Erica Cho is a

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( Philadelphia and Los Angeles) visual artist,

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, and filmmaker. They are Assistant Professor of Narrative Media in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, and were previously a visiting assistant professor at

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in the Film and Media Studies department. Cho has acted as a film curator for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival since 2011, and organized and founded the first Tri-Co Film Festival in 2012. They have received the Creative Capital Moving Image Award, among other awards.http://creative-capital.org/projects/view/150 Cho's work often explores various intersections between LGBTQ and

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themes as described in their 2011 interview with the website ''Asian Gay and Proud'':

Education

Cho received a BFA in art from

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, where they received University Honors, and also received an MFA in

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with an emphasis in experimental film and

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from UC Irvine.

Selected works

*Community Speculators – Queers, Aliens, Time, Space, Love, Labor, and Value, Armory Center for the Arts, May 2013 *New Stories from the Edge of Asia: This/That, San Jose Museum of Art, February 2013 *Grow, Morono Kiang Gallery, June 2010 *You Gave Me Brave, S1F Gallery, October 2009 *20 Years Ago Today, Japanese American National Museum, October 2008 *Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the Forgotten War, LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts, February 2007

References

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