• BA in Art History, Illinois State University
• MA & Ph.D. in Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Former Assistant Professor of Department of Painting, Sookmyung Women’s University
• Professor of the College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University

Major publications

Three Western Ladies in Chosun: Truth Confined by the Eyes, Politics of Gazing: Suh Yong-sun’s Art Works, Chang Ucchin, Catalogue Raisonné: Oil Painting, Modern Western Art History, 1870-1945