Our mothers, our water, our peace

GYUN HUR (b. Daegu, South Korea) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose lived experience as a first-generation immigrant largely informs her creative practice and pedagogical approach. Born in South Korea, she moved to the U.S. state of Georgia at the age of 13 and currently lives and works in New York.  
 
In Hur’s practice, she is deeply engaged in generating poetics of beauty and grief in visual and emotional spaces she creates. Through iterations of installations, performances, drawings, and writings, Gyun traverses between autobiographical abstraction and figurative storytelling, asking what holds us together; stories, yearnings, rituals, and spirituality.  
 
Hur has participated in residencies with Stove Works, NARS Foundation, Pratt Fine Arts Center, BRICworkspace, Danspace Project, Ox-Bow, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is the recipient of a Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Artadia Award, and the inaugural Hudgens Prize, among others. Her works have been featured in publications including Art in America, Art Papers, Sculpture magazine, Hyperallergic, Cultured magazine, The Cut, and ArtAsiaPacific, among others.  

IRISDELIA GARCIA (she/they) is an interdisciplinary Nuyorican artist and educator exploring the body as archive, theater as ritual, and intergenerational storytelling. Her work explores hauntings, grief, and culturally specific modes of corporeal histories. Garcia has worked in residency with La Pocha Nostra, Ping Chong and Company, EMERGENYC, The Wax Factory, GALLIM, and the Maggee Allesee National Center for Choreography. Her work and collaborations have been shown at The New School, Amherst College, The BRIC, the wild project, HEREArts, EnGarde Arts, and The Tank. Garcia holds a BA in English (summa) from Amherst College with a Digital Humanities concentration and a Multicultural Theater Practice Certificate. She holds an MFA in Contemporary Theatre and Performance at The New School minoring in Creative Community Development. Garcia’s teaching is core to her creative practice, currently teaching with Ping Chong and Company, Theater Development Fund, and Rybin Talent. She has taught previously with the Dia Art Foundation, OSSProject, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, and Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education.