CV
Symposium, Exhibition, Publication, and Documentary
Curator
Supported by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture 2025
People Buying Land in the DMZ begins with the striking fact that parcels within the inaccessible DMZ are actively traded. Where longing and speculation intersect, scholars and artists trace these invisible transactions—built on satellite images and legal documents—to interrogate notions of ownership and provoke new imaginaries of the peninsula’s future.
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Seoul, Korea
September 2025 – December 2025
Curatorial
Exhibition, Lecture performance
Curator
Supported by the CHAMBER and the Incheon Foundation for Arts and Culture
From Recent Rumors and Old Traces traces the flows of people and goods along routes once linked by rail—Shimonoseki, Busan, Seoul, Dalian, Dandong, Shenyang, Changchun, and Yanbian—across past and present. Exploring un/official circulations, the project examines how borders remain rigid for humans yet porous for capital. By visualizing transnational distribution routes connecting Japan, Korea, China, and North Korea, it seeks to spark new cultural imaginaries.
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August 29, 2025 – September 14, 2025
Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
October 30, 2025
Curatorial
Exhibition, Program
Curator
Supported by the Center for Visual Studies of Korea National University of Arts (K-Arts)
This Nameless Site contemplates the layered multiplicity hidden beneath a single place name. Whether real or imagined, inaccessible or unseen, these sites harbor voids of absence, loss, and unspoken gaps. The exhibition seeks to trace and rename such spaces, where the practices of Aram Lee and Kyurim Kim intersect, mediating the hollows of place, matter, and time.
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Seoul, Korea
December 11, 2024 – December 31, 2024
Curatorial
On—boarding: Going to Space, Loving in Space
2024 MMCA Performing Arts Space Elevator
Symposium
Co-curator
On—Boarding is an MMCA Performing Arts 2024 program, exploring space elevators with ISEC and, with Dr. Eleanor Armstrong, examining space sexology, intimacy, and relationships in new environments.
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Seoul, Korea
October 26, 2024
Curatorial
Exhibition, Program, Publication
Curator
Supported by the 2024 SeMA Emerging Artists & Curators
The Radiant City, Dark Rapture examines how Seoul and Pyongyang are portrayed as cyberpunk dystopias in popular culture, games, and online communities, exploring how places are produced and circulated as images. It reconsiders the interplay between urban images and reality, envisioning new cognitive and imaginative possibilities for the forms of life shaped by cities.
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Seoul, Korea
September 12, 2024 – October 3, 2024
Curatorial
AmadoLab 24' Before Monsoon: 'Noir Urbanisms'
Book talk, Seminar, Workshop
Co-curator, Lecturer
Supported by the Arts Council Korea 2024
'Noir Urbanisms' is a program exploring dystopian representations of modern cities through book talks, seminars, and workshops. Developed alongside the Korean translation of Gyan Prakash’s Noir Urbanisms, it examines the intricate ties between imagined dystopias and real urban spaces.
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Seoul, Korea
April 13, 2024 –
May 18, 2024
Curatorial, Talks/Lectures
Curator
Supported by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture 2021
MODERN GROTESQUE TIMES explores the uncanny within everyday life in contemporary Seoul, engaging four visual artists to examine shamanism, family, North Korea, and place as points where the grotesque emerges.
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Seoul, Korea
December 18, 2021 –
December 31, 2021
Curatorial
12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP
Exhibition, Program
Assistant Curator
THIS TOO IS A MAP offers a new lens on concepts such as diaspora, migration, language, and borders. It explores how movement and boundaries shape today’s networks, tracing artistic communication that transcends geography through complex solidarities and global connections.
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Seoul, Korea
September 21, 2023 – November 19, 2023
Curatorial
Kwon Jin Kyu Centennial: Angel of Atelier
Exhibition, Symposium, Publication
Coordinator
The Kwon Jin Kyu Centennial exhibition traces his life and Buddhist vision through 141 donated works, unfolding in phases of entering, practicing, and transcending, to explore the ideal of the “Angel of the Kiln.”
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Seoul, Korea
March 24, 2022 –
May 22, 2022
Curatorial
Exhibition, Publication
Editor
What I Saw Today is a solo exhibition of Chung Seo‑Young, presenting 33 works including nine new pieces since 1993. Rooted in her notes of daily impressions, the show reveals sculptural pathways for perceiving and relating to the world.
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Seoul, Korea
September 1, 2022 – November 13, 2022
Publications & Editorial
Symposium Nam June Paik, Megatron, and Seoul Rhapsody
Symposium
Coordinator
This academic event examines the significance of Nam June Paik’s “Seoul Rhapsody” Megatron, created for the 2002 opening of Seosomun Main Building at SeMA. It also explores strategies for its long‑term preservation, restoration, and relocation in connection with the building’s remodeling, providing a platform for envisioning and researching the artist’s unfinished project with diverse experts.
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Seoul, Korea
February 3, 2023
Curatorial
Exhibition, Program, Publication
Coordinator
Homin and Jaehwan is a two‑person exhibition featuring Joo Jae‑hwan, known for humorously probing modern Korean history, and Joo Ho‑min, celebrated for webtoons interpreting life and death through Korean mythology. It examines how their shared identity as storytellers evolves and resonates across generations through distinct artistic media.
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Seoul, Korea
May 18, 2021 –
August 1, 2021
Curatorial
Exhibition, Program, Publication
Coordinator
Collection: Open Hacking Mining is an experimental exhibition by SeMA, re‑examining its collection in anticipation of a shift toward a network‑based museum. Through three approaches—critical mining, hacking and learning projects, and an open management system—it redefines how collections are interpreted, experienced, and administered, envisioning new roles and possibilities for SeMA’s collection in future contexts.
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Seoul, Korea
January 26, 2021 – April 11, 2021
Curatorial
Exhibition
Curatorial Assistant
The Tiger Lives is a special exhibition bringing together tiger‑related relics and paintings with contemporary works in video, installation, and painting. Borrowing its title from Nam June Paik’s work, it highlights the enduring symbolic faith in the tiger. From military insignia and folk paintings to new interpretations by contemporary artists, the exhibition traces layered meanings of the tiger across tradition and modernity.
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Seoul, Korea
September 7, 2020 – December 19, 2020
Curatorial
Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City
Translation
Publisher, Translator
Supported by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Noir Urbanism, translated by Hyewon Lee and Aim Han, forms the theoretical foundation of The Radiant City, Dark Rapture―Dystopic Images of the Modern City. It traces the history of the modern city through dark, critical images found in art, film, literature, and architecture, revealing how urban life is imagined amid crisis and catastrophe.
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Seoul, Korea
March 31, 2024
Writing/Research
Publications/Editorial
Monstrosity: Human Monsters in Visual Culture
Translation
Publisher, Translator
Supported by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Monstrosity was translated by Hyewon Lee and Aim Han and published as part of the preliminary research for the exhibition MODERN GROTESQUE TIMES. Written by Alexa Wright—Professor of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Westminster—the book traces visual histories of monstrous or aberrant human figures, from ancient “monstrous races” to the modern “criminal monster,” examining how notions of “normal” and “abnormal” have been continually refracted through the cultural figure of the monster.
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Seoul, Korea
December 18, 2021
Writing/Research
Publications/Editorial
“On—boarding: Going to Space, Loving in Space,” In MMCA Performing Arts 2024: Space Elevator Review Book, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Writing
Co-author
This review book documents MMCA Performing Arts 2024: Space Elevator, an annual project exploring space and future through artistic inquiry. Centering on the concept of the “space elevator,” it reflects on corporeality, fear, and the necessity of new art. Featuring works by sixteen artists across diverse media, it also presents symposiums and showcases held throughout the program.
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Seoul, Korea
May 30, 2025
Writing/Research
"Illusions: Deceptive Enchanting Weird Shadows of the City," In Monthly Art, Vol.478, November 2024, pp.134–135
Writing
Contributor
This article, commissioned by Monthly Art for the Curator’s Voice section, introduces the exhibition The Radiant City, Dark Rapture―Dystopic Images of the Modern City. It provides a multifaceted examination of the exhibition’s conceptual background, structural framework, and the curatorial intentions behind each commissioned work, tracing how these ideas were realized through spatial design and installation. The text delves deeply into the exhibition’s exploration of “cyberpunk dystopia” as it manifests in the imagined and circulated images of Seoul and Pyongyang.
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Seoul, Korea
November, 2024
Writing/Research
Writing
Co-author, Editor, Publisher
Supported by the Arts Council Korea 2023
(Invisible) Collaborators is an essay collection in which art‑world assistant curators recount their candid experiences. Though expected to meet high professional standards, they are rarely recognized as specialists nor fully acknowledged as curators‑in‑training. Beyond the vague labels of “support” or “assistance,” these essays reveal their crucial roles in exhibitions, education, and projects, seeking to strengthen social bonds and forge solidarity among assistant curators.
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Seoul, Korea
January 30, 2024
Writing/Research
Publications/Editorial
Publication
Editor, Publisher
Supported by the Arts Council Korea 2022
This publication accompanies the multidisciplinary art project “Myrmecoleon,” edited and published with the support of ORCABOOKS. The title references a mythical creature, akin to the Eastern metaphor of “dragon’s head, snake’s tail”: a being born with a lion’s head requiring meat but an ant’s body unable to consume, ultimately starving to death. This symbol captures a psychological state—a desire to remain within one’s latent potential while refusing to move forward.
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Seoul, Korea
August 12, 2022
Publications/Editorial
2024 SeMA Emerging Artists & Curators Exhibition Review
Program
Presenter
2024 SeMA Emerging Artists & Curators Exhibition Review was a program reviewing exhibitions by seven of the nine emerging artists and curator selected in 2024. Structured as one‑on‑one dialogues between each participant and a SeMA curator, the event offered the public an opportunity to gain deeper insight into the artistic visions of the artists and the curator.
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Seoul, Korea
December 1, 2024
Talks/Lectures
“Shipwrecking Images, Watching Us,” 22nd Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival Symposium
Lecture, Writing
Presenter
The nemaf 2022 symposium “Shipwrecking Images, Watching Us” investigates ways of approaching the invisible world through artistic representation and sensory observation. Using metaphors of shipwreck and spectatorship, it examines how images are produced and received, seeking to expand the philosophical and social horizons of visual art.
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Seoul, Korea
August 20, 2022
Talks/Lectures
Writing/Research