cv — Amy Kahng

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[abbreviated]

Education

2018 —

2018 — 20

2016

PhD Candidate, Art History and Criticism | Stony Brook University
Dissertation (in progress): “From Landscape to Unrooted Global Citizenship: Twentieth Century Asian American Art”

M.A., Art History and Criticism | Stony Brook University
MA Thesis: “Parodic Play: Lee Bul’s Artistic Practice from the 1990s”

B.A., Art History, French Minor | Pepperdine University
Senior Thesis: “Koreamerican: Transnationalism and Do Ho Suh’s Representations
of Home”

Awards and Honors

Patricia and Phillip Frost Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2022-23, $43,500
Graduate Council Fellowship, Stony Brook University, 2018-2023, $55,000
IDEA Graduate Fellowship, Stony Brook University, 2022, $10,000
Center for Korean Studies Graduate Scholarship, Stony Brook University, 2021-22, $3000
SUNY Prize for Performing Arts, Creation, and Curation, 2020-21, $10,000
Goldberger Fellowship, Department of Art, Stony Brook University, 2020-21, $2,500
Center for Korean Studies Graduate Scholarship, Stony Brook University, 2020-21, $3000
Critical Language Scholarship (Gwangju, South Korea), United States Department of State, 2019
Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers Associates Fellow, 2017
Art History Student of the Year, Pepperdine University, 2016
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Grant Finalist, 2016
Dean’s List, Pepperdine University, 2012-2016
Faculty-Staff Scholarship Awardee, Pepperdine University, 2013-2016
Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowship Finalist, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2014

Selected Presentations

“Korean American Young Adult Fiction Today” (moderator), GYOPO, Los Angeles, April 2022
“Military Brides and Camptown Romance: Histories of Korean Immigrant Women in Family Albums,” Association of Asian Studies, Honolulu, March 2022
“Manifest Destiny in Internment: Situating Chiura Obata’s Modernist Landscapes,” CAA, February/March 2022
“The Limits of ‘Global Modernism’: Transnationalism and Multiculturalism in the Work of Yong Soon Min,” Center for Korean Studies Fellowship Presentation, Stony Brook University, November 2021
“Beyond ‘Global Feminism’: Situating Lee Bul’s Artistic Practice from the 1990s,” NEKST 2021 (8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars), University of Michigan, May 2021
“Contemporary Korean Art: Lee Bul’s Feminist Art in the 1990s,” Center for Korean Studies Fellowship Presentation, Stony Brook University, November 2020
“GI Brides and American Dreams: The Futurity of Yanggongju Photographs,” conference presentation at the Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on “Decolonial Histories,” Stony Brook University, September 2020
“Before the Cyborg: Decolonizing Feminism in Lee Bul,” conference presentation at the School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS) Graduate Student Conference at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, May 2020
“The World Before the Cyborg: Decolonizing Feminism in Lee Bul,” conference presentation at Worlding the Global: The Arts in the Age of Decolonization, organized by Carleton College, November 2019
“Biennials and the Global Art World” Global Contemporary Art, UC Irvine, May 2019
“DETACHING (PARENTHESIS)” Art and Feminism Walkthrough Presentation, Doosan Gallery, December 2018
Art Critics Panel Presentation, Cheongju Residency, April 2016
“Torii and Water: A Gateway to Shinto,” Poster Presentation, November 2012

Selected Publications

Revisiting 5+1 (exhibition catalogue)
Printing Solidarity (journal article), Zuccaire Gallery, fall 2022 (forthcoming)
Mis/Communication: Language and Power in Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue), Zuccaire Gallery, March 2022 (forthcoming)
“Review: Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines, by Victoria Reyes” (Book Review), Ethnic Studies Review, University of California Press, July 2020
It’s Snowing in LA (exhibition catalogue), AA|LA Gallery, June 2018
“What is ‘Queer’ in South Korea? Explorations of art, identity, and ‘queerness’” (Queer Asia blog series), editor, January 2018
“Sun-young Huh” (exhibition text), One and J +1 Gallery, October 2017
Art Contemporary Seoul, Art Criticism Blog, 2017-2018
“Minki Hong: NPC_tutorial” (exhibition text), June 2017
“Treasured Heritage, Nadine Hensel” (catalogue entry), Cheongju Residency Catalogue, April 2017
Various Press Releases, Kukje Gallery, Editor, August 2016 – May 2017

Work Experience (selected)

Gallery and Museum Experience

November 2020-

February 2018 – August 2018

January 2018 – August 2018

August 2016 – May 2017

June – August 2016

November 2012 –April 2016

June – August 2015

August 2014 – April 2015

June – August 2014

June 2014

Guest Curator
Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY

Gallery Associate
AA|LA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Gallery Manager
Skibum MacArthur/Commonwealth and Council | Los Angeles, CA

Communications Assistant
Kukje Gallery | Seoul, South Korea

Curatorial Intern, Department of Painting & Sculpture
The Museum of Modern Art | New York

Director’s Assistant, Curatorial Assistant
Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University | Malibu, CA

Curatorial Intern, Department of Painting
J. Paul Getty Museum | Los Angeles, CA

Education Intern
Getty Villa | Pacific Palisades, CA

Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Intern, Gallery & Public Programs | Venice Arts | Venice, CA

Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Academy
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Teaching Experience

Spring 2020 -

Summer 2022

Spring 2022

Fall 2018 - Fall 2021

August 2014 – April 2016

Lecturer: Arts of Asia, Modern Art
Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY

Lecturer: Korean American Art
Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY

Lecturer: American Art (Race and Asian American Art)
Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY

Teaching Assistant: Modern, Asian Art, History of Photography
Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY

Art History and Religion Division Research Mentor
Pepperdine University | Malibu, CA