Park Sohyun

Sohyun Park is a researcher in interdisciplinary fields of art history, museum studies, and cultural policy studies that get generated from art as institution and practice. She is a professor of Digital and Cultural Policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy and Information Technology, Seoul National University of Science and Technology. Her recent publications include Sustainable Museum: Art and Environment (Moca Busan, 2022), Lee Bul Beginning (Seoul Museum of Art, 2021), What do museums change?: Art and Democracy (MMCA, 2020), Red Asia Complex (MMCA, 2019), Topography of Korean culture (2019), Itami Jun: Architecture of the Wind (MMCA, 2014), Reading Korean Contemporary Art (2013), Asian Events (2013), and 戦場としての美術館 (2012). She has published extensively in academic journals, some of her recent papers include “Deregulation and the Museum and Art Gallery Support Act” (2023), “Rethinking Takashi Murakami’s Art Practice: Artist’s Survival and Restructuring of the Art World” (2022), “Kwon Jin-kyu’s Sculpture, Mannequin, and Special Effects in Film: A Critical Review on the Boundaries of ‘Sculpture’” (2022), “The Silence of Official History: The Fire Incident at the Independence Hall of Korea” (1986), “The Genealogy of ‘Privately-led’ Discourse in the 1980s” (2021), “A Critical Study on Google Arts & Culture’s ‘Non-Profit’ Strategy and its Appropriation of Publicness of Museums” (2021), “How Are Museums for Equality Possible?” (2021), “Kim Honghee’s Feminist/Postmodern Art History and the Historical Status of Lee Bul” (2020), “’#Sexual Violence_in_Art World’ Movement and the Challenge of Art History” (2019), “Reconsidering Museum’s Ethical Future through the Genealogical Approach to Museum Activism” (2017), “Demographic Turn of Cultural Policy and the Status of Artists” (2017), “Memory of War and the Discourse of ‘Cultural State’ in Japan” (2017), and “Living Museum and the Problem of Interpretation” (2016).

SMB13 pre-Biennale (2024) Artistic Director Interview Jury Member
SMB12 (2023) THIS TOO, IS A MAP, AN ANTHOLOGY Contributor
SMB09 (2016) Everyone’s School, The Village Project Contributor
SMB08 (2014) SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014 pre-Biennale Official Report
SMB08 (2014) Editorial Member (Japan, Southeast Asia)