June Pak

Talking about her work Glitch: 1998 - 2018 during the opening of a group exhibition “Flickering and In-Motion” at the Alternative Artspace IPO, Seoul, Korea (2019)

June Pak was born in Seoul, South Korea, and now lives in Toronto, Canada. Coming from her personal experience of living in Canada as a Korean-Canadian, the hyphenated identity is a central theme in her practice. Images in her works are often duplicated, erased, masked, and performed to manifest the complex nature of inter-connectivity between visibility and invisibility of ethnic representation.

Her multi-disciplinary works have been shown in Canada and abroad. She received numerous grants for her projects from Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council. She is a recipient of the K.M Hunter Artist Award in Visual Arts (2004) and the Chalmers Arts Fellowship for her research in the lives of non-ethnic Koreans in Korea (2017-2019). She teaches as a part-time lecturer at the University of Toronto (Visual Studies program) and OCAD University (Cross-Disciplinary Art and Integrated Media Programs).
Please visit her artist website for more information.

Recent Works

Invisible Transformation Project, Postcard, 2020

Invisible Transformation Project, Bookwork (ed. 300), 2019

Invisible Transformation Project, Performance, ongoing

retelling, Multi-Channel Installation, 2012

Tracing Memory, Drawing, ongoing

Tracing Memory, Laser Cut, 6 selected drawings, 2019

EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS
Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou Smoke, and Lucas Stenning

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Jared Hendricks-Polack, Jessica Irene Joyce, Ira Kazi, Shelley Kopp, Jenna Rose Sands, Mireya Seymour, Venus Tsao, Diana Tamblyn, and Michelle Wilson.

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OUR STORY

Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

The Embassy Cultural House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.

The Embassy Cultural House is thankful for the mentorship program established by Western University's Visual Arts department and the continued support of the students and Faculty of Arts & Humanities.

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E M B A S S Y C U L T U R A L H O U S E . C A

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum and other treaties, colonized as London, Ontario. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial.