Kim Youngna is a professor of Art History at Seoul National University, where she also serves as the Director of the Seoul National University Museum. Dr. Kim received a B.A. from Muhlenberg College and her M.A. and Ph.D. form Ohio State University. Although formally educated in Western modern art, she has written extensively on Korean modern and contemporary art. Her publications comprise several books and many articles, which include: The Art of the Twentieth Century Korea (1998, in Korean), “Yi In-song’s Local Colors: Nationalism or Colonialism?” (Oriental Arts, XLVI, 2000), “Artistic Trends in Korean Painting during the 1930s” (War, Occupation and Creativity, University of Hawaii Press, 2001), “The Meories of the War: Korean War Veterans Memorial in National Maill, Washington, D.c” (Association of Western Art History, 2002, in Korean). She has also curated several exhibitions, including “Artists on Journey” and “Scenes of Early Modern Korea: Through the Looking Glass” at the Seoul National University Museum and “Picasso Prints: His Love” at Samsung Museum.