Patricia Eunji Kim, PhD is an art historian, curator, and educator based in New York City. Her work examines visual and material culture to consider dynamics of gender, race, power, and memory in antiquity and the present. Her monograph, The Art of Hellenistic Queenship: Bodies of Power (Under Contract, Cambridge University Press) is the first book-length study on the visual and material culture of royal women from the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia, spanning the fourth to second centuries B.C.E.—a corpus of materials central to a show that she is guest-curating at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Dr. Kim also brings her perspectives as an art historian to bear on the most pressing social, cultural, and political issues that we face today. Among others, she has written about environmental temporalities, transnational memory cultures, and cultural heritage. Recent publications include Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), The National Monument Audit (Monument Lab, 2021), and Queens in Antiquity and the Present: Speculative Visions and Critical Histories (Bloomsbury, Forthcoming).
Committed to public access and engagement, Dr. Kim has experimented with research methods that create open knowledge communities. To that end, she has collaborated with artists, scientists, and experts in civic tech and data to develop public-facing art installations and storytelling initiatives. Her curatorial and public engagement work includes: Sex: A History in 30 Objects (2015-16); The Golden Age of King Midas (2016); Data Refuge and Data Refuge Storytelling (2016-20); Cultures in the Crossfire: Stories from Syria and Iraq (2017-18); Date/um: Ecological Temporalities Across the Schuylkill River (2016-17); Monument Lab Field Trip (2020, 2022); Shaping the Past (2021-22); Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters (2022, 2023-24); Slow Motion (2024-25).