Curator’s Choice Lecture | Tradition and Innovation: Contemporary Korean Ceramics

Join Assistant Curator of Korean Art Yoon-Jee Choi for a special curator lecture offering a rare chance to explore contemporary Korean ceramics from the museum’s collection. This program will highlight the works of four prominent 20th-century artists, each carrying forward a distinct creative lineage. Through their innovative approaches, we’ll discover how Korea’s rich legacy of ceramics production continues to inspire and evolve today. 

5:30 | Lecture and Q&A 
6:30 | Koret Korea Gallery exploration with Yoon-Jee Choi 

• About Yoon-Jee Choi

  Yoon-Jee Choi recently joined the Asian Art Museum – Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art & Culture as the Assistant Curator for Korean Art. Before joining the University of Chicago Ph.D. program in 2018, she studied Korean art history at Ewha Womans University and interned for the National Museum of Korea. While she serves as a specialist in Korean art at the Asian Art Museum, her larger body of research focuses on the art historical exchange among Northeast Asian countries during the early modern era, especially on the 19th-to-early-20th-century cultural interactions and exchanges between Korea and Japan. She is set to complete a Ph.D. examining the industrialization and modernization of the craft industry in Northeast Asia.

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Image: Selection of works from the exhibition Tradition and Innovation: Contemporary Korean Ceramics, on view May 8, 2025–Dec 1, 2025, at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Photo by Kevin Candland, © Asian Art Museum.