Kyong Park is a professor at University of California, San Diego (since 2007), and the founding director of StoreFront for Art and Architecture in New York (1982-1998); a curator of the Gwangju Biennale (1997); a co-curator of The Lost Highway Expedition, a mass expedition through nine cities in the Western Balkans over 25 days; artistic director and chief curator of Anyang Public Art Project, New Communities in Open City (2010)—both in South Korea. His solo exhibitions include Kyong Park: New Silk Road at MUSAC in León, Spain (2009-10), and Imagining New Eurasia, a sequence of three research art exhibitions at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea (2015-18). He directed CiViChon projects on revival of empty villages and decaying urban centers, South Korea (2021-23), and was a co-curator of 20985: Together How? in the Korean Pavilion of Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. The Kyong Park Prize for Art, Architecture and Politics was inaugurated in 2024.