Amy Kahng is a PhD candidate in Art History and Criticism at Stony Brook University, a 2024-25 Tyson Scholar at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and beginning fall 2025, will be a Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American and Asian Diasporas Art History at Brandeis University. Her dissertation 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 was a 2022-23 Patricia and Phillip Frost Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, a 2024 Davidson Family Fellow at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and her research has been supported by the Graduate Council Fellowship (Stony Brook) and the Center for Korean Studies (Stony Brook). Her next project will be on “Asian Cowboys” in US 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 reexamines 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).