Eana Kim
Visiting Assistant Professor
Biography
Dr. Eana Kim specializes in the intersections of contemporary art, technology, and science. She is currently working on a book based on her dissertation, “Becomings: Life Forms in the Contemporary Works of Pierre Huyghe and Anicka Yi,” which examines more-than-human agencies and hybrid morphology in living organism-based contemporary art practices.
Dr. Kim has held positions at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and New York University’s Grey Art Museum, where she worked on three large-scale exhibitions, Jack Whitten: The Messenger (forthcoming March 2025), Signals: How Video Transformed the World (Spring 2023), and Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962 (Spring 2024). Prior to Pratt, she taught undergraduate courses at New York University’s Department of Art History and the College Core Curriculum. She holds both Ph.D. and M.A. from the IFA and a B.F.A. with highest honors from Hongik University in South Korea.
Education
Ph.D. History of Art and Archaeology, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
M.A. History of Art and Archaeology, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
B.F.A. Painting, Hongik University, summa cum laude