Amy Kahng is the Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American and Asian Diasporas Art History at Brandeis University, a position supported by the Department of Fine Arts, the Rose Art Museum, and the Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies program. Her current research project examines twentieth century Asian American artists and their relationship to land, colonial vision, and conditional racialization. Other research interests include global contemporary art, modern and contemporary art in Korea, and transnational queer and feminist art practices. Amy received her PhD in Art History and Criticism at Stony Brook University in 2025, and her research has been supported by fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Tyson Scholars Program at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and the Center for Korean Studies at Stony Brook University. Her next project interrogates historical and artistic representations of “Asian Cowboys” in U.S. art and visual culture from the nineteenth century to the present.
Amy is an independent curator and co-curated Revisiting 5+1, an exhibition that reexamined Frank Bowling’s historic 5+1 exhibition at Stony Brook University, and co-edited the accompanying catalog. She also exhibited Moving towards Home: Art for Palestine in New York City 1989 & 2024 (2024) ; Mis/Communication : Language and Power in Contemporary Art (2021-25), which toured five SUNY campuses; and Printing Solidarity: Tricontinental Graphics from Cuba (2021-22).