National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Appoints Kim In-hye as Head of Curatorial Research Office

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA, Director Kim Seong-hee) announced on the 12th that Kim In-hye has been appointed as the new Chief Curator.

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA, Director Kim Sung-hee) has appointed Kim In-hye as the new Chief Curator.
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This appointment was made through an open recruitment and selection process. The term of the new Chief Curator is two years.

Kim In-hye, the newly appointed Chief Curator, majored in Art History at Seoul National University’s Department of Archaeology and Art History. She earned her master's degree with a thesis on 19th-century German Romanticism and received her doctorate for research on the 1930s Chinese woodblock print movement. From September 2002 to June 2023, she worked for about 20 years at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art as a curator and senior curator, undertaking various tasks including exhibition planning, collection and archive acquisition, preparation for the opening of the Seoul branch, and research and exhibitions on modern art.

From September 2017 to June 2023, she oversaw the Deoksugung branch programs, delivering outstanding exhibition planning, and was recognized for her contributions with awards such as the Monthly Art Award (2022) and the Jeong Jin-gi Press and Culture Award (2023).

The position of Chief Curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art had been operated under a long-term acting system for over two years since the previous curator’s term expired in May 2022, as no successor had been appointed.