Sooran Choi
Dr. Choi received her Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY) in September 2018, with an emphasis on contemporary East Asian art (Korean art, with a secondary interest in Japanese and Chinese art), non-Western art/visual cultures, global art history, and post-war transnational networks in art.Her dissertation, The South Korean “Meta-Avant-Garde,” 1961–1993: Subterfuge as Radical Agency, is an interdisciplinary and transnational study that examines post-war global artistic exchanges among artists in East Asia, the United States, and Europe, with case studies of South Korean renditions of “avant-garde art.” It was awarded the 2018 College Art Association (CAA) Professional Development Fellowship in Art History. She is currently in the process of revising it into a book manuscript. Dr. Choi’s past scholarly writing has included varied topics such as East Asian artists in diaspora, alternative art spaces in South Korea, Gwangju Biennials, the Korean War Memorial in Battery Park (NYC), Japanese students at the Bauhaus, and the eroticism of Japanese Shunga art. Her publications include an article that expands the global theory of the avant-garde via case studies of South Korean postwar avant-garde art published in Rebus journal in 2020, and an essay on South Korean Happenings and protest art of the late 1960s in a forthcoming anthology, Multiple Modernisms: New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era, to be published by Routledge in 2020, among others.
Dr. Choi has taught Western and non-Western art history survey courses, modern and contemporary global art history, the genealogy of the avant-garde and its global adaptations, East Asian art history, and Islamic art history, among others.
Dr. Choi has taught Western and non-Western art history survey courses, modern and contemporary global art history, the genealogy of the avant-garde and its global adaptations, East Asian art history, and Islamic art history, among others.
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