Soyang Park

spark@ocadu.ca
Associate Professor, Tenured
Faculty of Arts & Science
CONTEMPORARY ART AND VISUAL CULTURE Studies
CRITICAL THEORY
EAST ASIAN CULTURE AND ARTS
Art of MEMORY and TRAUMA
Art for Social Change
GENDER
Race
Decolonization
Postcolonial studies
TRANSCULTURALISM
POLITICS OF AFFECT
(DIS)EMBODIMENT
Cosmopolitanism
diaspora
Community

Dr Soyang Park is an Associate Professor of Arts and Science and Graduate Studies at the Ontario College of Art & Design University (OCAD U) in Toronto, Canada. Park’s research areas include contemporary art and visual culture, critical theories, East Asian cultures and arts, modern and contemporary society and arts, art of memory and trauma, art and politics, gender, sexuality, decolonization, cosmopolitanism, community, politics of affect, and embodiment.

Park’s early research focused on the study of a South Korean avant-garde art movement known as Minjung art from the 1980s and its mode of radical reframing of memory (both socio-political and cultural) for an affective social change. Park’s more recent research has focused on exploring the dynamic transformations of South Korean society, media, and culture after the 1990s democratization in relation to the issues of gender, memory, community, mediascape, and social mobilization, as well as the likes in relation to the other East Asian and Asia-Global communities.

Park completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in the science of art from Hongik University (Seoul) in 1995, a Master’s degree in the history of art (20th century) in 1999, and a Ph.D. degree in 2004 at Goldsmiths College (University of London, UK). Park was a junior research fellow at the University of Oxford (UK) from 2005 to 2006 and a joint postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Art for Society and Humanities Studies at Carnegie Mellon University (U.S.) from 2006 to 2007.