Born in 1971, Leeah was
raised by a sculptor father and an illustrator mother in Seoul,
Korea. In 1982, she immigrated to the U.S. with her family to
make a new home in Indianapolis. Since finishing her education in 1996,
she has exhibited throughout the country and taught drawing and painting
at the University of New Haven and the Kansas City Art Institute. She
currently resides in Connecticut with her husband and
children. |
EDUCATION1996 - MFA
Painting, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
1994 - BFA Painting,
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
1994 - BA Art History, Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana
AWARDS2008 Connecticut
Commission of Culture and Tourism Artist Fellowship Grant
2006
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2004 George Sugarman Foundation Grant
2001 Charlotte Street Foundation Grant
1996 Helen W. Winternitz Award,
Yale School of Art
ONE PERSON 2007 Andrew
Bae Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2005 DePauw University, Peeler Art Center,
Greencastle, Indiana
2005 Andrew Bae Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2003
Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas
2003 Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita,
Kansas
2002 Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2002 Embry
Gallery, Barstow School, Kansas City, Missouri
2000 Michael Cross Gallery,
Kansas City, Missouri
1999 Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
1999
Michael Cross Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1996 Fairfield University,
Fairfield, Connecticut
SELECTED GROUP
2008 Never
Routine: Women in the Course of Their Daily Lives, Grace Institute, New York,
NY
2007 Here and There: Stories or Immigration - Artworks, New Bedford,
MA
2006 Contemporary Asian Art 2006 - Art Center of Battle Creek, Battle
Creek, MI
2005 Summer Exhibition - Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City,
MO
2005 Navy Pier Art Expo - Chicago, IL
2004 Truth or Fiction - Overseas
Korean Artist Exhibition, Hangarm Art Museum, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, S.
Korea
2004 Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Kansas City Flatfiles - HR Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2004 Navy Pier
Art Expo - Chicago, IL
2003 Landscape Unlimited - The Fine Arts Gallery,
Chicago, IL
2002 The Perception of Appearance-A Decade of Contemporary
American Figure Drawing - Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2002 Urban Nomads -
Courtland Art Center, Courtland, KS
2002 Gathering Influences - H&R Block
Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2002 New Talent - Gross McCleaf Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
2002 Summer Exhibition - Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City,
MO
2001 Small Packages - Wood Street Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Chicago,
IL
2001 Kansas City Flat Files - H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City,
MO
2001 Charlotte Street Fund Exhibition - H&R Block Artspace, Kansas
City, MO
2000 New Faculty Exhibition - H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City,
MO
1999 Supermarket 1999 - Lamar University, Beaumont, TX and Slop Art
Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1998 Jan Weiner Gallery Group Exhibition, Prairie
Village, KS
1998 Women in Visual Arts - Erector Gallery, New Haven,
CT
1998 International Perspectives - University of New Haven, West Haven,
CT
1998 6 Schools Faculty Exhibition - Artspace, New Haven,
Connecticut
1997 Halpert Biennial - Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
1997 Connecticut Women Artists - University of Hartford, Hartford,
CT
1996 New Talent - Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 Art of Northeast -
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1996 Figures and Space - Hamden
Hall Gallery, Hamden, CT
1996 Painting Today - Erector Gallery, New Haven,
CT
1994 Group Exhibition - Waldron Art Center, Bloomington,
IN
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alan Artner, "Leeah Joo's
Storytelling Works" Chicago Tribune, March 25, 2005
Teggi Moon, "Six Korean
Artists Selected..." The Korea Times, October 7, 2004
"Korean Artists
Distinguished Themselves" The Korea Daily, October 12, 2004
Mi-Jin Kim,
¡°Review: Truth and Fiction¡± Seoul Art Center Magazine, August 2004
Dong-Hyun Yu, ¡°Young Artists¡¯ Reaction¡± Wolganmisool, August
2004
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2004
Young-Jin Kim, ¡°Adventures from Foreign Lands¡¦¡± Misulsegae, July
2004
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Magazine, July 2004
Christopher Swetala, "Intimations through a Veiled
Window"Review, Feb/Mar 2003:102.
Alice Thorson, "Panes
and Pleasures"Kansas City Star, December 13, 2002.
Theresa Bembnister, "A Glass Act" Pitchweekly, December 5-11, 2002.
Kate Hackman, "Charlotte Street
Fund"Review, April 2001, Vol.3, No.6:14-15.
Alice
Thorson, "Winning Works" Kansas City Star, March 25, 2001:I-1 and I-3.
Lisa Fanning, "Joo at Michael Cross" Review, November 2000, Vol.3, No.
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"A block party for creative versatility: Extraordinary diversity marks..." Kansas City Star, September 1,
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PUBLICATIONS
2007 "Charlotte
Street Foundation, 10 Years", Kansas City, MO: Charlotte Street
Foundation
2004 "Truth and Fiction, Young Korean Overseas Artists", Seoul,
Korea: Seoul Art Center and Hangaram Art Museum
2002 "Perception of
Appearance, A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing", Seattle, WA:
University of Washington Press and Frye Art Museum
2000 "New Letters, A
Magazine of Writing and Art", Vol 67, No.1, Kansas City, MO: University of
Missouri-Kansas City