15th Annual Miller Lecture with Artist Mina Cheon: North Korean Awareness and Global Peace Projects

This Smith College Museum of Art program is part of the Mina Cheon artist residency at Smith College March 2–4, 2018 and is offered in connection with the exhibition: 体 Modern Images of the Body from East Asia. Mina Cheon is a Korean-American new media artist, scholar and educator who divides her time between Korea and the United States. Her political popart, or “Polipop,” draws inspiration from global media and popular culture, intersecting politics and pop art. Cheon’s work ranges from new media, video, installation, performance and public projects to traditional media of painting and sculpture. Free and open to all.

Image: Mina CHEON (aka Kim Il Soon). American, born South Korea, 1973. Sons of Joseon: Squirt Water Not Bullets! 2013. Acrylic on canvas.