Hyeree Ro
Assistant Arts Professor
Hyeree Ro is an Assistant Arts Professor of Collaborative Arts. She holds BFA in Visual Art from Korea National University of Art and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art.
Hyeree is an artist based between New York and Seoul, working across sculpture and narrative-based performance. Her practice explores how personal memory and embodied experience intersect with broader structures of displacement, labor, and socio-economic history. Rooted in the intergenerational consequences of migration, Hyeree’s work investigates how unstable identities are carried, shaped, and witnessed across borders, languages, and time. Her practice has been supported by grants from the Jenni Crain Foundation, Mondriaan Fund, Stroom Den Haag, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Arts Council Korea, DOOSAN Art Center, Leeum Museum of Art, and the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, among others.
Prior to joining NYU, Hyeree was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Wesleyan University and an Adjunct Professor at Seoul National University. She is a 2023 recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, and will represent the Korean Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2026.