Ik-Joong Kang received his MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1988. Kang is internationally recognized for creating major public art works using multiple 3 x 3 inch canvases to spotlight the plight of people and societies around the world. Ik-Joong Kang has exhibited widely, and his works in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, the British Museum in UK, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.