Gina Choi is a Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Art History at New York University Abu Dhabi. She specializes in premodern Korean and Japanese painting. In her dissertation, "Reaching 'Peach Blossom Spring': Poetry and Painting in Fifteenth-Century Korea and Japan,” she examined the fifteenth-century Korean and Japanese phenomenon of envisioning an ideal place, representing it in poetry and painting, and combining the two into one unified work. She is currently adapting her dissertation into a book manuscript. Choi's research has been supported by the Japan Foundation, the Academy of Korean Studies, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her research interests include comparative and cross-cultural studies of East Asian art, the relationship between image and text, and collective agency in art-making.