Echoes Across the Hudson II
Korean Contemporary Practices in the New York Region
NEW YORK, NY — Echoes Across the Hudson II: Korean Contemporary Practices in the New York Region, a curated group exhibition highlighting the diverse artistic practices of Korean contemporary artists working throughout the New York metropolitan area, will be presented at ACC gallery in Tenafly, New Jersey, from September 21 through October 10, 2026.
Following the first edition held last spring, the second part of the exhibition continues to explore the broad spectrum of contemporary visual practices—including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and media art—while examining how Korean artists develop and expand their artistic languages within the urban and cultural environment of New York.
Echoes Across the Hudson explores emerging artistic currents shaped by the intersection of city, identity, mobility, and contemporary experience through the work of Korean artists based in the New York tri-state region. Drawing upon complex experiences of immigration and diaspora, cultural hybridity, and global contemporaneity, the exhibition considers how personal narratives and broader social contexts are transformed into diverse forms of artistic expression.
Rather than approaching the artists solely through the categorical identity of being “Korean,” the exhibition focuses on the multilayered networks, relationships, and creative environments formed by contemporary artists working within New York, one of the world's major cultural centers. Representing different generations, media, and aesthetic approaches, the participating artists reconsider the geographic and cultural coordinates within which contemporary art is produced today. Their distinct voices come together in the exhibition space, creating resonances as well as productive tensions.
The New York and New Jersey region, connected by the Hudson River, has long been shaped by diverse histories of migration, cultural exchange, and movement. Against this regional backdrop, the exhibition highlights the dynamic conditions of contemporary art emerging from a global city and its surrounding communities. Through the work of Korean artists, Echoes Across the Hudson II asks how contemporary artistic practices can cross geographic and cultural boundaries while generating new relationships, perspectives, and discourses.
Echoes Across the Hudson II offers a focused view of the current landscape of Korean contemporary art in the New York tri-state region, while also opening a space for dialogue about the artistic directions that may emerge from the intersection of different generations, perspectives, media, and aesthetic practices.
17 Participate artists
Mison Kim, Ji Ryoo, Joy H Kwon, Sei Ryun Chun, Sungmo Cho, Yo Ahn Han, Sarah Shinhyo Kim, Kimi Kim Wittling, Stephnie S. Kim, Sui Park, Mija Jung, Kyungsuk Lee, Yoorim Ko, Jun Ku Kang, Goeun Lee, Chunbum Park, S. Joanne Park.