Meg Jackson Fox is Director of the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry and Head of Education at the Smart Museum, University of Chicago. Prior to that, she served as Curator of Interdisciplinary and Community Practices at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Jackson Fox has contributed to publications, exhibitions, and lectures nationally and internationally, and her professional life has brought her to work in a variety of cultural scenes, including Berlin, Washington D.C., London, Memphis, Sarajevo, Mexico City, Phoenix and Tucson. Jackson Fox holds a PhD in Contemporary Art and Critical Theory from the University of Arizona; an MA in Art and Museum Studies from Georgetown University, jointly convened with Sotheby’s Institute-London; and an MA in Modern European History from the University of Tennessee.

Gwon Doyeon summons fragments of memory into reality and reconstructs them into photographs, intersecting the objects that existed with the world we face now. He has held numerous solo exhibitions including Twinkle (Perigee Gallery, 2023); Nocturama (Gallery SoSo, 2022); SF (Gallery SoSo, 2020); Bukhansan (Galley Nook, 2019) and The Art of Shovel (KT&G Sangsangmadang, 2015). Gwon has also won the IL WOO Photograph Awards’ Publication Prize (2019) and the KT&G Korean Photographer’s Fellowship – Final Artist of the Year (2015), and was selected as a finalist for both the Sovereign Asian Art Prize (2021) and the British Journal of Photography’s “Ones to Watch” (2016). He has participated in the exhibitions such as International Discoveries V (FotoFest Biennial, 2015), Ones to Watch (PHotoESPAÑA, 2016), Encounter IV (Daegu Photo Biennale, 2021), and the Seoul Photo Festival (2011). Gwon’s works are collected in the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul Museum of Art, and Goeun Museum of Photography.

Dr. Kim Jeehey is an assistant professor in the art history program at the School of Art, University of Arizona. She earned a PhD in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has been publishing on Korean photography, including her first book Photography and Korea. She has been writing on vernacular photographic practices and on documentary films and visual culture in relation to the Cold War and gender politics in East Asia. At the University of Arizona, she launched a series of symposia on Asian photography with the Center for Creative Photography in the Spring of 2022. She is currently working on her second book project on funerary use of portrait photography in East Asia.

Kim Namin is a curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA). Educated in English Literature and Art History at Seoul National University (MA) and Curatorial Studies at the University of Toronto (MVS), she curated several exhibitions and public programs including Floating Hours: Moon is the Oldest Clock (traveling exhibition, Seoul; Sofia, Bulgaria; Prague; the Czech Republic, 2010), You Speak / I Dance (Toronto, 2015), Lesson ø (Seoul, 2017), Samcheongro 30 (Seoul, 2020), and What Do Museums Connect? – Museums in a Post-Pandemic World (Seoul, 2021). Kim was awarded Seoul National University Writing Prize (2006) for the sociological and historical analysis of Korean identification photography and Shinchunmunye in Art Criticism (2010). Researching, curating, and writing on modern and contemporary art and photography, she also served as a visiting scholar at New York University. Her major research areas include art and photography of Korean and Asian diaspora; art, poetics, and ethics; contemporary art, literature, and social change.

Kim Oksun studied education in college and pursued photography in graduate school. She received her doctoral degree in photography at Hongik University in 2020. Kim was selected to participate in the 2023 MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea) Residency Changdong and won awards such as the Publication Prize at the IL WOO Photograph Awards (2017); the DongGang Photography Award (2016); the Seco Photo Award (2010), and the Daum Prize (2007). She has held numerous solo exhibitions including Flatness of Things (Sungkok Art Museum, 2023), Walk the Line (Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, 2020), Berlin Portraits (Atelier Hermès Seoul, 2019), and Museum of Innocence (Goeun Museum of Photography, 2016). Kim also participated in the exhibitions such as I Know Something about Love: Asian Contemporary Photography (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2018), Visa for Thirteen (MoMA PS1, 2004), A Day for Counting Stars – The Story of You & Me (MMCA Cheongju, 2019) and Being Human—8 Scenes (Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, 2021). Kim’s works are collected in MMCA, Seoul Museum of Art, Museum Hanmi, KT&G Sangsangmadang, and Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.

Kim Youngmin is a professor of Political Science at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. He holds Ph. D. from Harvard University in the intellectual history of East Asia. His major research areas include: East Asian intellectual history and political thought, with specializations in late imperial Chinese intellectual history, Korean intellectual history, and Neo-Confucianism. Before Kim joined Seoul National University he taught East Asian thought and culture at Bryn Mawr College. His publication includes A History of Chinese Political Thought and Woman and Confucianism in Chôson Korea. He is also working as an art critic.