J.P. Park is an assistant professor in Department of the History of Art, Univeristy of California, Riverside.

J.P. Park’s research interests touch upon a wide spectrum of art historical materials ranging from ancient tombs in North Korea to contemporary art in China. His first book, Art by the Book: Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China (University of Washington Press, 2012) discusses how the genre of “how-to-paint” books can be productively examined as a key element in the larger cultural matrix of the early modern China, not only in terms of the knowledge and practice of art, but also as a register of social changes, gender issues, fashion, leisure, and conflicts of taste. He has also authored an exhibition catalogue, Keeping It Real: Korean Artists in the Age of Multi-Media Representation, wherein he tries to expose the limitations of current modes of globalization in contemporary art and illuminates the concept of “post- globalism” as an alternative channel of historical analysis. He has also published multiple articles on contemporary East Asian art, Chinese print culture, and Chinese literary criticism. He is currently finishing up another manuscript project titled, A New Middle Kingdom: Chinese Art and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1650–1850).

Education

2000 B.A., Seoul National University

2002 M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2005 Graduate Research Student, Peking University

2007 Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor