Ph.D. Candidate
About
Doyun Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in Spanish and Latin American art history. Her research centers on the visual and material culture of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, with a particular interest in the material and ecological agency of objects within transoceanic contexts. Her dissertation focuses on the relationship between water and artistic production in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Mexico City, exploring how the transforming watery environment and infrastructure of the viceregal capital shaped the social, religious, and cultural imaginaries of different colonial subjects.
Prior to her doctoral studies, Doyun was awarded the Forsyth Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship at the University of Michigan. She also held a curatorial internship in the Department of Arts of Asia at the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her B.A. in Art History and Asian History and her M.A. in Art History from Seoul National University.
