Susan Baik

Susan Baik is the owner and Director of BAIK ART, a contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles. With over 14 years of experience representing and advising emerging and established artists, Baik also runs a satellite location out of Space Kaan in Seoul, South Korea. As former Director of AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles, which she owned and managed from 2002 to 2013, Baik expanded the gallery to Singapore in 2006 where it ran until she left to start her own enterprise. Baik has curated exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Singapore, Seoul, London, and Indonesia. In 2016, she organized the exhibition Art and the Measure of Liberty at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations. In 2017, she assisted with Unexpected Light: Works of Young-Il Ahn at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) to its critical acclaim as the first exhibition of a Korean-American artist at a major institution. As the visionary behind the BAIK ART residency program, Baik places her artists into a country or culture distinctly different from their own. Each concurrent residency takes place in a different country and culminates in a curated exhibition accompanied by a comprehensive catalog. In addition to 18th Street, Baik currently serves as a Board Member at the Korea Arts Foundation of America, and on the Art Committee at Davidson College in North Carolina. She graduated with a degree in Fine Art from the University of California, Irvine.