Soo Yun Kang
Professor, Art History

 


EDUCATION

1990 - 1994
Ph. D. in Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Modern and Contemporary art
Dissertation: “The Iconography of Georges Rouault”

1985 - 1989
M. A. in Art History, University of California, Berkeley
Modern and Contemporary art
Thesis: “The Eclipse of American Abstract Artists”

1981 - 1985
B. A. in Art History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

EXPERIENCE

Fall 1995 -
Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art & Design, Chicago State University
Courses - Art 101: Introduction to the Visual Arts, Art 200:
Survey of Women Artists, Art 201: Introduction to Non-Western Art, Art 204: American Art, Art: 296: Ancient Art,
Art 297: Renaissance to 18th-Century Art, Art 298: Modern Art, Art 299: Independent Study, Art 302: African American Art,
Art 392: Practicum, Art 398: Advanced Independent Study

Spring 2004 -
Honors College, Faculty, Chicago State University
Course - Honors 230: The Arts and Society

Fall 2002
Adjunct Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Semester-at-Sea program
Courses - History of Art & Architecture 0020: Introduction to Asian Art, HA & A 0080: World Religious Architecture, HA & A 1400: Contemporary Art

Summer 1995
Research Assistant to the Assistant Director, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, to prepare an exhibition catalogue: A Painter’s Paradise: Artists and the California Landscape

Spring 1995
Lecturer for Art History 159BB: “Post-Impressionism”
University of California, Santa Barbara

Spring 1995
Lecturer for Art History 104: “From Renaissance to Contemporary Art,” Santa Barbara City College

Winter 1994 - 95
Intern, Department of 20th-Century Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, for the show “About Faces: 20th-Century Paintings, Sculptures and Works on Paper”

Summer 1993
Lecturer for Art History 150: “Art in the Modern World”
University of California, Santa Barbara

Spring 1991 - Spring 1993
Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Barbara: “Introduction to Western Art,” “Medieval Art” and “From Renaissance to Modern Art”

Summer 1991
Editorial Assistant to Prof. Henri Dorra to complete the final typescript for Symbolist Art Theories

Fall / Winter
Intern in the Exhibition Department, Historisches Museum, 1989 - 1990 Frankfurt, for the show “750 Jahre Frankfurter Messe”

1987 - 1988
Intern at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Spring 2005
Attended the fourth annual National AP Equity Colloquium, organized by the College Board, Houston

Fall 2005
“ The Case of Contemporary Art: Multiculturalism or
Globalization of American Art?” paper delivered at the 19th annual conference “In the Global World: American Art and Art Education,” organized by School of Visual Arts, New York

Winter 2004
“ Teaching Contemporary Art outside the Western World,” paper delivered at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu

Summer 2004
AP (Advanced Placement) Art History Reader, for tests administrated by ETS (Education Testing Service)

Spring 2001
“ Christian Iconography in the 20th Century,” panel chaired at the annual College Art Association Conference, Chicago

Spring 2001
“ Women’s Studies Symposium,” organized and chaired at Chicago State University

Fall 2001
“ Maintaining a Spiritual Core in a Material World: The
Vernacular Sources of Rouault’s Art,” paper delivered at the 15th annual conference, organized by School of Visual Arts, titled “The Arts and the Spiritual,” New York

Spring 2000
“ The Allusion to Bison in Pollock’s Art: The Native American Connection,” paper delivered at the 24th International
Symposium, sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska, titled “Bison: The Past, Present, and Future of the Great Plains,” Lincoln, Nebraska

Spring 2000
“ Redefining the Femme-Enfant: The Child Images of Surrealist Women Artists,” paper at the Sixth Annual Women’s Studies Conference titled “Women and Creativity 3: Women as Artists and Subjects,” held at Marquette University, Milwaukee

Spring 1998
“ Clowns, Prostitutes and the Poor: The Modern Saints of
Rouault,” paper at the Martin D’Arcy Gallery of Art, Loyola University, Chicago

Spring 1998
“ The Aesthetics of Crudity: The Guignol Images of Rouault,” paper at the annual meeting of the Midwest Art History Society, delivered at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Fall 1998
“ The Multicultural Education: Building an Inclusive Approach to Art History,” panel chaired at the annual conference of the Mid-America College Art Association, Lexington, Kentucky

Spring 1997
“ Mirroring of the Mind: The Art of Thomas Dewing,” paper given as one of the “Arts and Sciences Forum” series at Chicago State University

Spring 1997
“ The Representation of Women in a State of Evolution or Devolution: A Critical Examination of Dewing’s A Reading,” paper at the annual “American Culture Association Conference,” San Antonio, Texas

Fall 1996
“ Rouault’s Imaging of Prostitutes,” paper at “The International Conference on Despair and Desire in Literature and the Visual Arts,” in Atlanta, Georgia. Organized by State University of West Georgia and the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts.

Fall 1996
“ The ‘Carnival’ Aesthetics of Bakhtin and the Circus Clowns of Rouault,” paper at the annual “European Studies Conference,” organized by the University of Nebraska, Omaha

Winter 1996
“ Rouault in Perspective: The Political Dimension of His Art,” paper at the conference “Cultural and Artistic Upheavals in Modern Europe 1848-1945,” organized by the Southeastern Modernist Council, Jacksonville, Florida

Winter 1995
“ Religion and Art,” lecture series given at Goleta Presbyterian Church, Goleta, California

Spring 1994
“ The Tragic Clowns of Georges Rouault,” paper at UC Santa Barbara, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center

Spring 1991
“ Wer ist überhaupt Anna Blume?” (On Kurt Schwitters), paper at UC Santa Barbara Graduate Symposium

PUBLICATION

Co-authored with Holly Flora, Georges Rouault’s Miserere et Guerre. This Anguished World of Shadows, exh. cat., London: D Giles, 2006.

“ Don Quixote in Art,” One Score: Richard Strauss, Don Quixote, booklet published by Ravinia, Highland Park, 2005, p.17.

“ Teaching Contemporary Art outside the Western World,” 2nd Annual Hawaii International Conference Proceedings, 2004, pp. 3044-3050.

“ A Spiritual Interpretation of the Vernacular: The Literary Sources of Georges Rouault,” Logos 6:2 (Spring 2003): 109-125.

“ Tanning’s Pictograph: Repossessing Woman’s Fantasy,” Aurora 3 (2002): 89-104.

“ Christian Iconography in the 20th Century,” College Art Association Conference Abstracts, 2001, p. 183.

Rouault in Perspective: Contextual and Theoretical Study of His Art, New York: University Press of America, 2000.

“ Voicing the Postmodern Woman,” Una Kim. Recent Works, exhibition catalogue. Held at the Federation of Korean Artistic and Cultural Organization, Seoul, October 1998.

“ Rouault in Perspective: The Political Dimension of His Art,” Cummer Studies I (Fall, 1996): 189-200.

AWARDS

Fall 2003 Faculty Enrichment Grant, Chicago State University

Summer 2000 Scholar-in-Residence for Summer Program, sponsored by the Faculty Resource Network of New York University

Spring 1999 Faculty Excellence Award, CSU

Fall 1999 Faculty Enrichment Grant, CSU

Summer 1997 Scholar-in-Residence for Summer Program, sponsored by the Faculty Resource Network of New York University

Summer 1995 UC Santa Barbara Research Grant (To study popular 19th century illustrations held at the Huntington Art Gallery)

Spring 1994 UCSB Spring Quarter Dissertation Fellowship

Winter 1994 Murray Roman Art Fund

Fall 1993 Eva Heller Award

1992 - 1993 Vidda Foundation Fellowship

Fall 1992 UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Predoctoral Fellowship

SERVICE

2004 - Faculty Senate, Chicago State University

2004 - Research Cue Committee, CSU

2000 - Women’s Studies Committee, CSU (Coordinator 2000-2005)

1999 - 2000 Search Committee (co-chair), Department of Art and Design, CSU

1998 - 2005 College Curriculum Committee, CSU

1998 - 2001 Faculty Senate Library Committee, CSU

1998 - Faculty Enrichment Grant Committee, CSU

1998 - Assessment Committee, Department of Art and Design, CSU

1996 - 2000 University Curriculum Coordinating Committee, CSU

1995 - 1999 Recruitment Committee (chairperson), Department of Art and Design, CSU

1995 - 2005 Curriculum Committee, Department of Art and Design, CSU (chairperson from 1998)

1998 International Studies Council, Curriculum Committee, CSU

1995 - 1998 University Multicultural Subcommittee, Faculty Development (Recorder for 1995 - 1996), CSU