BIOGRAPHY

Soonae Tark (b. South Korea) 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 

École Nationale Supérieure 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."  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 Grant, more than nineteen other awards and a Site-specific Permanent Public Art Commission at New York City Public School PS306 by New York City's Percent for Art Program. 

She has had 14 solo exhibitions in the United States, Korea and France and her work has been included in  over 90 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  in   Who’s Who in American Art

and   New  American   Paintings-Juried   Exhibition  in  Print,  including the back cover artist.    Her work

was  featured  in   U.S.  Department  of  State's   2012  Desk  Calendar   and  numerous  times   for

the Cover Art of books, News Paper, including New York City's Preliminary Mayor's Management Report 2009.  (Mayor: Michael Bloomberg).