Uma Feed
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Uma Feed | |
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| Born | Um Sul-yung[1] 1982 (age 43–44) Seoul, South Korea |
| Known for | Video and performance art criticising intercountry adoption |
| Style | Video, performance |
| Awards | Zola Prize (2024) |
Uma Feed (born in 1982 in Seoul) is a Norwegian and South Korean actor, artist and activist. She is known for visual art and performance art about her experience as an adoptee from South Korea growing in Norway, and has been a prominent critical voice in public debate about intercountry adoption in Norway. In 2025 she sued the Norwegian state for human trafficking.
Uma Feed was born in 1982 in Seoul. Her grandparents put her up for adoption against her parents' wishes when she was newborn, and she was sent to Norway when she was six months old, and adopted by Gro Karin and Gunnar Field.[2] She grew up with them in Forus, a suburb of Stavanger.[2] Feed has a BA in method acting from NSKI University College in Oslo.[3]
Artistic career
Her video artwork 유일한 이야기 The Only Story was shown in Oslo's annual autumn art exhibition Høstutstillingen in 2019,[3] and is also presented on the National Museum of Norway's website.[4] It is frequently shown and discussed in high schools, and NDLA has a lesson plan for teaching using the film.[5]
In Feed's performance piece Ekko she references her childhood performances at the church her adoptive father taught Sunday school at, where she danced with a big smile on her face. In the performance, she wears a paper birthday hat, a clownish smile is painted on with lipstick, and her mouth is unsmiling.[2]
In 2024 Fritt Ord gave financial support to a documentary about Uma Feed, to be directed by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen.[6]
Feed has had minor roles in TV series including Føkkings Fladseth (2023), Handle with care (2017). She was a set costumer in Exit (2019).[7]