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      Artist Talk: Jung Yeondoo

      Artist Talk: Jung Yeondoo

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      Location: Morse Auditorium

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      Join artist Jung Yeondoo to see the debut of his new PEM-commissioned multimedia work. Following the screening, the artist will engage in a Q&A with PEM curators Jiyeon Kim and Stephanie Tung to discuss his artwork and the inspiration behind it.

      This event is part of the opening weekend celebrations for PEM’s Korean Art gallery and Jung Yeondoo: Building Dreams.

      The artist talk with Jung Yeondoo is supported by the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, Korea.

      About our collaborators

      Jung Yeondoo
      Jung Yeondoo

      Jung Yeondoo (born 1969, South Korea) uses photography, videography and sculpture to find connection amidst the anonymity of modern urban life. He has lived and worked in Seoul, South Korea, since 2000, after graduating from Seoul National University and finishing an M.F.A. at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Jung ‘s work was displayed in the Korea Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennial; in 2007, he became the youngest winner of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea’s Artist of the Year award. The original slides for Evergreen Tower (2001) are part of a 2019 gift of photography to PEM from the Joy of Giving Something (JGS) Foundation, Inc.

      Jiyeon Kim
      Jiyeon Kim

      Jiyeon Kim is developing PEM’s new Korean Art gallery, opening in May 2025. Kim brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this position, from her academic credentials earned from universities in Seoul, Indiana, New York and Los Angeles; to her teaching career in Korea and the U.S., including her most recent position at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly. In 2016 and 2017, she worked on PEM’s Korean collection as a project specialist.

      Kim earned her Ph.D. in Korean Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her recent research topics include social status and artistic identity, collecting history of Asian art in Boston area museums and gardens as social space. She actively participates in the cultural life of the Korean community in the greater Boston area and across New England.

      Stephanie Tung
      Stephanie Tung

      Stephanie Tung leads the interpretation and presentation of the museum’s growing photography collection, which spans the 19th century through today. A specialist in the history of photography of China, her research focuses on transnational art exchanges, global modernism, translation studies and notions of artistic labor. Formerly serving as PEM’s Assistant Curator and then Associate Curator with a focus on photography, Tung was instrumental in shepherding the 2020 acquisition of approximately 1,600 photographs by artists with ties to East Asia, a gift made possible through the generosity of the Joy of Giving Something Foundation.

      Tung holds a B.A. in Literature and History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University and an M.A. in Art and Archeology from Princeton University. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Princeton’s Art and Archeology program with her dissertation, Pictorial China: Art Photography in the Republican Era, 1923–1929.

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