Ivetta Sunyoung Kang

Ivetta Sunyoung Kang is a settler artist from South Korea, currently wandering in Tkaronto/Toronto and Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, in Canada. She explores interdisciplinarity across cinema, video installation, text, performance, and participation. Her project-oriented practice is anchored in multi-platform research, shifting between knowledge studies, psychosomatics, speech act, anxiety treatments, and queer theory. She is interested in observing and discovering unsettling languages and epistemological regeneration when personal storytelling and knowledge collide with one another. Her keen eyes keep hovering around fleeing utterances, collective movements and storytelling, unrealized emotions, and micronarratives to be realized. Kang obtained a BFA in Film Production from Sang Myung University (South Korea) and an MFA from Concordia University (Canada). She has presented internationally, including at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, 2022), ArtScience Museum (Singapore, 2022), and Dazibao (Montréal, 2022), among others. She has participated in AiR programs at the AGO X RBC Artist-in-Residence (Toronto, 2022) and ZK/U (Berlin, 2023), among others. She has been awarded the RBC Newcomer Arts Award (2021) and was shortlisted for the Simon Blais Award (2016). She has published two self-publication projects, Absent Seats (2019) and Tenderhands #1-100 Limited Edition (2022). She is a co-founding member of Quite Ourselves, an artist collective seeking sustainable mobility in life and art creation.