Oh Soon-Hwa

Soonhwa's research interests include Photography in Real and Virtual Space, 360 Immersive Experiences, Creativity and Art in Higher Education, Sociology of Art, Visual Ethnography, Photo Archives, and Critical Art and Design Practices Soonhwa is a photographer, curator, and instructor in the School of Art, Design & Media's photography and digital imaging department. She earned a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts and a doctorate in education from Columbia University in New York. She has participated about 100 international exhibitions, including the Asian Art Museum in Nice, France, the Noorderlicht Photo Festival in the Netherlands, the Lucca Photo Festival in Italy, the Pingyao International Photo Festival in China, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham, the Houston FotoFest, the Pochon biennale, the Ssamzi Art Space in Korea, the Asian American Art Center, and the Society for Contemporary Photographic Art. Her curatorial endeavors comprise shows at the National Museum of Singapore and the Pingyao International Photography Festival. She has received fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Korea Arts Council, the Aaron Siskind Memorial Scholarship, and the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries. She is a member of numerous academic groups and serves on the editorial board and as a reviewer for the Photographies Journal, published by Routledge in the United Kingdom. Contemporary Issues in Photography, Documentary Projects, Narrative Portraits, Traditional wet darkroom, Digital photography, Thinking Photography, and Artist and Art World are among the courses she teaches.