Remembrance Memorial and Opening of KISSSSS by Yong Soon Min

12–2PM: Memorial 
2–5PM: Reception 
3PM and 4PM: Walkthrough of the exhibition with Kylie Ching, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher

UC Irvine professor emeritus Yong Soon Min taught in the Department of Art from 1993 to 2016. She continued to make art until her untimely passing on March 12, 2024. This exhibition features her last artworks: Still/Incessant, an artist book that revisits her longstanding interested in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)—the liminal space between North and South Korea—as well as research and notes for the unfinished artwork, KISSSSS and Both Sides Now. This installation is co-sponsored by the UC Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts with lead support generously provided by the Center for Critical Korean Studies and the Claire Trevor Society.