Biography
Dr. Seughye Sun is currently the Director of the Cultural Cooperation Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Korea. She is responsible for all aspects of cultural diplomacy, developing innovative areas of soft power and public programming, while continuing to promote the nation branding of Korea through cultural exchanges with all different locations around the globe. Especially, she currently supports the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games with the diplomatic mission.
Since 2001, Sun has served as curator at major museums in Korea, the US, and Japan. She also balanced academic research as the assistant professor of East Asian Studies at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. She covers all periods of Korean art and culture from the ancient to the contemporary.
At the National Museum of Korea, where, as the curator of the Asian Art Department, she planned and installed the permanent galleries of Asian art and curated special exhibitions of Korean and Asian arts. As the chief curator of Seoul Museum of Art, she overall directed the special exhibitions of contemporary arts of Korea, Africa, Europe, Africa, and etc.
In the US, the sun was the curator of the Cleveland Museum of Art, which is one of the world’s preeminent collections of Asian art in the US. In this role, she opened the first Korean Gallery in the 100year-history of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Specifically, she was the curator and publication author for the special exhibition, titled “The Lure of Painted Poetry.” In Japan, she was invited as a scholar at Tokyo National Museum.
Sun has contributed to several books, catalogues and publications, including The Lure of Painted Poetry (2011), The Lure of Asia in Japanese Art (2008), Western-style Paintings in Modern Japan (2008), “Asian art galleries at the National Museum of Korea” (Orientations,2005), and “Korean Paintings of Peach Blossom Spring in the Late Joseon Dynasty” (Asia Yugaku, 2009). She has also presented at numerous conferences in Korea, China, Japan, the U.S., and across Europe.
Before her tenure at the National Museum of Korea, Sun was appointed a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in aesthetics from Seoul National University, and her Ph.D. in art history from Tokyo University.
Since 2001, Sun has served as curator at major museums in Korea, the US, and Japan. She also balanced academic research as the assistant professor of East Asian Studies at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. She covers all periods of Korean art and culture from the ancient to the contemporary.
At the National Museum of Korea, where, as the curator of the Asian Art Department, she planned and installed the permanent galleries of Asian art and curated special exhibitions of Korean and Asian arts. As the chief curator of Seoul Museum of Art, she overall directed the special exhibitions of contemporary arts of Korea, Africa, Europe, Africa, and etc.
In the US, the sun was the curator of the Cleveland Museum of Art, which is one of the world’s preeminent collections of Asian art in the US. In this role, she opened the first Korean Gallery in the 100year-history of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Specifically, she was the curator and publication author for the special exhibition, titled “The Lure of Painted Poetry.” In Japan, she was invited as a scholar at Tokyo National Museum.
Sun has contributed to several books, catalogues and publications, including The Lure of Painted Poetry (2011), The Lure of Asia in Japanese Art (2008), Western-style Paintings in Modern Japan (2008), “Asian art galleries at the National Museum of Korea” (Orientations,2005), and “Korean Paintings of Peach Blossom Spring in the Late Joseon Dynasty” (Asia Yugaku, 2009). She has also presented at numerous conferences in Korea, China, Japan, the U.S., and across Europe.
Before her tenure at the National Museum of Korea, Sun was appointed a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in aesthetics from Seoul National University, and her Ph.D. in art history from Tokyo University.
