Jun Hey Yeon
Art Curator
A Bit About Me
Starting in 2005 as a manager of a nonprofit space in the District 798 of Dasanz, China, Jun Hye Yeon was served as the director of P.S.B Residence and C.O.L. Residence of CAN Foundation in Beijing until 2012. As a planning advisor at Beijing-based MK2 Art Space, Jun Hye Yeon was also responsible for a number of exhibitions, art festivals, and worked as an art director of exhibitions ran by state-run organizations. Currently, focusing on the experiences in China, Jun Hye Yeon is actively working as an exhibition planner in South Korea and introduces Chinese artists to international events. Since 2014, in order to correctly inform Korean history, she organized the public projects in Glendale, California regarding Japanese military sexual slavery, so called ‘Comfort Women.’ This Comfort Women Exhibition and Memorial Day for Comfort Women is organized with the City of Glendale.
EXPERIENCE
Public Art Project - 7 times
Exhibition Planning - 11 times
Residency Program - 2 times
Others - 15 times
OTHERS...
Dongduk Women's University Museum Guest Curator, Director of the International Department of Daeil Foreign Language High School Alumni Association, Member of Seongbuk Gongyu Wontak (Sharing Round-table), Art Bunker Executive, Member of Democratic Party’s New Millennium 100-year committee
Awards & Honors
2019 Certificate of Achievement, City of Glendale
2019 Certificate of Recognition, Nation Assembly Gender Equality and Family Committee Chairman
2019 Certificate of Achievement on Comfort Women Exhibition, Senator, Anthony Portantino
2019 Certificate of Achievement, Governor of Boeun District, Chungbuk
2018 Certificate of Recognition: Do the Right Thing: Comfort Women Resist, U.S. Assembly Member, Laura Friedman
2017 Certificate of Recognition on Comfort Women’s Day Event, California Orange County Supervisor Micelle Park Steel
2017 Certificate of Recognition, Los Angeles City Council Member, David Ryu
2017 Certificate of Recognition, 15th anniversary of the resolution on Comfort Women in Washington
2017 Certificate of Recognition on organizing Comfort Women Exhibition, U.S. Assembly Member, Laura Friedman
2017 Certificate of Recognition on organizing Comfort Women Exhibition, Senator, Anthony Portantino
2017 Special Achievement Award on Comfort Women Day in Glendale, WCCW, City of Glendale
2015 Certificate of Recognition on Comfort Women’s Day Event Organizing, U.S. Assembly Member, Young Kim
2014 Special Achievement Award on Comfort Women Activism, U.S. Assembly Member, Michael Honda
2014 Certificate of Recognition on Comfort Women’s Day Event Organizing, U.S. Assembly Member, Ed Royce
2014 Certificate of Recognition on Comfort Women’s Day Event Organizing, U.S. Assembly Member, Judy Chu
2014 Certificate of Achievement on Comfort Women Event Organizing, Member of the California State Board of Equalization, Michelle Steel
2014 Certificate of Achievement on Comfort Women Event, City of Glendale