Yoon Ra is a sonic-video artist and expressionist based in Paju, South Korea, born and raised in New York and New Jersey (Lenapehoking). They activate projects of collective narrative-making as a form of documentation, at times becoming ritual. Pivotal histories are collated with music and present visual testimony, to counter myth(method)ologies of the state. Their work has been collaboratively made with migrant body workers resisting criminalization through mutual aid, Indigenous groups strategizing protection from weaponized technology and heavy machinery, and grassroots groups addressing the geoconditional policies of Northeast Asia.
Ra has received a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Film, TV, & New Media Production and Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University (2015). They were most recently a fellow with The U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (2024), Media Justice (2023), and Soil Futures with Struggles for Sovereignty (ID) and Arts Catalyst (UK). They have received the National Young Farmers Grant (2023), NYSCA Artist Funding through Third World Newsreel (2022), and the New York City Artist Grant in 2021.
