Asian Judges Biographies
Sunhee Kim
Sunhee Kim was born in 1959 in Korea. She has a Master of Art degree in Art Theory and she also studied Aesthetics for a doctorate. She is currently based in Seoul.
Sunhee Kim had served at Zendai Himalayas Centre and Bund18 Creative Centre in Shanghai both as an art director, after serving 5 years as a Senior Curator of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan. Prior to Mori Art Museum, she was a chief curator for both of Gwangju City Art Museum and Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, Korea. For the past decade, based on her insight and experience in the matter, Sunhee Kim has been focusing on the exhibitions of East Asian contemporary art. She has previously taught Art history and Contemporary art at the Chunnam National University in Korea and is now teaching at the School of Visual Art at the Korean National University of Arts. She is a Member of CIMAM (international committee of ICOM (International Council of Museums).