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2024 AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Awards Winners Exhibition, AHL Foundation, NYC, ny

Nov 1 - Dec 6, 2024

The three selected finalists for this year’s AHL T&W prize each demonstrate, in unique ways, how obfuscation can be used as an artistic tool to counterintuitively reveal something about the nature of identity and its relationship to the real. Curated by Ian Wallace. Juried by Ian Wallace, Jeffrey Lee, and Julianne Miao

 

A l i c e & A l i c e: in free fall (Solo Exhibition), Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA

Jan 19 - Feb 16, 2024

This new body of work is the first solo exhibition of artist and performer C. Ryu, who continues her research practice of amplifying stories of forgotten women, the women who rebelled, the women who were too loud for history.

 

roaming 5: Blank Tape

January 29, 2024

Review of Blank Tape curated by Lena Hansen in Petrichor Pittsburgh written by David Bernabo

 
 

Finding Alice, a conversation with C. Ryu and Lena Hansen

Nov 12, 2024

Published at Bunker Review

It was a pleasure to speak with Ryu about her work Alice & Alice: In Free Fall. We delve into the complicated ethics surrounding historical narratives, being a “bad” archivist, and the futile quest for a neat, unwavering historical account. - Lena Hansen


 

ROAMING 07: A PROPER ROAM

April 25, 2024

Review of Prophecies and Soy Sauce Shots in Petrichor Pittsburgh written by David Bernabo.

Photo Credit: Audrey Medrano

 

Blank Tape, Curated by Lena Hansen, Brew House arts


Jan 18 - March 9, 2024

Blank Tape, curated by Lena Hansen, is inspired by the ubiquity of surveillance technology in contemporary life. From social media to smart devices, surveillance technology is an inescapable part of our current reality.

 
 

Debut MAGO performance at kelly strayhorn theater, pittsburgh, pa

November 11-12, 2022

Curated by Fail-Safe, performing in the lineup with Young Joon Kwak, Kim Ye, London Williams, Goofy Toof, and MICHIYAYA Dance featuring Anya Clarke-Verdery.


Outrunning Fate | National Extinction (Solo Show), Weitman Gallery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Oct 10 - 31, 2024

Outrunning Fate | National Extinction exhibition includes two bodies of work by C. Ryu produced from military and medical image capture, reflecting on the consequences of historical, migrational, and gendered erasure that has affected the complex fates of those who breathe today. Ryu asks how do we outrun our fates that are so tied to colonialism, to capitalism, to reproduction?

prophesies & soy sauce shots Debut performance at kelly strayhorn alloy theater, pittsburgh, pa

April 5-6, 2024

Prophecies & Soy Sauce Shots is an experimental performance with artists C. Ryu and Davine Byon. They dance together, rejecting the permanently aspirational future and reflecting on the consequences of ancestral dreamwork. The performance asks, are we dreaming in resistance of or within the confines of colonized standards of success?

 
 
 

5 Questions with artist and community builder Caroline Yoo

September 07, 2022

Written by Lucy Chen for the Pittsburgh City Paper