LEE Jong Hoo, Director of the Jeju Museum of Art, serves as Artistic Director of the 5th Jeju Biennale. He is an artist and curator whose practice begins from painting and extends across a range of media. Lee studied Western Painting at the College of Fine Arts of Seoul National University, where he also completed his graduate studies. He has held three solo exhibitions and has participated in more than one hundred group exhibitions and art festivals as both artist and curator. As a curator, his work has centered on the public and communal dimensions of art—exploring how artistic practice can drive urban regeneration and how art communicates within local communities. In 2015, he founded the Jeju International Art Fair & Festival—the precursor to Art Festa in Jeju—based at the Jeju Civic Center, and served as its Organizing Committee Chair and General Director through its 4th edition (2015–2018). He has also devoted sustained attention to mapping local art histories and shaping the critical discourse around them. As General Director of the Jeju Art Festival, he traced the genealogy of Jeju art under the theme Jeju Dong-in(濟州同人) in 2020, and in 2023 reframed Jeju art through interdisciplinary practice, opening a multilayered view of Jeju's artistic landscape. His engagement with the Jeju 4.3 Art Exhibition—the long-standing artistic platform addressing the April 3 Incident—includes spatial direction (2021, 2022) and the role of Artistic Director for its 30th edition in 2023, where he reflected on how local histories generate contemporary discourse through art. Selected curatorial projects include Sound and Vision(curator and participating artist, 2017–2021); Finding a Way at IAa(Art Space IAa, 2018); the 25th Jeju Art Festival Jeju Dong-in(Jeju Museum of Art, 2020); the 6th Art Festa in Jeju The Biographics of San-zi(Sanjicheon Gallery, 2021); the 30th Jeju 4.3 Art Exhibition Vigil of Memories, Guard of Boundaries(Jeju Museum of Art and three additional venues, 2023); the 27th Jeju Art Festival Yung(融): Chronicles of an Island(Jeju Culture and Arts Center and three additional venues, 2023); and the 4th Jeju Biennale The Drift of Apagi: The Way of Water, Wind, and Stars(Jeju Museum of Art and five additional venues, 2024).

LEE Byunghee is an independent curator and researcher whose work, over the past two decades, has centered on 'the local' and 'the project' as critical frameworks. Through these lenses, she investigates new modes of artistic practice and methodology emerging in the aftermath of institutional critique. Drawing on the politics of affect and Bruno Latour's notion of Dingpolitik(the politics of things), Lee approaches site-specific art projects as practices that remediate and reorganize the relation between system and environment—what Gilbert Simondon termed the associated milieu. Since 2022, focusing on regional cities such as Pohang and Ulsan, Lee has explored the role of art within urban transformation, industrial environments, and local cultural ecologies. During this period, she directed an alternative art space, organized curatorial networks, and led major site-specific projects including The Aesthetics of Technologyseries, Autopoietic City, and Enduring Labor. Since 2024, she has served as Director of The Sixisles, the Art & Technology Platform of Pohang, where she develops site-specific artistic projects that critically engage industrial systems, ecological environments, and technological infrastructures in the context of the (post-)Anthropocene. Through her curatorial work, Lee explores how art can reshape relations between life, environment, and community while opening new forms of public experience. She currently serves as Executive Curator of the 5th Jeju Biennale 2026, Iyahong: The Art of Metamorphosis, where she explores how Jeju—understood as an environmentally and civilizationally distinct island form—might offer critical insight into overcoming the limits of modernity and rearticulating the networks of life, ecology, and coexistence.

MAENG Junghwan is a curator and cultural producer working across exhibitions, festivals, education, and public projects. His experience spans private galleries, public institutions, and cultural foundations, with a curatorial interest in connecting contemporary art's flows to the histories and social contexts of the spaces it inhabits. He has organized and managed exhibitions at Hakgojae Gallery, the National Palace Museum of Korea, and EMU Art Space, and has accumulated practical expertise across projects of varying scales and disciplines. Selected projects include The Lost Archives, an exhibition on the Japanese military "comfort women"; the Changwon Asia Art Festival Cities of Ancient Future; the KAIST SHuM Project at the intersection of art and science; and the Taehwa River Eco Art Festival Once a God: The Myth of Future Refugees. As a curator for the 3rd Jeju Biennale Flowing Moon, Embracing Land, he explored coexistence between humans and nature, and the possibility of planetary symbiosis in the age of climate crisis. Most recently, he has continued to develop exhibition-centered collaborations that link art with regional and public agendas, probing the expanded social role of contemporary art and culture.

PARK Ha-yeon graduated from the Department of Convergence Arts at Kaywon University of Art & Design and works across exhibitions and project planning. In 2023 she served as Assistant Director for OB/SCENE Focus, supporting planning, set installation, and on-site operations. In 2024 she joined the 4th Jeju Biennale as Coordinator.

International Curatorial Assistant LEE Yoojin has built her expertise across international event planning and operations and cross-cultural communication, drawing on a background in accounting and translation studies. Through interpretation and translation at major international conferences including APEC, and through roles as media reporter and news translator, she has developed a sharp sense of the international cultural field, and has led collaborative projects as a project manager. Selected Projects 2026 International Curatorial Assistant, The 5th Jeju Biennale Iyahong: The Art of Metamorphosis, Jeju 2025–present Translator, KCTV Jeju English News anchor scripts 2025 Interpreter for Director Evelyn Simons (Busan Biennale Organizing Committee) during her Jeju field research 2025 Consecutive interpreter, International Seminar on Jeju Stone Walls — Toward UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Inscription of Jeju Stone-Wall Building 2023–present Reporter and English-language producer/host, Arirang Radio Wonders of Jeju— Jeju arts and culture programming

LEE Hae-sung holds a BFA in Convergence Arts from Kaywon University of Art & Design and works in a multidisciplinary practice that moves freely across fields and media.