She graduated from Seoul National University’s College of Arts and Humanities with a B.A. in English Literature and received her M.A. in Fine Arts from the same graduate school. She earned an MA in art history from the University of Chicago and a PhD in art history from the University of Iowa. She is currently a professor in the Department of Art at Kookmin University College of Art. She is the author of Korean Abstract Painting: A Formation of Korean Avant-Garde (2013), The Vestige of Resistance:Harold Rosenberg’s Action Criticism (2009), and Harold Rosenberg’s Modernism Criticism (2009), and a history book, 20th Century Contemporary Art Theory (2013). Her recent research interests include the relationship between media art and art history and criticism, and Black Mountain College as a center for progressive interdisciplinary education through the arts.