BERKELEY, Calif. — At age 12, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha emigrated from her birthplace of Korea in 1963, two years after a military coup took over the south and a decade after the Korean War resulted ...

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was born on March 4, 1951, in Busan, Korea, the third of five children of Hyung Sang and Hyung Soon Cha. Like so many other Korean families of the era, ...

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, A Ble Wail, documentation of performance at Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, 1975. Black and white photographs and typewritten text on paper, ...

The family of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, a murdered artist on the cusp of a career breakthrough, soon found evidence that New York police missed. Watch new episodes of New York Homicide on Oxygen and ...

“Dictee,” the Korean American writer and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s masterpiece, was published in 1982. Just as it was released, Cha was raped and killed by a security guard.

Theresa Cha 1975 Cha was born in Busan, Korea, in 1951, and aged 12 went into exile to the US with her parents. Theresa Cha 1975. However, her Korean roots are intrinsic to her artwork, which ...

In 1980, when she was 29, the South Korean–born artist and poet Theresa Hak Kyung Cha moved from the Bay Area to New York. She hated the city.

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Aveugle Voix , 1975, performance documentation, at 63 Bluxome Street, San Francisco. Detail of an altar installation that has mirrored-tiers, photos of Dolores del Rio, fans ...

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was just 31 in 1982, but her brilliance as an artist was already recognized in both New York City and San Francisco — especially after the publication of her first book, "Dictee.