ARTIST BIO
Sia Joung is a multidisciplinary artist, her works question identities and beliefs merged with site-specificity. Her work also extends to public murals and she has received grants from Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commissions, Hutchinson Community Foundation, Moxley Trust Foundation and won Art Enhancer Award from Kansas Art Educator Association in 2021.
Her work has been exhibited in Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, The Delaware Contemporary Art Museum, Wilmington, DE and Delaware College Art Gallery, Media PA.
She holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Iowa. She is currently teaching at Kansas City Art Insititute, KCMO.
EDUCATION
MFA –Visual Arts
Washington University in St.Louis, Sam Fox School of Art and Architecture, St.Louis MO
BFA –Painting & Drawing
The University of Iowa, School of Art & Art History, Iowa City, IA
Exchange Student Program, Korean Ink Painting Courses
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
TEACHING
Present – Foundation faculty at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2017-2022– Assistant Professor of Art & Design at Sterling College, KS
2018-2021– Department Chair of Art & Design at Sterling College, KS
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Surface of Your Land, Baker University, Baldwin City, KS
2022 Passages, 118 Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Contemporary Landscape, CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea
2021 Faces and Places, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Smoky Hill Art Exhibition, Hays Arts Councils, Hays, KS
2021 Roots and Wings, Carriage Factory Art Gallery, Newton, KS
2020 The Surface, Solo Exhibition, Hutchinson Art Center, Hutchinson, KS
2020 Artist Residency, Harvester Arts, Wichita, KS
2017 215 | 610 Contemporary Juried Exhibition of Regional Emerging Artists, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA
2016 MFA Bienniel, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
2014 Ann Metzger Memorial National All Media Exhibition, St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis, MO
2014 University City Public Sculpture Series, University City Public Library, St.Louis, MO
2014 Beyond Violet with the Emperor Scorpion, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2022 Artist-in-Residence, Baker University, Baldwin City, KS
AWARDS & GRANTS
2023 Vibrant Classroom Grant, Baker University, KS
2022 Moxley Trust Foundation Grant, Sterling, KS
2021 Art Enhancer Award, KAEA (Kansas Art Educator Association), KS
2021 Reimagined Spaces, Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commissions, Kansas Department of Commerce, KS
2021 Moxley Trust Foundation Grant, Sterling, KS
2021 Smoky Hill Art Exhibition Artist Award, Hays Arts Councils, Hays, KS
2020 Dialogue Reconstructed Exhibition Grant, Hutchinson Community Foundation, Hutchinson, KS
2020 Moxley Trust Foundation Grant, Sterling, KS
2015 Travel Grant Award, Washington University in St.Louis, MO
CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES
2020 Dialogue Reconstructed–Celebrating Diversity Through Art, Regional Exhibition, Hutchinson Art Center, Hutchinson, KS
2019 Beauty in Chaos– Photography Exhibition by Dave McKane, Sterling College Art Gallery
2019 The Story of Art–Digital Illustration by Thomas Moore and Jillian Stiles, Sterling College Art Gallery
2018 The Art of Theatre , Sterling College Art Gallery
2018 Carved: A Printmaker's Labor, Color Relief and Intaglio Exhibition by Caitlin Penny, Sterling College Art Gallery
2017 Dust to Dust: Photography from the Dust Bowl, Sterling College Art Gallery