Associate Professor Ki Hyekyung Appointed New Director of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

Exhibition curator and former director of the Busan Museum of Art; three-year term

Ki Hyekyung, associate professor at Hongik University Graduate School of Fine Arts.

Ki Hyekyung, associate professor at Hongik University Graduate School of Fine Arts, was appointed director of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art on November 13. Her term is three years.

The new director is an exhibition curator who has built hands-on experience at national and public art museums while researching the history of modern and contemporary Korean art. She served for about 13 years as a curator-researcher at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, working at the Deoksugung Palace branch, the Curatorial Research Office and the Seoul branch's special task force. She later served as head of operations at the Buk-Seoul Museum of Art and director of the Busan Museum of Art.

She has also remained active in academia. In 2022, she co-edited Revisiting Korean Art 3: 1990s-2008, which surveys Korean contemporary art from the 1990s onward. Since 2023, she has focused on research and training the next generation at Hongik University Graduate School of Fine Arts.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Choi Hwi-young said, "I hope she will draw on the wide range of experience she has gained to make the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art more accessible to the public and help it engage with the world."

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