Artist-in-Residence: Haein Kang

Winter – Spring 2022

Haein Kang is a new media artist making machines for poetic beauty, born and raised in Seoul, living and working in Seattle. She holds a BFA in Painting from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea, MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA, and Ph.D. in Digital Arts and Experimental Media from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.


Haein’s work seeks to expand awareness of art by developing new artistic expressions with science and technology. She received numerous grants and awards, including Honorary Mention at the 2019 Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. In addition, she showed her works internationally at various venues, such as Gallery 4Culture, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Richard Levy Gallery, Southern Exposure Gallery, ICMCNYCEMF, IEEE-GEM, SIGGRAPH-Asia, ISEA, and CODAME ART+TECH.