BG Muhn started his art career after receiving a bachelor s from California College of the Arts and a master s from the University of Maryland-College Park. Eight years after arriving in the U.S., he beat out hundreds of competitors to gain a professorship at the Department of Art and Art History of Georgetown University, where he is now a tenured professor. As an artist, Muhn has held solo exhibitions at Stux Gallery in Chelsea, New York, Gallery Scape and Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul, and American University Museum in Washington, D.C. His works have been reviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Art in America and he has been interviewed by CNN. His works are displayed at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) and Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). Intrigued by Pyongyang art since 2011, Muhn has embarked on a new challenge as an artist. Contemporary North Korean Art: The Evolution of Socialist Realism (June 18-August 14, 2015), an exhibition he curated for American University Museum in Washington, D.C., in 2016, drew major attention from the American media. He was also selected to curate the exhibition North Korean Art: Paradoxical Realism at the 2018 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, preparing to introduce North Korean art focused on collaborative painting. He has traveled to the North Korean capital nine times to interview artists there, attend exhibitions, visit museums, collect materials, and perform analysis, culminating in the March 2018 publication of his book Pyongyang Art: Uncovering the Complex Layers of Chosonhwa (Seoul Selection).
