Professor
CHUNG, YEON SHIM
Professor, Contemporary Art Theory, Criticism and Curatorial Studies
shimchung@hongik.ac.kr
https://hongik.academia.edu/YChung
Yeon Shim Chung received her Ph.D. in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (advisor: Prof. Linda Nochlin). Chung’s research interests encompass both modern and contemporary Western and Korean art. Before teaching at Hongik, Dr. Chung was an assistant professor at the FIT, SUNY in New York City and a researcher for the exhibition The World of Nam June Paikat the Guggenheim Museum in 1999. She worked as co-curator for the 2018 Gwangju Biennale. Chung is a Fulbright fellow and visiting research professor at IFA/NYU from Sept. 2018 to Aug. 2019.
MAJOR
Contemporary Art Theory, Criticism and Curatorial Studies
BIOGRAPHY
2005
Ph.D. New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, NY, USA
1998
M.A. New York University, NY, USA
1995
M.A. Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
1992
B.A. Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
2019
Curator, Smart Shelter, RESEARCH PAVILION, Venice, May-Aug., 2019
2018-19
Fulbright Fellow
Visiting Research Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, NY, USA
Visiting Research Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, NY, USA
2018
Curator, Faultlines, 2018 Gwangju Biennale (Theme: Imagined Borders), Sept. 5, 2018-Nov.11, 2018
2016-17
Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Board Member
AWARDS
Fulbright Fellowship
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship
Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship for Modern Art
PUBLICATIONS
2018
Korean Installation Art,Minjinsa; Seoul, 2018.
2018
Co-Editor and Co-translator forThe Critical Writings of Lee Yil, Les Presses du Reel, 2018.
2018
“Lee Bul”, Catalogue Essay, London: Hayward Gallery, 2018.
2016
“Media Art in the Age of Anxiety,” Presented and published at Mori, Tokyo, 2016.(published into Japanese)
2016
Art that Changed the World, Darun, 2016.
2015
Korean Art Criticism Now, A & C, 2015.
2014
Installation Art in Contemporary Space, Seoul: A& C, 2014.
2013
Lee Yil’s Critical Anthology. Seoul: Mijinsa, 2013.
WORKS
Conferences
2019
Lee Quede’s Vernacular Modernism in Colonial Korea, Center for Korean Studies, UC Berkeley, March 15, 2019.
2019
“Bahc Yiso’s Minor Injury in New York Years (1982-1994), CAA, Feb. 2019
2018
Organizer: Spring Foundation, Taipei; presented “Korean Art in the 1970s and 1980s: Ecole de Seoul,” Dec. 2018.
2017
Co-Organizer and Participant: Postwar Korean Art, LACMA, Oct. 2017.
2016
Presented “Korean Media Artists and Synthetic Experience”; Co-Organizer: Mori Art Center, NYU, 2016.
2015
Organizer: M+Hong Kong Museum: Post-War Abstract Art; Presented “The Storied Space of Dansaekhwa” 2015
External Committee Work
2019
MMCA, Seoul, Korea
2019
Hana Bank, Korea
Arts Council Korea
Arts Council Korea
2017-18
Art Bank, MMCA