
2003    Media Art festival Friesland- screening, the Netherlands
           Best of Film and Video 825- screening, Gallery 825, LA, USA
2002    lSelf]-representation, Project Gallery, www.le-musee-divioniste.org
            PI [4], @ Lighthouse Poole, boredomresearch, Southampton, UK (screening)
2001    Front: Video Installation, Pekao Gallery, Toronto, Canada
            Examing Our Breast: Breast Cancer Awareness Exhibition, LeBel Gallery, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
2000    ArtSeen 8, 445 City Hall Square, Windsor, Canada
            Taking Place, A Space, Toronto. Canada
            Redrospective – 10th anniversary of the Red Head Gallery, 59 past and present members, the Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999    ArtSeen 7, 1180 Howard Ave., Windsor, Canada
            Limericks: photo-boutique, David Scott Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1998    Negatives, organized with Ms. Conception, Gallery 401, Toronto, Canada
1997    Ladies Room, Gallery 401, Toronto, Canada
           Cryptography, organized with Ms. Conception, the Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada
           Steam: The Post-Industrial Age, 376 Dufferin, Toronto, Canada
1996    Shedding Skin, organized with Ms. Conception, Gallery 306, Toronto, Canada
            Whet Hands, Reactor Gallery, Toronto, Canada
            The Canadaustralia, Sydney- Australia, Vancouver- Canada, Toronto- Canada

PUBLIC LECTURES/ PROFESSIONAL SERVICE


2008 -   Board Member, FUSE magazine, Toronto, CA
2007    Jury for K.M. Hunter Artist Awards- Interdisciplinary Art Section, Toronto, CA
2006    Artist Talk, Studio 111- Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC, CA
            Faculty lecture Series, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, CA
            Border Zones: Lecture Series, University of Windsor, Windsor, CA
2004    Artist Talk, Sheridan College, Oakville, CA
           Artist Talk, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, CA
           Artist Talk, Alberta College of Arts & Design, Calgary, CA
1998-99 Artist member at the Red Head Gallery, Toroonto, CA

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

2006    Reclaiming Narrative, Studio 111-Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC, Canada