Who We Are
Director/CEO
Dr. Jung-Sil Lee is an art historian, art critic, curator, and Art History professor at George Washington University (https://corcoran.gwu.edu/jung-sil-lee) specializing in modern and contemporary art from a global perspective. Her research interests span Global art history, Contemporary art and culture, Christian art, Feminism, Public art, Media Art, and Art for Healing.
She authored the book Comfort Women: A Movement for Justice and Women’s Rights in the United States (Carlsbad, CA: Hollym, 2020), “Unforeseen Controversy: Reconciliation and Re-contextualization of Wartime Atrocities” in Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversy (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), “Tracing 28 Years of the Redress Movement,” in The Transnational Redress Movement for the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery (Germany: De Gruyter, 2020). She participated in the “Asian American Memory Activism: A Roundtable Discussion” (Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 2024) and published “Colonized bodies: intersectional women’s movements of Korea and the Korean diaspora in the U.S.”
Women’s History Review (vol. 34, no. 5, May 2025) and “Soaring (Narsha): Korean American Artists,” Asian Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 23 (Aug.2, 2025) about her exhibition at American University Museum at the Katzen Arts curation. She co-authored Modern and Contemporary Korean Art in Context (1950-Now) (London: Bloomsbury, 2025) in order to use a textbook in her class. Dr. Lee has pioneered courses such as “Modern and Contemporary East Asian Art,” “Modern and Contemporary Korean Art and Culture,” “Contemporary Media Culture” “Historical Trauma and Cultural Healing” which she had taught at George Washington University, Georgetown University, Maryland University, and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). : Instagram: jungsil25 . – facebook.com/jungsil25
As a director/curator of ArTrio, she organized various themed exhibitions, Collateral Damage (New York), Truth: Promise for Peace (Seoul), Asian Pop Art (Virginia), Korean Wave (DC), Bio Art (Maryland). In Virginia, she chaired to build two public memorials and peace gardens for commemorate victims of wartime sex slaves and human trafficking. She recently curated three venue exhibitions, Ecriture with the Body at Corcoran School of Arts and Design, IA & A at Hillyer, and Korean Cultural Center in Washington DC.
Curator
Courtney Shin is a graduate from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, with a BFA in History of Art and Design and a minor in Museum and Gallery Practice, specializing in women artists, 19th century and modern art. Throughout her years in college, she has researched and written several reports and attended lectures with museum guests. She is also interested in artists’ materials and has studied painting pigments and fabrics of Venice during the summer of 2022 as part of the Pratt in Venice program. Aside from research, Shin is also an artist who specializes in painting and digital art. She has worked with her academic advisors to submit an independent minor from the art courses she took and successfully proposed a minor in Music in Animation Narratives. She has worked as an intern for the exhibition Ecriture with the Body.
Interns
Samie Park is an undergraduate student at George Washington University, expected to graduate with a bachelor's degree in interior architecture and design. She is heavily involved in fine arts and is particularly interested in types of traditional Asian art and is researching to connect them to modern contemporary movements. She aims to further advance in her studies of architecture while researching her passion in art. She volunteered as an docent for the exhibition Ecriture with the Body: Contemporary Korean Women’s Art in 2025.