BIOGRAPHY

Soonae Tark received her BFA from Dongduk Women’s University in Seoul, Korea and then went to France where she lived and studied for nearly 7 years, graduating from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, with a Diplôme National d’Art Pratique and a Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Pratique (equivalent MFA) with “Les Felicitations du Jury” in 1995.  She moved to

New York City in 1996 where she currently lives and works.

She has been awarded two The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant, more than eighteen other awards and a Site-specific Permanent Public Art Commission at New York City Public School PS306 by New York City Department Cultural Affairs, Percent for Art Program. 

She has had 13 solo exhibitions in the United States, Korea and France and her work has been included in over 80 juried and invitational group exhibitions across the United States.  The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Herald News, Louisiana Magazine-The Advocate and many others have reviewed her work.  She has been featured Who’s Who in American Art and New American Paintings-Juried Exhibition in Print, including the back cover artist.  Her work was featured numerous times for the Cover Art of books, news paper including New York City Mayor's Management Report, 2009.