By Aprile Gallant, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs

SCMA and the larger contemporary art world lost a leading light this month with the death of Korean American artist Yong Soon Min.

Min’s work, in the words of curator and art historian Hong-hee Kim, “explores post-colonial discourses of immigration, exile, loss and confusion, as well as the ironies of dual identity. [...] Her multi-media art practice encompassing words, texts, drawing, photography and video is conceptual yet concrete, private yet political.”