Jiwon Yu is a curator, writer, and translator mainly based in Seoul. She was the Assistant Curator of the 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2019–2021) before joining the Leeum Museum of Art (2022–2025), where she organized and curated exhibitions, including Kim Beom: How to Become a Rock and Art Spectrum 2024: Dream Screen. Yu is a member of the art writers’ collective Yellow Pen Club (2016–) and co-director of its program and exhibition space YPC SPACE. She currently teaches as an adjunct professor at Korea National University of Arts (School of Visual Arts), Seoul National University of Science and Technology (Department of Fine Arts), and Sungkyunkwan University (College of Art).

Moving between institutional, independent, and collective frameworks, Yu’s practice explores the curatorial as a field shaped by bodies, infrastructures, and more-than-human relations. Her projects often foster South–South dialogues grounded in situated and collective forms of knowledge across Asia.

Yu maintains a writing practice that spans critical essays, speculative texts, and translations across languages, materials, and disciplines. Her work is informed by posthuman-queer-crip epistemologies, and by the tension between theoretical canons and situated knowledge, with a sustained interest in performance as social reality and artistic strategy.