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Kwon Jin

권진

Kwon Jin is a contemporary art researcher and curator and currently works as the project director of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale at the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). He has been at the SeMA since 2016 after working at ARKO Art Center and the 4th Anyang Public Art Project (APAP), where he curated Ahn Sang-soo’s solo exhibition Nalgae.pati (2017), Latin American Contemporary Art Exhibition Work for the Future Past (2017–2018), Middle Eastern Contemporary Art Exhibition gohyang: home (2019–2020), and Lee Bul’s solo exhibition LEE BUL—Beginning (2021) and compiled the accompanying book. His major works include “The Allegory of ‘Beginning’” (LEE BUL—Beginning, Seoul Museum of Art; BB&M; MediaBus; BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, 2021) and “Garden and mountain going too, as we slowly walk” (Kang Seung Lee, Gallery Hyundai, 2024).

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Yamamoto Riken

Riken Yamamoto, born 1945 in Beijing, China is a Japanese architect. In 2024, he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered to be the most prestigious award in architecture, becoming the 9th Japanese architect to receive such honor.
Lee Kyu-won

She majored in Japanese at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. She has worked as an editor for many years, organizing books in various fields including science, humanities, and history. She is currently working as a professional translator. He has translated Miyuki Miyabe’s Reason , Seicho Matsumoto’s Masterpiece Short Story Collection , Alaska, A Story Like the Wind , Tadao Ando’s I, Architect , and more than 80 other books.
Jan Middendorp

Jan Middendorp is an author, researcher, and designer living in Berlin. He has edited and written books and articles about typography, design and the performing arts; designed printed matter for publishers and non-profit organizations; worked as a consultant and editor to the type world.
Cynthia Busic-Snyder

Cynthia Busic-Snyder was born in central Ohio, where she was raised with two brothers by depression-era working class parents. She studied Visual Communication Design in the Department of Industrial Design at the Ohio State University where she developed an interest in both practicing and teaching graphic design. After working as a graphic designer and art director (identity, point of purchase, signage systems and print for both retail and business to business clients internationally) she …
ARTIST PROOF

‘Artist Proof’ is a print & design label run by an artist, Kyungjoo Choi. The artist, working based in Seoul, embodies multi-layered inner structures in layers of overlapped colours and refined symbols. By experimenting with images she created and crossing the boundaries of art genres, ‘Artist Proof’ has done various projects such as producing items, holding exhibitions, and collaborative art projects.
Lu Jingren

Prof. Lu Jingren is a book designer and illustrator. During the 1990s, he studied under Prof. Kohei Sugiura (杉浦康平) in Japan. In 1998 he established the Jingren Art Design Studio. He was senior art editor of the China Youth Publishing House. He is now a professor of the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University and a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). Prof. Lu has received many book design awards at home and overseas, including the World’s Most Beautiful Book award …
Gang Yeong-ok

She studied at Duksung Women’s University, Department of German and Literature, and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation. She has worked as a translator at various organizations and taught math to students. Currently, she works as a publication planner and professional translator at the translation agency Enterkorea. Her books include Great Myths of Aging , Nett ist die kleine Schwester von Scheiße , and Schrödinger’s Cat: Fifty Experiments …
Chung Dah-young

Chung Dah-young is a curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, specializing in architecture and design exhibitions and writing. She has curated significant exhibitions, including Diary of Drawings: Chong Ki-yong Architecture Archive (2013), Itami Jun: Sculpting the Wind (2014), Experiments of Architopia (2015), Paper and Concrete: Korean Modern Architecture Movements 1987–1997 (2017), Kim Chung-up: Dialogue (2018), The Olympic Effect: Korean Architecture and Design of the …
Moon Ju-hwa

Film critic. Debuted through the 2024 Cine21 Film Criticism Award and began working as a critic. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Department of Art, Culture, and Film Studies at Pusan National University, conducting research on the representation of history in contemporary cinema. Has worked with institutions such as the Art Sonje Center, Gwangju Biennale, Busan Biennale, and Busan International Film Festival, participating in numerous exhibitions and projects.
Takaoka Masao

Born in Tokyo in 1957, Mr. Takaoka is the President of Kazui Kobo, a limited company. After graduating from Kokugakuin University’s Law Department, he joined his father, Takaoka Juzo’s company, Kazui Kobo, and has been in his current position since 1995.He learned Latin alphabet typesetting and typography from his father. From 1999-2001, he served as an advisor to printing museums and workshops and gave lectures and talks on Latin alphabet typesetting, typography, and corporate …
Cheon Sang-hyun

Graduated from the Department of Visual Communication Design at Hongik University, he is an editorial designer and picture book planner. Currently, he is the head of Sang Publishing, a publishing house specializing in creative picture books. From 2008 to 2011, he published 《Picture Book Imagination》, Korea’s first magazine dedicated to picture books. He has been involved in planning and organizing the CJ Picture Book Festival, an international picture book exhibition linked to the CJ Picture …
Martin Salisbury

He is a professor in the Illustration department at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK, striving to raise awareness of the artistry of picture book and children’s book illustrators. His published works include Play Pen and Illustrating Children’s Books , among others.

Kwon Jin

권진

Yamamoto Riken

Lee Kyu-won

Jan Middendorp

Cynthia Busic-Snyder

ARTIST PROOF

Lu Jingren

Gang Yeong-ok

Chung Dah-young

Moon Ju-hwa

Takaoka Masao

Cheon Sang-hyun

Martin Salisbury