WHO WE ARE

Dr. Jung-Sil Lee is an art historian, artcritic, curator, and Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University (https://corcoran.gwu.edu/jung-sil-lee)  specializing in modern and contemporary art froma global perspective. Her research interests span global modernism, contemporary art, Christian art, feminism, and public art. Dr. Lee is Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University where she teaches courses on modernism, Asian Art, and contemporary art. 

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). She published 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” which she has taught at George Washington University, Georgetown University, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. 

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), and Ecriture, Body, Empowerment: Korean Contemporary women’s Artists (DC). In Virginia, she chaired to build two public memorials and peace gardens for commemorate victims of wartime sex slaves and human trafficking. 

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.

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