Joomi Lee

Joomi Lee is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and a participant in the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate. Her dissertation examines how monastic discipline, bodily comportment, and religious authority were visualized in Chinese Buddhist art from the seventh to the tenth centuries, with particular attention to images of monks and nuns and to the role of gender in shaping the monastic body. Prior to joining USC, she held internships at the FotoFest Biennial, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Ewha Womans University Museum, and co-curated the online exhibition Artistic Exchange between Korea and Japan, a collaborative project of Ewha Womans University and Kyushu University. She completed coursework for her MA in Art History at Ewha Womans University in South Korea and received her BA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, where she graduated with honors.

• BA Univ Texas Austin, 5/2015