Kevin Bae

EDUCATION
2013 - 2016 York University, Toronto, ON.
Bachelor of Education, Junior and Intermediate Streams, Visual Art Teachable
2009 - 2010 Tyndale Seminary, Toronto, ON.
Master of Divinity, Biblical Study (temporary stop-out)
2004 - 2008 Ontario College of Art & Design University, Toronto, ON.
Bachelor of Fine Art, Drawing and Painting
2006 - 2007 Florence Off-Campus Transfer Program, Florence, Italy
Exchange Program organized by OCAD U
1999 - 2001 Duk-Won Art High School, Seoul, South Korea
Fine Art Diploma, Drawing & Painting Major

TEACHING/DEMONSTRATION EXPERIENCE
Aug. 2019 - present
OCAD University, Toronto, ON.
Lecturer and Senate (2024 and 2025)
- Serving as first- and second-year-level course leader for Observational Illustration courses and
instructed them with curriculum development with Chair in the Illustration Program
- Senate for SAPPC (2023-2024) and SQAC (2024-2025)
- Developed drawing and painting assignments to hone students’ technical and to promote social justice and human right from their lived experiences
- Serving program-wide and university-wide services, including undergraduate portfolio admission review for undergraduate application, Look Inside (2022, 2023 and 2024), portfolio review at National Portfolio Day (2019 and 2024), GradEx preparation on campus and outdoor at Fort York (2021), GradEx social media management, Teaching Awards committee (2020 and 2021), and IQAP photo documentations (2022)
- Participated for Project 31 (2021 and 2023). All funds raised from the live auctions have been donated for BIPOC students at OCAD U through bursaries as well as programming by Faculties
- Prepared visual aids, written document, and lecture videos to successfully implement online
classes during the Pandemic
- Provided a wide range of academic accommodation in accordance to SAS request in
confidential fashion
- Demonstrated inclusive and student-centred education through Independent Study by providing tutoring outside of office hours in 2019
- Participated for Drawing Fundamentals Foundation Textbook (2019)
- Finished Indigenous Cultural Competency Training, organized by FCDC
- Showcased a collection of students’ artwork called Privilege and Prejudice to promote human right and deconstruct social norms on 6th floor- Provided in-person meeting outside of the office hours for students who requested academic accommodation due to mental health, learning disability and religious observance (unable to observe nudity from life or photograph)
- Demonstrated equitable model bookings to work with different genders, ethnicity and body shapes
- Supported recent alumni with reference letter for their application to advanced diploma and
Master’s Degree

Sept. 2015 - present
Bae School of Art and Design (BSAD), Richmond Hill and Markham ON.
Director and Instructor
- Instructed portfolio workshops for university admission and art fundamentals for high school
students
- Provided workshop and employment opportunities to recent graduate students in art and
design field
- Launched Open Life Drawing sessions to strengthen a sense of belonging for participants and provide a safe working environment for models from LGBTQ community in Richmond Hill and Markham
- Organized Workshop for Teachers for young teachers and emerging artists at Artnection to share instructor’s responsibilities, demonstrating inclusion, and understanding of social justice and community
- Successfully achieved a partnership with Artnection in Richmond Hill to expand the institution’s visions in art education for students, age from 3 to 18 and mature students
- Researched diverse mediums to instruct different subjects, including drawing & painting, mono-print, calligraphy, digital painting, package design, editorial illustration and sculpture
- Successfully taught portfolio classes from which students were admitted into numerous
institutions in North America, such as Parsons School of Design, Fashion Institute of Technology,
Rhode Island School of Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sheridan College, Emily
Carr University of Art and Design, University of Waterloo School of Architecture, OCAD U, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson University), University of Toronto Seneca College, the University of British Columbia, University of Edinburgh, Liverpool School of Architecture, University of Bath, and University of Nottingham
- Arranged professional studio tours and gallery visits in the GTA to enhance the students’ learning experience from the current professionals
- Curated annual group exhibition for students in Richmond Hill to display students’ artwork in the local area and developed a mutual relationship with local public school and students by attending their graduate exhibition
- Organized free mentorship services and seminar to students and their parents to provide
admission related information, career counselling and promote importance of art education
- Provided information sessions for international students to help establishing to a new environment and education system
Launched and expanded the institution to Markham, the second location, to serve Markham community with a better geographical location

Sept. 2013 - Apr. 2019
OCAD University, Toronto, ON.
Sessional Instructor
- Instructed a variety of observational and illustrative drawing and painting courses for the Illustration Program of the Faculty of Design
- Designed course syllabi and materials in accordance with university curriculum
- Mentored teaching assistants and fostered a collaborative environment that reinforced drawing lab with painting courses
- Revised course materials each term to strengthen lectures and in-class demonstrations in linear perspective, drawing fundamentals, colour theory and application, figurative tradition and various representational issues in drawing and painting
- Promoted a solvent-free environment by teaching material knowledge, pigment property and
precautions to students
- Prepared and designed props and lightings to augment the teaching environment
- Accommodated students in accordance with the regulations of the Centre for Students with
Disabilities
- Held in-person meetings with first-year students to facilitate their adjustment to university
- Arranged individual and group critiques to promote a student-centred learning environment
- Showcased students’ artwork in the display case to share inspirations and celebrate achievements within the OCAD community

Sept. 2009 - Apr. 2013
OCAD University, Toronto, ON.
Teaching Assistant
- Assisted course instructors with teaching second-, third-, and fourth-year students of the
Illustration Program of the Faculty of Design
- Effectively communicated with professors and instructors to assist their teachings
- Instructed drawing fundamentals, focusing on observational exercises and perceptual skills, and arranged model bookings each term
- Mentored new teaching assistants and helped them adapt to a new environment
- Learned to instruct figurative traditions, basic to advanced level, and evaluated students’ work
individually

Sept. 2004 - 2018
Mississauga Valley School of Art, Mississauga, ON.
Instructor
- Instructed portfolio workshops and fundamental level of courses, including drawing and painting, fashion illustrations, graphic designs, illustrations, two-dimensional works of architecture, and interior design with a variety of medium
- Designed course syllabi and arranged course materials to fit students’ levels, needs and languages (English and Korean)
- Learned to effectively teach students according to their levels of understanding and interest
- Learned to resolve problems and conflicts through dialogue

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON.
Demonstrator- Demonstrated figurative drawings for the Degas exhibition (2003) and the Modigliani exhibition (2004)
- These demonstrations were designed to add dynamic energy to the exhibition, in efforts to
recapture the spirit of Degas and Modigliani. These demonstrations also had educational value,
showing the audience what figure-drawing is and how it can be done in an engaging way.

AWARDS & HONOURABLE MENTIONS
2025 Merit Progress Award, OCAD U
2022 Merit Progress Award, OCAD U
2019 OCAD U Teaching Excellence Awards, OCAD U
2017 Juried Finalists, Arts & Letters Club, Toronto
2017 Inspired Teaching Award: Excellence in Teaching First Year Students,
Nominee, OCAD U
2015 Award of Excellence for Drawing, Arts & Letters Club, Toronto
2015 Inspired Teaching Award: Teaching Assistant of the Year,
Nominee, OCAD U
2013 Stroke of Genius 6, North Light Books, Cincinnati, Ohio
2006 Florence Off-Campus Program Award, Nominee, OCAD U
2006 Eric Freifeld Award for proficiency in Figure Draftsmanship, OCAD U

SELECTED EXHIBITION
2026 Drawn Together, Gallery 1313, Toronto
2025 Murray (1944 - 2024), Gallery 1313, Toronto
2023 Drawn Together, Gallery 1313, Toronto
2023 Collaboration Exhibition, BSAD and Artnection, Markham
2022 Painting 2022/23, Juried exhibition at John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2021 Project 31: New Futures, OCAD U, Toronto
2019 Perspective Exhibition, OCAD U, Toronto
2017 Scene Not Herd, Gallery 1313, Toronto
2017 Beyond Image, Collective Atelier, Richmond Hill
2017 Next2, Juried Exhibition at Arts & Letters Club, Toronto
2017 Drawing 2017, 18th Annual Juried Exhibition at John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2016 Observation, Interpretation, Expression, Artist Resource Centre, Toronto
2015 Next, Juried Exhibition at Arts & Letters Club, Toronto
2015 Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Mississauga
2015 Belonging, Project Art Gallery, Toronto
2014 Mass, Gallery M, Thronhill
2014 Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Mississauga
2014 Figurative Exhibition, Artist Resource Centre of Toronto, Toronto
2013 Landscape and Figure Artwork, Daniels Spectrum, Toronto
2013 Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Mississauga
2013 TDSB @ PCVA, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto
2012 The Big Art Show, Twist Gallery, Toronto
2008 Annual KASC Group Exhibition, Dosanhall Gallery, Toronto
2008 Evolving DNA: OCAD’s 93rd Annual Graduate Exhibition, Toronto
2008 Florence Program Exhibition, Great Hall, OCAD, Toronto
2007 Annual Group Exhibition, Young-Nak Korean Presbyterian Church
2007 Pronto: The 32nd Generation of OCAD’s Florence Program, Florence, Italy
2006 9th Annual OCAD Figure Show, OCAD, Toronto
2006 OCAD Korean Art Student Association Group Show, Toronto
2005 Discovery 2005, Mississauga Valley School of art, Toronto
2001 Duk-Won Fine Art Program Group Show, Seoul, South Korea

JURY
2026 My Two Worlds, University of Toronto, Toronto

OTHER ACTIVITIES
2025 Sponsorship at Aboveground Art Supplies, Toronto, ON.

2022 Mentorship, Vaughan, ON.
Provided a mentorship for student who applied for Vaughan International Film Festival 2022 with a short film, “Recurring”, that increases awareness of Alzheimer’s disease
- Student’s submission was juried and selected as the Best in Short Films category

2019 Facilitator, Thornhill, ON.
Volunteer facilitator for Adventure Valley Day Camp in Thornhill community
- Provided a free art and craft workshop for JK, SK and Junior school
students to promote art education to East Asian community
- Prepared a variety of programs and mediums for youth and facilitated the
workshop in an outdoor environment

2013 - 2016 Community Placement, Toronto, ON.
Volunteer teacher for junior and intermediate level students at various schools in
Toronto, including Queen Victoria Public Junior School, William Burgess Elementary
School, Earl Grey Senior Public School, and Chester Elementary School
- Promoted equity and social justice, brought light to poverty issues, First Nations
history, sustainability and deconstructing gender roles through art
- Provided academic and religious accommodation to students in a confidential
manner
- Collaborated with other teachers to support their curriculum, lesson plans and a
variety of school events, such as parent’s information night and after-school activities
- Designed and delivered a First Nations history class to young students, focusing on
Residential Schools in Canada

2001 - present Volunteer, Young-Nak Korean Presbyterian Church, Toronto, ON.
Volunteer for various church activities, including worship team leader, Sunday school
instructor, community outreach, graphic designer, guitar instructor and sound
engineer

MEMBERSHIPS
2012 - present Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations
2016 - 2018 Ontario College of Teachers
2013 Ontario Teachers’ Federation