Public Lecture by Eugenie Tsai, Ph.D (John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum)
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
@ Korean Cultural Center NY Official Youtube Channel
*Free admission
Byron Kim is one of the most visible and notable contemporary artists of Korean descent active in the United States. His signature monochrome works have been exhibited in prominent museums and galleries worldwide, such as the Whitney Museum, MoMA, the National Gallery in Washington D.C., Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, and Tate Liverpool, UK. Having curated his major mid-career retrospective, Threshold: Byron Kim, 1990–2004, Eugenia Tsai (Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum) will delve into the evolution of Byron Kim’s works and practice, from his beginnings in the early 1990’s through to the present day, in this lecture and detail the subtle social and political concepts that underlie his minimalist style.
About the lecturer
Eugenie Tsai joined the Brooklyn Museum in 2007 as John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art. With Patrick Amsellem, she organized 21: Selections of Contemporary Ar from the Brooklyn Museum, a long-term installation that opened in 2008. Previously she was Director of Curatorial Affairs at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, New York. Prior to Joining P.S. 1, in 2005, she was an independent curator with projects for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Berkeley Museum; and the Princeton University Art Museum. She held several positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art prior to becoming Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs. Among the exhibitions and installations she has organized are the mid-career survey Threshold: Byron Kim, 1990–2004; Robert Smithson, which received the International Association of Art Critics’ first place award for the best monographic exhibition of 2005; and for Princeton University, Shuffling the Deck: The Collection Reconsidered. Tsai received a B.A. from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
AHL Foundation and Korean Cultural Center New York’s collaborative Public Lecture Series aim to provide the general public, as well as the Korean American community, with the opportunity to learn diverse theoretical perspectives on issues related to Korean art and culture and to reflect further on future interactions between Korean art and various worldwide global communities.
Organized by the AHL Foundation in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center New York
