Public Lecture by John Yau, Professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University)   Wednesday, August 10, 2022 @ Korean Cultural Center NY Official Youtube Channel *Free admission The lecture will present a trailblazing sculptor and accomplished professor, John Pai, whose artworks and influence spans disciplines, institutions, and continents. Moved to the US when he was 12 years old and raised by an American family in West Virginia, John Pai is one of the ...

Public Lecture by Victoria Sung, Associate Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center   Wednesday, July 6, 2022 @ Korean Cultural Center NY Official Youtube Channel *Free admission The lecture will present A pioneering artist within Korea’s burgeoning contemporary art scene, Wook-Kyung Choi carved out her own niche through her abstract expressionist and pop art-influenced paintings. Choi’s work stood in stark contrast to the popular movements that dominated the Korean art scene at the ...

Public Lecture by Andrew Russeth, International Art Critic   Wednesday, June 8, 2022 @ Korean Cultural Center NY Official Youtube Channel *Free admission The lecture will present Park Seo-Bo, artist, teacher, and organizer, who has been an essential force in Korean contemporary art for well more than half a century. Now 90, he is seeing his stature continue to grow, with a panoply of major recent international exhibitions, an acclaimed 2019 retrospective at the National Museum ...

Public Lecture by Eleanor Soo-ah Hyun, Ph.D (Associate Curator for Korean Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art)   Wednesday, December 8, 2021 @ Korean Cultural Center NY Official Youtube Channel *Free admission This lecture will introduce the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "Shell and Resin: Korean Mother-of-Pearl and Lacquer" that opens on December 13, 2021. The exhibition will showcase The Met’s outstanding collection of Korean lacquerware with nearly 30 examples from the twelfth century to ...

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 ...

Public Lecture by Hyewon Yi, Ph.D (Director of Amelie A. Wallace Gallery and Lecturer of Art History at SUNY College at Old Westbury)   Wednesday, September 19, 2021 @ Korean Cultural Center NY Official Youtube Channel *Free admission This lecture introduces four Korean photographers whose practices revolve around masquerading in self-portraits—Nikki S. Lee, Chan-Hyo Bae, Jung S Kim, and Youngho Kang. All born between 1969 and 1975, these artists question the hybridization of cultures in the age ...

Public Lecture By Dr. Jieun Rhee, Professor in Art History at Myongji University in Seoul, Korea 정은영, siren eun young jung, Still Cut from Lee Deung Woo’s performance in A Performing by Flash, Afterimage, Velocity, and Noise (part 2). Single channel video, HD, Stereo. 2019.ⓒ siren eun young jung Wednesday, November 18, 2020 @ Korean Cultural Center NY Official Youtube Channel *Free admission Cultural ambivalence stands at the heart of what can be considered the act of “inventing ...

Public Lecture By Richard Vine,  Art in America Editor  Ran Hwang, East Palace, 2011, 59inx118in Wednesday, October 28, 2020 @ Korean Cultural Center NY Official Youtube Channel *Free admission Dr. Richard Vine delves into the development and transformation of Ran Hwang’s work over the past two decades, which have developed a global profile and been exhibited in institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea. Ran Hwang came to the ...

Public Lecture By Dr. Jiyeon Kim, Ph.D. Art Historian    Apgujeong-dong: Utopia/Distopia Exhibition catalogue, Seoul: Hyeonsil munhwa yeongu, 1992 Credit: Hyeonsil Munhwa (photograph image from Yeon Shim Chung eds, Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation, Interaction, London: Phaidon, 2020, p..183.) Wednesday, September 30, 2020 @ Korean Cultural Center NY Official Youtube Channel *Free admission As democratization and globalization transformed Korean society, Korean art scenes underwent critical changes in the late 1980s. Both mainstream artists who mostly worked in ...