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Olga Viso

Independent Curator, Former Director at Walker Art Center

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Olga Viso is an independent curator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As an art historian and contemporary art curator, Viso has specialized knowledge in contemporary Latin American art. From 2008 to 2017, she served as the responsible director at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis for ten years. Prior to that, she worked as a contemporary art curator and director at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. for 12 years. She has also held positions in curatorial and administrative roles at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. Currently, she serves as the director of the visual arts department at the Andy Warhol Foundation and holds a directorial position in the American Alliance of Museums. In 2013, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

Nadine Barth

Senior Editor at Hatje Cantz Publishing

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After majoring in philosophy, literature, and art history, Barth worked as an editor at AMICA from 1998 to 2004. Subsequently, she served as the director of Germany's first gallery specializing in fashion photography in Hamburg and Berlin. Afterward, she started Barthouse Agency, organizing various exhibitions and cultural projects. She edited books in collaboration with various artists, including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Thomas Struth, Joel Sternfeld, Olaf Otto Becker, Robert Adams, Peter Bialobrzeski. She has also edited photo books for photographers like Thomas Hoeffgen, Carolin Saage, Daniel Josefsohn, Tor Seidel, Anatol Kotte at Hatje Cantz. As a curator, she has curated exhibitions such as [exhibition names], and currently, she holds the position of Senior Editor at Hatje Cantz Publishing.

Kim Hong-hee

Executive Director of Ilwoo Photography Award, Art Historian, Critic, Former Director of Seoul Museum of Art

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Kim Hong-hee has served as the director of Seoul Museum of Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Art, and Samuso Space. Notable activities include being a co-curator of the Guangzhou Biennale in Guangdong, China (2015), a jury member for documenta 14 (2013), the general director of the Gwangju Biennale (2006), and the commissioner of the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2003). He has also published numerous books, including "Curators Eat Artists," "Good Morning, Mr. Baek," and "Feminism, Video, Art."

Park Man-woo

Director of Platform - L Contemporary Art Center, Adjunct Professor at Yonsei University's Graduate School of Communication

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Park Man-woo is the director of Platform-L Contemporary Art Center and an adjunct professor at Yonsei University's Graduate School of Communication. He graduated from the Department of Aesthetics and its Graduate School at Seoul National University and completed the doctoral program in contemporary art criticism and theory at Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne University. He has worked as the exhibition director of the Gwangju Biennale, a curator and exhibition director for the Busan Biennale, and the director of Atelier Hermes. He also served as the director of Baeknamjun Art Center.

Hong Sung-do

Artist, Professor at Hongik University

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- Graduated from the Department of Sculpture, Hongik University in 1983

- Graduated from Pratt Institute Graduate School with a major in Sculpture in 1991

- Currently a professor in the Department of Sculpture, Hongik University

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2015

  • TOURIST (Gallery Royal, Seoul)

    Evolution. Change. Translated Body (Trunk Gallery, Seoul)

  • 2013

  • Beyond Earth (Gallery IN, Seoul)

  • 2009

  • Stroll (Gallery IN, Seoul)

    And many more

Group Exhibitions

  • 2016

  • SeMA Gold (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)

  • 2015

  • Portrait Gallery (Kallenbach Gallery, Netherlands)

    The solo project Basel (Basel, Switzerland)

  • 2014

  • Leisurely (Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto)

    and many others

Awards

  • 1998

  • 12th Seon Art Award

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