[The 2022 Korean Art Week Day 1]
The 2022 Korean Art Week, which was held in Hanover and Boston from November 3–6, has successfully wrapped up. This special event was co-hosted by the Korea Foundation (KF), Dartmouth College, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), and is designed to promote Korean arts in the U.S. and to provide experts of Korean art with networking opportunities.
On November 3, the 2022 Korean Art Week kicked off with a tour of the exhibition Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College and the Dr. Allen Root Contemporary Art Distinguished Lectureship. The Hood Museum annually holds the Dr. Allen Root Lectureship with selected topics in modern art, and this year Mr. Park and Youn Bummo, the director of the MMCA, were invited to discuss his artwork.
Mr. Park, who succeeded in the modernization of Korean ink painting, is spearheading K-Art with his exhibition touring all around the world. 2022 Korean Art Week participants were able to experience first-hand the Korean art scene in the U.S. and gain an in-depth understanding of Mr. Park’s artwork. In 2023, Park Dae Sung’s exhibition will continue at Stony Brook University, New York and at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia, with support from the Korea Foundation
[The 2022 Korean Art Week Day 2]
On November 4, an international symposium, Korean Art Since the 1980s: Dynamism and Expansion, was held at the Hood Museum of Art.
In the first session, titled ‘Korean Contemporary Art and the Practice of Criticism,’ and in the second session, titled ‘Korean Art and its Contemporaneity,’ international experts discussed various topics, including Minjung art, Paik Nam June and media art, feminist art, and modern design in Korea. In the third and final session, pieces of media art of three Korean artists were screened, followed by the talk with an artist and Q&A.
The symposium was attended by more than seventy people, including university students and the general public. The symposium is significant in that it was the first international opportunity to promote research trends and achievements related to Korean contemporary art to overseas academia and the public.
[The 2022 Korean Art Week3]
On November 5, the Next Generation Curators Workshop was held at Harvard University Korea Institute, with 21 senior specialists and 15 young professionals in attendance.In the self-introduction session, each participant shared their research interests, ongoing projects, and future plans. The next session brought all of the participants together for a special networking session in which senior specialists cordially shared their experience and advice to the next generation of specialists in Korean art.Since 1999, the KF has been holding the Workshop for Korean Art Curators to foster experts of Korean art around the world, and since 2018 has widened its efforts to include graduate students and early career professionals. It was meaningful to provide uniquely varied opportunities to directly engage with Korean art in the U.S., and to network one-on-one among all participants by having this year’s workshop as a part of the 2022 Korean Art Week.
[The 2022 Korean Art Week Day 4]
On November 6, the last day of the 2022 Korean Art Week, participants explored Korean art exhibitions at the museums in the Boston area including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. With this event, which brought together academic experts and curators on Korean art from across the United States, the KF’s work to invigorate research and exhibitions related to Korean art will continue!
