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HELLO!

" I love, therefore I am ! "

Dahyun Ryu (류다현, 柳多炫) is an award-winning multi-media interdisciplinary artist based in California, United States, and Seoul, Republic of Korea. You can call her Roo for short–Roo, as in kangaroo.​ This is also how her surname, Ryu, is pronounced.

Roo, a lover of dark and creepy folklores with the biggest sweet tooth, always aspires to become the real-life version of Willy Wonka. She brings this whimsical spirit to life by experimenting with the sweet sensations of traditional collage and stop-motion animation that capture surrealist and magical realist elements. Passionate about exploring diverse art-making techniques, Roo works across mixed media, including drawing, photography, coding, filmmaking, storytelling, sound design, and installation.

Basically, she does everything. Roo loves all genres, styles, techniques, and mediums in visual storytelling. She thrives on pushing creative boundaries through various forms of art, messing around and embracing whatever ideas excite her.

d48ryu@gmail.com

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EDUCATION

2022-Present

Cornell University

   4.1/4.3 GPA

    Bachelor of Fine Arts, double minor in Film and Visual Studies

      - 2025 Cornell University AAP Dean's List

- $85,000 Grants, Scholarships, Financial Aid

      - 2024 Cornell University AAP Dean's List

- $85,000 Grants, Scholarships, Financial Aid

      - 2023 Cornell University AAP Dean's List

- $85,000 Grants, Scholarships, Financial Aid

      2022 Cornell University AAP Dean's List

2019-2022

Stoneleigh-Burnham School

   4.1/4.3 GPA

    Highschool Diploma, International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma

      2022 Stoneleigh-Burnham School Honor Roll

      - 2021 Stoneleigh-Burnham School Honor Roll

      - 2020 Stoneleigh-Burnham School Honor Roll

      - 2019 Stoneleigh-Burnham School Honor Roll

HONORS & AWARDS

2025 Ezra Colin Cornell Award in Digital Media

2025 Edith Adams and Walter King Stone Memorial Prize

2024 Pixiv Korean Student Illustration Contest

The Award of Excellence for the University Category

2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards

National Gold Medal, American Visions Nominee, Best in Category Award, Regional Gold Key, Regional Silver Key

FAVORITE QUOTES

"You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are."

- Linda Woolverton

"At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done–then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago."

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Dear old world, you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you."

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Chin up, princess, or the crown slips."

- N/A

"You can tell she's a princess. She doesn't need a crown"

- Reann Peters

HIDDEN TALENTS

I’m really good at decorating sweets. Not baking them, but making them look pretty with chocolate, candy, and frosting. I always imagine having baking as a hobby. There's something romantic about the idea of turning my stress into delicious treats then giving them away to neighbors and friends. Unfortunately, I don’t have the patience for making pastry, so I cheat by buying cake sheets from the store and go straight to the decorating part.

 

My mother told me that she was once featured in her town’s newspaper as the child with the highest IQ in the area. I think she said that she was somewhere around 140. They say intelligence is 50% genetic, and when I first took the test as an adult, I was around 135. IQ tests has many flaws and they certainly don’t define a person, but I personally like to keep this as a reminder whenever I doubt my own potential!

I can eat about four times the average portion, and people would tell me I should do mukbang. The only thing stopping me is that I eat way too fast, so my videos won’t be satisfying for viewers…

I’m a bug master. No animal scares me. As long as it’s not likely to kill me, I can catch it with my bare hands. For something like a wasp, I like to use a cup. In high school, people used to knock on my dorm room late at night just to ask me to catch bugs for them. I don’t like killing them. I honestly can’t think of a time I’ve deliberately killed a bug. i prefer saving them when they're drowning or trapped indoors.

My desire is to forever make cool things! I'm always up to opportunities to collaborate with friends and learn new tools! I also never run out of ideas!

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