An artist who studied fine arts in France and completed a PhD in painting at Hongik. In 2024, Park Jihye began a second doctorate in AI Design at Kookmin.
Park Jihye is an artist walking toward two doctorates at once.
From 2015 to 2025, she completed her PhD in Fine Arts at Hongik University Graduate School (Department of Painting). And in March 2024, the year before finishing that doctorate, she entered the PhD program at Kookmin University's AI Design Lab at the Graduate School of Techno Design. Currently, Ph.D. Candidate.
Painting and AI design. The brush and the algorithm overlap within one person's academic history. The title of her SAF 2026 submission, The Crossing of Memory, Speed, Information, seems to speak of this overlap directly.
From Le Havre–Rouen to Hongik
Park Jihye's academic path begins in France.
From September 2007 to June 2010, she majored in fine arts at L'École Supérieure d'Art et Design Le Havre–Rouen in France, receiving her Bachelor's degree (DNAP). Le Havre is a port city where Impressionist painters stayed for long stretches. There, the artist laid the foundation of her painting.
After returning home, she completed her M.F.A. in Painting at Hongik University Graduate School (2013–2015), and entered the same institution's PhD program (2015–2025). From 2024, just before earning her doctorate, she began a second doctoral program at Kookmin University's Graduate School of Techno Design.
