Dr. Chung’s doctoral dissertation Ultra-sauvage, Ultra-moderne: Paul Gauguin’s Ceramics and Sculpture falls well within her specialties of the study of colonialism, feminism, nationalism, and design theory. Her research interests encompass both modern and contemporary East Asian and Western art in an effort to overcome cultural and geographical barriers. She has been actively involved in intercultural and interdisciplinary projects to fill the gap between theory and practice. Dr. Chung worked as a researcher at the Guggenheim Museum for the retrospective exhibition The World of Nam June Paik in 1999, and as coordinator and curator for Special Effects: Media Arts, working with Lawrence R. Rinder, then the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art (Daejeon, Korea) in 2002. In 2005, Dr. Chung became one of the international exhibition commissioners for Digital Paradise, Media Art Exhibition: FAST, while concurrently curating The Moving Drawing of Jheon Soocheon: The Line that Crosses America. She has also been working as a writer for the leading monthly art magazine Wolgan Misool, based in Seoul, Korea, since 1997, contributing major catalog essays.

At the College Art Association, Dr. Chung has presented numerous papers, including: “Mobo Moga (Modern Boy, Modern Girl) in Colonial Korea and Taishō Japan.” [forthcoming] (New York, 2007); “Gauguin and Chaplet at the Dawn of the Art-Nouveau” (Seattle, 2004); “Japanese Colonial Policy and the ‘Return to the Soil’ in Colonial Korea: 1920s and 1930s” (Philadelphia, 2002). Some of these will be included in a book on East Asian Modern Art, currently in progress.  She has received several grants, including the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship in the History of Art. Before joining the faculty at FIT, Dr. Chung taught at Wagner College, Montclair State University, and Pratt Institute.

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