Miwon Kwon is trained in architecture\, holds a MA in photography\, and has extensive curatorial experience from her tenure at th e Whitney Museum of American Art in the early 1990s. She received her PhD i n Architectural History and Theory at Princeton University in 1998\, the sa me year in which she joined the faculty at UCLA to teach contemporary art h istory (post-1945).
Her research and writings have engaged several di sciplines including contemporary art\, architecture\, public art\, and urba n studies. She was a founding co-editor and publisher of Documents\, a journal of art\, culture\, and criticism (1992-2004)\, and serves on t he advisory board of October magazine. She is the author of One Place A fter Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity (MIT Press\, 2 002)\, as well as lengthy essays on the work of many contemporary artists\, such as Francis Alÿs\, Michael Asher\, Cai Guo-Qiang\, Jimmie Durham\, Fel ix Gonzalez-Torres\, Christian Marclay\, Ana Mendieta\, Josiah McElheny\, C hristian Philipp Müller\, Gabriel Orozco\, Jorge Pardo\, Richard Serra\, an d Do Ho Suh\, among others.
She is currently preparing an essay on th e public projects of Barbara Kruger for Rizzoli Publications and is co-orga nizing a major historical exhibition entitled “Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1977” with co-curator Philipp Kaiser to be presented at the Mus eum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2012.
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