Dooree KANG
Bio
Dooree Kang is a Baltimore-based multidisciplinary artist born in South Korea. Working across installation, painting, moving image, sculpture, and performance, she creates immersive environments that examine relationships between space, material, and human experience. Drawing from experiences of migration, cultural transition, and shifting perspectives, her work invites viewers to encounter familiar environments in unfamiliar ways.
Kang received her MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Her work has been exhibited at Maryland Art Place, New Uncanny Gallery, Bogus Gallery, and the SNF Parkway Theater. She was selected for Young Blood 16: MFA Retrospective and received the Gold-Stern Emerging Artist Award, the Community Endowed Fellowship, the Morris Louis Scholarship, the Doug Frost Fund Scholarship, and the MICA Graduate Merit Scholarship.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores the spaces between the visible and invisible, the rational and irrational, and the known and unknown. Through installation, painting, moving image, sculpture, and performance, I create environments that invite viewers to reconsider how perception shapes their understanding of reality.
I am interested in the assumptions, habits of seeing, and systems of meaning through which people navigate the world. By introducing subtle shifts within familiar spaces, I seek to create moments when certainty becomes unstable and alternative possibilities emerge. Rather than providing answers, my work opens space for reflection, curiosity, and personal interpretation.
Many of my projects investigate the relationship between physical space and psychological experience. Through altered perspectives, kinetic movement, projected imagery, and spatial interventions, I construct situations that feel both familiar and unfamiliar. These environments encourage viewers to become aware of the often-unnoticed frameworks through which they perceive and interpret the world.
Having moved between cultures, languages, and systems of belief, I have become increasingly aware that reality is often more fluid than it first appears. This experience has shaped my interest in transformation, ambiguity, and experiences that resist simple explanation. I am drawn to moments when the boundaries between certainty and uncertainty begin to dissolve, revealing possibilities that lie beyond immediate perception.
Ultimately, my work is an invitation to pause. By slowing the momentum of habitual ways of seeing, I hope to create opportunities for wonder, contemplation, and renewed awareness of dimensions of experience that often remain unseen.
