Miwon Kwon

Biography

Miwon Kwon is Associate Professor at the Department of Art History at the University of California and researches on contemporary art, architecture, public art and urban studies. Alongside her curatorial activities at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she was co-founder and editor of »Documents«, a journal of art, culture, and criticism (1992 - 2004); she is, furthermore, member of the advisory board of the journal »October«. In addition to her book publication »One Place After Another: Site-Specific art and Locational Identity« (2002) she has also published numerous essays, among others, on the artistic positions of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Christian Marclay, Ana Mendieta, Do-Ho Suh, Mark Dion, Gabriel Orozco, Jimmie Durham, Christian Philipp Müller and Josiah McElheny.

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