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Ongoing Events
“ARE YOU KOREAN? Art and Identity Across the Korean Diaspora and Beyond” at PDR-1 Arts Warehouse (OPENING: August 22, 2026)
Are You Korean? is a multidisciplinary cultural exhibition exploring contemporary Korean identity across the global diaspora. The exhibition foregrounds perspectives often underrepresented within dominant narratives of Korean identity, including diasporic, multiracial, and adoptee experiences that challenge fixed definitions of belonging. The exhibition examines how Korean identity evolves through migration, generational memory, and cultural exchange. At a time when Korean cultural influence continues to expand globally from cinema and music to fashion, food, and art, Are You Korean? creates a space to reflect on how identity transforms and redefines itself as it moves across borders, languages, and communities. Featuring work by artists: Michelle Favin, Helen Kim, Sung Jae Lee, Hannah Lee, Joanne Lee, and Jun Yang.
Ha Chong-Hyun: Retrospective at the Asian Art Museum (OPENING: September 25, 2026 to January 25, 2027)
For over six decades, pioneering artist Ha Chong-Hyun (b. 1935) has explored what painting becomes when freed from all existing conventions. Ha’s work prizes the interaction of his materials: using pressure, gravity, and tools ranging from torches to everyday utensils, he transforms the surfaces of canvases up to eight feet tall into a treasure trove of texture and physicality. His first museum exhibition in North America, Ha Chong-Hyun: Retrospective offers an unprecedented look at the creative evolution of one of Korea’s most influential contemporary artists.
RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me at SFMOMA (OPENING: October 3, 2026 to February 7, 2027)
RM x SFMOMA will be the first-ever museum exhibition featuring artworks from the personal collection of RM of BTS, a defining force in global pop. The exhibition brings together 200 works from the collections of RM and SFMOMA, offering a rare chance to see modern and contemporary Korean artworks in conversation with artworks from around the world. Many of the artworks have never before been exhibited to the public in the US. Among the key Korean artists represented in the collection of RM are Yun Hyong-keun, Park Rehyun, Kwon Okyon, Kim Yun Shin, To Sangbong, and Chang Ucchin, in addition to works by numerous notable contemporary artists based around the world. RM x SFMOMA will highlight resonances and themes shared among these works and complementary SFMOMA collection artworks by Korean artist Kim Whanki as well as American and European artists such as Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, Henri Matisse, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Paul Klee. Curated by RM. See what inspires the voice of a generation.
