Author: Yurim Oh

Chun Kwang Young (Korean, b.1944) is a sculptor known for his constructions made out of Korean mulberry paper. He received his BFA from Hong-Ik University in Seoul in 1968, and his MFA from Philadelphia College of Art in 1971. Early in his career, Chun focused on painting, deeply influenced by Abstract Expressionism, before switching to the creation of large-scale sculptures in the mid-1990s.

The artist has received numerous awards, and was named artist of the year by the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul in 2001. In 2009, he was awarded the Presidential Prize in the 41st Korean Culture and Art Prize by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Korea.

His works can be found in the collections of Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Seoul National University Museum of Art, the Museum Kunstwerk in Germany, the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C., the Malta National Museum, and the Busan Metropolitan Art Museum. Chun’s solo exhibition will also be showcased at the Brooklyn Museum from November 16 to July 2019. He currently lives and works in South Korea.

New York-based Gallery Director Susan McCaffrey has over twenty years of experience in the international contemporary art market. During her fifteen years at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, McCaffrey has mounted hundreds of exhibitions and supervised installations in museums, cultural venues, commercial spaces, government embassies and private residences around the world.

As the director of Sundaram Tagore’s two New York galleries, McCaffrey is responsible for shaping the gallery’s exhibition program, which mounts an average of ten shows a year, along with a rigorous international art fair calendar. Notable exhibitions include a recent solo show with Korean artist Chun Kwang Young, acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado and numerous group invitational shows featuring work by established artists from Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. McCaffrey was also the senior art consultant for Frontiers Reimagined, a Collateral Event of the Venice Biennale, organized by Sundaram Tagore in 2015.

In her role as Gallery Director, McCaffrey has been responsible for ascertaining new talent to bring into the gallery, such as Japanese artist Miya Ando, whose work was recently on view at the Noguchi Museum, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and ArtPrize recipient, Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha.

Over the years, McCaffrey has been instrumental in developing the careers of the gallery’s artists, including working in collaboration on site-specific installations and placing photography, paintings and sculpture in significant private and public collections across the globe. In 2017, McCaffrey served on the fundraising committee for the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP).

McCaffrey lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter.