CONTACT
455 Fine Arts Center
151 Presidents Drive
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
ymoon@art.umass.edu
EDUCATION
Ed.M.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2002
M.F.A.
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 1996
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1994
A.O.C.A. Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, ON, 1992
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Intervals, Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea
2008
Speech Morsels, Oresman Gallery, Smith College, Northamton, MA
2007
Bomber Girl and Megamen, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2006
Infection, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2006
Grotesque Lite, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2004
Thin Flesh 2, Gana Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2004
Thin Flesh, Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea
2004
Memory of Castaic, Emerson College, Boston, MA
2004
Lost & Found, Richard R. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
2002
Immobile Parts for Sale, Isermann Gallery, New College, Sarasota, FL
1998
Of Abstraction, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1996
New Paintings, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1996
‘Images of Immortality’ and Other Monochromes, M.F.A. Thesis Show,
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1995
Titian and Me, Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Paris-Ansan Aller Retour, Gyeonngi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
(forthcoming collaboration with Le Pavillion, Palais de Tokyo, Paris)
2009
Beyond the Instance of an Ending, in conjunction with Martha Rosler Library,
Herter Gallery, UMass Amherst (catalogue)
2009
Haunted Memories, Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Service, NY
2009
Wumun-Hyundap, Gallery KunstDoc, Seoul, Korea
2008
Movement, Smith College Art Museum, Northamton, MA (catalogue)
2008
The Third Triennial, Roland Gibson Gallery, SUNY Potsdam, NY (brochure)
2008
Trans, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA
2007
State of the Art, Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2007
Exquisite Crisis & Encounters, Asian/Pacific/American Institute Gallery,
New York University, NY (brochure)
2007
I/WE: Case Studies, Defoor Center, Atlanta, GA
2007
Arts of the Valley 2007, Open Square, Holyoke, MA
2007
Works on Paper, Dodge House Gallery, Providence, RI
2005
In The Game, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA.
2005
Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2005
North County Regional Exhibition, Roland Gibson Gallery, SUNY Potsdam, NY
2003
St. Lawrence Faculty Show, Potsdam Art Center, Potsdam, NY
2003
Multiple Visions IV: The History of Art Making in Sarasota, Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2002
Oh Bondage Up Yours, Adams Art Space, Harvard University, Cambridge
2001
Bound and Gagged, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2000
Half Life, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1996
Hybrid Spaces, Fine Art Center, University of California Irvine, CA
1996
Of Power and Portraits, L-Shape Gallery, California Insitute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1995
Line Dropping Off a Page, Amanda Obering Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994
Foreign Bodies, Gallery 301, Los Angeles, CA
1992
Yellow Peril, Total Art gallery, Toronto, ON
1992
Cold City Gallery Invitational, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, ON
1992
Invitational, I.D.A. Gallery, York University, Toronto, ON
1991
Three Young Painters, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, ON
1991
Shane Clark & Young Min Moon, Gallery 76, Toronto, ON
CURATORIAL WORK
2005
Curator, Incongruent: Contemporary Art from South Korea
Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY.
Feb. 26 – Apr. 3, 2005. Exhibition catalogue with full color illustrations was published by
Hyunsil Cultural Studies, Seoul, in 2006.
The exhibition traveled to:
Liebling Center for Flim, Photography, Video, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Sept. 4 – Sept. 30, 2007;
Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, NY.
Nov. 28 – Dec. 21, 2007.
1997
Coordinator, Main Exhibitions, 1997 Gwangju International Biennale, South Korea
EXHIBITION REVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS
Book (Catalogue)
Moon, Young Min. Incongruent: Contemporary Art from South Korea, a Korean-English bilingual edition,
(Seoul: Hyunsil Cultural Studies Publisher, 2006).
Essays
Moon, Young Min, “The Politics of Curating “Contemporary Korean Art” for Audience Abroad,” reprint, in
Contemporary Asian Art: A Critical Reader, Melissa Chiu and Benjamin Genocchio, eds., MIT Press
(forthcoming fall 2010).
Moon, Young Min. Rethinking Marxism, "The Illegal Lives: Art within a Community of Others," Volume 23
Number 1 (July 2009).
Moon, Young Min, “The Politics of Curating “Contemporary Korean Art” for Audience Abroad,” Journal Bol,
No. 10, Arts Council Korea (Dec 2008).
Moon, Young Min. “The Composition of Social Memories,” in Activating Korea: Tides of Collective Action,
exhibition catalogue, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, in association with INSA Art
Center, Seoul, Korea, 2008.
Moon, Young Min. “Joo Kyung Yoon’s Re-inscription of the Landscape,” in Raising a Red Flag, an exhibition
catalogue of Joo Kyung Yoon, Gallery Noon, Seoul, 2007.
Moon, Young Min. Rethinking Marxism, “Economy, Labor, and Cultural Memory: The Work of Seung Wook
Koh”, Volume 19 Number1 (Jan. 2007).
Moon, Young Min. “Intervention into a hyper-narrative,” Annual Archive, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul. P.
12-16. (Korean)
Reviews
Kang, Sumi, Wolganmisool (The Art Monthly), September 2009.
Roh, Hyung Seok, “Tracing Cultural Hybridity in Catholic Prayer,” The Hankyoreh, p. 23, Aug. 5, 2009.
Saturday Talk, conversations series with emerging artists, Alternative Space Pool, 2008 (Korean)
Brick, Richmond’s Ephemeral Weekly, Oct. 4-10, 2007, p. 14.
Lee, Byung Hee, “Uncanny in a Vibrant Palette,” Dong-A Weekly, Aug. 22, 2006, no. 549, p.76.
Watertown Daily Times, Jan. 26, 2004. Arts, B3.
Moon, Young Min. “An introduction to The Shape of Pocket by John Berger,” for “On Books, Reading and the
Literary Life,” Sarasota Herald Tribune, December 15, 2002, p. 5E.
Lee, Kenshu. “Of Abstraction,” Wolgan Misool (The Monthly Art, Korea), p. 116, March 1998.
Hume, Christopher. “New Eyes Fixed on a Tired Landscape,” The Toronto Star,
Feb. 2, 1991, p. F7.
Taylor, Kate. “Young Artists Show at Drabinsky,” The Globe and Mail, June 26, 1991.
Editor, “Korean Motifs in Painting,” The Korea Times, Toronto, no. 3697, August 19, 1991, p. A2.
Editor, “Portrait of Kim Ku with Canadian Flag,” The Dong-A Daily News, no. 1864, Toronto, Oct. 1, 1990 p. 2.
Moon, Young Min. “Review on Minjoong Art Fair,” The Minjoong Daily News, Toronto, no. 840, June 1, 1990,
p. 3.
Pamphlet
Kim, Suki. “A New Realm of the Abstract,” Exhibition Brochure, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, 1998.
Translation
Manu Park, Doryun Chung, et al. A Tale of Two Cities: Busan-Seoul/Seoul-Busan 2006 Busan Biennale
exhibition guidebook, Busan, South Korea. (Korean-English)
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2010
College Art Association, “Between Fiction and Facticity: Photographing
Historical Reenactment in South Korea,” Chicago.
2008
The 7th Gwangju International Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Symposium <8008: “Reality” & “Utterance” in Contemporary Korean Art>
“Cultural politics of curating contemporary Korean art for foreign audience,” Arko Museum, Seoul
2007
Comparative Research on Contemporary Art Education between China and
Western countries, Shandong University, Tai’an, Shandong Province, China
“College Art Education in the United States: Focus on
Paradigm Shifts Since 1965 to Present”
2006
Rethinking Marxism, UMass Amherst, MA
“Economy, Labor, and Cultural Memory: the Work of Seung Wook Koh”
2005
New York Conference for Asian Studies, SUNY New Paltz, NY
“Against Monument: Reconstructing Memory in Recent South Korean Art”
2005
College Art Association, Atlanta, GA
“Conceptual and Political Art for the People: Beyond North-South Divide”
2003
South Eastern College Art Conference, Raleigh, NC
“Specific, generic, and back again: Other means for painting”
INVITED LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS
2009
Le Pavilion, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (forthcoming)
2009
16 Beaver, NYC (forthcoming)
2008
Smith College, Northampton, MA
2007
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2007
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
2006
Race, Gender, and Sexuality, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
2005
University of Toronto, Toronto.
2005
Simmons College, Boston, MA.
2005
Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT.
2005
York University, Toronto.
2003
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
2003 Auburn University, Auburn, AL.
2001
Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
TEACHING
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Assistant Professor, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY.
Visiting Assistant Professor, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL.
Teaching Assistant, Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
GRANTS/AWARDS
2009 Korea Arts Council, Overseas Korean Cultural Exchange Program Grant, Seoul
2009 CHFA Visioning Grant, UMass Amherst, MA
2008 Mellon Mutual Mentoring Micro Grant, UMass Amherst, MA
2008 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities and Fine Arts, UMass Amherst, MA
2007 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities and Fine Arts, UMass Amherst, MA
2006 Exhibition Grant, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul
2006 Faculty Research Grant, UMass Amherst, MA
2005 Purchase Award, Roland Gibson Gallery, SUNY Potsdam, NY
2005 The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, International Cultural Exchange Program, Seoul, Korea
2004 Freeman Foundation Grant, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
2003 Faculty Research Large Grant, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
2002 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, Boston, MA
2000 Canada Council Grant, Ottawa, ON
1995 Ontario Art Council Grant, Toronto, ON
1994 Korean Canadian Scholarship Foundation Grant, Toronto, ON
1992 Andrew Roth Scholarship for Painting, OCAD, Toronto, ON
1992 Elizabeth Dales Memorial Foundation Award, OCAD, Toronto, ON
1991 Jack Salt Scholarship, OCAD, Toronto, ON
1990 Experimental Art Faculty Scholarship, OCAD, Toronto, ON
COLLECTIONS
Emerson College, Boston, MA
Gana Art Space, Seoul, Korea
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Newro Design, Seoul, Korea
Richard F. Brush Gallery Permanent Collection, St. Lawrence University
Roland Gibson Gallery, State University of New York, Potsdam, NY
Amanda Obering Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA