Erica Cho is a bi-coastal (Philadelphia and Los Angeles) visual artist, animator, and filmmaker.[1] They are Assistant Professor of Narrative Media in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, and were previously a visiting assistant professor at Swarthmore College in the Film and Media Studies department.[2][3] Cho has acted as a film curator for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival since 2011[4], and organized and founded the first Tri-Co Film Festival in 2012.[5] They have received the Creative Capital Moving Image Award, among other awards.[6]
Cho's work often explores various intersections between LGBTQ and Asian-American themes as described in their 2011 interview with the website Asian Gay and Proud:[7]
In my work, conceptually I’ve been interested in exploring the stereotypes of inscrutability or invisibility and being open to looking at what the potential in that stereotype might be. Asians are perceived to be inscrutable or invisible or voiceless or one of the masses, and I’ll flip it and decide to explore that stereotype and begin to see people who are extroverted and space-taking as actually lacking the ability or potential to be invisible. I know it sounds like I like the stealth ninja, but I won’t immediately accept certain qualities as a weakness."[7]
Education
editCho received a BFA in art from Pennsylvania State University, where they received University Honors, and also received an MFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in experimental film and animation from UC Irvine.[8]
Selected works
edit- Community Speculators – Queers, Aliens, Time, Space, Love, Labor, and Value, Armory Center for the Arts, May 2013[9]
- New Stories from the Edge of Asia: This/That, San Jose Museum of Art, February 2013[10]
- Grow, Morono Kiang Gallery, June 2010[11]
- You Gave Me Brave, S1F Gallery, October 2009[12]
- 20 Years Ago Today, Japanese American National Museum, October 2008[13]
- Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the Forgotten War, LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts, February 2007[14]
References
edit- ^ "Creative Capital". Creative Capital. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ "Erica Cho". visarts.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
- ^ "Profile: Erica Cho". Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ "Los Angeles Asian Pacific Filmfest". Los Angeles Asian Pacific Filmfest. Visual Communications. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ "Haverford College - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! The Third-Annual Tri-College Film Festival". Haverford College Center for the Arts and Humanities. Haverford College. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ "Our Cosmos, Our Chaos". Archived from the original on 2016-04-14. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ^ a b Baker, Miyuki (26 November 2011). "Out and Successful, Erica Cho – 11/26/11". Asian Gay and Proud. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ "Profile: Erica Cho". Swarthmore College, Profile: Erica Cho. University of Swarthmore. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ "Group Show Community Speculators – Queers, Aliens, Time, Space, Love, Labor, and Value". ArtSlant - Calendar. ArtSlant. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ "New Stories from the Edge of Asia: This/That". ArtSlant. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ "Group Show GROW". ArtSlant. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ "Group Show You Gave Me Brave". ArtSlant. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ "Group Show 20 Years Ago Today". ArtSlant. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ "Group Show STILL PRESENT PASTS: KOREAN AMERICANS AND THE FORGOTTEN WAR". ArtSlant. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
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