Patricia Kim

Patricia Eunji Kim’s research, curatorial practice, and teaching explore questions of gender, race, power, and memory in antiquity and the present. Her current monograph project is the first book-length study on the visual and material culture of Hellenistic queenship from the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia and 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. Her second monograph examines the art and ritual of weaponry in the ancient world. Dr. Kim also brings her perspectives as an art historian to bear on today’s most pressing social, cultural, and political issues. Among other topics, 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) and The National Monument Audit (Monument Lab, 2021). Committed to public access and engagement, Dr. Kim has experimented with research and curatorial 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 experience 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-); Shaping the Past (2021-22); and Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters (2022-).