New director previously served as curator at MMCA and director of Busan Museum of Art
Ki Hye-kyung, a professor at Hongik University's Graduate School of Fine Arts, has been appointed director of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Culture Minister Choi Hwi-young named Ki to the post Friday. The appointment carries a three-year term.
Ki was born in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province. She graduated from Ewha Womans University with a degree in English language and literature, then earned her master's and doctoral degrees in art history from Hongik University's graduate school, specializing in modern and contemporary Korean art history.
Ki spent about 13 years as a curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, working across the Deoksugung branch, the curatorial research division and a special task force for the Seoul branch. She later served as head of operations at the Seoul Museum of Art's Buk-Seoul branch and as director of the Busan Museum of Art.
Since 2023, she has been a professor at Hongik University's Graduate School of Fine Arts.
"The new director has broad experience spanning both museum practice and academia," Culture Minister Choi said. "I look forward to her drawing on that wealth of experience to bring the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art closer to the public and in step with the world."
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