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San Francisco

Sso-Rha Kang

Sso-Rha Kang, curator at The Carnegie, Covington, Kentucky, will be in residence at KADIST San Francisco, as part of the Double Takes program. During her residency, Sso-Rha will research the KADIST collection exploring placemaking, shapeshifting, and temporalities of place. 

Kang’s residency will support her research for Portals, Pathways, and the Space Between Us, an upcoming exhibition that explores placemaking, shapeshifting, and the temporalities of Kentucky through the Ohio River. The river is a point of study and departure, its historical significance rooted in division and symbols of freedom. The river acts as both a border and a point of shared connection—the complexities of this contradiction are unique to Kentucky, revealing the nuances of placemaking and identity. Anthropologist Kathleen Stewart states, “From the perspective of acts of place and its sensory materiality, place is something that throws itself together in moments, things, in aesthetic sensibilities and affective chargers.” Placemaking transcends historical markers but is rooted in everyday occurrences; the buildup of relationships, colloquial sayings, the environment, shared sentiments, and bodily gestures. This exhibition will examine scenes of Kentucky placemaking that hold resonance, reverence, and vibrancy through texture, aural and oral signifiers, myths, and gestures that are specific to the region.

This exhibition will consist of one-night outdoor pop-up video screenings that will take place throughout the state of Kentucky. The exhibition will travel to six venues, occurring once a month from June to November 2025.

Sso-Rha Kang is an educator and curator based in Cincinnati, OH. She is the Curator for The Carnegie (Covington, KY). From 2021-2023 she served as the Director of Galleries and Outreach at Northern Kentucky University where she curated exhibitions, performances, and organized events with an emphasis on cross disciplinary collaboration. Her research interests delve into areas of institutional critique, blankness, and aesthetic experience. She has taught from 2017-2023 at institutions such as, The University of Cincinnati, The Art Academy of Cincinnati, and Northern Kentucky University. Additionally, she has curated exhibitions for Wave Pool, Pearlman Gallery, Third Space Gallery, The Weston, and The Contemporary Arts Center. She was one of two Consulting Curators for the state of Ohio in the exhibition New Worlds: Women to Watch (2024) for the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.