Suhyun (Sonia) Choi
Co-founder of BUFU. Artist and Curator
Education
Parsons The New School for Design New York, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts: Fine Arts Major August 2016
Dawson College Montréal, Canada
Fine Arts Program: CEGEP July 2013
Solo Exhibition
2019 Container Gamgook, Seoul
Group Exhibitions
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 in NYC
2018 Solidarity is Possible but not Inevitable Abrons Art Center, NY
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 in NYC
Afropunk: Friends of Afropunk Brooklyn, NY
What Does Our Future Hold? Dye House 451, London UK
School’s Out: The Get Down Edition with Afropunk Army and Urban Arts Partnership Castle Fitzjohns, Manhattan NY
MAMI & BUFU Presents: Opaque AF Mr. Wu’s Manhattan, NY
2016 Scamming the Patriarchy the New Museum, Manhattan NY
R U 4 Real: An Exhibition on Anger and Authenticity BUFU Studios, Brooklyn NY
BUFU Studios: Black and Asian Futurity BUFU Studios, Brooklyn NY
TFW105 #2 POWRPLNT, Brooklyn NY
2014 Printmaking Salon Show The New School, Manhattan NY
BYOU: Build Your Own University BHQFU, Manhattan NY
ECTOPLASMS HAG collective, Manhattan NY
The Fempire Night CUNY, Manhattan NY
The Last Brucennial Meat Packing District, Manhattan NY
Residencies
2019 Brooklyn Community Foundation Brooklyn, NY
2018 Eyebeam Brooklyn, NY
2017 Eyebeam Brooklyn, NY
China Residencies: Slow Train Residency Beijing, Guangzhou, and Lijiang, China
Huangbian Station Guangzhou, China
Q-Space Beijing, China
Lijiang Studios Lijiang, China
Artist Talks
2019 Eyeo Festival WYFY (With You For You) Minneapolis, MN
2018 Art Basel Hong Kong Labor and Privilege for Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
2017 the Metropolitan Museum Career Lab: Art and Activism Manhattan, NY
Welcome to Junior High Here Los Angeles, CA
44 Theatre BUFU: Artist Talk Guangzhou, China
Publications
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
2014 DRECK Magazine Interview with Amanda M. Jansson
2013 Inconnu Magazine The Future Issue
