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We all believe that we have been hurt, and so, can empathize, or sympathize with the plight of victims. But when we cloak ourselves in the banner of the 'good', 'the just', 'the right', we become blind to the realities of the pain and suffering that we inflict on others.

Depending on the situation and the environment, the roles of victim and victimizer are easily reversed. I choose to display two worlds in one location so that viewer is confronted with this stark, incongruous reality. Colonization causes a confusion of identity; identity becomes a space that is unfilled, a wound that is incurable. Post-colonialism caused old pain to resurface, but did not fully assuage that pain. The unexpected result is the illusion of utopian fantasy.
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Solo Exhibitions
The Island, 2008
[Solo Exhibition] Big Orbit Gallery. Buffalo, NY
Breeding Season, 2004
[Solo Exhibition] Big Orbit Gallery. Buffalo, NY
Insoon Ha First Solo Exhibition, 1995
[Solo Exhibition] Kyungin Gallery. Seoul Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
A She, 2007
McMaster Museum of Art Hamilton, ON Canada
You Can Laugh, 2005
Beyond/In Western New York. Albright Knox Gallery,
Buffalo, NY
 
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