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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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-


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
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
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