EDUCATION
PhD, Art History, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2027. PhD Minor in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Faculty Advisor: Marci Kwon.
MA, Art History, Hunter College (CUNY), New York, NY, 2022. Thesis Advisor: Antonella Pelizzari, Second Reader: Elena Tajima Creef.
BA, Art History, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, 2016. Thesis Advisor: Amy Lyford.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Asian American Art; 20th Century History of Photography; Critical Race Theory; Settler Colonial Studies; Performance Studies; Feminist and Queer Theory
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
The Maveety Fund for Art History, Stanford University, 2023
The Helen Frankenthaler Fellowship, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2022
Fred & Faith Hardy McLain Scholarship, Occidental College, 2015
A & W McKee Memorial Scholarship, Occidental College, 2015
Honor’s Scholarship, Occidental College, 2012
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Research Assistantship, Asian American Art Initiative, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Pauline Brown Research Grant, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Research Intern, Modern Art Museum of Shanghai, Brooklyn, NY
Research Intern, School of New York Revisited: 11 + 11 + 1, curated by Karen Wilkin
Strypemonde Research Travel Award, Hunter College, New York, NY
Graduate Research Fellow, The Renate, Hans, and Maria Hofmann Trust, New York, NY
Research Travel Grant, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Keck Undergraduate Research Fellow, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Invited Lectures
“Seeing Ourselves in the Archive: Working with Family Photographs from the Japanese American Incarceration Camps,” guest lecture in graduate course Reframing the Photographic Archive, taught by Maria Antonella Pelizzari, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, March 27, 2024.
“In the Presence Of: Collective Histories of the Asian American Women Artists Association,” Art History and Criticism Lecture Series, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, March 8, 2024 (online).
“No Monument: In the Wake of the Japanese American Incarceration,” guest lecture in undergraduate course Never Again 9066: Lessons from America’s Concentration Camps and a Stand Against Anti-Asian Violence, taught by Clement Hanami, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, February 3, 2023 (online).
“Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration, 1942-1945,” guest lecture in undergraduate course History of Photography, taught by Amy Lyford, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, April 19, 2022 (online).
“Gallery Management and Collections,” guest speaker for an undergraduate course Collection Management, taught by Miranda Garno Nesler, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Los Angeles, CA, October 5, 2017.
Conference Presentations
“In the Presence Of: Collective Histories of the Asian American Women Artists Association,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 14-17, 2024 (forthcoming).
“Spectral Inheritance, Transparency, and Touch: Kay Sekimachi’s Nylon Monofilament Hangings,” College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 14-17, 2024.
“Spectral Inheritance, Transparency, and Touch: Kay Sekimachi’s Nylon Monofilament Hangings,” Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Symposium, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, April 28, 2023.
“Feeling Like a Thread: Inheritance, Transparency and Touch in Kay Sekimachi's Ogawa II,” Moonscape of the Mind Symposium, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, April 14-16, 2023.
Moderated Talks
Moderator, “Artist Talk: Kishi Bashi,” (Re)Staging (In)Justice: Performing the Legacy of Japanese-American Incarceration, Arts and Justice Workshop, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, January 19, 2023.
Moderator, “No Monument: A Conversation with Margo Machida, Elena Tajima Creef, and Karen Yamashita,” The Noguchi Museum, New York, NY, May 11, 2022 (online).
Discussant, “Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art,” Talk by Meiqin Wang, Marengo Gallery, Pasadena, CA, June 24, 2017.
TEACHING AND MENTORING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University, 9/23 - Present
Graduate Mentor, Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity, Stanford University, 9/22 - 6/23
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Curator, Reflections of a Young Woman: Photographs from the Archive of Shigeko Kumamoto, Latitude, Chicago, IL, 2024.
Curator, In the Presence Of: Collective Histories of the Asian American Women Artists Association, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, 2024. Reviewed in The Berkeley Times and The Daily Californian.
Co-Curator, No Monument: In the Wake of the Japanese American Incarceration, curated with Genji Amino, The Isamu Noguchi Museum and Garden Foundation, New York, NY, 2022. Reviewed in Artforum, Momus, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, Public Seminar, and Queens Chronicle.
Curatorial Advisor, Leo Amino: Work with Material, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC, 2022.
Curator, Rapid Urbanization and the Rise of the Modern City, The Marengo Gallery, Pasadena, CA, 2017.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Archivist, Leo Valledor Estate, San Francisco, CA
Studio Manager, Jordan Nassar Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Registrar, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA