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1 week agoTheresa Hak Kyung Cha Made Human Again
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's exhibition reveals her playful energy and humanizes her legacy beyond the tragedy of her murder.
Born in South Korea in 1951, Cha and her family immigrated to the United States when she was 12. The family found their way to the Bay Area, where Cha became a standout student, eventually earning four separate degrees at UC Berkeley, working at the Berkeley Art Museum and becoming a fixture of the northern California avant-garde art scene throughout the 1970s.