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Yozmit is a Two-Spirit singer-songwriter, interdisciplinary performance artist, and costume designer. The self-given name Yozmit means 'myth about one’s self' : Through her ritualistic performance art, Yozmit combines theater, dance, pop culture, fashion, gender identity, mythology, and shamanism onto a single canvas. She sees her art as a form of research that helps define the unknown mysteries of her universe. She is currently working on a DoYou project - awareness-based performance art campaign. DoYou means 'Do'ing 'You' - a process of becoming fully self-realized and acting upon by balancing the Sacred Feminine and The Masculine using the gender and identity as a subject. With this dualistic approach, Yozmit utilizes her art that is presented to a mainstream audience as a medium of healing of the human consciousness.

Yozmit studied and worked in fashion in the beginning of her professional career but rediscovered herself as a performance artist after being trained and performed with Rachel Rosenthal, Thomas Leabhart (Etienne Decroux technique), Laurie Cameron, Seo Hoonjung (lineage of Korean intangible cultural asset of pansori ;Yi Il- joo), Ji Yoonja (Gayageum Buyngchang), Takuya Muramatsu from Dairakudakan. Yozmit is also a scholarship recipient of the American Dance Festival (ADF).

Yozmit is a international headliner at The Box in New York City, London. Her work is also been shown at LA ART SHOW, Queens Museum, Google APS conference, Hollywood Fringe Festival, One City One Pride Arts Festival, ChunCheon International Mime Festival, Life Ball, Doma International Art Festival, Dream Force, Coachella Music Festival, Buring Man, Lucent Dossier, Joyce Soho, Redcat (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater), Movement Research at The Judson Church, St. Marks Church, Lincoln Center, Art Basel, Joe's Pub, Galapagos Art Space, Dixon Place, Supper Club, Webster Hall, Sleep No More, Hotel Americano, Standard Hotel, Mondrian Hotel and other various venues in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, London, Paris, Ibiza, Berlin, Vienna, Sofia and Seoul.

Since 2012, in addition to conventional stage performances, Yozmit endeavored to bring performance into public spaces such as hotels, clubs, retail stores, and various streets around the world to explore the concept of site-specific performance installations. In addition to her work as an artist, Yozmit is an activist for HIV/ AIDS prevention and transgender civil rights.

In 2010, Yozmit performed in Marina Abramović 'The Artist is Present', Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ), NYC.In 2013, Yozmit performed at “LifeBall” which is the biggest AIDS fundraising event in Europe held in Vienna, Austria. Yozmit was awarded as "The Queen of LifeBall" by Christian Louboutin and Harpers Bazaar as a result. 2017, Yozmit had a great honor to be the first grantee of the” transgender initiative” - the very first grant given to a transgender from the City of West Hollywood for the self produced show “DoYou: Migration of The Monarchs”.

Yozmit released her debut studio album “Sun Moon Door” with 11 songs in late 2019 and during the COVID19 pandemic, she started a live online broadcasting show called “DoYou Garage Live” in her own garage using platforms such as Instagram Live and Youtube Live.