Her early work was primarily graphic or photography based; and by the mid-1980s she started to work more in installation art. She used the dress as a metaphor to explore her own history and identity as a
Korean-American and the Korean books and clay rice pots allude to
Korean Buddhism. In her 1992 series "Defining Moments", Min photographed herself and filled her form with images of the
Gwangju Uprising, which was a 1980 protest by
South Korean students against a military dictator that was violently suppressed. A
brain hemorrhage that Min suffered in 2011 informed the works in her 2016 show held at the
Commonwealth and Council gallery in Los Angeles. The works included
AVM: After Venus (Mal)formation, which had a table split into triangles, each with its own word written on it. At the time of her death, Min's work was featured in an exhibition about the Godzilla Asian American Arts Network at the Eric Firestone Gallery in
New York City, while works from "Defining Moments" were included in a survey called "Scratching at the Moon" at
ICA LA. == See also ==