Who We Are
Director/CEO
Dr. Jung-Sil Lee is an art historian, art critic, curator, and Art History professor at George Washington University 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 co-authored Modern and Contemporary Korean Art in Context (1950-Now) (London: Bloomsbury, 2025) in order to use a textbook in her class. (go to research for her publication) 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” “Global in Art History” which she has been teaching at George Washington University, Georgetown University, Maryland University, and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
As a director/curator of ArTrio, 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 and Soaring (Katzen Arts Center at American University). Collateral Damage (New York), Truth: Promise for Peace (Seoul), Asian Pop Art (Virginia), Korean Wave (DC), Bio Art (Maryland) among many. In Virginia, she chaired to build two public memorials and peace gardens for commemorate victims of wartime sex slaves and human trafficking.
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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.
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