Research Keywords • Education • Media Appearances • Work Experience • Curatorial Work • Talks & Public Programs • Academic Papers • Academic Conference Presentations • Translation and Interpretation (Japanese ↔ Korean)
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阿嬤家-和平與女性人權館, Taipei, Taiwan (2023)
Cho Hyesu
b.1993
Raised in Busan, South Korea.
Currently in Tokyo, Japan.
Research Keywords
- Feminist and decolonial art practice
- Posthumanism, ritual, and care
- Body, vulnerability, and representation
- Memory, mourning, and spectral narratives
- East Asian contemporary art and transnational exchange
Education
2024– Ph.D student
in Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices (Research),
Graduate School of Global Arts,
Tokyo University of the Arts (Supervisor: SHIMIZU Tomoko)
2024 M.A.
in Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices (Curation),
Graduate School of Global Arts,
Tokyo University of the Arts (Supervisor: SUMITOMO Fumihiko)
2018 B.F.A. in Creative Writing,
School of Media Arts, Seoul Institute of the Arts
(Professors During Undergraduate Studies: HAN Kang, KIM Hyesoon, JEONG Yongjun, KIM Taeyong, KIM Un, LEE Won. Supervisor: RYU Jiyeong)
Media Appearances
2024 Interview, Iron Velvet Gallery, New York, USA
“Curators in Conversation: Sumitomo Fumihiko & Cho Hyesu”
2024 Art in Culture, 2024 February issue. Korea.
Special Features “New Face 31 from World – Young Powers 31”
2023 Radio Appearance “OUR CULTURE, OUR VIEW” #288, LOVE FM (Fukuoka), Japan
Feature on Kitchen across the Ocean: SIKGU
Selected Work Experiences
2025 Guest Curator,
The 19th Busan International Video Art Festival, Busan, Korea
2022 Assistant curator,
Gangneung International Art Festival 2022, Gangneung, Korea
2020 Exhibition coordinator,
Busan Biennale 2020, Busan, Korea
2019 Research assistant,
The comprehensive plan for Tongyeong Triennale 2022, Korea
Independent Curatorial Works
2025 Curator, Workshops
with Rice Brewing Sisters Club workshop & Living with Slow Disaster
Slippery Squishy Splash (ぬるり ぷにぷに ぽちゃん/ 미끄덕 말랑말랑 풍덩),
THE BASES(Tokyo, Japan) & Space Dot(Busan, Korea)
2024 Director, the ghost project “100 monogatari (現代百物語)”, 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, Korea
Talks & Public Programs
2025 Invited Talk,
“The River That Holds Names: Zainichi Koreans and Witnessing Landscapes”
Yoon Hyejung’s solo exhibition Where Water Remembers,
Forever Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2025 Public Lecture, “Japanese Art History through Keywords”
International exchange exhibition Dialogue of Wind and Forest,
Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
2025 Invited Talk, “Neither Lion, Nor Dog, Nor Human”
Park Hyun-jin’s solo exhibition
Open Space BAE, Busan, Korea
2025 Official Docent, VIP Preview, Guided tours in English and Japanese
Tokyo Gendai, Japan
2024 Special Public Lecture
“Performance Art and Personal Narratives: The Chain Project and Archiving”
Guest: koldsleep
Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
2024 Symposium Presentation
“The Ghost Project: 100 monogatari and 100 kiyakou”
Art and Gender: From the Perspective of Care,
Tokyo University of the Arts
Academic Papers
2026 “Shaman, Cyborg, Utopia: Reconstructing Lee Bul’s Shamanic Cosmology“,
GA Journal, vol. 7, 2026. (Japanese, forthcoming)
2025 “The Naked Other and the Dead:
Death as an Expression of Vulnerability
in Toshiko Maruki’s Nude Representations.”
The Annual Review of Cultural Studies, no. 13, 2025,
pp. 177–195. (Japanese)
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 (Japanese)
(Advisor: SUMITOMO Fumihiko;
Sub-Advisor: SHIMIZU Tomoko, WASHIDA Meruro
; Guest Commentator: UENO Chizuko)
Academic 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, 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 (Japanese ↔ Korean)
2026 Yokohama Museum of Art (Japan) ｘ MMCA (Korea)
Symposium Catalog (Translation) for the exhibition
2026 National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea) ｘ The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan)
Director-to-Director Museum Visits (Interpretation)
2025 Aomori Museum of Art (Japan) ｘ Jeju Museum of Art (Korea)
Exhibition Catalog (Translation Review)
Executive-Level Museum Meetings (Interpretation)
2025 Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan) ｘ National Asia Culture Center (Korea)
Learning program Six Steps (Interpretation)
2025 Research Field Visit for Senior Scholars (Coordination & Interpretation)
“Toward an Aesthetics of Inquiry: Social Art, Politics,
and Collaborative Practices in the Digital Media Age.”
2024 Chan Sook Choi Pushed Away and Leaking Out
(Arts Council Korea 2022-2023 Artist Research-Study-Critique)
The Pulsing of Myitkyina by TOMIYAMA Ichiro (Translation)
2024 East Asia Photography Exchange Program:
Tokyo Photographic Research ｘ FF Seoul (Regular Interpretation)
2023 20th Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS2023),
Asia Forum, Non-Syntax Experimental Image SISA 視差 (Translation)
2023 F/W Fashion KODE, Business interpreter
2023 YUNI YOSHIDA WORKS 2007-2019 (Gas As Interface Co.,Ltd.)
PR translation & distribution (Korea release)
2023 EASTEAST TOKYO 2023 (Translation)
2022 Busan Biennale 2022 WE, ON THE RISING WAVE, BUOYS,
“Korea strait/Genkai Sea” and “Enemy’s House”
by TOMII Masanori (Translation)
Cho Hyesu 조혜수 チョ・ヘス 