YAERIN PARK
Contemporary Art Historian, Critic, Curator, Writer
Based in Seoul, South Korea
ABOUT
Yaerin Park (she/her) is a contemporary art historian, critic, and curator based in Seoul, South Korea. She holds a BA in Art Studies from Hongik University and is currently completing her MA in Art History and Museology at Ewha Womans University. Park’s academic research investigates the intersections of media, technology, gender, and identity politics in post-1945 art, with a focus on the shifting boundaries of language, visibility, and representation.
Through her research, writing, and curatorial practice, Park seeks to critically address how art and visual culture negotiate the dynamics of power, mediation, and meaning in contemporary society.
Her academic pursuits have shaped her curatorial approach, leading to critically engaged projects such as “A Smooth World and Its Troubles” (2024, Tri-bowl, Incheon), “Burnt into Memories, Seeping into Your Eyes” (2024, Amado Art Space, Seoul), and “rete” (2023, Art Space Seogyo, Seoul). Park has also contributed as catalogue editor for the 15th Gwangju Biennale, reflecting her commitment to research-led and discursive forms of curatorial practice.
Her experience further extends to collaborative initiatives as the founding editor of epoché rete, an art criticism collective foregrounding dialogic modes of inquiry. Park’s achievements have been recognized with fellowships and grants, including the ARKO Critic LAB (Arts Council Korea), research fellowships from the Asia Culture Center, and grants from the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.
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ⓒ 2026 YAERIN PARK CV
Full CV available upon request.
Education
Ewha Womans University
MA Candidate, Art History & Museology
Hongik University
BA, Art Studies
Employment
Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Exhibition Team
Main Exhibition Catalogue Editor
Exhibition Coordinator / Assistant Manager
2024
Suwon Museum of Art, Curatorial TeamCuratorial Assistant / Exhibition Coordinator
2020, 2021
Writing
“Immaterial Bodies and Amorphous Paintings: On Jiun Koo’s World Sensed Anew,” 2025.
“A Footnote on Gippeume Gwak’s Media-Archaeological Practice,” 2025.
“The Face of Wind: On Allegories of Sadness and Breeze in Moon Chae-eun’s Painting,” 2025.
“At the Intersection of Gender Politics and Media Experiment: Mako Idemitsu’s Video Works from the 1970s–1980s,” 2024.
“Awaken the Maternal Spirit Within All Humans: Tabita Rezaire,” Kimdaljin Art Research Institute, December 26, 2024.
“Amol K Patil: Who Is Invited to the City?,” Kimdaljin Art Research Institute, November 25, 2024.
“Gaëlle Choisne: Love That Softly Embraces You (Me),” Kimdaljin Art Research Institute, November 6, 2024.
“Anywhere Beyond the World: On the Layered Temporalities in No Ghost Just a Shell,” THISCOMESFROM, September 13, 2024.
“I Want to Reach to You: On the Accumulation and Dispersal of Transparent Memories of Jung Jaeyeol,” 2024.
Presentation
“Attack on Titan: What Do Humans Amidst the Cycles of Freedom, Violence, and Memory?,” Invited Talk, Sohyeonmun, Suwon, 2025
“At the Intersection of Gender Politics and Media Experiment: Mako Idemitsu’s Video Works from the 1970s–1980s,” ACC Archive Research Group Public Seminar, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, 2024
Curatorial Projects
Dental Critic, Wreath and Towel, Seoul
Artist / Contributor (Participated as époche rete)
Supported by Wreath and Towel (Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture)
2025
A Smooth World and Its Troubles,
Tri-bowl, Incheon Curator (Co-curated with Eunchong Choi)
Supported by Incheon Foundation for Arts and Culture
2024
PANSORI: A Soundscape of the 21st Century,
The 15th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
Main Exhibition Catalogue Editor, Exhibition Coordinator / Assistant Manager
2024
Burnt into Memories, Seeping into Your Eyes,
The 11th Amado Annualnale, Amado Art Space, SeoulSelected Curator (Selected with the artist Gippume Gwak)
Supported by Amado Art Space
2024
"Project Mirage: On the Language of Deviant Queer (Visual) Art Spaces,"
Space Mirage, Seoul
Research participant
Supported by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Artistic Research Grant
2023
rete, Art Space Seogyo, Seoul
Curator and Critic (Participated as Une critique de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard)
Supported by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Co-growth Art Experiment Support 'LINK'
2023
Intermissions Will Run for 37.5 Years, Space Mirage, Seoul
Curator
2023
Before the Wind, Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon (Co-organized by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea)
Curatorial Assistant / Exhibition Coordinator
2021
Born, A Woman, Suwon Museum of Art, SuwonCuratorial Assistant / Exhibition Coordinator
2020
Fellowships, Grants, Honors & Awards
Arts Council Korea
ARKO Critic LAB Fellowship, Selected Critic
3,500,000 KRW
2025
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul
RC (Review Critic) Project Fellowship,
Selected Critic
Grant Amount TBD
2025
Asia Culture Center, Gwangju
ACC Archive Research Group Fellowship,
Selected Researcher (Participated as Dysmorphia)
2024
Amado Art Space, Seoul
The 11th Amado Annualnale Grant,
Selected Curator
2,000,000 KRW
2024
Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul
*c-lab 7.0 Fellowship,
Research fellow (Lab-mate)
2023
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul
Co-growth Art Experiment Support 'LINK' Grant, Art Space Seogyo
1,600,000 KRW
2023
Kyujanggak International Center for Korean Studies, Seoul National University
The 17th Kyujanggak Korean Studies Summer Workshop Grant
2023
The 2nd Art Data Changes the World Challenge Contest
Excellence Prize
Commendation by the President of the Korean Culture & Arts Centers Association (KoCACA)
1,000,000 KRW
2021
The 8th Cultural Data Utilization Contest
Grand Prize, Ideas Category
Commendation by the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Republic of Korea
3,000,000 KRW
2020
Scholarship
Professor Oh Jin-Kyeong Endowed ScholarshipDepartment of History of Art,
Ewha Womans University
2,000,000 KRW
Fall 2022
Teaching Assistant Scholarship“Women and Art” (Prof. Eunju Kang)
Ewha Womans University
2,000,000 KRW
Fall 2022
Administrative Assistant ScholarshipCenter for Future Innovation,
Ewha Womans University
12,000,000 KRW
Fall 2021 – Spring 2022, Spring 2023
Hongik ScholarshipHongik University
11,834,500 KRW
2015–2018
Language Proficiency
Korean(Native), English(Fluent), Japanese(Intermediate), French(Beginner)
Last Updated Sep 22, 2025
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Dental Critic
May 24 ⏤ July 23, 2025
Wreath and Towel, Seoul
Participated as epoché rete
Artists:
MaCo, ma-te-ri-al, Hyowon Shim, Lee Yeoro, abs, epoché rete, Wang Eunji, En-Movement, Haeri Jeong, Rat Journal
Poster Design: Haeri Jeong
Furniture Design: Wang Eunji
Curator: Woosol Lee
Space Collaboration: Wreath and Towel
Supported by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Dental Critic was an exhibition that treated the critical text not just as commentary, but as an artwork in its own right. As a member of epoché rete, I joined the project as both writer and artist, exploring the affinities between art criticism and so-called “spam”—those filtered, unread texts that nonetheless persist as quiet forms of resistance.
Over several months of collective exchange, we shaped a group statement, and I wrote the essay “When Spam Becomes Critique: On Unreadable Words and the Site Where Critique Persists.”
This work considers how criticism, when pushed to the margins—when it is unread, overlooked, or dismissed—can in fact become a mode of dissent. The exhibition became a space for questioning what is heard and what is ignored, and for tracing how unreadable language might still retain a critical edge.
Together with epoché rete, I also helped organize the workshop “spam: Emptying the Trash,” inviting others to breathe new life into discarded texts from past exhibitions and transform these overlooked materials into sites for renewed collective dialogue and resistance.
Installation view
Photo ⓒ Wreath and Towel