Mo Bahc
b. 1954, Busan, Korea | d. 2004
Peoples + Army = People's Army, 1989
Mixed media
Courtesy Asian American Art Centre and Think!Chinatown

Mo Bahc (박철호, also known as Yiso Bahc) was an artist, writer, organizer, and teacher, widely considered one of the pioneering artists in Korea and its international diaspora. His painting People + Army = People’s Army, first exhibited in China: June 4th at New York’s Asian American Arts Centre in 1989, marks the state violence against civilians at Tiananmen Square the same year. In 1985, Bahc co-founded Minor Injury, a vibrant and enigmatic gallery that operated for a decade in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, offering an alternative space for artists to address the minoritarian framework and racialized milieu of the arts in the United States.