Bora Hong

Bora Hong has been involved in various art & design exhibitions as well as in public art projects working as a commissioner or art director. After graduating with an M.A. in Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hong worked for the Department of Cultural Affairs Chicago as a program coordinator for both cultural exchange program and art education program.

Currently, Hong works as the Director of Gallery FACTORY (Seoul, Korea since 2002), and the Artistic Committee of Art Fair Tokyo 2011. Hong is also the publisher of independent art magazine <versus>, a visiting lecturer of art planning and cultural policy in different universities. Recently, Bora Hong curated an exhibition <Making is Thinking as Making> for 2016 Milan Triennial as art director for Korean pavilion, an exhibition titled <Urban Gastronomy: Activating the City> at MMCA Seoul in 2017, and a public art project for PyeongChang Winter Olympics titled <Signal Light. Connected>.

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