Yerba Buena Center

transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix

06 Dec 2008 - 15 Mar 2009

TRANSPOP: KOREA VIETNAM REMIX

Dec 6, 2008–Mar 15, 2009

OPENING NIGHT PARTY: Friday, Dec 5, 8–11 pm »

A rare opportunity to view cutting-edge contemporary art by critically acclaimed artists from three countries whose works explore representations of modernity and popular culture, transPOP features 16 artists from Vietnam and Korea and their respective diasporas in the United States. In recognizing the vitality of art in addressing cultural, social and political issues, the exhibition signals unprecedented engagement with the rich historic and contemporary relationship between Korea, Vietnam and the United States.

transPOP Exhibition Sponsors:
Korea Foundation and Marsyas Fund of the Tides Foundation. Additional support provided by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network (DVAN) and the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA).

Outreach programs for transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix is supported in part by the W.L.S. Spencer Foundation.