Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at Austin
2301 San Jacinto Blvd.
Austin, Texas 78712
The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the appointments of Nicole Awai and Jiwon Park to the Department of Art and Art History.
“We are thrilled to welcome Nicole and Jiwon to the department. Together, they bring incredible depth of experience and extend the vision of our faculty,” said Jack Risley, Meredith and Cornelia Long Chair of the Department of Art and Art History.
Nicole Awai joins the department as an Assistant Professor in Painting and Drawing. Her work has been included in the inaugural Greater New York: New Art in New York Now at MoMA PS1 in 2000; the Biennale of Ceramics in Contemporary Art in 2003; the 2008 Busan Biennale in Korea; Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art at the Brooklyn Museum in 2007; and Open House: Working in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Museum in 2004. Awai was a featured artist in the 2005 Initial Public Offerings series at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and she received a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2011 and an Art Matters Grant in 2013. She received a B.A. in 1991 and an M.F.A. in Multimedia Art in 1996 from the University of South Florida.
Jiwon Park joins the department as an Assistant Professor in Design. Park has worked as a visual designer at Samsung Electronics and as a graphic designer at Brand Environment Ltd. She co-founded 1/2 Project and DAREZ Inc. and founded Design Can Do. Park’s works have been selected for 17 international design awards, including: iF, Red Dot, IDEA, Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, and the Adobe Design Achievement Award, among others. She was named a Next Generation Design Leader and awarded a 100,000 USD research grant by the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy in both 2011 and 2012. Park received a B.F.A. from the Ewha Womans University in 2009 and an M.F.A. in Graphic Design in 2013 from the Rhode Island School of Design as a Fulbright scholar.
About the Department of Art and Art History
The UT Austin Department of Art and Art History is one of the largest and most diverse in the country. It includes the divisions of Art Education, Art History, Design, and Studio Art and reflects the rigorous standards of a flagship institution, while offering an intimate environment for students to train as scholars, practitioners and educators in the arts.
