I am a Two-Spirit singer-songwriter, interdisciplinary performance artist, visual artist, and costume designer. I started my career as a fashion designer but rediscovered myself as a performance artist through the practice of physical theater, dance, and traditional Korean music - "Pansori" and "Gayageum-Byungchang". Instead of transforming my physical body from male to female, I choose to use spiritual practice through a Buddhistic approach of transcendence and art practice as tools for my liberation from personal and social conflicts around gender and identity. I believe that there is immense power to be found beyond one's dualistic thought processes and tapping into the unknown mysteries of Self. My work is transformation. I believe the discipline of the creative process embodies and manifests metamorphosis. My work has continuously evolved my understanding of Self. I believe that my work creates the potential for others to do the same. My art is about Self. I gave my artist-self the name Yozmit, meaning “myth about one's self." Tapping into the goddess power, I use sound, visual, and the physicality of the human body as a holy trinity to create an image of the goddess named Yozmit as my higher channel alter ego using my given male form but embodying both the sacred feminine and the sacred masculine. Yozmit transcends gender but is a powerful compassionate heroine who guides me to my highest potential beyond the limitations of trans-identified Korean male. As Yozmit’s agent and caretaker, I create looks, songs, situations, and public performances that represent Yozmit and spread her message of "DoYou." "DoYou" meaning "Do" ing "You" - a process of becoming fully self-realized and acting upon self-identity. DoYou is my artistic mantra to shift power from external conformity to internal realization. My voice as an artist comes from my mother’s oppression in her own DNA of becoming a singer. She is a living example of the damaged feminine in modern Korean society. She wanted to be a singer when she was in school, but in conservative 1950s Korea, being a female singer was tantamount to being a prostitute. Nevertheless, she would secretly sing in a jazz club in the American army base in Seoul after school. When her brother found out, she was stopped publicly and violently as he considered her actions to be a shame to the family name. Her traumatic memories continued in my blood through my own journey of becoming a singer in Korea. When I attempted to become a pop singer, the first thing I was told from my music label was not to reveal my gender identity. I was bullied and physically abused by my music producer because of who I was. Through this process, I started to see the bigger picture of power dynamics in the realm of gender and the total disharmony between masculine and feminine. I decided to create art that will help restore this balance within my self, my audience, my family, and my beloved Korean culture. I create Yozmit's music with intention as a medicine object in the spirit of Korean shamanistic tradition. My new album SUN MOON DOOR combines electronic dance music and traditional Korean style singing in many different languages. My purpose in this album is to take my work to the next level of its evolution by making my original music as the central spine of my performance work. I believe I can harness my understanding of ancient wisdom and deep healing frequencies of traditional Korean music and art to share with a mainstream audience. As I have written in the lyrics of my song DOGSTAR, “Sunrise in the night". My goal is to embrace the highest teachings to bring together the light and dark, yin and yang of my incomprehensible universe.

Yozmit is a Los Angeles based singer song-writer, visual performance artist. Through the ritualistic performance art, Yozmit combines theater, dance, pop culture, fashion, gender identity, mythology and shamanism onto a single canvas. She is currently working on "Do You: Migration of The Monarchs" performance art campaign based theater show. It is about redirecting power back to ourselves, to reunite The Sacred Feminine and The Sacred Masculine by using art as a tool. Yozmit utilizes her art that is presented to a mainstream audience as a medium of healing of the human consciousness. Yozmit performs internationally in Korea, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, and many cities in the US. Yozmit performs as a headline at The Box, NYC and London, and has also performed at MoMA for Marina Abramovic.

Los Angeles–based performance artist, costume designer, and singer-songwriter Yozmit emphasizes the body as a site of transformation. Her ornate costumes elicit a heightened awareness of space, shattering physical confines while simultaneously expanding notions around identity and presentation. Her songs, a mixture of pansori—a traditional Korean genre—and electronic music, are captivating and spiritual. For her, they are an invocation of the goddess. In 2017 she was the recipient of the City of West Hollywood’s first grant for transgender artists, with which she developed DoYou: Migration of the Monarchs, a dynamic show incorporating cabaret, burlesque, butoh, kabuki, pansori, and various elaborate costumes. Describing herself on her website as an “avant-garde vaudeville artist,” Yozmit has performed in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, London, Paris, Ibiza, Berlin, Vienna, Sofia, and Seoul.

My life is about Transformation. I am Yozmit the DogStar, a transgender singer-songwriter, performance artist, costume designer, and stylist. I have had many deaths of consciousness in my life. Each time it has been like waking up from a nap filled with intense, colorful, lucid dreams and feeling the ripples of that experience for the rest of the day. I have gone through a major change almost every ten years, including a major and mysterious childhood illness, changing my country of residence in my teens, my career multiple times and, finally, from boy to girl. When I was 7 years old I became seriously and dangerously ill. Nobody knew what it was. My parents thought I might die. I was their only son. My family had had only one male child in each generation since my great-grandfather’s time so there was also intense social pressure in addition to their own worry. If I died the family name would end with my death. I only survived after my mother and grandmother hired a local shaman to perform a ritual that included sacrificing a live hen. Shortly after my recovery, I put on my first female dress - one of my sister’s. In that dress I walked around the neighborhood with my girl friends. I was scared to death thinking, “What if my mom finds me like this? - She will be very upset!” On the other hand, I felt liberated, like a butterfly out of its cocoon. It was so joyful and exciting to be walking outside in that dress! When I was 19 my whole family emigrated, moving from Seoul to Los Angeles. For my parents it was an economic and education-based decision made for the sake of their children. But out of all three children I was the most desperate to influence my parents to make this decision. I had learned from a college class I attended that my gender identity was considered a mental illness in Korea, a condition to be treated at a mental institution at the time. I was very relieved when they finally made the decision to move. Upon my arrival in the US I started my education in fashion design, working in the industry after graduation. This is when I started dressing as a female in public although I was able to keep it secret from my family. At 27 years of age I felt burned out by the business side of the fashion industry. I lost my inspiration to continue. I was more interested in wearing and showcasing my own creations than in designing for other people. Near the end of my fashion career in LA I started to style for Korean pop artists. They influenced me to move back to Korea to start a new career as a pop singer. I felt that if they can do it I could do it too and do it even better. I was signed by a Korean music label in Seoul in 1997.