The Speakers

Sunglim Kim

Sunglim Kim is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Art History and Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages (ASCL) at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on artistic and cultural exchanges between East and West, modern Korean art, historical and contemporary Korean women artists, and the intersection of art and commercial culture in Asia. She has authored several journal articles and books. She recently curated two U.S. traveling exhibitions, The Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens (2016–2017) and Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined (2022–2023) and edited the accompanying catalogues. Currently, she is working on a monograph titled Korean Art “Herstory” and an edited volume, Seundja Rhee: Aesthetic Journey from Earth to Cosmos.

Vicki Song-yeon Kwon

Vicki Sung-yeon Kwon (PhD) is Associate Curator of Korean Art and Culture at Royal Ontario Museum and Assistant Professor (status-only) in the Department of Art History at University of Toronto. Kwon’s research focuses on Korean art and visual culture, in relation to global contemporary art, transnationalism, feminist activism and socially engaged art. Her recent and forthcoming publications explore feminist art activism in Korea, and she has published in journals including Korean Studies, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Asian Studies Review. Her curated exhibitions include Reimagining Places: Land, Store, Home (Korea Cultural Centre Canada, Ottawa, 2022) and Mass and Individual: The Archive of the Guyanese Mass Games (Arko Art Center, Seoul, 2016). She also coordinated transdisciplinary exhibitions in collaboration with artists, policymakers, and scholars of the humanities and the sciences, which resulted in exhibitions at 3 international venues, including Immune Nations at the UNAIDS headquarters in Geneva in 2017.

Mina Kim

Mina Kim is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama and specializes in contemporary Korean art, Korean American art, East Asian art, transnational and global visual culture, and visual communication. She received her BA at the University of Michigan and her MA and PhD at the Ohio State University. Her book, Contemporary Korean Art: New Directions since the 1960s, will be published on November 1, 2024, in the UK and will be available in December worldwide. The book showcases a collection of the most visually captivating, intriguing, and often overlooked examples of Korean art. Mina Kim highlights the artistic output of the 1960s and ’70s through today, providing crucial aesthetic and political context for understanding the work and includes performance, gender, identity, internationalism, and the evolution of multimedia. She is also the author of Jung Yeondoo’s Media Art: Quantum Deformation through Coincidence of the Real and the Virtual (2018) and is currently working on another book project, No Boundaries on Boundaries: Transnational Communication and Consilience in Korean American Art and Visual Culture. Dr. Kim has published many articles on East Asian visual and material culture.

Yeonsoo Chee

Yeonsoo Chee, a specialist in modern Korean painting, joined the Art Institute of Chicago as the first curator of Korean art in 2020. In her role at the Art Institute, she is working to grow the Korean art collection and programs to support the museum’s goal of representing the expanse of art across the Asian continent. Previously, she spent over nine years as a curatorial leader of the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena and was the Curator and Director of Exhibitions at the National Palace Museum of Korea. Her publications include Selections from the Korean Art Collection at USC Pacific Asia Museum, National Palace Museum of Korea in Seven Themes, and Hyomyeong: Crown Prince and Patron of the Arts. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Ewha Womans University, Korea, and a BA and an MA in Art History from California State University Long Beach. She also teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kyunghee Pyun

Kyunghee Pyun is professor of art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. Her scholarship focuses on history of collecting, reception of Asian art, and intersectionality of art and technology, and industrial history. She wrote Fashion, Identity, Power in Modern Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art: Fluidity and Fragmentation (Routledge, 2022); and Dress History of Korea: Critical Perspectives of Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2023). As an art critic, activist, and curator of contemporary art, she published American Art from Asia: Artistic Praxis and Theoretical Divergence (Routledge 2022) with Michelle Lim; and Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Artivism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) with Gillian Hannum.

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