BIO ʕ•ﻌ•ʔ

Christina Yuna Ko 髙由奈 is a Queens NY-based artist and member of Asian Feminist Studio for Art Research (AFSAR). Her work reclaims the visual language living in the Asian diasporic experience as a means of imagining and speculation. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2025 and BFA from Cornell University in 2013. Selected exhibitions include: “What’s carried through the wind”, AHL Foundation, New York, NY; “Everything is Recorded”, Wallach Gallery, New York, NY; “39 Footnotes”, Accent Sisters, New York, NY; “Steep, Alter, Ritual”, Roski Graduate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “Gathering”, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY; “Late Night Enterprise”, Perrotin, New York, NY; and “Bathing in Public”, Selenas Mountain, Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been featured in Apogee Journal, Artforum, FAR–NEAR, Gallery Gurls, Hyperallergic, JoySauce, Li Tang, Tussle Magazine and The Washington Post among others. She has participated in programs at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), GYOPO (LA), Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong), CHAT/Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (Hong Kong), among others. She recently published a book about cuteness and alongside AFSAR members, Eugene Hannah Park, Sun Park and Mooni Perry, co-wrote a text between MMCA and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on the possibilities of death in reincarnation.

STATEMENT (つ˵•́ω•̀˵)つ━☆ﾟ.*･

When you are diasporic, absence becomes a condition of everyday life. Spanning installation, research, and pedagogy, my work attempts to demarcate an aesthetic lexicon from the Korean diasporic experience of home. This involves examining geographic, temporal, and sociocultural convergences that fill the gaps left by displacement.

Taking a multivocal approach, I explore archives, social media, and popular culture alongside stories from family and friends. I carry out field research at sites tied to “home” including Asian enclave neighborhoods, ritual sites in the “motherland”, and resonant localities with overlapping histories. Through this process, I uncover connections across the migrant Asian diaspora and my work becomes a lexicon of amalgamated rituals, imported cultural artifacts, generational practices, and mutating traditions.

The work takes the form of collaborative research as part of the collective Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR) and installations reimagining research materials alongside domestic wares. Through evoking home, I capture an intimate visual glossary that reveals its invisible interconnections and dualities: accumulation and emptiness, presence and absence, ghosts and spirits alongside the living, shared yet deeply personal experiences. Ultimately, I reclaim the language of the diasporic experience as a means of imagining.