YANG Jungae is an independent curator and researcher who conducts both exhibitions and research based on socially engaged art works, and is also working in an art collective "Art Handam". She majored in Art Theory at Korea National University of Arts and Visual Communication at Yonsei University. She worked as an intern at SAMUSO: Space for contemporary art (2009-2010), an archivist at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (2013-2015), and a curator at the Museum of Performing Arts at the National Theater of Korea (2022).

   She has curated exhibitions include Hack Mong 3: The Green Camouflage (Emu Artspace, Seoul, 2019) and SP38(Sylvain Perier): Post Vandal Residency 3 (Lab29, Seoul, 2018). She has presented theories on artists including BANG Jeong-A (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, 2021), PARK Younggyun (Busan Democray Park, Busan, 2020), PARK Euntae (Aram Art Gallery, Goyang Aram Nuri Art Center, Goyang, 2019), and the art group 'Durung' (Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, 2021). Her major publications include PARK Younggyun: From There (Seoul: Hexagon, 2023), Minjung Art, Listening to History 2 (co-author, Seoul: Hyunsil Munhwa A, 2021), Why Are There No Great Female Minjung Artists? (Seoul: Hexagon, 2019).
   She has conducted a number of researches related to Minjung Art serving as a research associate at the Seoul Museum of Art for the SeMA AA (JUNG Jeongyeop Collection, 2022), a researcher in research teams for AHN Changhong (2019) and SHIN Hakcheol (2021) supported by the Korean Artist Digital Archive at the Korean Arts Management Service, and a research fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (A Scholar of IASACT, 2020) and the Korea Democracy Foundation (Academic Fellow, 2018). She is currently working on qualitative researches to restore the trajectory of artists who intervened and worked in the social scene in the 1980s, focusing on the small art groups "Durung" and "Seoul Art Community (Seoul-Misul-Gongdongche)". Based on their activities, she is planning an exhibition on the theme of art censorship.

Education

2013 M.A in Visual Communication, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

2008 B.A in Art Theory, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea

Selected Curated Exhibitions

2019 Hack Mong 3: The Green Camouflage, Emu Artspace, Seoul, Korea

2018 SP38(Sylvain Perier): Post Vandal Residency 3, Lab29, Seoul, Korea

2015 PARK HYUNKI 1942-2000 MANDARA, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (Archive) 

Selected Publications

2023 PARK Younggyun: From There, Seoul: Hexagon (Senior Researcher)

2022 “BANG Jeong-A: Nothing Happens” in 2021 Korean Artist Prize, Seoul: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (co-author)

2021 “JUNG Jungyeob: Minjung Art” in Listening to History 2, Seoul: Hyunsil Munhwa A (co-author)

2020 “A chronicle of art collective ‘Durung’ 1975-1996” in Gyeonggi Art Project ‘Locus and Focus’ : into the 1980s through Art Group Archives, Ansan: Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art

2020 “PARK Euntae: “Life of Great Weight” Between Abstract Labor and Specific Labor” in The Art of Possible, Goyang: Goyang Aram Nuri Art Center

2019 Why Are There No Great Female Minjung Artists?, Seoul: Hexagon

Selected Research 

2018 “Minjung Art as the Emotion Struggle, in case of 80’s Minjung Art Group,‘Durung’”, Emotion Studies (co-author)

2018 “Minjung Art as Ritual: Reinterpretation on 80’s Min-Jung Art in Korea in terms of Sociology of Religion”, Social Science Studies (co-author)

2013 “Artist as symbolic struggler: focusing on Oasis Project”, The Korean Journal of Cultural Sociology (co-author)
2013 “A study on Building a Media Archive: Focusing on the Case of PARK Hyunki Collection”, Journal of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Selected Professional Experiences 

2022 Curator, Museum of Performing Arts at the National Theater of Korea, Seoul, Korea

2022 Research associate at the Seoul Museum of Art for the SeMA AA (Jung Jeongyeop Collection), Seoul, Korea

2022 Researcher in research teams for 1980’s culture and art movement oral recording project, Korea Democracy Foundation, Uiwang, Korea 

2021 Researcher in research teams for SHIN Hakcheol, the Korean Artist Digital Archive at the Korean Arts Management Service, Seoul, Korea

2019 Researcher in research teams for AHN Changhong, the Korean Artist Digital Archive at the Korean Arts Management Service, Seoul, Korea

2013-2015 Archivist, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

2009-2010 Internship, SAMUSO: Space for contemporary art, Seoul, Korea

Grants

2020 A Scholar of the IASACT, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong

2018 Academic Fellow, Korea Democracy Foundation, Uiwang, Korea

Residency

2023 SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, Korea