Dave Kyu is a socially engaged artist, writer, & project manager based in Philadelphia. Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in the US, his work explores the creative tensions of identity and community in public space. His own creative projects have found him commissioning skywriting planes to write messages 10,000 feet over Philadelphia, and doing everything Facebook told him to do for a month. Dave also co-authored Campfire Stories, a collection of short stories from America’s National Parks, to be published by Mountaineers Books in Fall 2018.
He has made public art with communities for Mural Arts Philadelphia, Asian Arts Initiative, and the City of Philadelphia. His writing has been published in Generocity, the Artblog, and the Philadelphia Citizen.