Irene Sunwoo is an architectural historian and curator whose work centers on experimental and emerging practices, with an emphasis on new commissions, interdisciplinary inquiry, and innovative exhibition design. She is the John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has curated solo exhibitions by Germane Barnes, Himali Singh Soin, and Jonathan Muecke, and steered a comprehensive reinstallation of the Architecture and Design collection galleries. From 2016 to 2021 she was Curator of the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; her exhibitions include Frida Escobedo: No. 9 (2017), Liam Young: New Romance (2017), Eternal Gradient: Arakawa and Madeline Gins (2018), Cooking Sections: Offsetted (2019); and Torkwase Dyson: 1919: Black Water (2019). Previously, she was Associate Curator of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial (2015).