Jongwoo Jeremy Kim

Gould Foundation Fellow

Fall 2026-2027

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is professor of Critical Studies in the School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is an art historian drawn to visual fantasies of misaligned selfhood. His books include Painted Men in Britain (Routledge, 2012) and Male Bodies Unmade (University of California Press, 2023). He coauthored Queer Difficulty (Routledge, 2017) and Cowboy (Rizzoli Electa, 2024). Kim’s approach is enriched by his own experience as an immigrant, which nurtures his teaching as well. At the Clark, Kim will work on his new book, Korean Accent, Asian Accent: Picturing Queer Selfhood Across the Pacific. Using his autobiography as an analytical framework, he will reexamine art that Koreans and Asian Americans have made in order to reckon with what it means to picture queer selfhood—and sustain a creative practice—in the history of contemporary art.