Suhyun Choi

Suhyun Choi is a PhD candidate specializing in modern art, with an interest in the issues of postcoloniality, decolonization, and gender. Her dissertation project examines the intersection of socialist internationalism, decolonial worldmaking, and artistic production and circulation in and beyond postwar Korea. 

Suhyun’s doctoral research has been supported by various institutions, including the Ilju Academy and Culture Foundation, Hoover Institution Library and Archives, University of Maryland Libraries/Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art. Most recently, she was awarded the Fellowship for Research on Japanese Art from the Ishibashi Foundation and Japan Foundation for her dissertation project. She was also the recipient of the 2024 Core Preceptor Award for Excellence in Teaching from Columbia’s Core Curriculum and the 2019 Chino Kaori Memorial Essay Prize from the Japan Art History Forum. 

Suhyun previously received a BA in English Literature, Art History, and Aesthetics from Seoul National University and an MA in Art History from the University of British Columbia. Prior to coming to Columbia, she was a curatorial assistant at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, where she continues to work as a project-based translator.