Chunghoon Shin

Chunghoon Shin is an art historian and critic specializing in the history and theory of contemporary art, as well as postwar architecture and urbanism, with a particular focus on Korea. He received his BA and MA in Archaeology and Art History from Seoul National University and his PhD in Art History from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Painting and the Interdisciplinary Program in Art Management at Seoul National University. His writings have appeared in publications including Korean Art 1900–2020 (MMCA, 2022), Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art (Routledge, 2021), Collision, Innovation, Interaction: Korean Art from 1953 (Phaidon, 2020), and Spectres of the State Avant-garde (Korean Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, 2018).

Shin received his Ph.D. in Art History from Binghamton University, State University of New York, and has since published several essays and articles in English. Additionally, he has presented his work at various institutions and universities, including the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of Pittsburgh, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Berkeley, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, and LACMA.