Hyeree Ro
"Bearing" in Liberation Space: Fortress/Nest
Arts Council Korea (ARKO), 2026 Venice Biennale Korea Pavilion
May 5 – November 22, 2026
The Korean Pavilion’s presentation for La Biennale di Venezia 2026, Liberation Space: Fortress/Nest explores pressing questions of nation building, sovereignty, and care.
Hyeree Ro is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York and Seoul, primarily working with hand-crafted sculptural objects and structures, and multi-lingual fractured narrative-based performance. As a constant migrant passing through various immigrant statuses and encountering disparities in class and wealth, she interweaves her family history, places, language, body, movement, and stories into her practice. Recent projects include participation in the Venice Biennale as an artist for the Korean Pavilion (2026), solo exhibitions August is the Cruelest at Doosan Gallery, Seoul (2025), Niro at Canal Projects, New York (2024), and Jinhee at Project Space SARUBIA. Seoul (2022). Ro also serves as an Assistant Arts Professor of Collaborative Arts at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
