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What’s in your album?: Junghyun Kim in Conversation with Juyon Lee and Kai Oh

Please join BAXTER ST and 2024-25 Guest Curatorial Open Call Recipient Junghyun Kim and artists Juyon Lee and Kai Oh for What’s in Your Album, an artist conversation, on October 24 at 6 PM at 154 Ludlow Street.

In this talk, Kai Oh and Juyon Lee will share insights into their newly commissioned works presented in the exhibition. The session will explore their artistic processes and the conceptual questions they grappled with while developing their pieces. From algorithmic interference and digital glitches to the human acceptance of mortality, the conversation will examine how each artist interprets the notion of fragility through her own lens. To facilitate a more personal and intimate dialogue, the artists will share photos from their mobile phone albums, taken over the five-month period (April–August 2025) leading up to the exhibition. These images will serve as visual prompts to reflect on both private and artistic moments that informed their work.

ABOUT KAI OH

Kai Oh (b. 1992, Seoul) focuses on expanding the boundaries of photography, capturing the non-human-centric life force in urban spaces through her lens. She places particular emphasis on the fluidity of digital images, exploring their inherent possibilities. Subtle reflections of her cultural background and lived experience as a Korean woman inform her sensitivity to structure, control, and the aesthetics of order. By bringing digital images from the computer into physical space, Oh challenges conventional norms and historical values linked to flat images/surfaces on the wall, crafting otherworldly scenarios.

Oh holds her MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts and BA from Seoul National University and the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. Her solo exhibitions include Will You Marry Me? (2025) at Subtitled NYC, Half Sticky (2023) at the Industrial Bank of Korea, and Softsharp (2021) at Cylinder in Seoul. She has also been featured in group exhibitions such as GNADE at BBK Künstlerhaus München (2023), The Postmodern Child Part 2 at the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art (2023), Rales, Wheezes and Crackles at Doosan Gallery, Seoul (2022), Super-fine at Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul (2021), and Foam Talent at Foam Amsterdam (2017).

ABOUT JUYON LEE

Juyon Lee (b. 1995, Seoul) is a South Korea-born artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up between Seoul and the greater Boston area, Lee developed her interest in dissonance in space and time and ephemeral nature of being. She explores the idea of transience and fluidity in perception and meaning-making process by weaving images into multidimensional works composed of architectural elements, functional and nonfunctional objects with ethereal materials like light and air.

Lee has exhibited widely, including Episode Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Tufts University Art Galleries (Medford, MA), New Bedford Art Museum (New Bedford, MA), TCNJ Gallery (Ewing, NJ), Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, MA), and NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY). She is the recipient of notable fellowships and awards, including the Café Royal Foundation Grant for Visual Art, Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship, Pilchuck Fellowship, and St. Botolph’s Emerging Artist Award. She participated in artist residencies at LMCC Arts Center, The Studios at MASS MoCA, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Vermont Studio Center, and more. Lee holds her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and her BA from Wellesley College (summa cum laude).