• Date: November 14th, Tuesday, 2023, 12:00 – 13:00
• Location: Room 304, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

Speaker: Sohl C. Lee (SUNY)

Sohl C. Lee is a Visiting Scholar at the Seoul National University Asia Center (SNUAC) in Fall 2023, and an Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art at Stony Brook University (SUNY) whose faculty she joined in 2014 after receiving a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester. Her first book project, Reimagining Democracy: The Minjung Art Movement and the Birth of Contemporary Korean Art, forthcoming from Duke University Press, traces the multifaceted process by which a particular decolonial aesthetics of politics emerged during South Korea’s democratization movement. She curated Being Political Popular: South Korean Art at the Intersection of Popular Culture and Democracy, 1980-2010, an exhibition of Korean contemporary, and edited the eponymous catalogue in 2012. Her current research tackles the global history of North Korean art and visual culture at the intersection of socialist international friendship, Third World solidarity, and decolonization projects across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Her other research interests include Buddhist modernism, Global Asias, feminist collectivism, eco-feminism, and pedagogical curating. Her work has appeared in Art Journal, Art History, Yishu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Journal of Korean Studies, and Global Sixties.