Curatorial Collective
What We Do?

Trio & Beats, co-directed by Dr. Jung-Sil Lee, Dr. Dong-Yeon Koh, and Dr. Yoonjeong Koh, is a curatorial collective committed to expanding the horizons of contemporary arts for global exchanges and fostering a deeper understanding of art and culture.

Trio & Beats focuses on diverse artistic themes from women's perspectives, the memorialization of traumatic history, decolonization, as well as Korean (Korean diaspora) and Asian contemporary arts and culture, employing an interdisciplinary approach.

Trio & Beats is dedicated to curating exhibitions and conducting related research, lectures, archiving, and publications. Through these efforts, we aim to initiate new discourses and foster positive connections among curators, artists, critics, and the public.


About
Trio & Beats operates within a broad curatorial and research scope, encompassing various artistic disciplines and thematic areas. The organization is committed to curating exhibitions, events, and projects that explore diverse cultural expressions, contemporary issues, and interdisciplinary intersections. Within its curatorial practice, Trio & Beats engages with a wide range of artistic mediums, including visual arts, performing arts, film, video, multimedia installations, and more. The organization seeks to present thought-provoking and innovative artworks that challenge traditional boundaries and foster critical dialogue. In terms of research, Trio & Beats conducts in-depth investigations into art history, cultural contexts, and socio-political themes relevant to the artworks and projects it undertakes. This research serves as a foundation for curatorial decision-making, ensuring a well-informed and intellectually rigorous approach to their exhibitions and events.

- Modernism(s) in global perspectives
- Themes of Contemporary arts and culture
- Feminist Arts (Gender and Identity)
- Public (Participatory Community) Arts
- Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Art
- Film and multi-media Project
- Korean (Korean Diaspora), Asian, Minority, and Subaltern art




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Jung-Sil Lee. Ph. D
Jung-Sil Lee, prior to founding ArTrio in 2011, had established herself as a historian of modern and contemporary art from a global perspective and an independent curator. Her research encompasses a wide range of interests, including public memorials, ritual theory, feminism, diaspora, and grassroots activism through art. Over the years, her research interests have expanded to include the intersection of public sculpture and feminism, exploring narratives that intertwine intersectional feminism and decolonization. This exploration has led her to focus on modern and contemporary minority artists who challenge traditional artistic norms by incorporating traumatic histories into their work. Jung-Sil Lee's dedication to education has driven her to create courses such as Modern and Contemporary Asian Art and Modern and Contemporary Korean Art and Culture. These courses have been successfully piloted at esteemed institutions such as George Washington University, Georgetown University, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Beyond academia, Jung-Sil Lee has played a pivotal role in the construction of two memorials in Virginia dedicated to the victims of human trafficking and wartime sex slaves. Her curatorial expertise extends to diverse art exhibitions, including notable showcases like "Collateral Damage," "Truth: Promise for Peace," "Beyond Boundaries," and "Bio Art."

JS Lee: ART HISTORIAN

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ART HISTORIA, CURATOR & CRITIC

Jung-Sil Lee is an adjunct professor specializing in Korean and Asian cultural arts at universities including Georgetown University. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Maryland, and founded the company Corcoran Trio in 2011. Since then, Dr. Lee has curated 19 shows so far and served as a guest curator at major cultural and arts institutions in the Washington, DC area, which includes the Smithsonian Asian Art Museum.

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ACADEMIC

SELECTED PAPERS AND PRESENTATION

Dr. Lee is currently at work on two projects: one is the book on Modern and Contemporary Korean Art History in Context: 1950-2020 while the other is the article, “Colonized Bodies Matter: Intersectional Women’s Movement in South Korea and Korean Diaspora.”

CURATORIAL

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & FILM FESTIVALS

Dr. Lee published numerous exhibition catalog entries and critics. She published Comfort Women: A Movement for Justice and Women’s Rights in the United States (Hollym, 2020)” as an editor and writer and “Unforeseen Controversy: Reconciliation and Re-contextualization of Wartime Atrocities through “Comfort Women” Memorials in the United States” in Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversy (Bloomsbury, 2021), and “Contemporary Global Asian American Artist: Hybrid Identity” in Asian Art Reading (Noonbit, 2018).

PUBLICATIONS & ACTIVITIES

BOOKS, WORKSHOPS, EVENTS

In addition to her curatorial and academic endeavors, Jung-Sil Lee has served as the president of the non-profit organization, the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues. Through this non-profit research organization, she aims to intersect art and activism, advocating for important causes and raising awareness about significant societal issues.

Dong-Yeon Koh, Ph. D
Dong-Yeon Koh, an art critic, has served as a mentor and committee in art residencies and museums in South Korea over the last two decades with a focus on popular culture, gender theory, and memory studies. Dr. Koh was the commissioner of the Goyang Outdoor Sculpture Festival (2017, 2018) and co-director of Art 2021. She also served as the managing committee of NaMAF (Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival) (2017-2022) to promote young and promising experimental video artists and filmmakers in South Korea. As a researcher and art critic, she wrote 40 academic papers and 200 art criticism, which have been published in journals and art magazines worldwide including (Routledge), , , (Routledge), and (Duke University Press). Koh's recent books include (Seoul, 2018), (Seoul, 2019), (London: Routledge, 2021), and (Seoul, 2022).
http://www.dongyeonkok.com (Homepage)

Dong-Yeon Koh

DY KOH: ART HISTORIAN, CRITIC, AND curator

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Art Historian, Critic, & Curator

Taught Art Criticism, Modern Art History, and Film History at the Graduate Schools of Seoul National University, Korea University, Korea University of Arts, and Hongik University (2007-2023) and served as a mentor, committee, and Jury in many art residencies , arts organizations, artist's award, and festivals in South Korea since 2007. dykoh@yahoo.com (Email)/ www.dongyeonkoh.com (Homepage)/ blog.naver.com/dykoh1970 (Blog)

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Curatorial

Selected Exhibitions, Festivals & Events

2017-2021 Seoul International New Media Festival (NEMAF), Seoul/ 2017, 2018 Commissioner (2 Years), Goyang Outdoor Sculpture Festival, Goyang/ 2014 《Reply Artists》, Seoul Foundation of Arts and Culture, Seoul/ 2011 “From Yeouido Airfield to Incheon Airport,” co-curated, Ilmin Art Museum, Seoul

Academic

Selected Papers (Abstract) & Conferences

Research papers (A& HCI 7, Korea Certificate Index (KCI) 31, Other Academic Journal 4) 2023 "The Place of Tragedy and Postmemory Generation: Dalo Hyunjoo Kim and Kwanghee Cho's 'Mourning Practice (Oedo Yeonseup)' at Camp Town Ppeoppeorl, Euijeongbu ," 「Journal of Korean and Asian Art」, (Seoul: Research Institute of Korean Arts) / 2022 “The Postmemory Generation and Being Abandoned: Jane Jin Kaisen's Film Community of Parting,” 「Journal of History of Modern Art」, Vol. 51, pp. 51; 157-189”

Publication

Books, Ex. Catalogs & Reviews

RESEARCH-BOOKS (Korean 12, English 4)/ EXHIBITION CAT. & REVIEWS (APPROXIMATELY 220)/ 2021 Dong-Yeon Koh, 『Postmemory Generation in South Korea: The Post 1990s Arts and Films』, Advanced Series of Korean Studies. London and New York; Routledge (English) 2020 Dong-Yeon Koh, “The Paradoxical Place of the Female Body in Feminist Arts in South Korea,” in<Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation> , edited by Yeongshim Jeong, New York: Phaidon Press (English).

Yoonjeong Koh, Ph. D
Yunjeong Koh received her doctorate at Seoul National University with a dissertation on the practice of integrated art education centered on performance art in the major of collaborative art education. As a guest editor, he planned publications and operated the 《Monday Salon》 program for about 3 years, and created a program called 《Criticism Bar》(2019-2020) to talk about current issues in various fields in the art world. Movement, which Koh have been personally intereted in and practices, becomes the foundation for a series of her recent curatorial practice. In 2018, he wrote a book called Performance Artist Recording in connection with the exhibition , and in 2022, he published a joint book, Who Forces Choice (Constructor) with researcher Dong-Yeon Koh. Exhibitions related to performance art include (Emu, 2019), (Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, 2020), and (2021). 《The Gap Between Two Beats》 (2022), in particular, deals with the traces of the body and the rhythm of the city. In 2023, he is conducting research on how the form of performance and thematic discourses can meet. In addition, she is contemplating the sustainable artist's life of emerging and mid-career artists by collaborating with several small new spaces while running the 'Imi Group', which was created to improve the self-generation of artists and planners.
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YJ KOH: CURATOR & ART CRITIC

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CURATOR & CRITIC

Education 2002 Graduated from the Department of Sociology, Ewha Womans University (multimedia double major) 2009 Graduated from Ewha Womans University Graduate School of Art and Design 2023 Graduated from Seoul National University Collaborative Program Art Education Ph.D. /Theorist 2019-Present Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation Critic Matching Organizing Organization and Participating Critic Activities 2021 Art in Culture 3040 Selection of Female Artists 2018-Present Head of Image Group 2018-2020 Guest Editor-in-Chief, Total Museum Press 2018-2020 Hosted Total Museum Monday Salon 2019-2020 Criticism Pub (Criticism Support for Visual Arts Creation Center of Arts Council Korea) Moderator 2019 Geumcheon Art Space Flow and Beat Collaborating Curator 2014-2017 Gallery Gu Collaborating Curator 2015-2017 Graphite on Pink Publishing Editor-in-Chief

CURATORIAL

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023 Sensation of the Black Pillar, H Art Lab 2nd Exhibition Part 1, Art Space Luxurious 2023 Arrangement of Material and Energy, Yeongdeungpo Cultural Foundation Support Project, Arts Center 2022 Gap between two beats (Arts Korea Council Excellent Visual Art Creation Exhibition) 2020-2021 Gyeonggi-do-type public art project <gg guerrilla video show <by chance> planning (sponsored by Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Suwon Convention Center) 2021 April space type <one pull, four eyes> planning Planning <Jamsilscape> (Songpa Cultural Foundation) 2020. 4. Sejong Center for the Performing Arts <Happiness Finds Me> general planning 2019 <Promenade>, complex cultural space Emu (Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture) 2019 Geumcheon Art Space<NON 프레임마켓> , Planning 2018 Donuimun Museum Village <The Energy of the Space Clock> Planning 2017 Artist Art Market Squat Seongsu Co-planning (Art Management Support Center)

ACADEMIC AND ART CRITICAL

RESEARCH & ART CRITICISM

2022-2023 Jo Young-joo Criticism (tentative title) General Planning 2023 Process of Creation, Pre-exhibition Study of Visual Art Creation Center, <44Month, Action, Project> 2021 Arco Public Art Research – Project Future Distribution (near Gyeongdong Market, Cheongnyangni Market) 2021 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Seoul Research – Records of Performance in the Pandemic Era 2020 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture 190 hours

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022 Jin Dal-rae & Park Woo-hyuk, <Meaningful Forms>, Platform L 2021 Kang Geon Solo Exhibition <Taa Loss>, Art Space Gwanggyo 2021 Jin Dal-rae & Park Woo-hyuk Solo Exhibition <Water, Garlic, Onion, Milk, Fruit>, Space Type 2020 Noh Se-hwan Solo Exhibition<My Toes Are Free> , Complex cultural space Emu 2020 Kim Eun-hyung solo exhibition <Dancing Slaves>, Space55 2019 Jo Young-joo solo exhibition <Mrs. Jellybee's Magnifying Glass>, Placemak

Exhibitions
Curatorial Approach:

• Organizing international exhibitions with at least 30 percent of local artists and collaborations

• Maintaining on-going forum of international curators, artists, and art professionals

• Recruiting Korean artists around the world to redefine the Korean diaspora in contemporary art

• Embracing differences among people, communities, and regions due to spatial, temporal distance, and cultural disparity

• An international exhibition that includes 30 percent of the artists from the host region.

• Based on international discussion sessions with planners, writers and professional artists

• Collaborating with local Korean artists and redefining the Korean diaspora.

• Embrace differences in time, space and cultural distance

PUBLICATION

Comfort Women: A Movement for Justice and Women's Rights in the United States

Jung Sil Lee, Dennis Halpin ed.

Amazon.com: Comfort Women: A Movement for Justice and Women's Rights in the United States: 9781565913851

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Modern and Contemporary Korean Art

Jung-Sil Lee

The symposium, Harvard and Dartmouth Art History Workshop, Cambridge, MA, 2019

The Korean War and Postmemory Generation: Contemporary Korean Arts and Films

Dong-Yeon Koh

This pioneering volume navigates cultural memory of the Korean War through the lens of contemporary arts and film in South Korea for the last two decades.

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What Forces Women Artists to Give Up

Yoonjeong Koh and Dong-Yeon Koh

“How does marriage and the role of a mother affect an artist's survival and prosperity?” - Women, mothers, artists. The story of 11 artists who maintain and juggle three different identities of being a mother, artist, and woman. - A book that looks into women's ego, solidarity, and history through the lends of feminist art in South Korea

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Contact

  • 19 Jong-ro, Jongro-Gu, Seoul, Korea