CURATORS

Junghyun Kim

Guest Curatorial Program (2025)

Junghyun Kim is a New York-based curator and researcher specializing in digital culture. Her
curatorial interests focus on new media rituals, cybernetics, and cultural convergence within
the rapidly changing technological landscape. She served as a curator at the Seoul Museum
of Art, and currently her curatorial works have been exhibited in Seoul, New York, and
Toronto. She participated in the International Studies and Curatorial Programs (ISCP) in New
York with support from the Doosan Yonkang Foundation and was a member of the
Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC). Kim has also been recognized by Arts Council
Korea and the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.

Through Fragility, an exhibition of lens-based works by emerging artists
Kai Oh and Juyon Lee, curated by Junghyun Kim, BAXTER ST’s 2024-25 Guest Curatorial
Recipient. The exhibition explores the concept of fragility from both material and metaphysical perspectives.

In the early history of photography, glass was essential not only as a medium for camera lenses but
also as a protective surface in framing. This connection between photography and glass continues
in the digital age, where smartphone screens serve as portals to our sensory worlds, integrating
countless images into daily life. This exhibition draws on the material lineage, considering how
glass—and fragility more broadly—resonates in contemporary image-making.

Through distinct approaches, Kai Oh and Juyon Lee come together in their reimagining of fragility
as a generative space. Their shared identities as Asian women, immigrants, artists, and thinkers
form a common layer of expression. The exhibition is informed by scholar Judith Butler’s idea that
vulnerability, rather than a condition to avoid, is inherently relational, distinctly human, and vital to
action. Recognizing human precariousness encourages ethical engagement through mutual
connection.