Beginning in 2016, AHL Foundation has been conducting in-depth interviews of artists of Korean heritage as part of a larger endeavor, the Archive of Korean Artists in America (AKAA). To date (August 2023), forty interviews have been compiled and made available to the public on AHL’s website. This first batch of artists comprises a diverse group: a bi-racial artist; several US-born artists of Korean ethnicity; Ko-rean-born artists who immigrated to the US at various ages; Korean artists who studied in the US and returned to Korea; Korean artists who have lived or presently live in countries other than the US or Korea; artists who travel between the US and Korea; and even one artist who lives the peripatetic life of a nomad. Each of these artists’ unique lives is dramatically different from their peers, so what is it that ties this group of artists together beyond some iteration of Korean ethnicity?

-Texts from the publisher.