Heesoo Kwon
2025 Eureka Fellow
Heesoo Kwon is a multidisciplinary artist from South Korea currently based in the Bay Area of California. In 2017, Kwon initiated an autobiographical feminist religion, she calls Leymusoom, as an ever-evolving framework to explore her family histories and communal feminist liberation. She uses a range of software to regenerate her female ancestors’ lives and build a digital feminist utopia through 3D animation.
Kwon received a Business degree from South Korea’s Ewha Womans University in 2015, the Female Inventor of the Year Award from the Korean Intellectual Property Office in 2012, and an MFA from University of California, Berkeley in 2019.
Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Korea, and Europe, including at BAMPFA and the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley; the Ryan Lee Gallery and 47 Canal in New York City; the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco; Site Gallery in Sheffield, UK; Blinkers in Winnipeg, Canada, and WMA in Hong Kong. Kwon was a finalist for the Queer Art Prize for Recent Works in 2021 and the SFMOMA SECA Award in 2022. She is a recipient of a Hewlett 50 Arts Commission for media arts in 2022 in collaboration with the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco.
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