Julia Kwon Adjunct Professorial Lect Department of Art
- Degrees
- MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
BA, Studio Art, Georgetown University, Washington, DC - Bio
- Julia Kwon is an interdisciplinary artist who creates work that comments on the objectification of Asiatic female bodies, challenges the notion of authenticity, and examines the complexities of constructing an identity within the context of globalism, cultural hybridity, intersectionality, and the collective struggle for social justice. Her work is in the permanent collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery (Washington, DC), Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York, NY), Museum of International Folk Art (Santa Fe, NM), and The New York Public Library (New York, NY). She has also exhibited at venues including the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, American University Museum, Peale Center at Carroll Museums, Hartnett Gallery of the University of Rochester, and Torpedo Factory Art Center. Her work has been featured and reviewed internationally, including in the Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, Korea.net, BmoreArt, PBS's WETA Arts, and SBS International News. She was awarded artist residencies at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Chautauqua School of Art, NARS Foundation, Textile Arts Center, Vermont Studio Center, among others. She presented artist lectures at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of International Folk Art, The Phillips Collection, Parsons School of Design, Lehigh University, University of Rochester, among others.
- See Also
- Julia Kwon: Artist Website
- For the Media
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Teaching
Fall 2022
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ARTS-660 Research Practicum