Jongwoo Jeremy Kim

“Please join the University of Houston School of Art in welcoming Art Historian Jongwoo Jeremy Kim.

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is a specialist of modern and contemporary art addressing issues concerning gender, sexuality, and race. Professor Kim is the author of Painted Men in Britain, 1868-1918 (Ashgate). In his co-edited, interdisciplinary anthology Queer Difficulty in Art and Poetry (Routledge), Kim discusses Robert Gober and anti-patriarchal temporality. Currently, he is completing his next book, Male Bodies Unmade: Picturing Queer Selfhood, which explores narratives of subjectivity formation and corporeal incoherence in the works by Aubrey Beardsley, Jean Cocteau, Francis Bacon, Robert Gober, David Hockney, and Andrew Ahn.

Join us Friday April 30th via Zoom and YouTube. All events in the series are free. Check our website for more information.”