Kyunghee Pyun

Kyunghee Pyun
Born	South Korea
🏫 Education	Seoul National University (B.A.) Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (M.A. and Ph.D.)
💼 Occupation	Professor, Art historian, writer

Kyunghee Pyun is a professor, art historian, curator, writer, editor, activist, and leader of higher education specializing in Asian art and European Medieval art. She is currently a professor of History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Early life and education

Pyun was born in South Korea and earned a B.A. summa cum laude in Archaeology and Art History at Seoul National University in 1995. While at Seoul National University, she also completed the graduate program at the university’s College of Humanities in 1996. She later obtained her M.A. in 1999 and Ph.D. in 2004 in the History of Art and Archaeology at Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, with J. J. G. Alexander as her doctoral advisor.

Career

Pyun has taught at institutions in New York including Fashion Institute of Technology, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and Parsons School of Design. She is currently an associate professor of History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology and received the President's Faculty Excellence Award in 2018 and State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in May 2019.

From 2011, she began working as an independent curator of contemporary art and has collaborated with contemporary artists in New York. Exhibitions she contributed to include Lineage of Vision: Progress through Persistence held at the Korean Cultural Center New York in 2014, and Violated Bodies: New Language for Justice and Humanity at the Anya and Andrew Shiva Art Gallery in 2018. She also developed a book on Jean Pucelle, on the basis of her doctoral dissertation, and wrote “The Master of the Remède de Fortune and Parisian Manuscript Production circa 1350.” In An Illuminated Manuscript of the ‘Collected Works’ of Guillaume de Machaut in 2017.

Her scholarship is centered on Asian American visual culture and the reception of Asian art in Europe and North America. As a Leon Levy fellow in the Center for the History of Collecting at the Frick Collection, she worked on a book project entitled Discerning Languages for Exotic: Collecting Asian Art in 2017. She also wrote Fashion, Identity, Power in Modern Asia, in 2018, discussing modernized dress in early 20th-century Asia.

In the term of 2016-2017, Pyun received a grant from the SUNY IITG (Innovative Instructional Technology Grant) to create a web-based educational project entitled Bamboo Canvas: Diverse Techniques of Asian Arts and Crafts, sharing videos on crafts and techniques centered in Asia. This project was renewed in the following term of 2017-2018. Because Bamboo Canvas was noted for its innovative use of technology that enhances the learning of traditional techniques in Asia, Pyun was granted a FACT2 award in May 2018.

In 2020, she curated Invisible Nomads & Weavers: The Yörüks, Bakerwals & Changpas, a visual ethnographic project on nomadic communities of weavers and farmers of Pashmina goats in Istanbul, Turkey.

Awards and honors

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Initiatives (Division of Education Programs) (2021-2024)
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Connections Implementation Grants (2018–2021)

Selected works

• American Art from Asia: Artistic Praxis and Theoretical Divergence, co-edited by Michelle Lim and Kyunghee Pyun (New York and London: Routledge, 2021)
• Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art: Fluidity and Fragmentation, co-edited by Kyunghee Pyun and Jung-Ah Woo (New York and London: Routledge, 2021)
• “Transformation of Monastic Habits: Student Uniforms for Christian Schools in East Asia.” Journal of Religion and the Arts 24:5 [Special Issue: Faith/Fashion/Forward: Dress and the Sacred] (2020): 604–640.
• “Art Competitions in the Age of Postmodernism: From Immigrants to Transnational Artists.” Journal of Korean and Asian Arts 1 (2020): 1–28.
• “Debbie Han’s Graces: Hybridity and Universality.” Journal of the Korea Association for History of Modern Art 48 (2019): 25–57.
• Fashion, Identity, Power in Modern Asia co-edited by Kyunghee Pyun and Aida Yuen Wong (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
• “The Master of the Remède de Fortune and Parisian Manuscript Production circa 1350.” In An Illuminated Manuscript of the ‘Collected Works’ of Guillaume de Machaut (BnF, ms. fr. 1586): A Vocabulary for Exegesis, ed. Domenic Leo (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), forthcoming.
• “Jean Pucelle” with Anna Russakoff. In Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (Encyclopedia of Artists of the World) (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, forthcoming 2017-2018).
• “Portraying Monks in Illuminated Service Books in the Fourteenth Century.” Journal of the Association of Western Art History, Vol. 45 no. 1 (2016): 149-184.
• “A Journey through the Silk Road in a Cosmopolitan Classroom.” A chapter in Teaching Medieval and Early-Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters Across Disciplines and Eras edited by Lynn Shutters and Karina Attar (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 53-70
• Co-Editor with Anna Russakoff, Jean Pucelle: Innovation and Collaboration in Manuscript Painting (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013)
• “Pucellian Influence in Illuminated Liturgical Manuscripts around 1350.” In Jean Pucelle: Innovation and Collaboration in Manuscript Painting, ed. Kyunghee Pyun and Anna Russakoff (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 171-96.
• “Introduction and Korean Artists in New York 1955-1989.” In Coloring Time: An Exhibition from the Archive of Korean-American Artists, Part One (1955-1989) edited by Kyunghee Pyun (New York: AHL Foundation, 2013), pp. 15-22; 39-62.
• “Asian Art in the Eyes of American Collectors, 1880-1920: Antimodernism and Exotic Desire.” Journal of Contemporary Art Studies 15 no. 2 (2011): 245-278.
• “End of Iconography? Introducing New Trends of Iconology in Medieval Studies.” Art History and Visual Culture 9 (2010): 222-271.
• “Foundation Legends in the Illuminated Missal of Saint-Denis: Interplay of Liturgy, Hagiography, and Chronicle.” Viator 39 no. 2 (2008): 143-192.
• “Great Expectations: The Legacy of Teaching at Two Art Schools in New York.” Sculpture Review vol. 4 no. 1 (Spring 2006), 8-15.
• “Leo Bible and the Historiography of Byzantine Manuscript Illumination.” Art History and Visual Culture 2 (2003): 148-172.

External links

• Kyunghee Pyun publications indexed by Google Scholar

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