ART HISTORIA, CURATOR & CRITIC
Jung-Sil Lee is an adjunct professor specializing in Korean and Asian cultural arts at universities including Georgetown University. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Maryland, and founded the company Corcoran Trio in 2011. Since then, Dr. Lee has curated 19 shows so far and served as a guest curator at major cultural and arts institutions in the Washington, DC area, which includes the Smithsonian Asian Art Museum.
SELECTED PAPERS AND PRESENTATION
Dr. Lee is currently at work on two projects: one is the book on Modern and Contemporary Korean Art History in Context: 1950-2020 while the other is the article, “Colonized Bodies Matter: Intersectional Women’s Movement in South Korea and Korean Diaspora.”
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & FILM FESTIVALS
Dr. Lee published numerous exhibition catalog entries and critics. She published Comfort Women: A Movement for Justice and Women’s Rights in the United States (Hollym, 2020)” as an editor and writer and “Unforeseen Controversy: Reconciliation and Re-contextualization of Wartime Atrocities through “Comfort Women” Memorials in the United States” in Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversy (Bloomsbury, 2021), and “Contemporary Global Asian American Artist: Hybrid Identity” in Asian Art Reading (Noonbit, 2018).
BOOKS, WORKSHOPS, EVENTS
In addition to her curatorial and academic endeavors, Jung-Sil Lee has served as the president of the non-profit organization, the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues. Through this non-profit research organization, she aims to intersect art and activism, advocating for important causes and raising awareness about significant societal issues.