Chung Hyung-Min is Professor of Art History at Seoul National University and the Director of the Seoul National University Museum of Art (MoA), which opened in June 2006. She also served as Director of Art Galleries at the Seoul Arts Center from 1999 to 2001. She is currently the President of the Korea Society of Art Theories, an organization comprised of leading university-teachers of art history, museum experts and art critics in Korea. Dr. Chung received her B.A. from wellesley College in art history (European art history) and an M.A. from the University of Michigan (Asian art history). She also studied Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph. D. form Columbia University, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation on late Joseon Dynasty painting. Recently, she has been publishing extensively on Korean and Chinese modern art.