For seventeen years, I have followed art through the places where it actually lives.

Auction rooms before the bidding begins. Crates being opened in storage facilities. Biennales after the crowds have gone home. Collectors’ apartments, private archives, hotel rooms, dinner tables, conversations that continue long after the exhibition closes.

My work has taken me across Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Africa, Switzerland, and elsewhere—not simply looking at art, but trying to understand what happens to it as it moves: between people, places, institutions, markets, memories, and generations.

I came to this work through an interest in art, but also through a curiosity about everything around the artwork. Who decides what is worth keeping? Why does one object become a masterpiece while another disappears? What happens when an artwork crosses a border? What do collectors remember that museums forget? And what stories survive only because someone chose to hold on to them?

After a BA in Political Science and International Relations at Yonsei University and an MA in Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, I completed a certificate in Arts Management at NYU before earning an MPhil/PhD in Humanities at HKUST as a Hong Kong PhD Fellow.

My doctoral research examined collecting in contemporary East Asia, asking what becomes visible when we stop treating Western collecting models as universal and instead look closely at how art, status, identity, and cultural memory are negotiated in this part of the world. But the questions kept moving.

A postdoctoral fellowship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University brought me further into the intersections of art, fashion, material culture, and cultural mobility.

Today, I work across research, archives, collecting, and cultural projects—following the stories that sit between the official histories.

I am particularly interested in things that are still moving: an archive waiting to be opened, a collection whose story has never been told, an artist who slipped between categories, a photograph that changes what we thought we knew.

If you have a project, an archive, a collection, a question—or simply an idea that has not found its shape yet—I would love to hear from you.