The Atlanta Project: 5 Years Later

On Friday April 3rd, AAAinA will host artist Gyun Hur for a lecture performance commemorating the 5 year anniversary of the Atlanta Spa Shootings and Hur’s recent project Our mothers, our water, our peace. Two close collaborators, artist Danny Gurung and choreographer and visual artist Yun Lee, will contribute to Hur’s performance. Since 2024, Hur has created spaces of art in the homes of affected Asian American community members in Atlanta and has continually invited viewers and participants to move through and alongside grief. After her presentation, Hur will be joined in conversation by two long-time thought partners, artist Jean Shin and curator Eugenie Tsai.

In conjunction with this program, Hur and Shin’s 2025 artist talk and conversation, hosted by Flux Projects in Atlanta, GA, is available as a transcript on Asia Art Archive’s online publishing platform, Like A Fever.

Bios:

Gyun Hur is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work delves into themes of grief, memory, and the poetics of diaspora. Born in South Korea, she immigrated to Georgia at age 13, an experience that profoundly influences her artistic and pedagogical approaches.

She has participated in numerous residencies, including Art Farm at Serenbe (2024), Stove Works (2022), the NARS Foundation Artist Residency Program (2019), and the Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship (2018). Her accolades include the Arnhold Forum Fellowship (2024), the AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship (2021), the inaugural Hudgens Prize (2010), and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant (2024) for Our mothers, our water, our peace.

Currently residing in Brooklyn, Gyun Hur serves as a First Year Associate Director of Faculty, and Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design, The New School.

Known for her monumental public sculptures, artist Jean Shin transforms discarded objects into powerful installations that examine our relationship with consumption, collective identity, and community engagement. Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in the U.S., Shin has earned international recognition through numerous prestigious commissions including Elevated (2017), at Manhattan’s 63rd Street–Lexington Avenue M.T.A. subway station, reimagining historic elevated train structures in mosaic and glass and Celadon Remnants (2008) at Long Island Rail Road’s Broadway Station in Flushing, Queens, translating Korean pottery shards into monumental public works. In April, Shin will open with a major regenerative earthwork Offering at Green-Wood Cemetery along with the solo exhibition in the inaugural Green-House.

Working from studios in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley, Shin has exhibited extensively at over 150 major institutions. Her solo exhibitions include The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. www.jeanshin.com

Eugenie Tsai is a curator and writer based in New York. Over the years, she has held curatorial positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum, as well as working independently. She’s organized numerous monographic exhibitions, including Robert Smithson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Kehinde Wiley, KAWS, Oscar yi Hou, and Guadalupe Maravilla, as well as group exhibitions, including Crossing Brooklyn and The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time. Recent exhibitions include the Platform section at The Armory Show, and Imelda Cajipe Endaya at Silverlens Gallery, NYC. Eugenie received her doctorate in Art History from Columbia University and was an early member of the collective Godzilla: Asian American Art Network.

Danny Gurung is an artist born in Colorado and living in New York. His words and images have appeared online and in print. He has exhibited his art across the United States. He currently works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You may learn more at his website, www.dannygurung.com.

Based between Los Angeles and Seoul, Yun Lee (she/they) works at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Their studies in Comparative Literature with postcolonial scholar Helen J. S. Lee ground their thinking in questions of power, representation, and the limits of sense-making. From this foundation, their choreographic practice extends into fiction, nonsense, and embodied forms of questioning what is considered normal.

Recent performance projects include Five Acts & A Monologue by Young In Hong at the Art Sonje Center; Social Sensorial Collectiveness by Su-Mi Jang, premiered at Frieze Live 2024; goo, presented at the Goat Farm Center in the context of Gyun Hur’s installation Our Mothers, Our Water, Our Peace; and Two Anchors by Yi Yunyi for Windmill Perform’s Open Air festival. They were supported by the Korean Arts Council and Life Long Burning as a 2023 danceWEB scholar at ImPulsTanz. From 2023–2025, they served as a teaching fellow at the Five Colleges Dance Consortium while earning an MFA in Dance from Smith College, and they are currently studying Choreography and Performance at CalArts.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Image: Gyun Hur, Our mothers, our water, our peace, 2024-25. Installation and Transferring river water ritual view, Asian American Advancing Justice Office, Atlanta, Georgia, 2024. Commissioned by Flux Projects. Photo: Changeyourlife. Courtesy of the artist.

Gyun Hur's work is supported in part by Parsons School of Design.

The event is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, and other foundations and individuals.

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