Dillon Sung

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Dillon Sung is a multimedia artist and community organizer based in Southern California. Her doctoral research is on the question of migrant self-determination and the conditions of possibility for full participation for stateless peoples, with emphasis on diasporic Korean statelessness. She informs and engages her work with an art practice through discourses of fine art—namely social practice in how it informs politics and aesthetics—performance studies, and creative writing. She is additionally working on a literary manuscript on undocumented life and Asian American political formation. She earned a B.F.A. in Fine Art with a thesis exhibition entitled “Speculative Geographies,” which included works of installation, drawing, painting, video, and essays.

She was awarded as Emerging Artist for the 2023-24 LAPP California Arts Council’s Individual Artist Fellowship and is a project lead for the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Archive, receiving support for the (an)archive as a 2020-21 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future Fellow at Eyebeam. Her academic experiences include a 2019-21 Imagining America PAGE Co-Directorship—which involved facilitating fellowship programming and logistics—and being the 2020-22 Development and Editorial Assistant for Kaya Press, an API literary press. Dillon is a Ph.D. Candidate and Provost Fellow in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

• BFA Fine Arts, __, 2015