[abbreviated]
Education
2018 —
2018 — 20
2016
2018 — 20
2016
PhD Candidate, Art History and Criticism | Stony Brook University
Dissertation (in progress): “From Landscape to Unrooted Global Citizenship: Twentieth Century Asian American Art”
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”
Dissertation (in progress): “From Landscape to Unrooted Global Citizenship: Twentieth Century Asian American Art”
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
- Patricia and Phillip Frost Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2022-23, $43,500
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Graduate Council Fellowship, Stony Brook University, 2018-2023, $55,000
- IDEA Graduate Fellowship, Stony Brook University, 2022, $10,000
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Center for Korean Studies Graduate Scholarship, Stony Brook University, 2021-22, $3000
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SUNY Prize for Performing Arts, Creation, and Curation, 2020-21, $10,000
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Goldberger Fellowship, Department of Art, Stony Brook University, 2020-21, $2,500
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Center for Korean Studies Graduate Scholarship, Stony Brook University, 2020-21, $3000
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Critical Language Scholarship (Gwangju, South Korea), United States Department of State, 2019
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Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers Associates Fellow, 2017
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Art History Student of the Year, Pepperdine University, 2016
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Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Grant Finalist, 2016
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Dean’s List, Pepperdine University, 2012-2016
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Faculty-Staff Scholarship Awardee, Pepperdine University, 2013-2016
- Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowship Finalist, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2014
Selected Presentations
- 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 (accepted)
- Presenter, “Unsettled and Unrooted Ground: Chiura Obata’s Internment Landscapes,” Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellows’ Lectures (begins at 28:30), May
- Co-presenter, “Revisiting 5+1,” Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display Book Launch, Bard College, May
- Moderator, “Photographic Practice as Epistemic Intervention,” Photography, Temporality, and Decolonial Imagination in Global Asias Conference, Rutgers University, April
- Guest lecturer, “Curatorial Process for Revisiting 5+1,” 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
- Panelist, “Curating Contemporary
Asian Art,” Asia Society Museum, October
- “Korean American Young Adult Fiction Today” (moderator), GYOPO, Los Angeles, April 2022
- “Military Brides and Camptown Romance: Histories of Korean Immigrant Women in Family Albums,” Association of Asian Studies, Honolulu, March 2022
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“Manifest Destiny in Internment: Situating Chiura Obata’s Modernist Landscapes,” CAA, February/March 2022
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“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
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“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
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“Contemporary Korean Art: Lee Bul’s Feminist Art in the 1990s,” Center for Korean Studies Fellowship Presentation, Stony Brook University, November 2020
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“GI Brides and American Dreams: The Futurity of Yanggongju Photographs,” conference presentation at the Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on “Decolonial Histories,” Stony Brook University, September 2020
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“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
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“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
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“Biennials and the Global Art World” Global Contemporary Art, UC Irvine, May 2019
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“DETACHING (PARENTHESIS)” Art and Feminism Walkthrough Presentation, Doosan Gallery, December 2018
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Art Critics Panel Presentation, Cheongju Residency, April 2016
- “Torii and Water: A Gateway to Shinto,” Poster Presentation, November 2012
Selected Publications
- Revisiting 5+1 (exhibition catalogue)
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Printing
Solidarity (journal article), Zuccaire Gallery, fall 2022 (forthcoming)
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Mis/Communication:
Language and Power in Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue), Zuccaire Gallery, March 2022
(forthcoming)
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“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
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It’s Snowing in LA (exhibition catalogue), AA|LA Gallery, June
2018
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“What is ‘Queer’ in South Korea? Explorations
of art, identity, and ‘queerness’” (Queer Asia blog series), editor,
January 2018
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“Sun-young Huh” (exhibition text), One and J +1 Gallery,
October 2017
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Art Contemporary
Seoul,
Art Criticism Blog, 2017-2018
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“Minki Hong: NPC_tutorial” (exhibition text), June 2017
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“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-
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
Spring 2020 -
Summer 2022
Spring 2022
Fall 2018 - Fall 2021
August 2014 – April 2016
Summer 2022
Spring 2022
Fall 2018 - Fall 2021
August 2014 – April 2016
Lecturer: Arts of Asia, Modern Art
Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY
Lecturer: Korean American Art
Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY
Lecturer: American Art (Race and Asian American Art)
Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY
Teaching Assistant: Modern, Asian Art, History of Photography
Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY
Art History and Religion Division Research Mentor
Pepperdine University | Malibu, CA
Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY
Lecturer: Korean American Art
Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY
Lecturer: American Art (Race and Asian American Art)
Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY
Teaching Assistant: Modern, Asian Art, History of Photography
Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY
Art History and Religion Division Research Mentor
Pepperdine University | Malibu, CA