Areas of Specialization: Time-based media art and performance, with interests in materiality, embodiment, diaspora, and transnationalism; Contemporary Korean Art
Jiwon Geum is a PhD student in Art History and Criticism at Stony Brook University. Her research interests centers on time-based media art and performance, particularly the relationships between images, materiality, and embodied experience. Her work engages with contemporary Korean art, diaspora, and transnationalism.
Her recent curatorial projects include Every time, I become someone else (The WilloW, Seoul, 2026), Yellow Spaghetti (Harlem House Gallery, New York, 2026), and Right to Mother (Hessel Museum of Art, 2023). She has contributed to exhibitions and programs at The Drawing Center and ARKO Art Center, and to the 2024 EMAP X Frieze Film Seoul. Her writing has appeared in IMPULSE Magazine, Hot Coffee Conversations, and Public Art Magazine. She holds a BFA in Painting from Ewha Womans University and an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.