Author Description

DPRK POLIPOP: SWEET REVOLUTION is an art book by political pop and new media artist MINA CHEON who has taken on the artistic persona of a North Korean social realist painter "Kim Il Soon" for the sake of promoting Korean unification and global peace. The book highlights the collection of Cheon's artwork, which she calls "DPRK Polipop," a new branch of her Polipop: Political Pop Art series. The book also showcases 2014 exhibitions at the Ethan Cohen New York gallery and Trunk Gallery Seoul, Korea, as well as including texts by Cheon, art critic Jonathan Goodman, curator Jin Kwon, and reporter Iris Jang of Voice of America. The book is published by Mina Cheon Studio at K-Town Studios in Baltimore, Maryland, 2015. Mina Cheon Studio is dedicated to scholarly work and art production of contemporary and global, new media political pop art projects."-Artist's web page (viewed 08/08/2022)