Miwon Kwon

Miwon Kwon participated in the TALK Series with a lecture which took place at Reykjavik Art Museum and was held in a special collaboration with the Iceland Design Center.

Kwon’s research and writings have engaged several disciplines including contemporary art, architecture, public art and urban studies. Trained in architecture, Miwon Kwon holds a M.A. in photography, and has extensive curatorial experience from her tenure at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the early 1990s. She received her Ph.D. in architectural history and theory from Princeton University in 1998, and joined joined the faculty at UCLA in 1997 to teach contemporary art history (post-1945). She was a founding co-editor and publisher of Documents, a journal of art, culture, and criticism (1992-2004), and serves on the advisory board of October magazine. She is the author of One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity (MIT Press, 2002), as well as lengthy essays on the work of many contemporary artists. She co-organized a major historical exhibition in 2012 entitled “Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974,” with Philipp Kaiser, which was on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and traveled to Haus der Kunst in Münich, Germany, that same year.

Recording of the lecture part 1

Recording of the lecture part 2