Artist Résumé Jane Jin Kaisen Education
2008- MFA Candidate, UCLA Department of Art Interdisciplinary Studio
2005-2009 MFA The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark
2007-2008 - The Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program
2002-2005 - BFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
2001-2002 - Byhøjskolen / Aarhus Art School
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 * IWAB - Incheon International Women Artists Biennale 2009 curated by Eunhee Yang, Sutthirat Supaparinya
2009 * Migrations - Kalamata Greece, Curated by Heather Kouris
2009 * Moving Space Performance Festival Frederiksberg, Denmark, Gallery Pixel
2009 * Nabi Gallery New York with Sung Ho Choi, Aegi Changsuk Park, Jungsu Han, and Haegeen Kim
2009 * Los Angeles Asian Pacific American Film Festival, The Downtown Independent
2009 * Amelie A. Wallace Gallery New York - The Borders - curated by Hyewon Yi
2009 * EXIT Kunstforeningen GL. Strand, Copenhagen MFA Exhibition, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
2009 * TOPAZ, Martin Asbæk Projects with Yvette Brackman, Ebbe Stub, Ulriktoft
2008 * Expansion / Consruction: 5th AHL Foundation Winning competition. Gana Art Gallery, Chelsea, New York,
selected by jury Robert Berlind, Nathalie, and Heng-Gil Han
2008 “The Last Book Project”, Buenos Aires conceptualized by Luis Camnitzer
2008 *Unnamable Name, Copenhagen Main Library in Denmark
2008 * Adoption: Palimpsest of Identity, Curator: Jeehey Kim for AHL Foundation, KSC New York,
2008 * Whitney Museum Independent Study Program exhibition, Chelsea, New York,
2008 *Unnamable Name, Tompkin’s County Public Library, Ithaca, New York, curated by Todd Ayoung.
2007 * Visions from the Periphery, Kyunghee University, S. Korea, Curators K. Stoker, M. Weimer, E. Kim
2007 * Orientity Exhibition Gallery La Centrale, Montreal, Canada w. A. Gouillon & N. Lemoine
2007 * Traces, The National Museum of Photography, Denmark Curated by Louise Wolthers
2007 * Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, New York University, USA. Curated by Yong Soon Min.
2006 *Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, Faroe Islands, in collaboration w. Tobias Hübinette Curated by Kuratorisk Aktion
(Tone Olaf Nielsen and Frederikke Hansen) for NI FCA
2006 * Orientity Europe, Grenoble, France. With Nathalie Mihee Lemoine & Adel Gouillon.
2005 * Aruem Exhibition, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea,
2005 * ACCENT” Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark
2005 * Orientity Exhibition, Hong Kong Fringe Club
2004 * AREUM Vessel, Kyoto Museum of Art, Japan.
2004 * Orientity Exhibition, Kyoto Arts Center, Japan
2004 * Reclamation of Danish Identity, Lyngby Culture Center, Denmark
2004 * Minority Report, Århus Museum of Art, Denmark
2004 * International Adoptee Gathering Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea
2004 * Our adoptee, Our Alien Keumsan Gallery and Dongsanbang Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Selected Film Screenings
2009 * Touring Trans-cultural Adoptee Films, Australia-wide, curated by Indigo Willing & Lynelle Beveridge
2009 * 25th Asian Pacific Film Festival, Downtown Independent, Los Angeles, CA
2009 * Møstingshus Cinema, Copenhagen screening curated by Marie Rømer Westh / Susanne Hau
2008 * FIKE International Film Festival, Portugal
2008 * Hawaii International Asian Adoptee Film Festival, Honolulu
2008 * Privilege Walk Symposium, Lilith Performance Studio, Sweden. Curated by Foreningen JA!
2008 * PB&J Benefit Showcase for Migrant Trade Union, Agitpunkt, Seoul, Curated by A. Koh / L. Kwon
2008 * Botnik Studios, Botnik Space Sweden, Curated by Koh-I-Noor, Jens A. Beck and Heidi Hove
2008 * Cine Asie La Sala Rossa, Montreal, Canada
2008 * Video park Brol Kunstraum Lodypop, Basel
Accentuation, Screening Series: This is not a Koreanobela: a film trilogy, Green Papaya, Manila, The
2008 * Geographies of our own, Silk Road Mocha, New York City, with Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Sung Yung Shin.
2008 * This is not a Koreanobela, Green Papaya Projects, The Philippines, with Yong Soon Min and Soni Kum,
2007 * Le Futurs de l´Ecrit, Bandits Mages, Fr. Curators: Béatrice Rettig, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Isabelle Carlier
2007 * Global Alien Television Ssamzie Space, South Korea, Curated by Thorbjorn Reuter Christiansen
2007 * Filmplatform, Folkets Hus Cinema, Denmark, curated by Ada Otega Camara
2007 * Episode 5 The Substation Singapore. Curated by The Artist Village
2006 * Malmo International Film Festival, Sweden
2006 * Hong Kong Short Film & Video Festival, Hong Kong Arts Center
2005 * Skin Deep, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, USA curated by Maya Weimer & Eleana Kim
2005 * Skin Deep Galapagos Brooklyn, NYC, USA. curated by M. Weimer & E. Kim
2005 * Malmo International Film Festival, Sweden
2005 * Bandits-Mages International Media Festival, Bourges, France, curated by Isabelle Carlier
2005 * Videoscreening, Jubi96um Gallery Q, curated by Katrine Dirkinck-Holmfelt & Honey Beckerlee
Selected Performances
2008 * 2nd Deformes Biennial, Santiago, Chile , Curated by Gonzalo Rabanal and Lissette Olivares
2008 * Performing The Messenger for Dora Garcia, U-Turn, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art Denmark
2008 * 7 people/7 Days/7 Events, Koh-I-Noor, Copenhagen, Curated by Stine Marie Jacobsen
2007 * UFOlab Performance, Seoul Race Park, South Korea,
2007 * Ladyfest Copenhagen, Denmark with UFOlab, curated by Nanna De Hemmer Widding
2007 * Dynamo Kultorvet, Denmark with UFOlab, curated by Frans Jacoby & Yvette Brackman
2006 * Indonesia International Performance Art Event, National Gallery Jakarta, Indonesia, Curated by Heru
Hikayat and Yoyoyogasmana SS Listyowati
2006 * 4th DaDao Live Art Festival, 798 Factory, Beijing. Dir: Shu Yang, Curators: Pui Yin Tong/Wang Chuyu
2006 * 7th Open Art Live Performance Festival, 798 Factory, Beijing, China, Curated by Chen Jin
2006 * 6th Gwangju Biennale, Curated by Cristina Ricupero
2005 * AMBULANCE, International Performance Festival, National Gallery, Indonesia, curated by Iwan Wijono
Awards, Grants, Fellowships
2008 * The Danish Embassy in Portugal, support for Act Out! Conference in Evora, Portugal
2008 * The Danish Arts Council, travel Grant, Act Out! Conference in Evora, Portugal
2008 * The Danish Arts Council, production grant, Gana Art winning exhibition New York
2008 * Winner of AHL Foundation’s 5th Annual Juried Competition, Gana Art New York.
2008 * The Danish Arts Council, travel Grant for Global Institute, The 7th Gwangju Biennial
2008 * The Danish Arts Council, Travel Grant for The 2nd Deformes Biennale, Chile
2008 * Knud Højgaards Fund, Scholarship for UCLA
2008 * Idella Foundation scholarship for UCLA
2008 * Graduate Fellowship UCLA
2008 * The Danish Arts Council, production grant, Whitney Independent Study Program Exhibition
2007 * Danish Women’s Association, scholarship for The Whitney Independent Study Program
2007 * Danish Arts Foundation production grant for Unnamable Name
2007 * Beckett-Foundation, scholarship for The Whitney Independent Study Program
2007 * Nordea Foundation, scholarship for The Whitney Independent Study Program
2007 * The Fulbright Commission, scholarship for Whitney Independent Study Program
2007 * The Danish Arts Council, travel grant, UFOlab South Korea
2007 * Overseas Korea Foundation, exhibition grant Orientity Exhibition Montreal
2007 * Arkitekt Fr. Borups Familie Legat, travel grant for study trip to India
2007 * Danish Arts Council, travel grant for What time is it – cultural production and the L.A. Riots, NYU
2006 * The Danish Arts Foundation, production grant for Traces, National Museum of Photography
2006 * The Danish Culture Institute in Beijing, Residency during DaDao Performance Art Festival Beijing,
2006 * Danish Arts Council, travel grant for 4th DaDao” Performance Art Festival, Beijing, China
2006 * The Danish Arts Council: project grant for curating Made in Video Festival w. CPS
2006 * Sleipnir Travel Grant: Connection Barrents, Norway
2006 * Sleipnir Travel Grant, Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, The Faeroe Islands
2006 * Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art, grant for Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, The Faeroe Islands
2006 * Danish Arts Council, travel grant for Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France
2006 * Overseas Korea Foundation, grant for Orientity Europe, Grenoble France
2005 * PWA ArtLink's Prize Winning Art Directory: Yong Artist Recognition
2005 * The International Fund, individual research grant, Royal Danish Academy of Art
2005 * Nordic Foundation of Arts and Culture, production grant UFOlab Copenhagen
2005 * Danish Arts Foundation, exhibition grant UFOlab Copenhagen,
2005 * Danish Foundation of Art, travel grant, Orientity Exhibition, Hong Kong Fringe Club
Selected Artist talks and Presentations at Conferences and seminars 2006-2008
2008 * Act Out: Performative Video by Scandinavian Women Artists Évora University, Portugal, organized by Teresa
Furtado and curated by Anna Linder from Filmform.
2008 * PSi#14 Performance Studies international, - In Between States, Curated by Gundhild Borggren and Rune Gade.
2008 * 7th Gwangju Biennale: Global Institute: Experiments in Transnational Education. Curated by artistic director
Okwui
Enwezor, co-curators: Hyunjin Kim, Ranhit Hoskote
2007 * 7th conference of the Nordic Association of Japanese & Korean Studies. Copenhagen University, 2007 *
2007 * What time is it? – Cultural Production and the L.A. Riots A/P/A Institute, New York University. Curated and
moderated by Young Soon Min
2007 * Rethinking Nordic Colonialism. Talk and presentation with Tone Olaf Nielsen at Center for Contemporary,
Denmark, Organized by Anna Raitel
2007 * Photography, Representation and encounters Køge Library, with Louise Wolthers
2006 * Nordic Colonialism and Gender, Artist talk at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, organizer: Yasuko Ikeuchi,
2006 * Tracing Trades, Artist talk at Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan. organized by Yoshiko Shimada & Lee Chong Hwa
2006 * Malmø International Film Festival, Artist Talk aboutTracing Trades
2006 * Connection Barents, Kirkenes Norway, Artist talk curated by Ong Ken Seng
2006 * Independent Art Spaces in Asia, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Media Department
2006 * Independent Media Art, Bandtis-Mages International Media Festival, France. Curated by Isabelle Carlier
2005 * Media Activism, Artist talk at WITA: Women in the arts Singapore, organized by Margaret Tan and Amanda Heng
2005 * Artist talk and video screening. Open Dialogue Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Organized by Hasmi Hashim
2005 * Artist Talk about Accentuation, Malmø International Film Festival, Sweden
2004 * Art and Activism –Identity among transracially adopted Koreans, Kyunghee University, Seoul. Curator Kim Stoker
Teaching Experience
2008 * Teaching Assistant in Art History, Modernism at UCLA for Jan Tumlir
2008 * Workshop on performance and public intervention at Evora University, Portugal
2006 * Workshop with UFOlab at Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
Curatorial and Editorial Projects
2009 * Co-curator of 10th Open International Performance Art Festival 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China
2009 * Co-curator of Prelude- or Better! In Time, Denmark. With Nanna Vraae, Larissa Sansour, Stine Marie Jacobsen
2008 * Co-curator of Made in Video- International Festival for Video Journalism at tv-tv, The Danish Film Institute,
Folkets Hus, Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen Metro, Denmark w. Khaled Ramadan, Iben
Bentzen, Alfredo Cramerotti, Ida Gron, Stine Hoexbroe
2008 * Unassigned Co-editor of Shifter Journal #12 with Shresta Premnath and Kajsa Dahlberg
2007 * Co-curator of ARTgathering 2007 with UFOlab, Sofitel Ambassador Hotel, South Korea
2005 * Co-curator of UFOlab Copenhagen 2005, international exhibitions, screenings, seminars and artist talks Gallery
Pixel, Galleri Q and YNKB, Denmark
2004 * Co-curator of ARTgathering with Hyosung Bidol, Sofitel Ambassador Hotel, South Korea
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Book and DVD Publications
2008 * Essay for Edge of Europe, a blog on Performance and writing, curated by Maija Hirvanen
2008 * Essay for Exhibition Catalogue for Expansion / Construction Gana Art Gallery
2008 * Essay for Testimonies - an archive of discriminatory acts within the art field and comprehensive strategies to
Overthrow them. The YES! Association,
2008 * Text for OEI, Swedish journal on poetry and theory, in collaboration with Kajsa Dahlberg and Shretha Premnath
2008 * Text and images for Akenaton Docs - Performance Publication on contemporary Asian Performance Art
2008 * Image/Text piece for THE LAST BOOK - A Project by Luis Camnitzer
2008 * AKA Monthly Magazine
2008 * GOAL Magazine, April
2008 * Unnamable Name Exhibition Catalogue
2007 * Visions from the Periphery Exhibition Catalogue
2007 * Dictionary, edition 1. A book project by Ask, Hillesø, Rasmussen
2007 * Kårk - Danish Architecture Magazine edited by Anne Pind
2006 * Iljas Feministiska Bildalmanacka, Normal Förlag AB Publications
2006 * From the Far East to the white north, anthology, Truepenny Publications
2006 * OKAYbook 4 – Overseas Korean Artist Yearbook, Star-Kim & One-gook Publication
2005 * Hit The North DVD Compilation by Filmform, Sweden
2005 * Digital Creatures, FAST Video DVD Compilation
2004 * Borders, FAST Video DVD Compilation
Selected Press Reviews and Interviews
2008 * Ithaca Times review of Unnamable Name
2008 * Artists Unite February Issue
2007 * Billedkunstneren Kunst, adoption og bananmagt by Lene Myung, BKF Fagblad for Billedkunstnernes Forbund
2007 * Seoul YTN International News Channel w. Dae-Won Wenger
2007 * Belingske Tidende, review of Traces, The National Museum of Photography
2006 * Le Monde Diplomatique, Rethinking Nordic Colonialism
2006 * Newsletter from the Danish Culture Institute, Beijing October 2006
2006 * Cinemateket – The Danish Film Institute Monthly News Magazine
2006 * NIFCA / Nordic Institute For Contemporary Art News Magazine
2006 * Kunstaspekte International, Rethinking Nordic Colonialism
2006 * ArtReview, art magazine, “Rethinking Nordic Colonialism”
2006 * “Rethinking Nordic Colonialism,” in Kultura, Kringvarp Føroya – Faroese Broadcasting Company, May 11.
2005 * “Beyond Identity – Activism in Korean Adoptee Art” by Kim Stoker
2004 * Woman and Society / Kvinden og Samfundet
2004 * Arts in Culture, South Korean Art Magazine, Interview in relation to Oak’s Exhibition |
