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Education

2018 —



2018 — 20


2016





PhD Candidate, Art History and Criticism | Stony Brook University
Dissertation (in progress): “From the Frontier to Unrooted Global Citizenship: Twentieth Century Asian American Landscape”


M.A., Art History and Criticism | Stony Brook University
MA Thesis: “Parodic Play: Lee Bul’s Artistic Practice from the 1990s”

B.A., Art History, French Minor | Pepperdine University
Senior Thesis: “Koreamerican: Transnationalism and Do Ho Suh’s Representations
of Home”

Awards and Honors

  • Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American and Asian Diasporas Art History
  • Tyson Scholars Predoctoral Fellowship, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, $33,000
  • PhD Works Award for Career Exploration, Stony Brook University, $750
  • Davidson Family Fellowship (3 mo), Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 2024, $9,000
  • Patricia and Phillip Frost Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2022-23, $43,500
  • Graduate Council Fellowship, Stony Brook University, 2018-2023, $55,000
  • IDEA Graduate Fellowship, Stony Brook University, 2022, $10,000
  • Center for Korean Studies Graduate Scholarship, Stony Brook University, 2021-22, $3000
  • SUNY Prize for Performing Arts, Creation, and Curation, 2020-21, $10,000
  • Goldberger Fellowship, Department of Art, Stony Brook University, 2020-21, $2,500
  • Center for Korean Studies Graduate Scholarship, Stony Brook University, 2020-21, $3000
  • Critical Language Scholarship (Gwangju, South Korea), United States Department of State, 2019
  • Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers Associates Fellow, 2017
  • Art History Student of the Year, Pepperdine University, 2016
  • Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Grant Finalist, 2016
  • Dean’s List, Pepperdine University, 2012-2016
  • Faculty-Staff Scholarship Awardee, Pepperdine University, 2013-2016
  • Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowship Finalist, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2014 


Selected Presentations

  • Chair, “Reconsidering U.S. Imperialism: Art and Visual Culture,” 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, October 2025 (accepted)
  • Presenter and Chair, “Curating Moving Towards Home: Art for Palestine in NYC, 1989 & 2024,” for panel “Curating Art and Film for Palestine in the US,” Association of Asian American Studies Conference, April 2025 
  • Presenter/Discussion leader, “Art and Incarceration,” Asian American Art, Pasts and Futures Study Day, Smithsonian American Art Museum, March 2025
  • Presenter, “Unhampered by Our Polluted Earth: ‘Nationless Neutrality’ in Nam June Paik’s Broadcast Television Works,” College Art Association Conference, February 2025
  • Chair, “Deliberately University Based: Marginalized Artists and the Growth of University Art Spaces,” College Art Association Conference, February 2025
  • Moderator, “Cold War Baby: Historical Context meets Aesthetics with Simon Leung, Sunny Xiang, and Steven Lee,” Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, UC Irvine and GYOPO, LA, November 2024
  • Chair, “Global De/Re/Compositions,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 15, October 2025
  • Presenter, “(Un)stable Ground: Juxtaposing Colonial Visions of Indigenous Land and Shifting Racial Conditionality in Chiura Obata’s Paintings of the American West,” Representations of East Asian Migrants and Settlers in the Western United States ca. 1850-1929, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT, September 2024 
  • Presenter, “Curator Talk: Moving towards Home: Art for Palestine in New York City 1989 & 2024,” Korean Cultural Alliance for Palestine, Seoul and Virtual, August 2024
  • Presenter, “(Un)stable Ground: Colonial Visions, Dispossession, and Racial Contingency in Chiura Obata’s Landscapes of the American West,” Davidson Fellow Presentation, July 2024
  • Presenter, “What Makes a Global Contemporary Artist?: Transnationalism and Multicultural Reception in the Work of Yong Soon Min,” Association of Asian Studies Conference, March 2024
  • Presenter, “Wedding Snapshots and Camptown Romance: Memory and Futurity in Korean American Family Albums,” College Art Association Conference, February 2024
  • Presenter, “Fugitive Brides: Empire, Memory, and the Korean Diaspora Hidden in the Family Album,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 14, October 2023
  • Presenter, “Unsettled and Unrooted Ground: Chiura Obata’s Internment Landscapes,” Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellows’ Lectures (begins at 28:30), May 2023
  • Co-presenter, “Revisiting 5+1,” Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display Book Launch, Bard College, May 2023
  • Moderator, “Photographic Practice as Epistemic Intervention,” Photography, Temporality, and Decolonial Imagination in Global Asias Conference, Rutgers University, April 2023
  • Guest lecturer, “Revisiting 5+1: Curatorial Process” Museum Studies course (virtual), UMass Boston, March
  • Panelist, “Revisiting 5+1 Artist Talk featuring Howardena Pindell and Adger Cowans,” New Social Environments series for The Brooklyn Rail (virtual), February 2023
  • Panelist, “Curating Contemporary Asian Art,” Asia Society Museum, October 2022
  • Moderator, “Korean American Young Adult Fiction Today,” GYOPO, Los Angeles, April 2022
  • Presenter, “Military Brides and Camptown Romance: Histories of Korean Immigrant Women in Family Albums,” Association of Asian Studies, Honolulu, March 2022
  • Presenter, “Manifest Destiny in Internment: Situating Chiura Obata’s Modernist Landscapes,” CAA, February/March 2022
  • Presenter, “The Limits of ‘Global Modernism’: Transnationalism and Multiculturalism in the Work of Yong Soon Min,” Center for Korean Studies Fellowship Presentation, Stony Brook University, November 2021
  • Presenter, “Beyond ‘Global Feminism’: Situating Lee Bul’s Artistic Practice from the 1990s,” NEKST 2021 (8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars), University of Michigan, May 2021
  • Presenter, “Contemporary Korean Art: Lee Bul’s Feminist Art in the 1990s,” Center for Korean Studies Fellowship Presentation, Stony Brook University, November 2020
  • Presenter, “GI Brides and American Dreams: The Futurity of Yanggongju Photographs,” Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on “Decolonial Histories,” Stony Brook University, September 2020
  • Presenter, “Before the Cyborg: Decolonizing Feminism in Lee Bul,” conference presentation at the School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS) Graduate Student Conference at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, May 2020
  • Presenter, “The World Before the Cyborg: Decolonizing Feminism in Lee Bul,” conference presentation at Worlding the Global: The Arts in the Age of Decolonization, organized by Carleton College, November 2019
  • Guest lecturer, “Biennials and the Global Art World” Global Contemporary Art, UC Irvine, May 2019
  • Presenter, “DETACHING (PARENTHESIS)” Art and Feminism Walkthrough Presentation, Doosan Gallery, December 2018
  • Panelist, Art Critics Panel Presentation, Cheongju Residency, April 2016
  • Poster presenter, “Torii and Water: A Gateway to Shinto,” Poster Presentation, November 2012


Selected Publications

  • Co-author, Moving Towards Home, exh. cat., (Brooklyn: Subtitled NYC)
  • Reviewer, “Review: Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus,” exhibition review in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (Brill) (accepted)
  • Co-author, “Printing Solidarity: An Experiment in Pedagogical Curating,” academic journal article, Philosophia, fall 2024
  • Co-editor, Revisiting 5+1 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Printing Solidarity (journal article), Zuccaire Gallery, fall 2022 (forthcoming)
  • “Review: Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines, by Victoria Reyes” (Book Review), Ethnic Studies Review, University of California Press, July 2020
  • It’s Snowing in LA (exhibition catalogue), AA|LA Gallery, June 2018
  • “What is ‘Queer’ in South Korea? Explorations of art, identity, and ‘queerness’” (Queer Asia blog series), editor, January 2018
  • “Sun-young Huh” (exhibition text), One and J +1 Gallery, October 2017
  • Art Contemporary Seoul, Art Criticism Blog, 2017-2018
  • “Minki Hong: NPC_tutorial” (exhibition text), June 2017
  • “Treasured Heritage, Nadine Hensel” (catalogue entry), Cheongju Residency Catalogue, April 2017
  • Various Press Releases, Kukje Gallery, Editor, August 2016 – May 2017


Work Experience (selected)

Gallery and Museum Experience

November 2020-November 2025


February 2018 – August 2018

January 2018 – August 2018

August 2016 – May 2017


June – August 2016


November 2012 –April 2016

June – August 2015


August 2014 – April 2015



June – August 2014

June 2014


Guest Curator
Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY

Gallery Associate
AA|LA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Gallery Manager
Skibum MacArthur/Commonwealth and Council | Los Angeles, CA

Communications Assistant
Kukje Gallery | Seoul, South Korea

Curatorial Intern, Department of Painting & Sculpture
The Museum of Modern Art | New York

Director’s Assistant, Curatorial Assistant
Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University | Malibu, CA

Curatorial Intern, Department of Painting
J. Paul Getty Museum | Los Angeles, CA

Education Intern
Getty Villa | Pacific Palisades, CA


Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Intern, Gallery & Public Programs | Venice Arts | Venice, CA

Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Academy
Los Angeles County Museum of Art



Teaching Experience

Summer 2024



Spring 2024



Fall 2023- 




Fall 2020-












Fall 2018 - Fall 2021





August 2014 – April 2016
Sotheby’s Institute of Art | New York, NY
Instructor 
  • Art History

Brooklyn College | Brooklyn, NY
Instructor
  • Introduction to Art History (spring 2024)

Fordham University | Bronx, NY
Instructor
  • World Art (spring 2024)
  • Japanese Art (fall 2023, upper division undergraduate)

Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY
Instructor
  • Topics in Korean Studies: Migration and Diaspora in Korean Art (summer 2023, online upper division undergraduate)
  • Writing About Art (summer 2023, online upper division undergraduate)
  • Topics in Korean Studies: Korean American Art (summer 2022, online upper division undergraduate)
  • Topics in American Art: Asian American Art (spring 2022, upper division undergraduate)
  • Arts of Asia (spring 2020, summer 2020 online, fall 2020 online, winter 2020 online, summer 2021 online, winter 2021 online, winter 2024 online)
  • Modern Art (summer 2022 online, summer 2023)
  • History of Photography (winter 2023 online)



Teaching Assistant, 2018-2021
  • Modern Art (fall 2018)
  • Arts of Asia (spring 2019, fall 2019, spring 2021)
  • History of Photography (fall 2021)


Pepperdine University | Malibu, CA
Art History and Religion Division Research Mentor
Running on Cargo