Artist, Professor Emerita, UC Irvine

• Day 1. Keynote Speech.
  • 5:30 – 6:30pm (Arizona)
  • 9:30 – 10:30am (South Korea)

For the past forty years, Yong Soon Min’s art practice, also as a curator, educator and activist, has engaged the interplay of identities within colonial and diasporic histories.  

Her notable grants have been Fulbright Senior Research Grant, COLA Individual Artist Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Korea Foundation Grant, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, Guggenheim Foundation Grant and NEA Award in New Genre.  Significant exhibitions have been The Decade Show; Across the Pacific: Contemporary Korean and Korean American Art; the 4th and 10th Havana Bienal; 7th Gwangju Biennale; 3rd Guangzhou Triennial; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Smith College Museum; LACMA, Los Angeles; Seoul Museum of Art and the Commonwealth and Council gallery.

She has curated: Memories of Overdevelopment: Contemporary Art in the Philippine Diaspora; THERE: Sites of Korean Diaspora for 4th Gwangju Biennale; and transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix.  Min served on the Board of Directors of the Asian American Arts Alliance, CAA, and the Korean American Museum. She currently serves on the Artists Board of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA LA) and the steering committee of GYOPO. She is now Professor Emerita at UC Irvine, with an MFA from UC Berkeley, followed by a postdoc at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program.

Director, School of Art and Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Arizona Arts

• Day 1. Opening Remarks
  • 5:00pm (Arizona)
  • 9:00am (South Korea)

Colin Blakely currently serves as Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives of Arizona Arts and Director of the School of Art at the University of Arizona. Prior to joining the University of Arizona in July 2015, he was Department head and Full Professor of Photography at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI, where he was on the faculty for 14 years. 

As Director, Colin leads a school of 34 faculty and 11 staff in a school with approximately 550 majors and programs in Art History, Studio Art and Art and Visual Culture Education. As AVP for Strategic Initiatives, Colin is responsible for overseeing and coordinating strategic planning within Arizona Arts. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the National Council of Arts Administrators (as Treasurer) and until recently the College Art Association (as Secretary and Acting Treasurer).  

Colin’s work has been shown at Fotofest Houston, the Society for Contemporary Photography, the Pingyao International Photography Festival, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Photographic Center Northwest and the Jen Bekman Gallery. Colin was a runner-up for the 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize and a Winter 2007 Hot Shot. Publications include Pause to Begin, Photography Quarterly, and The Humble Collectors’ Guide to Emerging Art Photography. He received his B.A. from Williams College with a double major in Math and Studio Art, and his M.F.A. in Photography from the University of New Mexico. 

Director, Center for Creative Photography

• Day 3. Closing Remarks
  • 8:15pm (Arizona)
  • 12:15pm (South Korea)

Anne Breckenridge Barrett is a cultural leader and attorney with over twenty-five years of focused expertise in cultural heritage, fundraising, and the law. She took over as Director of the Center for Creative Photography in 2018.

Prior to joining the CCP, Anne was the Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and has held COO positions in cultural non-profits in addition to practicing law in corporate and public settings. She is a peer reviewer for the American Alliance of Museums accreditation program and a member of the museum group of the American Legal Institute.

Anne holds an MA in Arts Administration as well as a JD, and she is a past fellow and alumni of the prestigious Getty Leadership Institute. Anne currently serves on the boards of Casa de los Niños and Patronato San Xavier.  

Independent Scholar

• Day 2. Panel 1: Korean Photography Then & Now
  • 5:00 – 7:00pm (Arizona)
  • 9:00 – 11:00am (South Korea)
• Day 3. Panel 2: Korean Photography in Global Scene
  • 4:00 – 6:00pm (Arizona)
  • 8:00 – 10:00am (South Korea)

Boyoung Chang is an art historian whose research focuses on photography in and about modern and contemporary Korea. Chang obtained her Ph.D. from Rutgers University with a dissertation that analyzes how Korean photography since the 1990s embodies the nation’s transformation, which is represented with democratization and globalization, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for the Art of East Asia, the department of art history at the University of Chicago.

Chang’s publications include “When photographs refuse to speak: Oh Heinkuhn’s Gwangju Story,” which will be published in Photographies in 2022, and “Post-Trauma: How contemporary Korean photography reconstructs the political history of Korea” in Korean Bulletin of Art History. She is now working on a book project that addresses the history of Korean photography from the mid-20th century to the present day.

PhD Candidate, University of Michigan

• Day 2. Panel 1: Korean Photography Then & Now
  • 5:00 – 7:00pm (Arizona)
  • 9:00 – 11:00am (South Korea)

Haely H.Y. Chang is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She specializes in the history of painting and photography in early twentieth century Korea and Japan.

Her research concerns how the intervention of photography enabled twentieth century Korean artists to reconsider concepts of performativity, realism, gender, and the environment through their experiments with painting. Her articles have been featured in Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Ocula, and Trans Asia Photography.

Associate Curator, Center for Creative Photography

• Day 1. Special Session: Korean Photography in Museums
  • 6:30 – 7:30pm (Arizona)
  • 10:30 – 11:30am (South Korea)

Meg Jackson Fox is Associate Curator of Academic and Public Programs at the Center for Creative Photography, Dr. Meg Jackson Fox specializes in modern & contemporary art and history, time-based art practices, and interdisciplinary visual education. She holds an M.A. in Modern European History from the University of Tennessee; an M.A. in Art, Business and Museum Studies from Georgetown University, jointly convened with Sotheby’s Institute of Art-London; and a Ph.D. in Contemporary Art and Critical Theory from the University of Arizona.

Previously Assistant Professor of Global Art History at the University of Denver, Meg’s research base is expressly trans-national, with publications in Germany, Italy, Poland, Great Britain, and the U.S. She is concurrently finishing work on an interdisciplinary curatorial project, trees stir in their leaves, a collaboration with the University of Arizona’s Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research, for CCP, as well as her first book project, Movements: Essays on Art, Running, and the Body.

Photographer

• Day 3. Special Session: Photographer Presentation – Youngsook Park & Myung Duk Joo
  • 6:15 – 7:15pm (Arizona)
  • 10:15 – 11:15am (South Korea)

Myung Duk Joo (1940- ) is a prominent photographer whose works on children at the Holt orphanage, Seoul, drew considerable attention in 1966. His photographs of orphans, most of whom were born of Korean mothers and American GI fathers, reveal a hidden and forgotten trace of the Korean War and the Cold War politics. Since then, Joo has devoted himself to documentary photography, shedding light on minorities in South Korea, including Chinatown in Incheon. He also zoomed in on Korean folk culture in a series of photographs of totem poles while working on landscape photography from the 1980s.  

Assistant Professor, University of Arizona

• Day 2. Special Session: The Korean Photography Collections in and around the U.S.
  • 7:00 – 8:00pm (Arizona)
  • 11:00am – noon (South Korea)
• Day 3. Panel 2: Korean Photography in Global Scene
  • 4:00 – 6:00pm (Arizona)
  • 8:00 – 10:00am (South Korea)
• Day 3. Roundtable
  • 7:15 – 8:15pm (Arizona)
  • 11:15am – 12:15pm (South Korea)
• Day 3. Special Session: Photographer Presentation – Youngsook Park &Myung Duk Joo
  • 6:15 – 7:15pm (Arizona)
  • 10:15 – 11:15am (South Korea)

Jeehey Kim’s research encompasses the history of photography, visual culture, and film studies in East Asia. Kim is currently working on two book projects: Imagining Korea through Photography, on the history of photography in Korea, and Photography and Death: Funerary Photo-Portraiture in East Asia. She also has been writing articles on vernacular photographic practices as well as on documentary films and visual culture in relation to the Cold War and to gender politics in East Asia. 

As a curator, Kim has organized exhibitions such as the recent “Pyongyang Bookstore,” at Seoul Metropolitan Library, which presented North Korean artists of the 1950s and ’60s. Kim earned her doctorate at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, with a dissertation on funerary portrait photography in East Asia. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago.

Curator, Museum of Photography, Seoul

• Day 2. Special Session: The Korean Photography Collections in and around the U.S.
  • 7:00 – 8:00pm (Arizona)
  • 11:00am – Noon (South Korea)

Since 2010, Sunyoung Kim has been working for The Museum of Photography, Seoul (MoPS) as Curator in charge of exhibitions and international relations. MoPS is South Korea’s first museum dedicated to photography founded in 2002 by Ga-Hyeon Foundation of Culture, a cultural foundation established by Hanmi Pharmaceutical. Kim graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Arts at The University of Melbourne and received her M.A. in Art Theory from Korea National University of Arts. Her M.A. graduation thesis is about the new formation of visual culture and birth of modern public in early 20^th century-Joseon society with the introduction of photography and its appearance in newspapers.

Kim recently organized a show, titled The Centennial of Korean art photography 1920-2020, shown at The State Russian Museum and Exhibition Centre (ROSPHOTO) and scheduled to be presented in The Lithuanian National Museum of Art in 2023. She has been responsible for MoPS Talented Portfolio, the portfolio open call for Korean young talented artists in their 30s and 40s since 2015. This program purposes to invigorate diverse collaborations and encourage artists to pursue their professional career. She co-published the book Performance, Politics of Body: Criticism and Meta Criticism.

Assistant Professor, University of Mary Washington

• Day 2. Panel 1: Korean Photography Then & Now
  • 5:00 – 7:00pm (Arizona)
  • 9:00 – 11:00am (South Korea)

Suzie Kim is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at University of Mary Washington, U.S.A. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from University of Maryland, College Park. Her research investigates how Constructivism and the International Style became the primary source for a multifaceted cultural phenomenon in Japan and Korea from the 1920s onward. Her areas of expertise include post-colonial theory, modern and contemporary Korean art and architecture, modern Japanese architecture, and North Korean architecture. 

She served as a co-guest editor for two special journal issues, “Nation-building in the Postwar Period: Modern Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia and Beyond,” in TRaNS Journal and “Modern and Contemporary Korean Art: Continuity and Transformation,” in Art in Translation. Kim recently published articles on Korean artist Yoo Youngkuk, the Government General Building of Colonial Korea, and on contemporary Cambodian photography. She is currently writing a book on the architecture of Pyongyang in the 1950s and 60s.