- Curated by Sophia Park, Recipient of the AHL – CHUN Family Foundation Curatorial Open Call
- Exhibition Dates: May 3–May 31, 2025, Wednesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm
- Exhibition Location: AHL Foundation (2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY 10030)
Poster for What’s carried through the winds? designed by Mianwei Wang.
New York, NY – April 19, 2025 – AHL Foundation is pleased to announce What’s carried through the winds? an exhibition and accompanying series of public programs opening Saturday, May 3, 2025 and closing Saturday, May 31, 2025. The exhibition explores the many sides of tenderness through the works of five artists: Hyoju Cheon, Calvin Kim, Christina Yuna Ko, Eunwoo Nam, and Kanthy Peng. The opening will take place with a public program hosted by Eunwoo Nam at 4pm ET in the AHL Foundation gallery, followed by a reception from 5:30pm – 8pm ET with a performance by Hyoju Cheon and Gladstone Deluxe at 6pm ET. The exhibition is organized by Sophia Park, selected for the 2024 AHL–Chun Family Foundation Curatorial Open Call Exhibition.
What’s carried through the winds? examines how tenderness operates within intimate interpersonal relationships and larger societal structures. Acknowledging tenderness as an important feeling and quality in relationships, and the challenge in quantifying and defining as it is influenced by individual experiences, the exhibition gathers five artists with diverse interpretations of tenderness. Each of the artists’ work included in the exhibition explores tenderness from varying perspectives and approaches. Working across sculpture, painting, video, sound, performance, and installation, these artists serve as one set of constellations that investigates tenderness as a capacity, feeling, action, and memory. The artists’ works fill the space with warmth, nostalgia, skepticism, play, and love as byproducts and essential ingredients of tenderness.
Public Programs
The exhibition will feature a series of public programs all held in the AHL Foundation gallery space. The first is Memory:Mode, led by artist Eunwoo Nam. Participants are invited to join Nam in a gathering to share music tied to personal memories in relation to the exhibition thematics. During this gathering, all participants are invited to bring one or two songs on vinyl record that reflects their understanding of tenderness. Participants will be invited to share their stories about each song, and a collective playlist will be created and recorded, which will be played during the exhibition period. The dates for Memory:Mode are the following:
- May 3, 2025, Saturday 4 – 5:30pm
- May 17, 2025, Saturday 3 – 5pm
- May 28, 2025, Wednesday 6 – 7:30pm
On May 31st, 2025 (Saturday 1 – 3pm), Saturday, there will be a celebration of the book launch for the exhibition featuring poetry readings, a reading room, and a short talk with the contributor Caroline Taylor Shehan and book designer, Mianwei Wang. More programming information will follow.
Please email myungrpark@gmail.com for all further inquiries.
Artist Biographies
Hyoju Cheon (b. Seoul, Korea) is an explorer and interdisciplinary artist currently residing in New York. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and a Painting BFA from SungShin University. Her multimedia practice–often casting a space, an object, or a body in motion–responds to the conditions of a site. Her work documents bodies as they move through space:drawing their trajectories and archiving the material traces left behind. Hyoju has exhibited her works in Seoul at Dongsomun, Meindo, Gallery Imazoo, and Gaon Gallery; and in New York at the Lenfest Center for the Arts, Half Gallery and Chashma among others. She has been an artist in residency at Kunstraum LLC and NARS Foundation HDTS high desert test sites residency and Triangle residency.
Calvin Kim (b. Los Angeles, CA) currently lives and works in New York City. Kim received his M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Columbia University, his B.F.A. and B.A. in Psychology at Cornell University, and was a recipient of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to attend Yale Norfolk. Selected exhibitions include “Soft Pangs,” Situations, New York, NY; “Holiday,” Harper’s, New York, NY; “What’s New In Still Life, Portrait, and Landscape,” LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA; “Genius Loci,” Charles Moffett, New York, NY; among others. In 2023, Kim received an award through the The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts’ Studio Program, New York, NY.
Christina Yuna Ko is a Queens-based artist and member of the collective Asian Feminist Studio for Art Research (AFSAR). Her work reclaims the visual language living in the Asian diasporic experience as a means of imagining and speculation. Selected exhibitions include: “39 Footnotes”, Accent Sisters, New York, NY; “Gathering”, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY; “Late Night Enterprise”, Perrotin, New York, NY; and “Bathing in Public”, Selenas Mountain, Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been featured in Artforum, FAR–NEAR, Hyperallergic, and The Washington Post among others. She has further participated in programs at the Palais de Tokyo and GYOPO (LA), among others.
EunWoo Nam is a New York-based composer, music producer, and socially engaged artist originally from South Korea. His work weaves together sound, storytelling, and community engagement to explore themes of migration, memory, and cultural identity. After studying Social Practice Art at Queens College, he collaborated with institutions such as the Queens Museum and Queens Public Library. He has served as a panelist for the Queens Council on the Arts and continues to work independently, creating participatory works that foster connection through shared histories and sound.
Kanthy Peng is an artist who specializes in lens-based mediums. Her current practice focuses on people’s uneven mobility embodied in colonialism and globalized tourism, and caused by illness and disaster. Peng holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art (2019) and a BFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago (2016). Her works have been exhibited and screened internationally, including, most recently, at Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, China, European Media Art Festival, Germany, and FotoFocus Biennial, United States. Peng has received fellowships and residencies from the Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta, Malta, the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, United States.
