Dillon Sung
Biography
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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...
Education
- BFA Fine Arts, __, 2015
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Research Keywords
critical theory, aesthetics and affect, activism, migrant justice and politics, stateless and refugee studies, Korean studies, madness and disability studies, Asian American and transpacific studies, colonial humanist thought, ethnic studies, cultural and visual studies, performance studies, community-based archives and anarchives, cultural studies.
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- Solo Art Exhibition, Speculative Geographies, 2015
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- California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship – LAPP Emerging Artist, 2023 – 2024
- USC Provost Fellowship, 2018 – 2023
- Eyebeam Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future Fellowship, 2020 – 2021
- Imagining America PAGE Co-Director, 2019 – 2021