stickymonger@gmail.com
Stickymonger, aka Joohee Park, is a Brooklyn-based artist with an obsession to convert spaces into imaginary worlds that emerge as giant mural installations.
Stickymonger’s murals are composed of black “stickers,” meticulously cut from giant sheets of vinyl and installed piece-by-piece by the artist, creating images that melt and flow together like rivers of ink cascading down the gallery’s walls. Park’s tactile and visual obsession with fluid and sticky blackness is related directly to her childhood experiences. Growing up in Korea, in a home adjacent to her family’s gas station, Park’s backyard housedsix fuel-storage garages. There, the future artist would hide among the oil cans, often stepping in and playing with the dense black petroleum puddles that were ubiquitous in her world.
Her subjects are visceral:darkness, prejudice, and anxiety are represented as eyes, holes and little girls, allowing the viewer to vicariously experience Stickymonger’s sardonic signification viewpointof human nature.
Solo Exhbition
Untitled yet | Wootbear Gallery/ Kidrobot , San Francisco | June 2017
Jammed | Superchief Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | 04/15 ~04/21/2016
Cosmic Girls | Everyday Mooonday Gallery, Seoul, Korea | 01/15 ~03/27/2016
Eye see you, you see eye | Bunny Cutlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | 01/10 ~ 20/2014
To see, to be seen | Pratt Digital Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | 01/17 ~ 24/2012
Selected Group Exhibitions
Sensory Overload | Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Jan, 2017
Beneath the New Waves | Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | December, 2016
Tower to Streets | World Trade Gallery, New York, NY | 09/15 ~ 10/17/2016
CHG 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition | Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | 08/27 ~ 09/24/2016
Pearly's Beauty Shop | Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | 05/21 ~ 05/22/2016
One if by Land, Two if by Sea | MINY Media Center, Brooklyn, NY | 04/07 ~ 04/30/2016
Brooklyn Public | World Trade Gallery, Manhattan, NY | 10/22 ~ 12/01/2015
New York Comic Con | Javits Center, Manhattan, NY | 10/06 ~ 09/2015
GIAF(Governors Island Art Fair) | Governors Island, NY | 09/05 ~ 27/2015
Bedtime bunnies | Myplasticheart, Manhattan, NY | 07/11 ~ 08/02/2015
Northside Festival | Bedford Ave. Between 8th and 9th street, Brooklyn, NY | 06/14/2015
Tiny Trifecta | Cotton Cancy Machine, Brooklyn, NY | 06/06 ~ 07/05/2015
Bunnycutlet Presents | Cotton Candy Machine, Brooklyn, NY | 01/16 ~ 02/09/2015
White Monsters | Everyday Mooonday Gallery, Seoul, Korea | 01/09 ~02/22/2015
Beasticon II | Mark Miller Gallery, NY | 12/11/2014 ~ 01/11/2015
Art Basel Miami Beach | 2901 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, Fl | 12/04 ~ 06/2014
To see, or Not to be seen | Hotwood Arts Gallery, Gallery, NY | 04/25 ~ 06/01/2014
Northside Festival | Bedford Ave. Between 8th and 9th street, Brooklyn, NY | 06/14/2014
Merge 2 (Video / Interactive Art / Dance Performance) | CPR, Brooklyn, NY | 02/22/2014
GIAF(Governors Island Art Fair) | Governors Island, NY | 09/07 ~ 29/2013
COEXISTENCE | Gallery Golmock, Gallery Unoffical Preview, Seoul, Korea | 08/28 ~ 09/04/2013
Merge 1 | Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY | 06/17/2013
Northside Festival | Bedford Ave between 8th and 9th street, Brooklyn, NY | 06/15/2013
Constellation | TopTop Studios, Brooklyn, NY | 09/01~05/2012
GIAF(Governors Island Art Fair) | Governors Island, NY | 09/07 ~ 09/29/2012
Too Art for TV 6 | Bunny Cutlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |11/09 ~ 12/14/2012
Education
Pratt Institute | New York, USA | M.F.A. Digital Arts
Ewha Womans University | Korea | B.F.A. Visual Information Design
Parsons the New School for Design | New York, USA | Exchange Student in Design & Technology
Honors
Adobe Design Competition Semi Finalist in Illustration, 2012
Adobe Design Competition Semi Finalist in Installation, 2012
The Barnett Newman Foundation Honored Scholarship, USA 2011
The Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Information and Communication Honored Scholarship, Korea 2003
Residency
4head’s artist residency program | Governors Island, NY | 06/10~10/10/2015
Selected Bibliography
Ogilvy Do | November, 2015
Observer Culture | September, 2015
Art Net | September, 2015
Art Nerd New York | April, 2014
Art Nerd New York | January, 2014
Bunny Cutlet | January, 2014