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appointments
Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
Stanford University
university affiliations
American Studies
Asian American Studies
Asian American Research Center at Stanford
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Center for East Asian Studies
East Asian Languages & Cultures
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Modern Thought & Literature
university service
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI)
Faculty Advisory Committee, Stanford Arts Institute
Faculty Director, Asian American Research Center at Stanford
national service
Board Member, Martin Wong Foundation
Executive Committee, Visual Culture, Modern Language Association (MLA)
Expert Advisory Committee, Portsmouth Square Renovation Project (convened by the City of San Francisco)
education
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
B.A., New York University
books
forthcoming
Making Chinatown (advance contract, Princeton University Press)
2021
Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
digital humanities
forthcoming
May’s Photo Studio and Chinatown’s Golden Age (editorial advisor and contributor).
Google Arts & Culture.
2022
Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné (co-editor). Stanford Libraries
edited special issues
2021
“Asian American Art: Pasts and Futures.” Eds. Marci Kwon and Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander. Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, 7.1.
selected publications
forthcoming
“Ruth Asawa and San Francisco.” Co-authored with Jennie Yoon. In Ruth Asawa, eds. Janet Bishop, Cara Manes. New York: Museum of Modern Art.
“Blood Sweat & Tears: BTS and the Baroque.” In Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader, eds. Patty Ahn, Michelle Cho, Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Yutian Wong. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
2022
“Glittering Visions: Martin Wong and the Queer Counterculture.” In Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief, eds. Krist Gruijthuijsen, Agustín Pérez Rubio. Köln: Walther König. Exh cat. Madrid: Museo CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo; Berlin: KW Institute for Contemporary Art; London: Camden Art Centre; Amsterdam: Stedlijk Museum.
“Joan Brown’s New Age.” In Joan Brown, eds. Janet Bishop and Nancy Lim. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
2021
“Wooden Fossils: The Time of Japanese Incarceration.” In Boundary Trouble, ed. Lynne Cooke. Washington D.C.: Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts.
“Introduction: Asian American Art: Pasts and Futures” Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, 7.1
2020
“A Secret History of Martin Wong.” In The Present Prospects of Social Art History, eds. Anthony Grudin and Robert Slifkin. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
“The Education of John Kane.” Third Text, 34:1, 123-142.
“Folk Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art.” In Establishing the Modern: MoMA and the Modern Experiment 1929-1949, eds. Austin Porter, Sandra Zalman. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
2018
short essays, online publications, and interviews
2023
2022
“Kim Anno: Making Space.” In Kim Anno: Rebel Splendor ed. Alla Efimova. (San Francisco: Anglim/Trimble, 2022).
2021
“Dear Casey. “Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts, eds. Christopher K. Ho and Daisy Nam. Brooklyn, NY: N+1.
“What Binds Us?” Gold House Prize Catalog. San Francisco, 2021.
2020
Value” Saturation: Racial Matter, Institutional Limits and the Excesses of Representation, eds. C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp. Cambridge and New York: New Museum/MIT Press.
conferences and roundtables organized
2023
“Hidden in Plain Sight: Karin Higa and Asian American Art History.”
Roundtable with Tomie Arai, Julie Ault, Ekalan Hou, Pamela Lee. College Art Association Annual Conference, Winter 2023
2022
“IMU UR2: Art, Aesthetics, and Asian America,” Stanford University, Keynote Talk with Cathy Park Hong and Jen Liu, Fall 2022
2019
“Race, Coloniality, and the Aesthetic.” Panel with Marci Kwon, Leon Hilton, Dorothy Wang, Hentyle Yapp, American Studies Association Annual Conference, Fall 2019.