Kim Hong-hee

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Kim Hong-hee (Korean: 김홍희) is an art historian, curator and critic based in Korea. Her main field of interest is in Video and Feminist Art. She is currently the director of Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA).[1]

Biography

From 2000 until 2011 she was an adjunct professor at Hongik University, Seoul, Korea. She has published several books: The True Colors of Curator, Hangil Art, 2012; Good Morning Mr.Paik, Design House, 2007;Women and Art, Contemporary Art Discourse and the Field I, Noonbit, 2003; <Korean Art World and Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Discourse and the Field II>, Noonbit, 2003; <Feminism. Video. Art.>, Jaewon, 1998.

Kim received her Ph.D. in Art History from Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea and did her MA in Art History at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

Major curations

Recently, she acted as a member of the selection committee for the next documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany. Since 2012, she is currently the director of

Venice Biennale
(2003); International Committee Member of the Yokohama Triennale(2001); Commissioner of the Gwangju Biennale(2000); Curator of the Special Exhibition "Info ART" at the Gwangju Biennale(1995); Curator of "Seoul-NYmAX Medial" (1995/1994); Organizer of "The SeOUL of Fluxus"(1993). Related to feminist art, she was the organizer/curator of numerous exhibitions including "Woman, the Difference and the Power"(1994), "Patjis on Parade"(1999), "East Asian Woman and her Stories"(2002).

References

  1. ^ "[Culture&Life] 김홍희 서울시립미술관장" (in Korean). Archived from the original on 2015-04-14. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
  2. ^ "임기 연장 된 서울시립미술관 김홍희 관장 "이젠, 더 많은 사람이 미술과 소통하는 공간 만들 것"" (in Korean). Retrieved 2015-09-20.