Suhyun | Sonia Choi
Artist, Writer, and Organizer
Honors and Awards
2026 Archaeologies of Grief Scholarship Institute for the
Development of the Human Arts, New York
2025 Survivor Wealth Summit Scholarship FreeFrom, Los
Angeles
2022 Artist Fellowship Award AHL Foundation, New York
2018 100 Honoree Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San
Francisco
Solo Exhibition
2023 Memorial for Laptop Recess, New York
2019 Container Gamgook, Seoul
Group Exhibitions
2022 Finding Oneself in Others AHL Foundation, New York
2021 To You & Me projectspace.wip, Seoul
PRACTICEPRACTICEPRACTICE space illi, Seoul
2020 CLOUD 9 Zoom
2019 The WYFY School Radical Love Space, Metaden,
Playground Coffee Shop, The Living Studio, Jardin Comunitario Los Colibries, The Bungalow, School for Poetic Computation, New York
2018 Solidarity is Possible, but not Inevitable Abrons Art
Center, New York
2017 Us: A Convening on Art, Healing, Organizing, and
Nightlife Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, Knockdown Center, Secret Project Robot Space, Mayday Space, the New Women Space, MINKA, Powrplnt, the Laundromat Project, Brotherhood Sister Sol, Starr Bar, Canvas Institute, La Finca del Sur, New York
Friends of Afropunk Afropunk New York
What Does Our Future Hold? Dye House 451, London
School’s Out: The Get Down Edition Afropunk Army and Urban Arts Partnership Castle Fitzjohns, New York
MAMI & BUFU Presents: Opaque AF Mr. Wu’s, New York
2016 Scamming the Patriarchy New Museum, New York
R U 4 Real: An Exhibition on Anger and Authenticity BUFU Studios, New York
BUFU Studios: Black and Asian Futurity BUFU Studios, New York
TFW105 #2 POWRPLNT, New York
2014 ECTOPLASMS HAG Collective, New York
The Fempire Night CUNY, New York
Residencies
2024 New Inc Membership New Museum, New York
2023 Bandung Residency Asian American Arts Alliance and
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art, New York
2022 New Media Leader Ford Foundation, New York
2021 Feminist Future(s) Fellow MIT, Cambridge
______-in-Residence BabyCastles, New York
2020 Brooklyn Community Foundation, New York
NYU Artist in Residence LaGuardia Studio, New York
2018 Trust Eyebeam, New York
2017 Slow Train Residency China Residencies in Beijing,
Guangzhou, and Lijiang
Huangbian Station Guangzhou
Q-Space Beijing
Lijiang Studios Lijiang
Published Writing
2024 Queer Hangeul Language School Workbook (v. 3) archived
in LACMA, Commonwealth and Council, LACA, New Inc
2023 Queerean Experience on Technocratic Culture Processing
Foundation
2021 A Guide to Co-Creating Access and Inclusion the Creative
Independent for Pioneer Works
Code of Conduct Biennale Architettura, Korea Pavilion:
Future School
Our Birthright: Love, Interdependence, Power New Inc
Interweaving Poetic Code Centre for Heritage, Arts and
Textiles Hong Kong
Distributed Web of Care: A Primer on Distributed Webs
CTM Festival Berlin
Time Travel with Me Through the Hyperbolic Time
Chamber 24views
Fake Up Use
Artist Talks
2024 Bandung Learnings: How Artists are building Black-Asian
Solidarity Ford Foundation, New York
2023 Techno-Orientalism and Strategies Against Violence
Recess, New York
Reconfiguring Our Relationship with Our Tech and Ourselves Recess, New York
p5.js Community Salon NYU ITP, New York
Living Room Light Exchange New York
2021 Body Discourse and Ontology Universidad de las Américas
Puebla, Mexico City
Dance on Screen Heyri Cinema, Paju
What’s the Use of Intersectionality? Feminist Culture House, Helsinki
_____-In-Residence Final Presentations BabyCastles, New York
2020 Weaving “Us” Gathering of Collectives & Skillshare Allied
Media Conference, Zoom
Asia Art Forum Pen America & Mekong Culture Hub, Zoom
Creative Anti-Racism Venice Biennale Architettura: Future School, Seoul
2019 WYFY: With You, For You Eyeo Festival Keynote, Minneapolis
2018 Labor and Privilege Art Basel Hong Kong, Tai Kwun
Contemporary, Hong Kong
Building Radical Collectives BRIC, New York
BUFU: Our Selves, Our Stories, and Our Futures Allied Media Conference, Detroit
2017 Career Lab: Art and Activism The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York
Here Welcome to Junior High, Los Angeles
BUFU: Artist Talk 44 Theatre, Guangzhou
Publications
2026 VoyageATL Meet Suhyun (Sonia) Choi of New York
2024 Womanly The Bandung Artist Residency is Building Black-Asian
Solidarity In NY by Regine Roquia
2020 Autostraddle BUFU’s Cloud 9 Builds New Networks of Care for QTPOC During the Pandemic and Beyond by Elle Mckenzie
Frieze Breaking the Art World’s ‘Closed Circle’ by Ana Tuazon
Frieze How to Keep Clubbing During Lockdown by Mimi Chu and Cami Rincon
2019 Cult Classic Issue 04: FUTURE VISION
2017 the Brooklyn Museum BUFU Presents Us
Village Voice Voice Choices: Convene and Consider
by Amara Thomas
NYLON The BUFU Collective Explores the Power of Black and Asian Unity by Atoosa Moinzadeh
The Fader 13 Important Organizations to Guide You Through the Next Four Years by Atoosa Moinzadeh
The Outline Why Art Collectives Are Gaining Ground
by Ann-Derrick Gaillot
i-D The Fifth Sense directed by Christine Yuan
2016 The Village Voice Best Art Collective Promoting P.O.C. Solidarity by Ayasha Guerin
Hyperallergic Start to Process the Election at these Cultural Spaces and Events by Jilian Steinhauer
The Fader How Some Smart People Are Planning to Fix this Terrible Mess Our Country is In by Yael Malka
i-D BUFU, the New York Art Collective Promoting POC Solidarity by Blair Cannon
Amuse the Female Curators to Watch in NY by Lia Mcgarrigle
VIBE BUFU is the Dopest Art Collective You’ve Never Heard of
by Shanna Collins
POSTURE Magazine In Conversation with the BUFU Collective on Afro-Asiatic Solidarity by Ebony Donnley
Editorial Magazine By Us For Us Editorial by June Canedo
Streetfoot From NEW YORK, to SEOUL by Jo Egg
2015 Bluestockings Magazine WHITE
2014 DRECK Magazine Interview with Amanda M. Jansson
Education
Parsons The New School for Design New York, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts: Fine Arts Major August 2016
