Lisa Myeong-Joo

Lisa Myeong-Joo is an artist and arts worker, born in Seoul and living on Wangal Land, Sydney. Combining personal narrative, material and gesture into an expanded performance practice, she considers how meaning is made and transferred between the body, place and culture. She applies a conceptual and playful approach to the complexities of identity and belonging constitutive of her position as part of the Korean diaspora in Australia. Her works are performative responses to this lived experience that make room for embodied, ambiguous and risky processes to unfold.

Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions nationally including, Sydenham International, Firstdraft, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Post Office Projects and Counihan Gallery. She has participated in international residencies in South Korea and India including MMCA Changdong, Seoul; Horanggasy and Barim, Gwangju; What About Art, Mumbai; Chander Haat, Kolkata, and Kriti, Varanasi. Lisa completed Fine Arts Honours in 2021 and is currently undertaking her MFA at UNSW 2024-2026.