Korean-American artist Mina Cheon (Ph.D., M.F.A) is a media artist, writer, and educator who works between United States and South Korea. She resides in Baltimore, New York, and Seoul and is an Interdisciplinary Professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, teaching in the departments of Foundation, Interactive Media, Art History, Theory, & Criticism, and Language Literature & Culture. She also founded and directed an intercultural and interdisciplinary summer study abroad program MICA Korea in Seoul, Korea between 2004-7 and has worked in collaboration and exchange with various art schools and institutions of Seoul, Korea. Cheon recently earned her Ph.D. degree in philosophy of media and communications at the European Graduate School (EGS) of European University for Interdisciplinary Studies (EUFIS), Saas-Fee, Wallis, Switzerland. Her dissertation The ShÆman in Cyberspace: Dilemmas of Reproduction is currently being worked on for publication. Prior to EGS, Cheon was a Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities  (MITH) Doctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park between 2003-4, where she first started her Ph.D. work in the Theatre History and Performance Studies department. Cheon also has two MFAs; one from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and another from the Imaging Digital Arts (IMDA) program of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County: An Honors University of Arts, Science, and Technology. Cheon's BFA was in Painting from the Ewha Woman’s University of Seoul, Korea. As an artist, Cheon makes artwork that range from interactive media, video, installation, and performance and merges her artistic practice with theoretical interests. Cheon has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally. Her recent solo exhibition Addressing Dolls was at the C.Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland. The exhibition included works that dealt with the triangular relationship between North Korea, South Korea, and the United States revealed through girls’ play things such as in dolls and paper doll dresses. The exhibition was featured and reviewed in Voices of America, The Sun Paper, Artist Organized Arts, The City Paper, Radar Redux, Urbanite, WYPR, 88.1 Radio, NPR News Station, and awarded the Best Solo Show of Baltimore 2008 from the City Paper. Her other past invitational solo exhibitions include Dizz/placement at the Insa Art Space, Arts Council, Seoul, Korea in 2005 and the solo exhibition Groundless at the Lance Fung Gallery, New York in 2002. She has also been invited to numerous group exhibitions including “Athena’s Daughters,” curated by Grace Hartigan, at the Maryland Art Place in 2004; an international women’s arts festival in Taiwan, exhibition at the Kaohsiung Muesum of Fine Arts in 2003, organized by the Women’s Art Association of Tawain; group exhibition “PIX” at Lance Fung and Emily Harvey Gallery in 2002; and “The flow of new tendencies in Korean Art,” at the Korean Cultural Arts Foundation, 2000. Her video art works have recently been collected and archived by EVR (e-flux video rental), a project that collects, archives, and screens video artworks selected by curators of New York, Miami, Frankfurt, Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna, and Seoul, Korea. With her writing, Cheon has been a regular contributor for the NY Arts Magazine and the Wolgan Misool from 2002 – 2004 on the subject of science, art, and technology and periodically submits texts there. She is currently an officer and correspondent for Artist Organized Art (AOA) which is a non-profit arts organization, based in Boston and New York and is also a publication about culture and art from the artists’ perspective. She served the Board of Directors of the critical arts journal Link between 2002-2005 and also has a background in organizing and curating art events. Her larger art projects include organizing “SCI-ART: Extensions of Being 2000” exhibition at Maryland Art Place with educational program at Park School, funded by Maryland Arts Council, and her past history of assisting projects such as Nam June Paik’s infoART pavilion in Gwangju Biennale 1996 and the Seoul Fluxus Festival in 1993. In the past, Cheon worked commercially, working on branding and directing fashion shows and art events for a large fashion company SSamzie Co., a company that patrons contemporary Korean artists and one that has sponsored many of Cheon’s artistic projects. Cheon has also participated and presented in numerous academic panels such as the "Locating Cyberfeminsim" and "Passing and Peril on the Information Super Highway" at the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA 2008) in Singapore; 2008 panel on "International Partnership" of the National Council of Art Administrators; 2007 “Multi-cultural Conference” at the Towson University; 2007 College Art Association (CAA) Conference in New York, presenting papers on the Women’s Caucus for Art panel, “The Art of Being Global: International Art of International Artists” as well as the panel on "Venturing Overseas: Best Practices in Study Abroad Programs in the Visual Arts"; and the “Korea Wave” panel held at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Furthermore, co-sponsored by the Maryland Institute College of Art and the 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006, she chaired and moderated the New Media Caucus panel at ARTspace, “Asia Effects in New Media,” in CAA conference in Boston 2006. The panel texts were published in Media-N Journal where she has been invited to as the guest-editor as well as in the 2006 Gwangju Biennale catalog. Other activities include: panelist for International Symposium of Association of International Art Schools (AIAS) Conference 2005 on “Techno-cultures in Art”, hosted by Maryland Institute College of Art; panelist for “2003 Technology: Resource for Change" of the National Endowment of Arts; and panelist for “SCI-ART” panel at Park School, Baltimore in 2000. Cheon is currently working on her book about shamanism and cyberspace, an essay for the Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art, and her artistic research that looks at racism in Asian nations through interpreting images of hatred found in popular culture. Mina Cheon is also known by her past artist name MINALIZA1000, her pen name M-1000, and her Korean name 천민정. All rights reserved. Copyright © by Mina Cheon 2008. Email: mcheon@mica.edu and picture of the artist.