Kyoo Lee and Jason Rosenfeld appointed to AICA-USA Board
Please join us in welcoming two new additions to AICA-USA’s board: Kyoo Lee and Jason Rosenfeld. Each brings a wealth of experience and connections to AICA-USA’s operations, and we’re excited to have them on our team as we look forward to an exciting year.
Kyoo Lee
Kyoo Lee aka Q, Professor of Philosophy at CUNY and the Editor of philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism, is a philosopher, writer, and curator trained in literary, visual and architectural theories as well as mathematical logic and phenomenology.
A peripatetic researcher working across academic and artistic venues, Q's philopoetic work explores co-generative links between critical theory, creative prose, and curatorial practice. Her first book Reading Descartes Otherwise (2012) and a forthcoming book on visual philopoetics, both, expand on such other cues in otherness, often retrofuturally lodged in polyphonic texts such as Queenzenglish.mp3 (2021) she edited, a collaborative metatext by over fifty poets, musicians, theorists and performance artists from across the globe.
Polysemic Q's writings on visual, literary, and performance art have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Jacket2, PN Review, Randian, Spittoon, The Volta, and The White Review, among others, and her faculty fellowships, public intellections, and curatorial projects have been supported by Arts Council Korea, Cambridge University, CUNY Graduate Center, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, the Mellon Foundation, Microclima, Museo d'Arte Orientale, the NEH, Queens Museum, Seoul National University, and The Venice Biennale (the Korean Pavilion), among others.
The founding curator of the ESTUAR Series (2023- collab with Microclima) in Venice where “water meets water,” in recent years she has served as the guest curator at Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin (The Rabbit Inhabits the Moon, 2024-5); the international adviser, artistic collaborator and media presenter at the 30th anniversary exhibition on the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale, 1995-2024 (Every Island is a Mountain by ARKO, 2024); the editorial manager for the Korean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (Gyre by Yunchul Kim, 2022).
Q also serves on the boards of both Belladonna* and Litmus Press, NYC-based avant-garde literary presses, and in 2022, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) established 'The Kyoo "Q" Lee Prize for Best Paper on LGBTQ Issues in Philosophy' with a view to promoting genre-bending, q-positive, innovative work among emerging scholars.
Jason Rosenfeld
Jason Rosenfeld is Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, who received his A.B. from Duke University and M.A. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Since 2015 he has been Senior Writer and Editor-at-Large at The Brooklyn Rail where he writes widely about contemporary art and museum exhibitions. He is the co-author of the monograph on Cecily Brown published by Phaidon Press, Ltd. (2020). He was co-curator of the exhibition River Crossings at Cedar Grove, the Thomas Cole National Historical Site, in Catskill, New York, and Olana, in Hudson, New York (2015); Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde at Tate Britain, London, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, the Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, and the Palazzo Chiablese, Turin (2012–14); and John Everett Millais at Tate Britain, the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, and the Bunkamura Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2007–08). He is the author of John Everett Millais (Phaidon, 2012), and a monograph on Shahzia Sikander (Lund Humphries Press, 2025), and has written criticism for Art in America, ARTNews, ArtNet, The Burlington, Apollo, and many academic journals. His current projects include a monograph on Andy Goldsworthy and an international exhibition in 2029 celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of John Everett Millais.
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