Heesoo Kwon

  • Heesoo Kwon is a multidisciplinary artist from South Korea currently based in the Bay Area, California. In 2017, Kwon initiated an autobiographical feminist religion Leymusoom as an ever-evolving framework to explore her family histories and undergo communal feminist liberation. Kwon received a Business degree from Ewha Woman's University (BA, 2015) and received the Female Inventor of the Year Award from the Korean Intellectual Property Office in 2012. After realizing herself as a product of Korean patriarchal society and the misogynist commercial field, she started to make art to shed the burden of being a woman in Korea and redesign her queer feminist life in order to rebel against patriarchy both socially and within her home. Kwon’s shift towards art was greatly informed by Women’s Studies that she was exposed to while at Ewha Woman's University. The development of the religion Leymusoom can also be seen as a way for Kwon to call into question the staunch Christian values that were impressed upon her growing up. 

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Basma Alsharif, Deep Sleep, 2014
Worlds World Worlds
Kadist San Francisco
11 Apr 2024 – 03 Aug 2024
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Heesoo Kwon is a multidisciplinary artist from South Korea currently based in the Bay Area, California. In 2017, Kwon initiated an autobiographical feminist religion Leymusoom as an ever-evolving framework to explore her family histories and undergo communal feminist liberation. Kwon received a Business degree from Ewha Woman’s University (BA, 2015) and received the Female Inventor of the Year Award from the Korean Intellectual Property Office in 2012. After realizing herself as a product of Korean patriarchal society and the misogynist commercial field, she started to make art to shed the burden of being a woman in Korea and redesign her queer feminist life in order to rebel against patriarchy both socially and within her home. Kwon’s shift towards art was greatly informed by Women’s Studies that she was exposed to while at Ewha Woman’s University. The development of the religion Leymusoom can also be seen as a way for Kwon to call into question the staunch Christian values that were impressed upon her growing up.