Cho Hyesu 조혜수 チョ・ヘス 

Curator ・ Researcher ・ Writer working across Japan and South Korea.

Writing-driven curatorial practice
grounded in feminist and decolonial inquiries
into ritual, memory, and the undercommons.

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Academic Writing

“Shaman, Cyborg, Utopia: Reconstructing Lee Bul’s Shamanic Cosmology.”
Journal of Global Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, vol. 7, 2026, pp.61-88.

“The Naked Other and the Dead: Death as an Expression of Vulnerability in Toshi Maruki’s Nude Representations.”
The Annual Review of Cultural Studies, no. 13, 2025, pp. 177–195.

Recent Essays & REviews

“Dear Unni”
Curatorial essay for Night Bodies, solo exhibition by Mihyun Kim,
November 14–February 21, 2026.

“Standing Before Memory — A Fieldwork Record from Tsuruhashi and Nishinari, Osaka”Summer 2025 — written in January 2026

“The Art of Bal 發: Fermentative Practice and the Redistribution of Power”
Critic for Rice Brewing Sisters Club, 『Totatoga Critic』 vol.1, 2025.

“The Blue Trash Can Theory”
In The Center Lies on the Outside: Rirkrit Tiravanija and the Art of Noji,
edited by Ahreum Woo, Croma Editions, 2025.


FOR WRITING COMMISSIONS,
TRANSLATION REQUESTS,
AND COLLABORATION PROPOSALS.
cho.hyesu.0@gmail.com



⬇︎NOW⬇︎

– PhD student at Tokyo University of the Arts
– Developing a research-based curatorial project
– Selected writing forthcoming
– Engaged in KR–JP translation and interpretation
for institutional exhibitions and museum collaborations


Featured Work

Ghost Curatorial Platform:
the ghost project

Oct 2024 ~ Publicly accessible at all times
Launched in 2024, dedicated to exploring the invisible, the silenced, and the spectral conditions of contemporary life.


recent WRITING

  • “Shaman, Cyborg, Utopia: Reconstructing Lee Bul’s Shamanic Cosmology.”Journal of Global Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, vol. 7, 2026.

    The full text of the article is available for download on this page.本ページから論文の全文をご覧いただけます。본 페이지에서 논문 전문을 다운로드하실 수 있습니다. “Shaman, Cyborg, Utopia: On Lee Bul’s Shamanistic Cosmology,” has been published in Journal of Global Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices (GA Journal), Vol. 7 (2026). This study critically reexamines the dominant tendency to interpret the work of Lee Bul through a linear developmental narrative structured around a turning point “after 1998,” in which her practice is understood as moving from the body to technology and ultimately to utopia. In particular, while canonical feminist readings based on Julia Kristeva’s notion of abjection…

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