Education

2011
Ph.D. in Fine Arts (Inter Media Art)
Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2007
Exchange Program, College of Fine Arts
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

2005
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Film and Video
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, California, USA

2001
Exchange Program
University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Solo Exhibition Record

2023
- Morning Dew: The Stigma of Being "Brainwashed", Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, NY, U.S.

2022
- DMZ-POV, Soni Kum: Embodied Art Practice of a Zainichi Korean Questioning Borders Beyond Japan, 14th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival

2021
-Morning Dew – A collaborative project between the artist and ex-“returnees” who defected from North Korea to Japan (organized and curated by Soni Kum), Buoy, Tokyo, Japan

2014
- “Heaven’s Gate”. Gallery Brocken, Tokyo, Japan

2012
- “Art Pilgrim”, Gallery Mejum, Seoul Art Space-Seongbuk, Seoul, Korea

2006
- “Price is Right”, ESL Projects, Los Angeles, U.S.A

Selected Group Exhibition/ Performance Record

2025
- notesfromthegroves Screening Event, SALT, Seoul, South Korea

2023
- “Morning Dew”, AAS-IN-ASIA Special Exhibitions 1&2, Deagu, South Korea
- “Colorblind”, “KANTEN 観展: The Limits of History”, apexart, NY, U.S.

2020
- APPARATION: 20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Department of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of Arts, Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2019
-“Art and Post Colonial East Asia Vol2. ”, Kyoto Academia Forum, Tokyo, Japan
- “Foreign Sky and Beast of Me screening with discussion led by Brett de Bary”, the Trylon Cinema, Minneapolis, US（part of the series “Intimate Ecologies: Where Forests, Rivers, and Skies Speak” sponsored by the Environmental Humanities Initiative, the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, and Cinema in the Cities, University of Minnesota, organized by Christine L. Marran)

2018
-“Art and Post Colonial East Asia”, Art Ongoing Cafe, Tokyo, Japan
-“Gyeonggi Arichive_Now”, Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus, Suwon, South Korea

2017
-“Body Temple”, Owl Barn Residency, Gloustersher, UK
- “Never Ending Song”, Der Meinblau, Berlin, Germany
- “Unruly Shadows: Artist Films and Videos on Challenging Spheres”, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore

2016
- “Krisis” bonington gallery, Nottingham, UK
-“旗、越境者と無法地帯“Tokyo Wonder Site, Curated by Alice Koh

2015
- "Performing Memory: Soni Kum & Yoshiko Shimada", Platform Gallery Kingston University, Curated by Eliza Tan

2014
- “Heaven’s Gate, reconciliation”, Busan Biennale 2014, Busan, South Korea

2013
- “ACCENTED BOUNDARIES”, Itinerant sends for itinerant Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark
- "Dear Curator Me", Selasar Sunaryo Art Center, Indonesia

2012
- “Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012”, Fukuoka Asia Art Museum, Japan
- "As I was Moving Ahead Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty", Publik screening, Copenhagen, Denmark
- "Muestra Joven 2012 (Young Filmmakers Film Festival", ICAIC, Havana, Cuba
- "Dear Curator Me", Madrid, Spain
- "A Postcard from Afar: North Korea from a Distance" Apexart, curated by Mark Feary, New York, US
- "Art, Performance and Activism in Contemporary Japan", Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London, UK

2011
- “Leyte Dream, Sacral Dance/Sacrifice”, Hiroshima International Peace Film Festival, Hiroshima, Japan
- “MINIMOVES”, BKK ArthouseGallery 3rd Bangkok art & culture centre ,Bangkok Thailand
- “Image in the Aftermath”, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

2010
- “Deer Hunter” Matsushiro Contemporary Art Festival, Nagano, Japan
- “Moira Roth Festschrift”, Poor Farm, Manawa, Wisconsin, US
- “LIVE ART/ART OF INTERVENTION”, Kyoto Art Center, Japan
- “CINEMA in Exile”, Documentary Dream Show by Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan

2009
- “ASIAN ART FILM PROGRAM 1”, NEON HALL, Nagano, Japan
-“10th Open Art Performance Festival”, Open Art 798 Art District, Beijing, China
- “CINEMA in Exile”, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan
- “ASIAN ART FILM PROGRAM 2”, NEON HALL, Nagano, Japan
- “Beyond Pressure International Performance Event”, Yangon, Myanmar
- “Foreign Sky”, Hiroshima International Documentary Film Festival, Hiroshima, Japan

2008
- “Korean Diaspora Film Nights”; Green Papaya, Quezon City, Philippines
- “Building Code Violations II”; Long March Space, Beijing, China
- “Festival Weib’s Bild 2”; Alte Feuerwache, Koln, Germany
- “2Talk Creative Convergence”, Sambalicaan Ground, Quezon City, Philippines
- “Small East Asia Co-prosperity Restaurant 08”, Gallery Mestalla, Tokyo, Japan
- “Pucheon International Performance Festival”, Korea

2007
- “Trauma, Interrupted: Art as Transport Station”, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
- “Imaginary Homelands”, Green Papaya, Quezon City, Philippines
- “A Midsummer's Nights Dreaming of Films”, Cinekatipunan Magnet, Quezon City, Philippines
- “8th OPEN Art Performance Festival”, Open Art 798 Art District, Beijing, China

2006
- “Foreign Sky”, 16th International Women's Film Festival, Manila, Philippines
- “Foreign Sky”, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, U.S.A
- “Foreign Sky”, Le Petit XiaoXiao, Shanghai, China
- “Foreign Sky”, Chamber of Public Secrets (Cable TV Project), Copenhagen, Demark
- “The Man Who Does Not Clap His Hands” (Installation), Off the Record (Public Art Project by Eric Van Hove), Tokyo, Japan

2005
- “DEFENCE”: Body and Nobody in Self-Protection, Sweeny Gallery, University of California, Riverside, USA
- “Two Letters from a Forgotten War”, Echopark Film Center, Los Angeles, USA
- “Foreign Sky”, Floianopolis International Film Festival, Floianopolis, Brazil
- “Cinema Capacete V: not video, nor cinema, neither television”, CAPACETE entertainment, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2004
- “Mania for Coleslaw”, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA, USA

2003
- “Down to It”, Crazy Space, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Artist talk, Lecture, Conference (screening)

2024
- Humanities Salon Inaugural Session: The Aesthetics of (Zainichi) Statelessness
Organized by Pedro Erber, Professor, School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda Univeristy

- Subterranean Histories: Screen / Art / Performance
"Color Blind" audio visual Installation by Soni Kum, multimedia artist, Visiting Chair in Asian Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota

- "Between History and Recollection: Asia-Pacific War Memory in Contemporary Japanese Art" , CAA (College Art Association of America) 112th Annual Conference

2023
- HANES VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES: SONI KUM
Artist talk and screening of “Morning Dew”, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S

- Archive Effects in East Asia: Thinking across Theory and Practice with Artists and Researchers, AAS-in-Asia (The Association for Asian Studies）
SPECIAL SCREENING AND ARTIST TALK: SONI KUM’S MORNING DEW

-The special screening, Department of East Asian Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, NYU Asian Film and Media Initiative in the Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NY, U.S.

- “Morning Dew” Symposium: Borders, Visibility, and Invisibility, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

- Morning Dew: Screening and Artist Q&A with Soni Kum, UCLA Terasaki Center for, Japanese Studies, UCLA Center for, Korean Studies, UCLA Center for the, Advancement of Teaching, UCLA, Darren Star Screening Room, Melnitz Hall , Los Angeles CA

- A Striking Artist: Soni Kum's Conjuring of the Spirits of Kwangjoo and Morning Dew
A roundtable, Media, Cultural Studies and Art, Comparative Literature;Languages, Media;Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

- Morning Dew: The stigma of being brainwashed
Organized by André, Keiji Kunigami, Event co-sponsored, by the Department of Film, Media Studies, he Center for Critical Korean Studies, he Department of Asian American Studies, he Department of Eas, Asian Studies, University of California,

- Film Screening with Soni Kum, Morning Dew: The Stigma of Being "Brainwashed"
Organized by, Andrea Mendoza, PhD, Institute of Ar, Humanities, University of California, San Diego

2022
- On Art Project “Morning Dew”: Memories, Dreams, Voices of the North Korean “Ex-Returnees” in Japan, Aichi Arts Center, Organized by Shota Ogawa and Ma Ran, Nagoya University, Japan

2021
- Image, Stories, and Silences of “Ex-Returnees” Who Defected from North Korea to Japan: Artist Talk with Soni Kum, Organized by Brett de Bary, Cornell University, East Asia Program NY

2016
- “Soni Kum, Illuminating Ghost: Ritual & offering in Performance Art”, Artist Talk and Presentation at LADA (Live Art Development Agency), London, UK

2015
- “Soni Kum Artist Talk”, Chugye Art University, Seoul, South Korea

2013
- “Soni Kum film screening and Artist Talk”, East Asian Study Institute, Sung Kong Hoe University, Seoul, Korea

-“Communion; Soni Kum screening and Artist Talk” Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

2012
- “Art, Performance, and Activism, In Conversation: Yoshiko Shimada and Soni Kum” Japan Foundation Visual Arts and Artists Series, London, UK

- From Asia to Okinawa, Okinawa to Asia (Symposium), Okinawa Museum, Japan

- “Encounter with Cinema from Japan”, Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV. San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba

2011
- “Arts Education & Practice based Research Symposium”, Korea National Research Center for Arts, Korea National University of Arts (Symposium)

- “IFTR; International Federation of Theatre Research Symposium”, Osaka University (Work Presentation by Yasuko Ikeuchi, Rerbecca Jenisson), Osaka, Japan

- “Memory and Representation of War”, Ritsumeikan University, Gender Studies, Kyoto, Japan (Artist Talk)

- “Works of Soni Kum” Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan (Lecture)

2010
- “Soni Kum Symposia” Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan (artist talk)

2009
- Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Yamagata, Japan

- Hiroshima Peace Film Festival, Hiroshima, Japan

- Society for Cinema and Media Studies(SCMS), Tokyo Japan (Lecture by Yasuko Ikeuchi)

2008
- Green Papaya, Quezon City, Philippines (artist talk)

- “2Talk Creative Convergence”, Quezon City, Philippines (artist talk)

2007
- Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan (artist talk)

- Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines (artist talk)

2006
- “Film, Gender, Power” (conference), Ritsumeikan Universtiy, Kyoto, Japan

- "Global Visions: Memory-Traces, Libidinal Imaginaries, and Intercessory Images", as a part of “Global States” in the Department of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, U.S.A (screening)

- Nikon Salon Public Lecture by Chong Hwa, Lee, Tokyo, Japan (screening)

- Seikei University Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Tokyo Japan (artist talk)

- Copenhagen University, Denmark (screening)

- Shanghai University, China (screening)

- University of Philippines, Diliman (lecture)

- University of Philippines, Mindanao(lecture)

Academic Teaching Experience

2024 -
Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hosei University

2021-2023
Senior Assistant Professor position in the School of Global Japanese Studies at Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan

Since 2011 till 2015, taught as a lecturer position in following universities in Korea

- Yonsei University, (since 2012) 延世大学
Interdisciplinary Major Course between East Asian Studies and Department of History
• Course title: “Seeing East Asian Contemporary Society through Film and Art”
Graduate School of Communication and Arts (Fall 2014)
• Course title: “Content and Form”

- Chungang Universtiy (since 2011 till 2013) 中央大学

Korea Painting Department/ Art School
• Course title: “Understanding Media in Art”

- Kyunghee University (since 2012) 慶熙大学

Humanitas College
• Course title: “:Korean Japanese & Jainichi Films”
• Course title: “Introduction to Film Studies”

2011
- Kookmin University, (Fall 2011) 国民大学　

Design Department/ Art School
• Course title: “Introduction to Moving Image”

Related Research Experience

2016
- Sponsored Researcher
Kingston Universtiy, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, London (UK)

2012
- Researcher
Institute of Korea Studies, Yonsei Universtiy, Seoul, South Korea

2009
- Researcher
Korea House of Sharing, Kyunggi-do, South Korea

Publication

2023
- Morning Dew – A collaborative project between the artist and ex-“returnees” who defected from North Korea to Japan, Editor and contributor , ART DIVER, Tokyo, Japan
『朝露 ―日本に住む脱北した元「帰国者」と アーティストとの共同プロジェクト』

2016
Video Work “Still Hear the Wound” is enclosed in DVD in the book “Still Hear the Wound: Toward an Asia, Politics, Art to Come. Selected Essays Edited By Lee Chonghwa”, translated in English by Rebecca Jennison and Brett de Bary, Published through Cornell University East Asia Series, Ithaca, USA

2013
“Flower of Potato” “Representation of Woman in Asia; Colonialism, War, Woman, Representation” , Seikyusha Publisher, Tokyo, Japan
エッセイ　『ジャガイモの花』 日本学叢書 4『アジアの女性身体はいかに描かれたか 視覚表象と戦争の記憶』　北原　恵 編著　青弓社　

2011
“Art Pilgrimage”, The Korean Journal of Arts Studies Vol 4., Korea National Research Center for Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea
論文『芸術、巡礼の道』
『韓国芸術研究（学術誌）２０１１年　第４号』　韓国芸術総合大学　出版　

2009
“Still Hear the Wound/ Zanshou no Oto”
(Artist Anthology Book, enclosed DVD video works by Soni Kum) Iwanami Publisher, Tokyo, Japan
付録　「残傷の音２」映像　DVD　制作
『残傷の音―「アジア・政治・アート」の未来へ 』　李 静和　編著　岩波書店

Award/ Grant / Scholarship/ Residency

2022-2026
- Practical Research on Contemporary Art and East Asia: Reconsidering the “Postwar”, Funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

2022
- “Collaborative Exhibition Project in New York State, USA”, Supported by the Pola Art Foundation's International Grant for Art and Cultural Exchange

2018
Socially Engaged Art Support Grant, Kawamura Arts and Cultural Foundation , Tokyo, Japan

2016
Researcher Residency at Live Art Development Agency, London, UK (11month)
with Grants for Overseas Study by Young Artists awarded by Pola Foundation, Japan

2014
Residency at Gertrude Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (3month)

2011-2012
Residency at Seoul Art Space Seongbuk (Seoul Cultural Foundation), Seoul, South Korea (18month)

2012
- “Excellent Lecture Award”, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

2011
- “Excellent Achievement Award”, Japan Student Support Organization Scholarship, Tokyo, Japan

2010
- Japan Student Support Organization Scholarship, Tokyo, Japan

2008
- Seikei University Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (Travel Grant), Tokyo, Japan
- Korean Arts and Culture Education Service (Research Grant at House of Sharing for - - Comfort Women), Seoul, Korea

2007
- Overseas Research Grant by Japanese Educational Ministry (1year exchange program at Seoul University, Korea) , Tokyo, Japan
- Seikei University Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (Travel Grant), Tokyo, Japan
-Residency at Green Papaya, Manila, Philippines

2006
- Japan Student Support Organization Scholarship, Tokyo, Japan

2005
- Cal Arts Scholarship, California, USA

2004
- Cal Arts Scholarship, California, USA

2003
- Cal Arts Scholarship, California, USA

2001
- Korea Foundation in Japan Scholarship, Tokyo, Japan

2000
- Korea Foundation in Japan Scholarship, Tokyo, Japan

1999
- Korea Foundation in Japan Scholarship, Tokyo, Japan

1998
- Korea Foundation in Japan Scholarship, Tokyo, Japan

Collaboration, Workshop, Projects

2012
“To Become One: Division and Art”
-A Series of Seminar with artists and scholars, creating discourse on ongoing Division in Korean Peninsula and Art.
“Collaborative Art Healing Workshop with North Korean youth” in collaboration with 34school, South Korea
* Above projects are both funded by Seoul Art Space-Seongbuk (Seoul Cultural Foundation), South Korea

2011
“GANDA HEALING Art House PROJECT”, Grassroots ART CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN
- Art project with Asian migrant women (domestic violence survivors) residing in South Korea
- Art project with North Korean youth residing in South Korea
- Dance project with Pyongyang performance group (North Korean migrant’s performance group residing in South Korea)‍
-Healing Art workshop with Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center
-Healing Boy, Mind, Spirit workshop with Breast Cancer Patients in collaboration with Korea University Hospital.
“Division and Art” (seminar), Seoul Art Space-Seongbuk
* Above projects are both funded by Seoul Art Space-Seongbuk (Seoul Cultural Foundation), South Korea

2010
GANDA ASIA HEALING FILM PROJECT
Mindscapes Of Women, Island Grassroots Story Telling With Film
At Enigmata Treehouse Ecolodge and Sculpture Garden, Camiguin Island, Philippines

2008
- “GAME (Grassroots Advancing Multi-Media Eco-education)for Children”
at Enigmata Treehouse Ecolodge and Sculpture Garden, Camiguin Island, Philippines
- “URBAN PLAN/DUYAN Project ~ Lotus from Plastic Mud”
(Collaborative environmental video installation project with Alma Quinto, Tessa Guazon and UST art students)
in collaboration with Kaibigan Foundation (foundation for children in urban slum), Manila, Philippines

2006
-“Dream Workshop” (Art Workshop for sexually abused girls, in collaboration with Alma Quinto)
with CRIBS (Institution for sexually abused girls), Quezon City, Philippines

-"Tell me a story, Mr. Cloud…" (Media Art Workshop, in collaboration with Enigmata and Department of Education, Camiguin Island )
Children's Biodiversity Mini Earth Camp, Camiguin Island, Philippines (Environmental multi-media video art film making workshop for children by the children)

Academic writing for my artworks by the scholars in English

2024
- “Art of Failure: Soni Kum’s Morning Dew Project and Diasporic Aesthetics” by Soyi Kim, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas

2023
- In/Visible—New Directions in Contemporary Art by Zainichi Koreans: Fragile Frames/Precarious Lives—in Soni Kum's Morning Dew (2020), by Rebecca S. Jennison
Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Volume 36, Number 2, December 2023

- Decolonizing (through) Obsolete Media: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Travelogue by Shota T. Ogawa, Non-Fiction 05: The Obsolete and The Resurrected: Archaeological Cinema in Asia

2020
- Contact Zones and Liminal Spaces in Okinawan and Zainichi Contemporary Art, by Rebecca S. Jennison, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas

- Re-envisioning “East Asia”: minor transnationalism, Trans-Pacific dialogues, and the visual arts, Amerasia Forum

2017
- “Reimagining Islands: Notes on Selected Works by Oh Haji, Soni Kum, and Yamashiro Chikako” by Rebecca Jennison, in Asian diasporic visual cultures and the Americas

2015
– “Looking at Foreign Sky, desperately seeking post-Asia: Soni Kum, Nagisa Oshima, Ri Chinu by Brett de Bary, Cornell University, Asian Cinema Volume 26, Number 1

-“Trauma and Survival in the Art of Yoshiko Shimada and Soni Kum” by Eliza Tan, 2016,Performance Studies international Fluid States 2015 Tohoku, Japan, the Keio University Art Center(KUAC).

-“The Politics and Aesthetics of the Wound: Performative Narratives of the People by Zainichi Korean Artists” by Eun-young Jin and Bo-seon Shim, Korea Journal, vol. 55, no. 1 (spring 2015)

-“Her Narration and Body: on Soni Kum’s Video Work” by Ikeuchi Yasuko, Translated by Junliang Huang, “Still Hear the Wound: Toward an Asia, Politics, Art to Come.” Selected Essays Edited By Lee Chonghwa, translated in English by Rebecca Jennison and Brett de Bary, Published through Cornell University East Asia Series, US

-“‘Postmemory’ in the Work of Oh/Okamura Haji and Soni Kum” by Rebecca Jennison, “Still Hear the Wound: Toward an Asia, Politics, Art to Come.” Selected Essays Edited By Lee Chonghwa, translated in English by Rebecca Jennison and Brett de Bary, Published through Cornell University East Asia Series, US