DORYUN CHONG HIRED BY MOMA AS ASSOCIATE CURATOR

Walker Art Center associate curator Doryun Chong has been hired by the Museum of Modern Art as associate curator of painting and sculpture, reports the Minneapolis Star-Tribune_. Chong has organized or cocurated five shows at the Walker since his arrival in 2003, including retrospectives of Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo and Chinese sculptor Huang Yong Ping. Walker chief curator Darsie Alexander praised him for his original research and introduction of “groundbreaking artwork.”

A 1997 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Chong previously worked at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and had projects for the Korean pavilion at the 2001 Venice Biennale and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in 2003. A frequent lecturer and competition judge, he cocurated the 2006 Busan Biennale in Busan, South Korea. Chong will start his New York job in June.