IN CONVERSATION: Juyon Lee & Emma Safir with Sharon Liu
UPCOMING event
Overview
6:30pm
We are delighted to celebrate our two-person exhibition "Ladder / Chain" with the next iteration of our "In Conversation" series, featuring the artists Juyon Lee and Emma Safir with independent curator Sharon Liu on Tuesday, August 11 at 6:30pm.
Juyon Lee (b. 1995, South Korea) holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and her BA from Wellesley College (summa cum laude). Lee has exhibited widely, including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, Tufts University Art Galleries, New Bedford Art Museum and NARS Foundation. She is the recipient of notable fellowships and awards, including the Café Royal Foundation Grant for Visual Art, Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship, Pilchuck Fellowship, and St. Botolph’s Emerging Artist Award. She participated in artist residencies at LMCC Arts Center, The Studios at MASS MoCA, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Vermont Studio Center, and more. Lee lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Emma Safir (b. 1990, New York, NY) holds a BFA from RISD in Printmaking and an MFA from Yale in Painting & Printmaking. She has had solo exhibitions at HESSE FLATOW, New York; Blade Study, Baxter St at CCNY, New York; SHIN HAUS at Shin Gallery, New York; and Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh. Safir has also participated in group shows at HESSE FLATOW, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Charles Moffett, Jack Barrett, Lyles & King, among others. Looking ahead, the artist will have a solo exhibition at the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, New York, opening in the spring of 2026. Safir’s work is in the permanent collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She lives and works in New York, NY.
Sharon X. Liu is a curator based in New York. Her practice investigates inter-Asian connections shaped by border-crossing dialogues. Recent projects include Translation in the Expanded Field, Tokyo (2025); Open Admissions: Michael Rakowitz and Early Amherst College Collections, Mead Art Museum (2025); and Laborious Hands, Amherst College Library (2024–25). Sharon holds a BA in Art History and Mathematics from Wellesley College, an MA in East Asian Studies from Yale University, conducted research at Tokyo University of the Arts, and publishes essays in Artforum China and Ocula. She is currently the 2025 Asymmetry Curatorial Fellow at SculptureCenter.
