CAROLINE YOO CV
SELECTED PROJECTS
HWA RECORDS
2021 - Ongoing | Roger Kim, Saewon Oh, Kayla Tange, & Caroline Yoo
https://hwafirerecords.wixsite.com/my-site
2022
Hwa Records x Meantime, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, In-person workshops and performance, April 16-17, 2022
I Am Here/You Were There: Archiving Transnational Memory Within the Korean Diaspora, Online workshops, May 29th & July 10th, 2022
Leymusoom SarangBang Grand Opening, 41 Ross Gallery, Performance, April 15, 2022
2021
4 Zoom workshops (self organized), July 15th - September 16th
Hwa Records is a team of Korean diasporic performance based artists and healers composed of Roger Kim, Saewon Oh, Kayla Tange, and Caroline Yoo. Hwa Records was conceived after Caroline Yoo was diagnosed with hwa-byung in 2020. Hwa-byung (fire sickness) is a Korean folk syndrome attributed to the suppression of anger where pent up emotions then manifest in the body. Hwa Records uses intimate workshops and experimental performance to create community space for diasporic Koreans to record and discuss oral histories to alleviate some of these pressures, and to create places to collectively process the ever-present, but only recently acknowledged racism directed towards Asians. Hwa, loosely translated in our own definitions, refers to fire, rage, pent-up emotion, and flower.
JADED PGH
2021 - Ongoing | Founded by Lena Chen, Anny Chen, Caroline Yoo
2023
FINDING KIN Programming (1 Public Mural, 1 Party, 1 Film Screening, 2 Workshops, 2 Exhibitions )
Harris Theater, Screenshot: Asia - University of Pittsburgh, Office for Public Art, Radiant Hall - Mckees Rocks & Downtown, Cobra PGH, Write Pittsburgh, Bunker Projects, Brick Wall Project, Jan - March, 2023
WILDNESS Block Party & Performances with support from Rivers of Steel, Opportunity Fund, The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, Pump House, Aug 2023
2022
JADED Programming (3 Workshops, 2 Walking Tours, 1 Party)
Office of Public Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Organization of Chinese Americans Pittsburgh, & The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, The Opportunity Fund, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, April - June, 2022
2021
REST: A Day of Healing and Art for the AAPI, Massage Worker, & Sex Worker Community
Carnegie Museum of Art, April 1, 2021
JADED is an AAPI non-binary and femme artist-led collective creating public programming celebrating the art and culture of the Asian American Pacific Islander community in the Pittsburgh region. The collective builds interethnic coalitions to create more safe spaces of kinship and addresses racial trauma while celebrating cultural heritage. Programming and intimate events aim to reanimate local histories, preserve cherished family recipes and practices, and nurture intergenerational dialogue.
SOLO & DUAL SHOW EXHIBITIONS + HEADLINING PERFORMANCES
2025
Fate|Fury|Fly (Performance), TBD, Pittsburgh PA (forthcoming)
2024
Alice & Alice: Free Fall (Solo Show) Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA
TBD, Lena Chen & Caroline Yoo, TBD, Pittsburgh, PA (forthcoming)
2023
Because Freedom (window front exhibition), Lena Chen & Caroline Yoo, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
azn <3 luvluv <3 t0ur, Okyoung Noh & Caroline Yoo, Duderstadt Center, University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, MI
2018
Now Fermenting: Haneul Park & Caroline Yoo, C X U Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, & PERFORMANCES
2024
Prophecies and Soy Sauce Shots (with Davine Byon), Kelly Strayhorn Theater - Alloy School, Pittsburgh PA (forthcoming)
TBD, Brew House Arts, Pittsburgh PA (forthcoming)
We’re all mad here (part of Alice & Alice exhibition), Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA (forthcoming)
BLANK TAPE, Brew House Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2023
MFA 2023 Thesis Exhibition, Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA
빛난다 The Bitch is Flying (Performance), Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Year of the Rabbit: Lunar New Year Art Show and AAPI Celebration, Radiant Hall - Mckees Rocks, Pittsburgh PA
Year of the Rabbit: Lunar New Year Art Show Extended Small Selection, Radiant Hall - Downtown, Pittsburgh PA
Variety! Variety! Variety! (Performance) with Activated Anamorphs, WQED Studio Pittsburgh, PA
2022
MAGO: The Magic of the Myth (Performance), curated by Fail-Safe, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, PA
Dear Mother curated by Kayla Tange & Caroline Yoo, LA Artcore, Los Angeles CA
Hwa Records x MEANTIME, (Workshops & Performance) curated by Renee Cyla Villasenor & Christine Koppes, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Funded by ICA SF & Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Traveling Scripts (Performer/Participant), in collaboration with Okyoung Noh funded by Korea Arts & Culture Education Service (KACES), Online
Han Diaspora Group x There are seams in purgatory, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
Hwa Records x Hwa Records x I Am Here/You Were There: Archiving Transnational Memory Within the Korean Diaspora (online workshops) curated by Stephanie Kang, Phillip Lee, and Eunice Um, Online Website, https://www.iamhere-youwerethere.com
Hwa Records x Leymusoom SarangBang Grand Opening (Performance) curated by Heesoo Kwon, 41 Ross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Plain Silk, Uncarved Wood (Performance) curated by Brent Nakamoto, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Tigress: Lunar Offerings (Pop Up Exhibition) curated by Sara Tang, Seafoam, Pittsburgh, PA
Something Left to Say (Fundraiser for Women’s Law Project), Wick Monet Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
Canadian Electronic Ensemble at 50, featuring Exploded Ensemble (Performance as part of Ensemble), Youtube Live Stream, October 2022
2021
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee: A Marathon Reading (Reader), Organized by GYOPO, Meldman Family Cinematic Arts Park, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
THE KOREA PROJECT 2021: The Agora, Online Exhibition funded by the Korea Foundation, Culturehub.org
Diaspora Arirang II curated by Wonshil Choi, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
Diaspora Arirang I advised by So Hyun Chang, Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles, CAA
HanZine (Screening), LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
Sacred Wounds: HOTPOT (Performance) curated by Kayla Tange & Dr. Wang, Zoom, May 2021
2020
Sacred Wounds: Holiday Kiki (Screening) curated by Kayla Tange & Dr. Wang, Zoom, December 2020
Sacred Wounds: WARRIOR (Performance) curated by Kayla Tange & Dr. Wang, Zoom, November 2020
Sacred Wounds: An Online Erotic Ritual Premiere (Performance) curated by Kayla Tange & Dr. Wang, Zoom, September 2020
Least Visible Structures curated by Pranay Reddy with Culturehub REFEST 2020, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
What She Said curated by Association of Hysteric Curators, ace/121 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LA Art Show 2020 (with BIAA Artist Collective), Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
The Film & Video Poetry Society Symposium 2020 (Screening), The Film & Video Poetry Society, Los Angeles, CA
L.A. Mise-En-Scene Video Art Festival (Screening), L.A. Art Documents, Online Film Festival
Home curated by Nicole Rademacher, @acogedor.space, Online Gallery
Come In, You’re Not Welcome, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
In Care We Gather: Sam Fox Alumni Exhibition 2020, 61-17 Hannam 20-Road 3rd Floor, Seoul, Korea
2019
LA Art Show 2019 (with BIAA Artist Collective), Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
FEMMEBIT 2019, Saturday Screening II curated by Dahn Gim, Civic Center Studios, Los Angeles, CA
REFEST LA 2019, Culturehub LA, NAVEL Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fog Machine: Little Death #8 (Performance) curated by Scarlett Kim, The Mortuary, Los Angeles, CA
All Media 2019, Juried by Constance Mallinson, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
Encore: BIAA Artist Collective, C X U Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Experimental Film and Video, CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea
2019 California Open Call, Juried by Ruth Weisberg, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Contemporary Photography 2008-2018, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
City Stories Presents: Cinema Noir (Screening), Landmark’s Tivoli Theatre, St. Louis, MO
Beloved: BIAA Artist Collective, C X U Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Celebrating Women, Location 1980, Costa Mesa, CA
2017
#nofilter, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO
Leave It Out to Dry: BFA Thesis Exhibition, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Projection Mapping Class Exhibition, The Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Do you need a fork: Asian American Art Exhibition, Millstone Lounge, St. Louis, MO
Transcription Beta, Private Storage, St. Louis, MO
2016
a+o: 첫 만남 , Underwood Social Club, Seoul, Korea
No.3, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Calvino, Weitman Gallery, St. Louis, MO
COMMUNITY PROJECTS | CURATORIAL
2023
WILDNESS Block Party
Organized by Lena Chen, Bonnie Fan, Sara Tang, Caroline Yoo, & Elina Zhang at the Pump House, Pittsburgh, PA on 8.12.23
Partnering with Steel Rivers, Organization of Chinese Americans Pittsburgh, The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry and funded by the Opportunity Fund for
FINDING KIN
Organized by Bonnie Fan, Sara Tang, Caroline Yoo, & Elina Zhang
Partnering with Office for Public Art, Harris Theater, Screenshot: Asia - University of Pittsburgh, Office for Public Art, Radiant Hall, Cobra PGH, Write Pittsburgh, Bunker Projects, Side Wall Project
Jan14 - Mar8 JADED Photo Public Mural, SideWall Project
Jan23 Moon Rabbit Rave with DJ Formosa, Cobra PGH
Feb3-Feb19 Lunar New Year Art Show with 28 AAPI Artists in PGH, Radiant Hall - Mckees Rocks
Feb7 Free Chol Soo Lee Film Screening, Q&A with directors & panel with 1Hood @Harris Theater in partnership with Screenshot: Asia, University of Pittsburgh
Mar8-Apr7 Lunar New Year Extended Exhibition, Radiant Hall-Downtown
Mar13 The Unexpected Reader: AAPI only Writing Workshop, Atithi Studios
Mar20 The Unexpected Reader: AAPI only Writing Workshop, Bunker Projects
2022
Dear Mother,
Curated by Kayla Tange & Caroline Yoo, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA 08/04 - 08/21/2022
Group show of 19 artists: Jerri Allyn, Se Young Au, Chantal Barlow, Roxy Farhat, Luka Fisher, Chuck Hohng, Wednesday Kim, Lau Hochi, Julayne Lee, MATERNAL FANTASIES, David Noel, Norma Hernandez Peña, Nicole Rademacher, Pranay Reddy, Sheree Rose, Kayla Tange, Huidi Xiang, Kim Ye, and Caroline Yoo
Dear Mother, creates a conversation between artists with diverse experiences of motherhood and politics of migration in relation to body autonomy in chosen, adopted and biological relationships.
08/06 Opening Reception
08/13 Julayne Lee Poetry Reading & Debut performance of Thank you for your service by Kim Ye
08/21 Closing Event with set by ₥-0₮ⱧɆⱤ
Artist Talk with Jerri Allyn, Chuck Hohng, Wednesday Kim, Nicole Rademacher, Sheree Rose, and Huidi Xiang, moderated by Kayla Tange & Caroline Yoo
Artist talk | Dear Mother, Exhibition | On motherhood, motherland, and migration
Gallery Video walkthrough documented by L.A. Art Documents
Dear Mother, / LA Artcore / Organized by Kayla Tange & Caroline Yoo
Kim Ye Thank You For Your Service Performance documented by L.A. Art Documents
Kim Ye | Thank you for your service | Performance at LA Artcore
JADED Spring 2022 Programming
Organized by Lena Chen, Anny Chen, Caroline Yoo
Partnering with Office of Public Art, Organization of Chinese Americans Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, & The Opportunity Fund
04.16 Chinatown Walking Tour with Shirley Yee
05.15 Kimjang Workshop with Sunni Park, Carnegie Museum of Art
05.15 Japanese Book Binding with Brent Nakamoto, Carnegie Museum of Art
05.21 Chinese Cemetery and Squirrel Hill Photo Tour with Leo Hsu and Lena Chen
06.17 Onigiri (Rice Ball) Workshop + Public Picnic with Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Phipps Conservatory
06.25 Yin Yang Disco with FORMOSA, Cobra PGH
JADED is a public programming series celebrating the art and culture of the Eastern Asian American community. Organized by a collective of AAPI artists and organizers, also named JADED, the programming series builds interethnic coalitions to create more safe spaces of kinship and addresses racial trauma while celebrating cultural heritage. Programming and intimate events aim to reanimate local histories, preserve cherished family recipes and practices, and nurture intergenerational dialogue.
Diaspora Talks (Jinseok Choi, Jee Kim, Wednesday Kim, Heesoo Kwon)
Organized by Caroline Yoo
Funded by The School of Art MFA Department, Carnegie Mellon University & Steiner Grant, Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, 05.12.2022
Roundtable talk with 4 Korean diaspora artists and the Korean diaspora students at Carnegie Mellon University’s Class of 2022 centered around giving advice for emerging artists and talking about the realities of the art industry.
Republic: Flight Float Fly
Curated by Julie Lee, Culturally Produced by Caroline Yoo
The Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Exhibition of 13 Korean heritage senior art students on themes of migration, cultural colonialism and selfhood.
2021
REST: A Day of Healing and Art for the AAPI, Massage Worker, & Sex Worker Community
Organized by Lena Chen, Anny Chen, Caroline Yoo and SWOP Pittsburgh
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, 04.01.2021
2019
Repository: Weidi Zhang Virtual Reality Experience, C X U Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Plasticker: Chloe Jeongmyo Kim, C X U Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
AND ABOUT I BAD HOME BEFORE MY TO REALIZE WE WHY AND SO KNOW: Pablo Estrada, C X U Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018
sour bitter sweet: both/& (Sachi Nagase & Katie Yun), C X U Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Biomorphisms: Zoie Brown & Alyse Gellis, C X U Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
INDIGO: Ameera Baadia Daaood, C X U Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Do you need a fork: Asian American Art Exhibition, Millstone Lounge, St. Louis, MO
AWARDS | GRANTS
2023
Because Freedom x Community Arts Program, Duolingo, Pittsburgh, PA
Fire Bloom Game x Interdisciplinary Award, Carnegie Mellon University
Lost | Born in Translation x Graduate Small Project Help Fund (GuSH) Grant, Carnegie Mellon University
JADED x Opportunity Fund, Pittsburgh, PA
JADED x Awesome Grant, Awesome Pittsburgh
JADED x Office for Public Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2022
Hwa Records x Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Hwa Records x Meantime Programming, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, CA
JADED x Opportunity Fund, Pittsburgh, PA
JADED x Artists Bridging Social Distance in the Public Realm, Office of Public Art Pittsburgh, PA
JADED x The Directors Fund, The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, Pittsburgh, PA
Gisaeng House x Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art @the Frontier Grant, The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, Pittsburgh, PA
Diaspora Talks x Steiner Grant, The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, Pittsburgh, PA
Hwa Records x School of Art Grant, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Hwa Records x Conference Funding, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2021
Hwa Records x Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art, The Frontier Grant, The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, Pittsburgh, PA
Graduate Small Project Help Fund (GuSH) Grant, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, P
2019
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Outstanding Educator Recognition, Scholastic Art & Writing
2017
John J. & Marjory B. Lewin Photography Prize, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2016
Summer Undergraduate Research Award Grant Recipient in Seoul, Korea, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
PUBLISHED TEXT (written by me)
Creeper Luncheon Exhibition Text, curated by Wednesday Kim, De:Formal, Chapel of Santa Maria dei Carcarati at Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy, 2021
https://www.deformal.com/exhibitions/creepers-luncheon
ARTIST TALKS & WORKSHOPS
BLANK TAPE Artist Talk: Jamie Mcarthur, Ajunie Virk, & Caroline Yoo, Brew House Arts, Pittsburgh,PA, 02.22.2024
'Korean American Diaspora and the Arts: Hyeree Ro & Caroline Yoo, 10th International conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST 2023), Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan
Hwa Records x I Am Here/You Were There: Archiving Transnational Memory Within the Korean
Diaspora (online workshops), online website, https://www.iamhere-youwerethere.com
Hwa Records x MEANTIME, 2 In-person Workshops, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Funded by Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco & Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, 04.16.2022-04.17.2022
Hwa Records: Workshops 2021, Facilitated by Kayla Tange, Caroline Yoo, Roger Kim and Saewon Oh, Zoom, 07.15.2021-09.16.2021
Re-enacting Han: Scarlett Kim, Kwonyin, Kayla Tange, & Caroline Yoo, Witch Institute Symposium, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, 08.16.2021
Celebrating HanZine (Talk with artists: Jinseok Choi, Scarlett Kim, Kwonyin, Saewon Oh, Yuneun Rhi, Jeong Stransky, Kayla Tange, Caroline Yoo) moderated by Stephanie Kang, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA, 06.20.2021
Artists in Conversation: The In-Between with Brandon Barr, Andrea Nhuch, and Caroline Yoo, Part of HomeExhibition, Acogedor Space, Los Angeles, CA, 09.21.2020
PUBLICATIONS
Leo Kim, “On Techno-Orientalism: New, technologized forms of anti-Asian appropriation betray both old prejudices and new desires.” (WHAT AM I_넌 뭐니 _WHAT ARE YOU? image use), REAL LIFE, 06.28.2021, https://reallifemag.com/on-techno-orientalism/
Graphite XII: Attention/¡Atención!, Graphite Journal, pp.76, 05.18.2021.
Hanzine Vol. 1 with Artcore LA, 11.2020, https://laartcore.org/features-1/2020/11/17/xvlxa1vdwnp0zrv7hzil77bxdhbete
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Calendar and Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, pp.33 & 133, 2019
CELEBRATING WOMEN Catalogue, Location 1980, 2018 (Cover)
Spires: Intercollegiate Arts and Literary Magazine, 2018 Fall & 2017 Spring (Cover), 2015 Fall
PRESS
Soren de-Niz, “Pittsburgh artists become roadside attractions in the Warhol Museum campaign.” Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, 2023.
Stephanie Strasburg, “Looking back to look forward: Loudness, risk and radical joy at the start of the Lunar New Year.” Public Source, 02.08.2023
Hannah Wyman, “JADED kicks off Lunar New Year with rabbit rave, new spring programming.” Pittsburgh Union Progress, 01.22.2023
Amanda Waltz, “JADED: Pittsburgh’s People of the Year 2022 in Visual Arts.” Pittsburgh City Paper, 12.21.2022
Lucy Chen, “Pittsburgh AAPI artist collective returns with “Finding Kin.”” Pittsburgh City Paper, 12.05.2022
Lucy Chen, “5 Questions with artist and community builder Caroline Yoo.” Pittsburgh City Paper, 09.07.2022
Hannah Wyman, “Pittsburgh’s first Asian American art collective concludes its spring series.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 06.25.2022
Clare Sheedy, “Picturing Asian American life in Squirrel Hill in the ‘80s.” PUBLICSOURCE. 05.27.2022
Amanda Waltz, “Sex workers in Pittsburgh discuss local impact of damaging anti-trafficking law FOSTA-SESTA.” PGH City Paper. 04.07.2021
Amanda Waltz, “REST: A Day of Healing and Art offers support to Asian American and Pacific Island Woman and Sex Workers.” PGH City Paper. 03.26.2021
Travis Park, “REST: A Day of Healing and Art supports Asian Americans, Pacific Islands women and sex Workers. Art + Entertainment | Pittsburgh.” Pennsylvania News Today. 03.27.2021
“Meet Caroline Yoo: Performer & Artist.” SHOUTOUT LA. 03.01.2021
“Meet Caroline Yoo.” VoyageLA. 12.05.2019
Evan Senn. “Gallery, Artist or Viewer - IFA’s All Media Exhibition is a Boon for Everyone.” IrvineWeekly. 10.14.2019
“여성 정체성과 관점 조명 ‘융합예술 축제” (Female Identity and Concepts ‘Multi-media Art Festival’) Hankook Ilbo. 03.06.2019
JURY
The Korea Daily, 2022 The Korea Daily Student Video Contest, jurors: Edi Dai & Caroline Yoo, 08.2022