Soyoon Ryu

PhD Candidate

Areas of interest: East and Southeast Asian art, art’s engagement with the natural and built environment, collectivism, rurality and regionalism in art, environmental art history, cultural space management.

Soyoon Ryu is a PhD candidate in the History of Art specializing in contemporary East and Southeast Asian art. Titled “We Live Here, Now: Rural Collectivity in East and Southeast Asian Art, 1972-1992,” her dissertation documents histories of artist groups that departed from metropoles, self-organized, and forged a connection between land and the environmental and socioeconomic conditions of artistic production. Her research has been supported by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art, the Mellon Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Scholars (ACLS) among others.