About — SOOMIN HAM

About Soomin Ham

Soomin Ham is a photographer and multimedia artist based in Washington D.C. area. Ham received a Bachelor of Music in Orchestral Instrument from Ewha Women's University in Seoul, Korea, and her Master of Art in Photography and Multimedia from New York University/International Center of Photography in New York City.

Ham’s work including photography, mixed media, and multimedia installations has been exhibited widely throughout the DC area, New York City, and Seoul, Korea. She is the recipient of D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities grants, including an Individual Artists Fellowship Grant and Small Projects Grant, and she also received a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Ham is a winner of the LensCulture Portrait Awards 2019.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024 RECOLLECTIONS: Solo Exhibition, Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2021 Emergence, Invitational Exhibit, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC

2021 Lingering Glimpses: Solo Exhibition, Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2021 Unbound 10!, Invitational Exhibit, Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, VA

2019 Recollection: Reinterpreting Tradition and Heritage, Korean Cultural Center, Washington, DC

2019 Lost/Found: Explorations in Photographic Time and Space, Invitational Exhibit, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC

2019 VMFA: Futures, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship Exhibit, McGuireWoods Gallery, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA

2019 Beyond Boundaries, LensCulture Discoveries in Contemporary Photography, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY

2019 The County Collects II, the 2018 Contemporary Works on Paper Collection, Betty Mae Kramer Gallery, Silver Spring, MD

2018 NARRATIVE, Invitational Exhibit, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC

2018 Photography Group show juried by Mark Power, Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2018 “Portraits and Windows”, Solo Show, Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2017 ABSTRACTION / REPRESENTATION, Invitational Exhibit, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC

2017 Ephemera, Juried by Pam Rogers, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2017 Reflective Meditations, Invitational Exhibit, The Gray Gallery, Winchester, VA

2016 Sound of Butterfly, Solo Show, Art League Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2016 Photography/Praxis, Invitational Exhibit, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC

2016 Sound of Butterfly, Solo Show, Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC

2016 Unseen/Expired, Two Person’s Show, Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2015 Hill Center Galleries, Juried by Mark Leithauser, Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, Washington, DC

2015 In The Flesh 5, Juried by Jeff Huntington, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2014 Invitational Photography Exhibit, Juried by Jack Rasmussen, Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2014 Sound of Butterfly, Solo Exhibition, Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2013 Art in City Hall, Del Ray Artisans Award of Merit, Alexandria City Hall, Alexandria, VA

2013 Three-person Exhibit, Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2012 Invitational Photography Exhibit, Juried by Brooks Jensen, Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2012 Art in City Hall: Stilllife series, Department of Transportation and Environmental Services, Alexandria, VA

2011 In The Flesh 3, Juried by Dr. Jamie Smith, Target Gallery, Alexandria VA

2011 About Face: Stories in Portraits, Juried by Carolyn Egeli, Lynn Heidelbaugh, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomon, MD

2010 Still Life Series, Invitational Exhibit, Window Gallery, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2006 Lightscapes, Spring Solos 2006, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA

2005 “Projection and Inference” Korean-American artists in the Mid-Atlantic, Curated by Chris Mona, Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery, Arnold, MD

2005 Two Persons Show, Berta Koteniuk & Soomin Ham, Invitational Exhibit, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea

2005 Mind/Self, Artscape 2005, Juried Show, Villa Julie College Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2005 (Re)Alignments, Artscape 2005, Juried Show, Gormley Gallery at College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD

2005 In Focus: Photography Techniques and Trends, Juried by Sarah Kennel, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2005 The Unseen, Solo Show, Margaret W. & Joseph L. Fisher Art Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2004 East/West, Two Persons Show with Zoe Leoudaki, Korean Cultural Center, Washington, DC

2004 Against the Wall, Juried Show of Experimental Film and Video, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM

2004 Artscape, Our Perfect World, Juried Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

2004 Installation Space, Juried Exhibition, School 33 Arts Center, Baltimore, MD

2004 Penelopeia, The Other Journey: Collaborative project with Zoe Leoudaki, Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC

2003 Beyond the Blue, Window Gallery, Invitational Exhibit, Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea

2003 Ricemap, Solo Exhibition, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE

AWARDS

LensCulture Portrait Awards 2019 International Photography Competition
Winner 2nd place series
2019

VMFA Visual Arts Fellowship: Professional Fellowships
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2019-2020

Del Ray Artisans Award of Merit
Art in City Hall, Alexandria, VA
Spring 2013

Best of Show, “In Focus: Photography Techniques and Trends”, curated by Sarah Kennel of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2005

Individual Artists Fellowship Grant
D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC
2003

Images of Washington Competition, Purchase Award
D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC
Fall 2002

Small Projects Grant
D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC
Fall 2001