AWARDS / HONORS
2024 Best Short Shorts Film, SPE (Society for Photographic Education) Media Festival, Reno, NV, USA
2022 Best Animation Director, Shenzhen International Film Festival, Shenzhen, China
2022 Best of the Fest, 64th Rochester International Film Festival, Rochester, NY, USA
2022 Best Experimental, City of Angeles Women’s Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022 Best Animation, Long Story Shorts International Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
2022 Animaze Animation Awards Nominee, Animaze Montreal International Animation Film Festival Montreal, Canada
2021 GOLD Medal, Animation, 48th Student Academy Awards, Academy-Award Qualifying, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, USA
2021 Experimental Animation Named Awards, California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA, USA
2019 Adobe Prize (Second Prize), International Competition Category, EMAP 2019: Ewha Media Art Presentation, Seoul, South Korea
2017 - 2019 Lillian Disney Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA, USA
2013 Ewha Vision Artist - Best Graduation Work Award, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Whispers of Colors, 52nd Athens International Film + Video Festival, Academy Award-qualifying, Athens, The Athena Cinema, OH, USA, April 7 - 13
2025 Whispers of Colors, Sundar Prize Film Festival, Landmark Cinemas Guildford, British Columbia, Canada, April 11 - 13
2025 Whispers of Colors, AmDocs - American Documentary and Animation Film Festival, Academy Award-qualifying, Camelot Theatres, Palm Springs, CA, USA, March 27 - 31
2025 Whispers of Colors, 20th DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon, Art House, Eugene, OR, USA, March 6 - 9
2025 Whispers of Colors, 29th SPE Media Festival (Society for Photographic Education), Reno, NV, USA March 6 - 8
2025 Whispers of Colors, Oxford Film Festival, Malco Cinema Grill, Oxford, MS, USA February 27 - March 2
2024 Whispers of Colors, Frame & Frequency IX, VisArts Gallery, Rockville, MD, USA, November 22
2024 Whispers of Colors, Lowell Asian American Film Festival, Richard & Nancy Donahue Family Academic Arts Center, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA, October 18 - 19
2024 Whispers of Colors, Dissolution, 21st @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival - 21st Edition, FOQUS - Fondazione Quartieri Spagnoli, Napoli, Italy, November 11 - 17
2024 Dissolution, 16th Roanne Animation Short Film Festival – Ciné court animé, Experimental Animation International Competition, Cinéma Espace Renoir Roanne Theatre, France, March 17 - 23
2024 Dissolution, 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Academy Award-qualifying, Official Competition in Experimental Animation, Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Mar 26 - Apr 7
2023 Dissolution, Edinburgh Short Film Festival, BIFA (British Independent Film) Award-qualifying, Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, October 26 - November 5
2023 Dissolution, International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, European Film Award-qualifying, International Competition, Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus, October 7 - 13
2023 Dissolution, LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Experimental Animation and Video Art Program, BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Award-qualifying, Kyiv, Ukraine, October 4 - 8
2023 Dissolution, Viborg International Animation Festival, Best Experimental Competition, Viborg, Denmark, September 25 - October 1
2023 Dissolution, Caorle Independent Film Festival, Venice, Italy, September 19 - 23
2023 Dissolution, Montreal International Animation Film Festival, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada, September 17 - 19
2023 Dissolution, Neum Animated Film Festival, Competition Program, Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 26 - 30
2023 Dissolution, Imaginaria International Animation Film Festival, International Short Film Main Competition, Conversano, Italy, August 21 - 26
2023 Dissolution, Insomnia International Animation Film Festival, International Competition - Professional, Moscow, Russia, July 12 - 17
2022 Unforgotten, Long Story Shorts International Film Festival, Cinema Blue Velvet, Bucharest, Romania, December 10
2022 Unforgotten, Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) Asia Symposium, Electronic Theater Program, Daegu, South Korea, December 6 - 9
2022 Unforgotten, 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Artworks Program, Barcelona, Spain, June 10 - 16
2022 Unforgotten, Montreal International Animation Film Festival, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada, November 18 - 20
2022 Unforgotten, 17th Ammerman Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology Symposium, Art Exhibition Program, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA, November 10 - 12
2022 Unforgotten, Shenzhen International Film Festival, Shenzhen, China, October 31
2022 Unforgotten, Love and Hope International Film Festival, Cinema Maldà, Barcelona, Spain, September 6 - 10
2022 Unforgotten, City of Angels Women's Film Festival, The Whitefire Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA, September 2 - 4
2022 Unforgotten, Atlanta Underground Film Festival, RoleCall Theater, Atlanta, GA, USA, August 19 - 21
2022 Unforgotten, Morocco Shorts International Film Festival, International Animated or Experimental Film Competition, Rabat National Theater Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco, June 4 - 6
2022 Unforgotten, New Jersey International Film Festival, Voorhees Fall, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, June 3 - 12
2022 Unforgotten, Grand River Film Festival, Apollo Cinema, Waterloo, Canada, May 9 - 14
2022 Unforgotten, 64th Rochester International Film Festival, Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, USA, May 5 - 7
2022 Unforgotten, RiverRun International Film Festival, Academy Award-qualifying, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, USA, April 21 - 30
2022 Unforgotten, Arizona International Film Festival, Fox Tucson Theatre, Tucson, AZ, USA, April 20 - 30
2022 Unforgotten, 70th Year Columbus International Film and Animation Festival, 934 Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA, April 15 - 16
2022 Unforgotten, Amelia Island Film Festival, Fernandina Beach, FL, USA, April 24 - 28
2022 Unforgotten, International Alexandria Short Film Festival, Renaissance Metro Cinema Alexandria, Egypt, February 10 - 15
2021 Unforgotten, 48th Student Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), Los Angeles, CA, USA, Virtually due to COVID-19, October 21
2021 Mold, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Academy Award-qualifying, Athena Cinema, Athens, Ohio, USA, October 15 - 24
2021 Unforgotten, REDCAT Showcase 2021, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Virtually due to COVID-19, May 6
2021 Unforgotten, Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Virtually due to COVID-19, March 25 - 28
2021 Unforgotten, Tampere Film Festival, International Competition, Tampere, Finland, Virtually due to COVID-19, March 10 - 14
2021 Lament, London International Short Film Festival, London, UK, Virtually due to COVID-19, January 15 - 24
2019 Mold, 47th Denver Film Festival, UA Pavilions, Denver, CO, USA, October 30 - November 10
2019 Mold, International Sound & Film Music Festival (ISFMF), Istrian National Theatre, Pula, Croatia, October 19 - 21
2019 Mold, ANIMA- Córdoba International Animation Festival, National University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, October 9 - 11
2019 Mold, Castelli Animati International Animation Film Festival, Fiera di Roma, Rome, Italy, October 3 - 5
2019 Mold, ANIMA MUNDI, São Paulo, Brazil, July 24 - 28
2019 Mold, Insomnia Animation Festival, Moscow, Russia, July 18 - 21
2019 Mold, Quartier Des Spectacles Montréal, Montreal, Canada
2019 Mold, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Bonlieu Scène Nationale Annecy, Annecy, France, June 14 - 19
2019 Mold, A Night for Korean Animation, hosted by Bucheon International Animation Festival, Annecy, France June 16
2019 Mold, EMAP 2019: Ewha Media Art Presentation, Ewha Womans University ECC, Seoul, Korea, May 29 - June 2
2019 Mold, REDCAT Showcase 2019, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, USA, May 8
2018 Mold, Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation, Montreal, Cinémathèque québécoise, Canada, November 21 - 25
2018 Mold, 34th International Short Film Festival Berlin, Academy Award-qualifying, Volksbühne Theater, Berlin, Germany, November 20 - 25
2014 Resistance & Icarus, The 4th Art Factory Project, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
2014 Icarus, nonCLASS, BOX@DMC, Seoul, South Korea
2014 Icarus, Vision Ewha Artists Exhibition, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
2012 Dangerous Dream, Collecting Times-Hongik University Painting Department Video Festival, Seoul, South Korea
