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Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is a historian of modern and contemporary art (PhD, Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, 2007). He is the author of several books, including Painted Men in Britain (Ashgate 2012; Routledge 2016) and Male Bodies Unmade (University of California Press, 2023). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in leading scholarly journals including Art History and positions: asia critique.

Kim’s research encompasses, in the area of pre-1960: John Singer Sargent, Frederic Leighton, Henry Scott Tuke, Aubrey Beardsley, William Nicholson, Walter Sickert, and Jean Cocteau; and post-1960: Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Robert Gober, Young-joo Byun, Kenneth Tam, and Andrew Ahn.

His work has been supported by the Clark Art Institute (deferred to 2026); the Fund for Research and Creativity Grant, the Center for the Arts in Society, and the Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University; the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and the Yale Center for British Art, among other institutions.