Sun Forest

Portrait of Sun Forest, courtesy of David Conklin

Sun Forest is a first-generation Korean Canadian artist whose work is informed by a lifetime of movement through the United States, Canada and South Korea. Working across sculptural materials, video, performance, and new media, Sun’s projects center on the psychic violence of cultural assimilation and naturalization through migration, and the complexities of citizenship and national identity. Within the frameworks of her evolving practice, Sun’s current projects focus on racial violence and social inequity, as well as our collective capacity to enact resilience and propose new orientations within our bodies and ecologies. Sun is the recipient of funding from American Craft Council, College Art Association, British Columbia Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Sun has participated in numerous residencies, including Banff, Belkin Art Gallery, Quantum Matter Institute, Diasporic Futurisms, Griffin Art Projects, Centrum Foundations and the Arctic Circle. Sun holds a BSA in Animal Science from the University of Saskatchewan, a BFA from the University of British Columbia and an MFA from the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons. Sun currently works in the practice-based PhD in the Contemporary Arts program at Simon Fraser University, located on the stolen, unceded and occupied ancestral and traditional lands of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations.