Vicki Sung-yeon Kwon

Dr. Vicki Sung-yeon Kwon is a curator and art historian with a research focus on Korean art and visual culture, in relation to global contemporary art, transnationalism, feminist activism and socially engaged art. Dr. Kwon joined ROM in November 2022 as Associate Curator of Korean Art and Culture, a position funded by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea. Prior to joining ROM, she was a postdoctoral fellow of the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, at Seoul National University. She received her PhD degree in History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Alberta, where she was a doctoral fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Her doctoral research was also funded by a Junior Fellowship of the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea (MMCA)’s Changdong Residency program, Seoul; a guest researcher program of the Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea; and the President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction at the University of Alberta. She has published her research in the peer-reviewed journals Korean Studies, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Asian Studies Review, and Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.