Beginning with the projects Answer Without Answer: A Nice Nightmare (2016-2018) and Landscape of Extensive Reading (2019), Bom Roya has explored the inextricable relationship between place and body by imagining the generation of the jumbled material world. Both projects connected the repetitive nature of urban development with private events, revealing the traces of boundaries created by human binary thinking. Since then, interested in the contradictions and resistances that are internalized when subjects with bodies, including non-humans, are controlled by social groups striving for normality, she has collaborated with concerned parties, researchers, activists, and artists. Her work repeats happenings, events, hesitations, and noises that are generated when the subject’s ordinary reality is intertwined with the other, and the performativity in them creates narratives that demolish fixed boundaries. This reveals the affect and micro-histories of the being that cannot be present in a world dominated by anthropocentrism, normality, patriarchy, and capitalism. To do this, Bom Roya conducts field research and creates archives through critical discourses such as feminism, ecology, and degrowth theory, and visualizes them by using multimedia, such as moving images, drawings, text, and performances. She is also a member of the feminist artist collective No New Work (2016~), where she engages in art practice and social activities in solidarity with social minorities.

Education

2011 M.A. in Theory of Art, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

2004 B.A. in Industrial Design, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 Umbelt, Doombeong, Gurgly Project, All Time Space/PlaceMAK2/Euljiro OF, Seoul, Korea

2019 Landscape of Extensive Reading, Space XX, Seoul, Korea

2016 Answer Without Answer: A Nice Nightmare, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, Korea

2014 The Burden of Sara, Space Alter ego, Seoul, Korea       

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY, 111CM, Suwon, Korea

2023 Abode Without Mobility, Mobility Without Abode: OBdradek, Seoul Metro Art Center/KOTE, Seoul, Korea 

2023 SeMA Coral, Seoul Museum of Art, online exhibition 

2022 Local in the Making, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea (as NoNewWork collective)

2022 The 9th Amado Exhibition Award No fixed abode: Odradek, Amado Art Space, Seoul, Korea

2021 A Friendly Invasion, Space illi, Seoul, Korea

2019 collacollabo, D/P, Seoul, Korea (as Sayuji collective) 

2018 The Warped Paper, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, Korea

2017 The Great projection O, National Taiwan Arts Educational Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2016  Uncomfortable Chains: the Hunch of Violence, Space Alter ego, Seoul, Korea

Residencies

2024 SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, Korea

2021-2020 Suwon Art Studio 'Purenjidae Changjak Saemteo' Residency, Suwon Cultural Foundation, Suwon, Korea 

Awards

2017 This Year's Gender Equality Culture Award-New Women's Culture Awards, Women & Culture In Network