* Full CV available upon request
[Grant/Award]
SFAC Review Critique Project Grant - Visual Art, 2025
Funded by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
SFAC Artistic Research Fund RE:SEARCH - Visual Art, 2025
Funded by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Global Cultural Relations Programme Grant, 2024
Funded by Cultural Relations Platform, European Union
SFAC Artistic Research Fund RE:SEARCH - Interdisciplinary Art, 2023
Funded by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Korean Art Workshop for Graduate Students/Junior-level Curators Grant, 2022
Funded by Korea Foundation, Dartmouth College, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
YWS Project Grant, 2022
Funded by Yang Won Sun Foundation
3rd Prize, Architectural Competition Salon d'Art XR, 2022
Awarded by NFA - Non Fungible Architecture
SFAC Artistic Research Fund RE:SEARCH - Visual Art, 2022
Funded by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
DBpia X Akaroot Academic Research Translation Grant, 2022
Funded by DBpia & Akaroot
SFAC Artistic Research Fund SEARCH - Visual Art, 2021
Funded by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
3rd Prize, ArtAsiaPacific Young Writer's Contest, 2021
Awarded by ArtAsiaPacific
2nd Prize, A&M ‘Fresh Take’ Writing Contest, 2021
Funded by ASEAN Foundation
ARKO Emerging Artists Fund - Visual Art (Curatorial Research), 2021
Funded by Arts Council Korea
1st Prize, Gravity Effect Art Critic Award, 2021
Awarded by Graphite on Pink
NEXT International Cultural Exchange Research Group Support Grant, 2020
Funded by Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange & Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Republic of Korea
Virtual360 Konnect Emerging Arts Leaders Residency Grant, 2020
Funded by Asia-Europe Foundation & ASEAN Foundation
Visual Art Critic-Art Media Matching Support Grant, 2020
Funded by Korea Arts Management Service & Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Republic of Korea
SFAC Curatorial Research Emergency Support Grant, 2020
Funded by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
DOOSAN Curator Workshop Grant, 2020
Funded by DOOSAN Yonkang Foundation
SFAC Artistic Research Fund RE:SEARCH - Visual Art, 2020
Funded by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Project Ssacsu Art Critic Support Grant, 2020
Awarded by Nonprofit Art Space Ssac, Daegu
ARKO Crowd Funding Matching Support Grant - Book Publication, 2020
Funded by Arts Council Korea
Fellowship for Cultural Innovators Forum, Salzburg Global Seminar, 2020
Session 627, Cultural Innovation, Leadership and Collaboration: A Global Platform
Funded by Korea Foundation
SFAC Mecenat Supporting Project Grant - Book Publication, 2019
Funded by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
SFAC Seoul Art Space Seogyo Art Project Grant - Exhibition, 2019
Funded by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Ondream Global Academy Fellowship, 2019
Funded by Hyundai Motors Chung Mong-Koo Foundation & Ilmin International Relations Institute, Korea University
KF Global Challengers - KF Salzburg Global Seminar Internship Grant, 2018
Funded by Korea Foundation & Salzburg Global Seminar (Salzburg, Austria)
Visual Art Critic-Art Media Matching Support Grant, 2018
Funded by Korea Arts Management Service & Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Republic of Korea
SeMA Citizen Curator Exhibition Supporting Project Grant, 2018
Funded by the Seoul Museum of Art
3rd Prize, The 4th Thesis Competition on Korea-China Trilateral Cooperation, 2017
"A Proposal for Korea·Japan·China Trilateral Biennale" (Co-author: Young-in Arial Kim)
Awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea & Sejong Institute
Global Future Artists Project Grant - Exhibition, 2017
Funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
Fellowship for Subject Development Conference, 2017
"Discourse of East Asian Identities in Contemporary Art Scene"
Funded by Seoul National University Asia Center
2nd Prize, Architecture Criticism Contest, 2017
Awarded by Architecture Critic Society
Youth Public Diplomatic Corps Travel Grant, 2016
Subject Presentation "Intercultural Understanding of Korean-Indonesian Contemporary Art"
Funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
Japan Visiting Program for Youth Travel Grant - Art & Architecture, 2016
Funded by Japan Foundation for Cultural Exchange & Japan Cultural Center Seoul
The 10th Kyujanggak Korean Studies Summer Workshop Grant, 2016
Funded by Kyujanggak International Center for Korean Studies, Seoul National University
Setouchi Triennale Travel Grant, 2016
Funded by the Tourist Board of Kagawa, Japan
Representative of Korea, Short-term Scholarship Program Talents de Demain - Artvision Paris (Digital Art), 2015
Awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France & Institut Français de Corée du Sud
Valedictorian & Summa Cum Laude, 2015
Awarded by Yonsei University
[Academic Scholarship]
Pony Chung Humanities Scholarship, 2025
Pony Chung Foundation
Lotte Scholarship Foundation Graduate Scholarship (Korean Studies), 2020-2024
Lotte Scholarship Foundation
Simon and June Li Annual Travel Award, 2024
Lincoln College, University of Oxford
TORCH Critical-Thinking Communities Funding, 2024
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford
Quarterly Travel Fund - Postgraduate Research Bursary, 2024
British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies
Scholarly Research Grant, 2022
Association for Art History
Montag Centre for Overseas Study Research Funding Grant, 2022, 2023
Bing Overseas Studies Program, Stanford University
College Travel Grant, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
St Hugh's College, University of Oxford
Faculty of History Graduate Studies Fund, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
University of Oxford
Barbinder Watson Trust Fund, 2022
St Hugh's College, University of Oxford
Arnold, Bryce, and Read Fund, 2021, 2022
University of Oxford
CSES Fellowship, 2021, 2022, 2023
Center for Social Value Enhancement Studies, SK
RIKS Workshop for Young Korean Studies Scholar Award, 2021
Pony Chung Foundation & Research Institute of Korean Studies, Korea University
RIKS Academy for Young Korean Studies Scholar Award, 2021
Pony Chung Foundation & Research Institute of Korean Studies, Korea University
Faculty of History Archives Fund, 2021, 2022
University of Oxford
Teaching Fellowship for Research Assistant, 2017
Seoul National University
Scholarship for Academic Achievement, 2015
Seoul National University
Promising Future Leader Scholarship, 2015, 2016
Jeju Special Self-governing Province
Scholarship for Honor Student, 2014
Seoul-Jeju Community Council
The Next Century Humanities Scholarship, 2013
Korea Student Aid Foundation
Scholarship for Honor Student, 2012-2014
Yonsei University
[Working Experience]
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Curatorial Assistant/Exhibition Coordinator, Contemporary Art Department 1, 2020
Korea Arts Management Service
Coordinator/Editor, Visual Arts Planning Int'l Relations Division, 2019
Salzburg Global Seminar
Korea Foundation-Salzburg Global Seminar Program Intern, 2018
Graduate School of Fine Arts, Seoul National University
Research/Teaching Assistant, 2017
[Teaching Experience]
Global Contemporary Art: An Introduction
Co-tutor, University of Oxford, 2024
Krasis
Ashmolean Junior Teaching Fellow, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2024
Visual Culture in Contemporary East Asia
Tutor, University of Oxford, 2023, 2024
Pop and the Art of the Sixties
PLTO Trainee, University of Oxford, 2023
Korean Digital Media and Culture
Tutor, University of Oxford, 2023
Contemporary Korean Art in the Context of Globalization
Tutor, University of Oxford, 2023
Modern and Contemporary Korean Art and Aesthetics
Tutor, University of Oxford, 2023
Korean Aesthetics
Tutor, University of Oxford, 2022
Modern and Contemporary Korean Art
Teaching Assistant, Seoul National University, 2017
Contemporary Western Art
Teaching Assistant, Seoul National University, 2017
[Conference/Presentation]
Art for the Marginalized: Activism and Engagement in Korean Contemporary Art
European Program for the Exchange of Lecturers (EPEL), Babeș-Bolyai University - Cluj-Napoca, 2025.
The Land of Promise: Migrant Workers in Contemporary Korea
Korean Wave(s)? Global Itineraries of Korean Art and Culture, University of Zurich, May 2025.
Urban Protest as Artistic Intervention: The Case Study of the Eulji OB Bear Protest
Global Cities and Socially Engaged Arts Webinar Series, Royal Roads University, May 2025.
Algorithmic Oblivion: Computational Erasure and Historical Memory in Jungwoo Lee’s Artwork
Unruly Visions: Art, Activism and Intersectionality in East Asia
Conference Co-organizer, University of Oxford, Dec. 2024.
11th Korean Screen Culture Conference, Goethe University Frankfurt, Jun. 2024.
Para-zomias: Prefigurative Urban Transformations in Asia
Session Co-convenor, 50th Association for Art History Annual Conference, University of Bristol, Apr. 2024.
K-pop as Method? Dew Kim’s Queer Aesthetics toward Korean LGBTQ+ Art
International Symposium “Before, Behind, Beyond the Wave: Korean Popular Culture in Perspective," KU Leuven, Nov. 2023.
Exhibition Spaces without Barriers
CSES Fellowship Learning Community Series, Center for Social Value Enhancement Studies, Nov. 2023.
Collective Intervention through Art: The Eulji OB Bear Case Study
31st Association for Korean Studies in Europe Conference, University of Copenhagen, Jun. 2023.
Protest as Artistic Intervention and Cultural Production: Cases of Seoul
Art and the City: Urban Space, Art and Social Change, Columbia University Global Centers, Amman, Jun. 2023.
'Buffer Zone' or 'Friction Zone'? Socially Engaged Art in Korea and the DMZ
17th Korean Studies Graduate Students Convention in Europe, Comenius University, May 2023.
Accessibility as Fantasy
Roundtable "Barrier Free Design with Curatorial Practice," Jan. 2023.
Pendulating Identities: The Digital Doubles of Korean Artists
2nd Korean Studies Young Scholars Workshop, University of Naples “L’Orientale,” Nov. 2022.
Sustainable and Inclusive for All: Rethinking the Concept of "Cultural Mobility"
CSES Fellowship Learning Community Series, Center for Social Value Enhancement Studies, Nov. 2022.
Collective Memory and Solidarity: Korean Artists in the Venice Biennale 2022
Ciclo di Webinar "Corea e Coreanità nell'Arte Contemporanea", Asiatika - Rivista di Studi Orientalistici, Sep. 2022.
Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary Korea
2nd Korean Studies Young Scholars Graduate Student Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Mar. 2022.
A Tribute to the Globe: Solidarity in Korean Contemporary Art - Sung Hwan Kim, Im Heung-soon, Jung Yeondoo
RIKS Workshop for Young Korean Studies Scholar, Korea University, Jan. 2022.
To Carry on the Vanity: Art Practices that Ensure Sustainability
CSES Fellowship Learning Community Series, Center for Social Value Enhancement Studies, Nov. 2021.
Social Practice in Korean Contemporary Art after the 2000s
RIKS Academy for Young Korean Studies Scholar, Korea University, Aug. 2021.
[Language]
Korean (Native), English (Fluent),
French (Proficient), Spanish (Intermediate),
Italian (Beginner), Japanese (Beginner)