Education
Princeton University. University of California, Berkeley.
Princeton University. University of California, Berkeley.
Her work focuses on contemporary art, land art and site-specific art She has curated several exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and most recently she co-curated the exhibition Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles with Philipp Kaiser. She began her position in the Art History Department at University of California, Los Angeles in 1998, where she currently maintains her tenure as the department chairman
Kwon was born in South of Korea in 1961, and at age ten migrated to the United States, where her father was employed as a foreign correspondent for a Korean newspaper.
She graduated from University of California Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and a Master of Arts in Photography, and the went on to Princeton University to complete a Doctor of Philosophy in Architectural History and Theory in 1998.