E-mail cho.hyesu.0@gmail.com

CHO Hyesu

b.1993. Raised in Busan and Seoul, South Korea.
Currently in Tokyo, Japan.

Research Keywords: Feminist art practice, posthumanism and the nonhuman, history and memory, body and representation, contemporary art in Korea and Japan, curatorial practice

Education
2024– Ph.D student. in Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices (Research), Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
　　Advisor: SHIMIZU Tomoko
2024 M.A. in Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices (Curation), Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
　　Advisor: SUMITOMO Fumihiko
2018 B.F.A. in Creative Writing, School of Media Arts, Seoul Institute of the Arts
　　Completed coursework under the guidance of HAN Kang, KIM Hyesoon, JEONG Yongjun, KIM Taeyong, KIM Un, LEE Won, and RYU Jiyeong (Arts and Humanities) (alphabetical order)

Work Experience
2025 Guest Curator, The 19th Busan International Video Art Festival, Busan, Korea
2022 Assistant curator, Gangneung International Art Festival 2022, Gangneung, South Korea
2020 Exhibition coordinator, Busan Biennale 2020, Busan, South Korea
2019 Research assistant, The comprehensive plan for Tongyeong Triennale 2022, Tongyeong, South Korea
2017 Intern, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Gyeong-gi, South Korea
etc.

Independent Curatorial Work
2025 Curator, Rice Brewing Sisters Club workshop, Slippery Squishy Splash (ぬるり ぷにぷに ぽちゃん/ 미끄덕 말랑말랑 풍덩), THE BASES, Tokyo, Japan & Space Dot(Totatoga), Busan, Korea
2024 Director, the ghost project “100 monogatari (現代百物語)”, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Curator, Kitchen across the Ocean: SIKGU, OVERGROUND, Fukuoka, Japan
2022 Co-curator, Virtual Bodies: Absence/Presence in Media, Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Curator, !Two Weeks Notice! ーOn the Verge of Evictionー, Ansan Olympic Town, Ansan, South Korea
etc.

Research
2024 Master’s Thesis “Coexisting: Communal Representations of Death in the Works of Women Artists — Focusing on MARUKI Toshi and LEE Bul” (Tokyo University of the Arts: Graduate School of Global Arts, Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices:2024),
　　Advisor: SUMITOMO Fumihiko
　　Sub-Advisor: SHIMIZU Tomoko, WASHIDA Meruro (alphabetical order)
　　Guest Commentator: UENO Chizuko

Conference Presentations
2025 “Chaotic Times and the Female Body: Shamanism and Dystopia in the Art of Lee Bul” at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Conference 2025, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand (2025.7.23–25)
2024 “Representations of Shamanism in the Works of Lee Bul” at the Association for Studies of Culture and
Representation Online Research Forum 2024, Online, Japan (2024.11.23.)
2024 “Life and Death, and the Ethics of Care in the Works of BuBu de la Madeleine: On the Representation of the Mermaid”
at the Cultural Typhoon 2024 KOBE, Kobe, Japan (2024.9.22.)

Translation and Interpretation (KR, JP)
2025 Aomori Museum of Art (Aomori, Japan) ー Jeju Museum of Art (Jeju, Korea), JP↔KR interpretation for exchange exhibition
2025 Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan) ー National Asia Culture Center (Gwangju, Korea), JP↔KR Interpretation, Learning program Six Steps
2025 Jeju ーTokyo, JP↔KR interpretation for Field trip reserch Toward an Aesthetics of Inquiry: Social Art, Politics, and Collaborative Practices in the Digital Media Age
2024 The Pulsing of Myitkyina by TOMIYAMA Ichiro, JP→KR translation , Chan Sook Choi Pushed Away and Leaking Out (Arts Council Korea 2022- 2023 Artist Research-Study-Critique)
2024 East Asia Photography Exchange Program: Tokyo Photographic Research ー FF Seoul, JP↔KR Interpreter (Regular)
2023 20th Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS2023), Asia Forum, Non-Syntax Experimental Image SISA 視差, JP→KR translation
2023 F/W Fashion KODE, KR↔JP Business interpreter
2023 YUNI YOSHIDA WORKS 2007-2019 (Gas As Interface Co.,Ltd.), JP→KR, PR translation & distribution (Korea release)
2023 EASTEAST TOKYO 2023, JP→KR translation
2022 Busan Biennale 2022 WE, ON THE RISING WAVE, BUOYS, “Korea strait/Genkai Sea” and “Enemy’s House” by TOMII Masanori, JP→KR translation
etc.

Grants, Fellowships, etc.
2025 Hirose International Scholarship
2024 Hirose International Scholarship
2024 Art in Culture 2024 February issue – Special Features “New Face 31 from World – Young Powers 31”
2023 The Korean Scholarship
2022 The Korean Scholarship 
2021 Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) Scholarship