https://amykahng.com Amy Kahng Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:11:40 +0000 https://amykahng.com en https://amykahng.com/about Thu, 02 Aug 2018 19:41:38 +0000 Amy Kahng https://amykahng.com/about amy kahng nyc / boston / la / seoul 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 co-curated Revisiting 5+1 (2022-23), 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 &amp; 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). https://amykahng.com/curatorial-projects Mon, 13 Aug 2018 04:23:50 +0000 Amy Kahng https://amykahng.com/curatorial-projects curatorial projects [selected] CURRENT Flesh Witness Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT)September 12 – December 13, 2026 ︎ REDCAT Flesh Witness brings together contemporary artists whose work examines global histories and ongoing conditions of militarism across Asia and the Pacific. Focusing on Hawai‘i, Korea, Okinawa, the Philippines, and Samoa, the group exhibition includes artworks spanning from the 1970s to newly created work, ranging from video to sculpture, photography, mixed media, and installation that considers how military power is inscribed in landscapes, bodies, and archives.Hyperallergic <img width="1088" height="1424" width_o="1088" height_o="1424" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95b4dd9db0537077880069a873fa09c67af1f6b0fd80ca8b605823ef8e00a6e5/IMG_6098.JPG" data-mid="252029426" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95b4dd9db0537077880069a873fa09c67af1f6b0fd80ca8b605823ef8e00a6e5/IMG_6098.JPG" /> PAST Mis/Communication:Language and Power in Contemporary Art Five-campus SUNY Tour ︎ dorsky museum of art ︎ marion gallery ︎ gannett gallery︎ paul w. zuccaire gallery This exhibition features video, sculpture, drawing, and interactive media artworks by contemporary artists who explore the power of language within cultural contexts. Artists examine issues such as the global predominance of English and the societal tendency to censure other languages, dialects, and linguistic practices. Featuring work by&nbsp;Carmen Argote, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Jesse Chun, Jisoo Chung, Dahn Gim, Shan Goshorn, Jennifer Chia-Ling Ho, dulce soledad ibarra, Jake Duczynski and Angelina Joshua, Gala Porras Kim, Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez, Kim Schoen, Martin Sims, Clarissa Tossin, and Han Yohan. <img width="2000" height="1124" width_o="2000" height_o="1124" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00a77e472da10242362ef4d88a0cafb4cdd22c84e16f9352956eef73c2e642b3/Miscommunication-03.jpg" data-mid="215839246" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00a77e472da10242362ef4d88a0cafb4cdd22c84e16f9352956eef73c2e642b3/Miscommunication-03.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1124" width_o="2000" height_o="1124" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a29b905f89c5491770d113b22aa795f7739211a331aa6794a32a297c6d539a1/Miscommunication-02.jpg" data-mid="215839245" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a29b905f89c5491770d113b22aa795f7739211a331aa6794a32a297c6d539a1/Miscommunication-02.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1124" width_o="2000" height_o="1124" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e08dfd0b37f9110b3c7a1197fb92ee39eea7b50583d8d441f6584cd081c6f87f/Miscommunication-04.jpg" data-mid="215839247" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e08dfd0b37f9110b3c7a1197fb92ee39eea7b50583d8d441f6584cd081c6f87f/Miscommunication-04.jpg" /> <img width="3456" height="2304" width_o="3456" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31e3c9afb6270e00e16fc64d40d6a80ee196a3e344c155f85c2ac1c2710cc656/IMG_3274.JPG" data-mid="171686220" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31e3c9afb6270e00e16fc64d40d6a80ee196a3e344c155f85c2ac1c2710cc656/IMG_3274.JPG" /> <img width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5207af7c7214ab456532389ebfad5d458aa8dfe7e98b29729ad92fc3cb864e38/IMG_4543.jpg" data-mid="215839486" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/5207af7c7214ab456532389ebfad5d458aa8dfe7e98b29729ad92fc3cb864e38/IMG_4543.jpg" /> Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz Expanded presentationJune 15 - November 3, 2024Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Adirondack Community CollegeMarion Gallery, SUNY FredoniaGannett Gallery, SUNY Polytechnic September 1 - October 14, 2022Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University Originating institution ’November 11, 2021 - March 12, 2022 pressTimes of the Hudson Hyperallergic, Your Guide to Art Excursions Outside NYC in Fall 2024 Hyperallergic, 15 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York This Summer Notes from the Aisle SeatHyperallergic Carla Moving Towards Home: Art for Palestine in New York City 1989 &amp; 2024 Subtitled NYCApril 30 - May 21, 2024 ︎ subtitled NYC purchase catalog here! Thirty-five years ago, artists Yong Soon Min and Shirin Neshat curated a group exhibition, Homeland: A Palestinian Quest, as a coordinated response to the first Intifada in Palestine during the critical year of 1989. Revisiting the original exhibition from our present-day vantage point, Moving towards Home historicizes and critically reinterprets this local history of artists engaging with organized efforts for Third World solidarity, and more specifically, the struggle for Palestinian liberation. The exhibition includes art and ephemera by the original participants alongside a new selection of artists of Palestinian descent, most of whom live or have worked in New York City. Exhibited artists include Min, Neshat, and Betty Kano, representing original Homeland participants, as well as Kamal Boullata, Haifa Bint Kadi, Fares Rizk, and Xaytun Ennasr.Asia Arts Alliance <img width="1500" height="1425" width_o="1500" height_o="1425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef72dd0787ccb7fe521c6449be9bdc4ef56cd6e995c5f82194a1dae973c9df09/Mnemonic-Journey-small.jpeg" data-mid="210117738" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef72dd0787ccb7fe521c6449be9bdc4ef56cd6e995c5f82194a1dae973c9df09/Mnemonic-Journey-small.jpeg" /> <img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f86be08f18d65c110434dcd11dd7aae10cfb39d9cae2a995e26adc41a054f1ad/DSCF9201-Edit-72dpi.jpg" data-mid="215839456" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f86be08f18d65c110434dcd11dd7aae10cfb39d9cae2a995e26adc41a054f1ad/DSCF9201-Edit-72dpi.jpg" /> Installation photo: Garrett CarrollYong Soon Min, Mnemonic Journey, digital image, 2018 Revisiting 5+1 November 2022 - February 2023Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook Universityin partnership with MFA Boston and SFMOMA ︎ paul w. zuccaire gallery Revisiting 5+1 features work by the six artists in the 1969 exhibition (curated by and including artist Frank Bowling) each of whom created vivid experimental abstract paintings and sculptures. Alongside Bowling, the show presents major work by Melvin Edwards, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Al Loving, Jack Whitten, and William T. Williams, showcasing their early practices of the 1960s and ‘70s. In collaboration with Distinguished Professor of Art Howardena Pindell, Revisiting 5+1 adds a related yet distinct group of six Black women artists, who were also trailblazers in abstraction. Alongside Pindell, the exhibition features works by Vivian Browne, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Betye Saar, Alma Thomas, and Mildred Thompson, including a never before shown 1971 film by Saar. Hyperallergic Art in America <img width="1296" height="828" width_o="1296" height_o="828" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15ade6ee7c53a14500b71f20bbcf63a2faf479a65dcd55cc052135662ea8b7db/Screen-Shot-2022-05-20-at-11.08.30-AM.png" data-mid="147596335" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15ade6ee7c53a14500b71f20bbcf63a2faf479a65dcd55cc052135662ea8b7db/Screen-Shot-2022-05-20-at-11.08.30-AM.png" /> <img width="2784" height="2088" width_o="2784" height_o="2088" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a86b6b5f389b7003de6f99efb5143fb119a40b221bce024d3337cf397e6b4d9f/Stony-Brook-University-Paul-W.-Zuccaire-Gallery-REVISITING-5-1-12-22_0005-1.jpg" data-mid="171685926" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a86b6b5f389b7003de6f99efb5143fb119a40b221bce024d3337cf397e6b4d9f/Stony-Brook-University-Paul-W.-Zuccaire-Gallery-REVISITING-5-1-12-22_0005-1.jpg" /> durée CalArts ‘22 Postgraduate Exhibition October 29 - November 12, 2022Helen J. Gallery, Hollywood ︎ durée gallery handout <img width="801" height="1233" width_o="801" height_o="1233" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa3a151d2ad8938030ffd593bfba9186de042014aa75ea5ac1eb69dc5a3f3725/Duree--Exhibition-Flyer.jpg" data-mid="158262897" border="0" data-scale="44" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/801/i/aa3a151d2ad8938030ffd593bfba9186de042014aa75ea5ac1eb69dc5a3f3725/Duree--Exhibition-Flyer.jpg" /> Space Uptown April 30 - May 21, 2022 AHL Foundation, Harlem ︎ brochure ︎ ahl foundation Following AHL Foundation’s move to Harlem after over a decade of operating in Chelsea, it is fitting that this inaugural exhibition in the new space uptown responds to its new neighborhood. An exhibition about locality and neighborhood history, the artists in Space Uptown reflect on the surrounding areas of Harlem and Upper Manhattan. Though AHL Foundation is new to the block, it shares several historical resonances with the neighborhood. The building in which it is located was at one point an art gallery, another dynamic contributor to Harlem’s rich arts and culture scene. The great abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, for whom the street is named, was a fervent advocate for Chinese immigration and citizenship upon the policy proposal of Chinese Exclusion. And less than one mile away, Yuri Kochiyama hosted radical revolutionary organizing meetings for Black, Latino, and Asian American issues and social movements out of her home apartment for over 40 years. Introducing AHL to the neighborhood, this exhibition hopes to bridge this new space uptown with the lineages of interracial, Black, Latinx, and Asian American solidarities that have existed for decades within this neighborhood, shaping its history as a site of artistic, cultural, and political activity. <img width="2100" height="1500" width_o="2100" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69eb677db0a26dc713c0803a8826650cf32c4e59b76e5f3fa04708c8a9ffca77/Space-Uptown_7x5-invitation.jpg" data-mid="139247042" border="0" data-scale="75" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69eb677db0a26dc713c0803a8826650cf32c4e59b76e5f3fa04708c8a9ffca77/Space-Uptown_7x5-invitation.jpg" /> All Over Again April 11 - May 2023Lawrence Alloway Gallery, Stony Brook University ︎ exhibition text All Over Again features work by four first year MFA students in the Stony Brook Studio Art program who engage themes of reinvention, remembrance, oscillation, and cycles (of life, nature, or otherwise). Working in painting, video, performance, fiber, embroidery, digital rendering, and installation; Emma Fiona Jones, Sehee Kim, Josie Williams, Diana Mulan Zhu utilize these diverse mediums to bring to light to various non-linear, non-chronological, and yet ever-present cyclical patterns. &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c460d0a66ebb9bb78a7a73a79b0bd1518ce77eebd780418d71ff881c48cdd278/IMG_1171.jpg" data-mid="158265304" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c460d0a66ebb9bb78a7a73a79b0bd1518ce77eebd780418d71ff881c48cdd278/IMG_1171.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17573e40c6da9c53d4b73e503c40f79b559c8894d93b4e11d86b088988acaab4/IMG_1197.jpg" data-mid="158265300" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17573e40c6da9c53d4b73e503c40f79b559c8894d93b4e11d86b088988acaab4/IMG_1197.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/890ce9f296683e29a14924f4061e2f224f798f0cb4902389057149bb604f2134/IMG_1179.jpg" data-mid="158265303" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/890ce9f296683e29a14924f4061e2f224f798f0cb4902389057149bb604f2134/IMG_1179.jpg" /> Printing Solidarity: Tricontinental Graphics from Cuba December 1, 2021 - March 12, 2022Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University ︎ paul w. zuccaire gallery This exhibition featured global printed matter published in the 1960s-80s by the Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL), a cultural organization of artists and designers founded in 1966 in Havana. Presenting over 50 archival posters and magazines with strikingly colorful and geometric designs, Printing Solidarity offers a glimpse into the revolutionary aesthetics and agenda of this print collective. Brooklyn Rail <img width="954" height="1600" width_o="954" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b3ff0160dae9469e6ea45e5e96e7a0583d8f35d25215e6d5eb1f5193d27e584/Rostgaard_Che_1969.JPG" data-mid="135345438" border="0" data-scale="29" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/954/i/4b3ff0160dae9469e6ea45e5e96e7a0583d8f35d25215e6d5eb1f5193d27e584/Rostgaard_Che_1969.JPG" /> <img width="1862" height="3035" width_o="1862" height_o="3035" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa685627501a19f935855c68156be9844283fd0f519c84d67cf559bcc0b4d0d6/Martinez_Day-of-Solidarity-with-Guatemala_1968.jpeg" data-mid="135345435" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa685627501a19f935855c68156be9844283fd0f519c84d67cf559bcc0b4d0d6/Martinez_Day-of-Solidarity-with-Guatemala_1968.jpeg" /> <img width="1046" height="1600" width_o="1046" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7050e3b0c5eb8ab6ef4d0b71e68231284a9b767d3c6ef84b1aecd93acab7e625/Rostgaard_Day-of-Solidarity-with-the-Congo_1972-JPG.JPG" data-mid="135345437" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7050e3b0c5eb8ab6ef4d0b71e68231284a9b767d3c6ef84b1aecd93acab7e625/Rostgaard_Day-of-Solidarity-with-the-Congo_1972-JPG.JPG" /> <img width="4000" height="2514" width_o="4000" height_o="2514" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5a6a4c5a86d3c79781eeb0fc655e903b824326341a254854f4cd8c828b60c54/7-1.jpg" data-mid="135345436" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5a6a4c5a86d3c79781eeb0fc655e903b824326341a254854f4cd8c828b60c54/7-1.jpg" /> Marking, Writing, Rhythm February 23 - April, 2022Lawrence Alloway Gallery, Stony Brook University ︎ exhibition text An exploration in form, concept, and representation, this exhibition features work by three first year MFA students in the studio art program at Stony Brook University. Sarah Allam, Katie Wang, and Emily Yen are three of the youngest students in the MFA program, having completed their BFA degrees in the spring of 2021. Over the course of this academic year, these three emerging artists have developed their respective practices through studio experimentation in mark-making (drawing), writing (conceptual plans), and rhythm (through repetition). This exhibition allows the audience a glimpse into each artist’s unique working process. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8075a10c512d575b409ed1e5d96773c76759afd757e6f63e82ce6250da3e4e9/IMG_2164.JPG" data-mid="135351930" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e8075a10c512d575b409ed1e5d96773c76759afd757e6f63e82ce6250da3e4e9/IMG_2164.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d342e9da6cf463d749774846de43841d83d12001d9771e973b2b2645d8ef711f/IMG_2163.JPG" data-mid="135351931" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d342e9da6cf463d749774846de43841d83d12001d9771e973b2b2645d8ef711f/IMG_2163.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93b41130534f027dfa8ee8f2e754f69e5631705681fac281aa93c6353db1e1cb/IMG_2166.JPG" data-mid="135351929" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93b41130534f027dfa8ee8f2e754f69e5631705681fac281aa93c6353db1e1cb/IMG_2166.JPG" /> It’s Snowing in LA co-curated with Mary McGuire June 9 - July 14, 2018 AA|LA Gallery, Los Angeles ︎ press release ︎ exhibition catalogue Employing a diverse range of media from video and drawing, these artists—all of whom have lived in Korea and Los Angeles—reframe the historical and personal significance of these places in order to reflect aesthetic, social, and political exchange. By exploring how a city is constructed, fabricated, and imagined, It’s Snowing in LA navigates cultural identities rooted in transience, remembrance, and redefinitions of space. Carla Curate LA <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4094ebb25d90495b735bf6c6461a2087d22047f439e0f863449a0b874538b564/Install-03_AALA_It-s-Snowing-in-LA.jpg" data-mid="135345859" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4094ebb25d90495b735bf6c6461a2087d22047f439e0f863449a0b874538b564/Install-03_AALA_It-s-Snowing-in-LA.jpg" /> <img width="3558" height="5337" width_o="3558" height_o="5337" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f20ac912c8bfcb5f730855ed3e88bed00825ffd8be258ff64647533d9f3e508/Detail-02_AALA_It-s-Snowing-in-LA.jpg" data-mid="135345857" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f20ac912c8bfcb5f730855ed3e88bed00825ffd8be258ff64647533d9f3e508/Detail-02_AALA_It-s-Snowing-in-LA.jpg" /> <img width="3648" height="5472" width_o="3648" height_o="5472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c952367f5474226aac79be92bb3f5eb609f43bfde0dc2f2a6138d7c2a881008d/Install-09_AALA_It-s-Snowing-in-LA.jpg" data-mid="135345856" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c952367f5474226aac79be92bb3f5eb609f43bfde0dc2f2a6138d7c2a881008d/Install-09_AALA_It-s-Snowing-in-LA.jpg" /> <img width="4998" height="3332" width_o="4998" height_o="3332" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/790cefbe9900a84deea5b5d75447d78c3d55e827ae1b67bcb7c790edfb3658fd/Install-01_AALA_It-s-Snowing-in-LA.jpg" data-mid="135345858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/790cefbe9900a84deea5b5d75447d78c3d55e827ae1b67bcb7c790edfb3658fd/Install-01_AALA_It-s-Snowing-in-LA.jpg" /> https://amykahng.com/cv Thu, 02 Aug 2018 21:15:37 +0000 Amy Kahng https://amykahng.com/cv cv [abbreviated] Education 2018 — 2025 2018 — 202016 Ph.D, Art History and Criticism | Stony Brook University Dissertation: “From the Frontier to Unrooted Global Citizenship: Twentieth Century Asian American Landscape” 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 Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American and Asian Diasporas Art History, 2025-27Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship, 2026,&nbsp;Tyson Scholars Predoctoral Fellowship, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 2024-25PhD Works Award for Career Exploration, Stony Brook UniversityDavidson Family Fellowship, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 2024 Patricia and Phillip Frost Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2022-23 Graduate Council Fellowship, Stony Brook University, 2018-2023 IDEA Graduate Fellowship, Stony Brook University, 2022 Center for Korean Studies Graduate Scholarship, Stony Brook University, 2021-22 SUNY Prize for Performing Arts, Creation, and Curation, 2020-21 Goldberger Fellowship, Department of Art, Stony Brook University, 2020-21 Center for Korean Studies Graduate Scholarship, Stony Brook University, 2020-21 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&nbsp; Selected Conference and Symposium Presentations Presenter, “Endurance of the Oppressed: Decolonial Solidarity and Contested Borderlands in Yong Soon Min’s Expanded Art Practice,” 2026 Association for Historians of American Art Symposium, September (accepted)Presenter, “Lesbians on the Highway: Displacement, Landscape, and Queer Abstraction in Bernice Bing’s Art,” 2026 Annual Association for Asian American Studies conference, AprilPresenter and chair, “Lesbian Road Trips and Open Freeways: Landscapes of Liberation and Mobility in Bernice Bing’s Paintings from the 1960s,” for panel “Peripheral Visions in Abstraction: Recovering Bernice Bing, New Research and Perspectives,” College Art Association Conference, February Chair, “Reconsidering U.S. Imperialism: Art and Visual Culture,” 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, October 2025Presenter and Chair, “Curating Moving Towards Home: Art for Palestine in NYC, 1989 &amp; 2024,” for panel “Curating Art and Film for Palestine in the US,” Association of Asian American Studies Conference, April 2025&nbsp;Presenter, “Unhampered by Our Polluted Earth: ‘Nationless Neutrality’ in Nam June Paik’s Broadcast Television Works,” College Art Association Conference, February 2025Chair, “Deliberately University Based: Marginalized Artists and the Growth of University Art Spaces,” College Art Association Conference, February 2025Chair, “Global De/Re/Compositions,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 15, October 2025Presenter, “(Un)stable Ground: Juxtaposing Colonial Visions of Indigenous Land and Shifting Racial Conditionality in Chiura Obata’s Paintings of the American West,” Representations of East Asian Migrants and Settlers in the Western United States ca. 1850-1929, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT, September 2024&nbsp;Presenter, “(Un)stable Ground: Colonial Visions, Dispossession, and Racial Contingency in Chiura Obata’s Landscapes of the American West,” Davidson Fellow Presentation, July 2024Presenter, “What Makes a Global Contemporary Artist?: Transnationalism and Multicultural Reception in the Work of Yong Soon Min,” Association of Asian Studies Conference, March 2024 Presenter, “Wedding Snapshots and Camptown Romance: Memory and Futurity in Korean American Family Albums,” College Art Association Conference, February 2024 Presenter, “Fugitive Brides: Empire, Memory, and the Korean Diaspora Hidden in the Family Album,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 14, October 2023Presenter, “Unsettled and Unrooted Ground: Chiura Obata’s Internment Landscapes,” Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellows’ Lectures, May 2023Moderator, “Photographic Practice as Epistemic Intervention,” Photography, Temporality, and Decolonial Imagination in Global Asias Conference, Rutgers University, April 2023Panelist, “Revisiting 5+1 Artist Talk featuring Howardena Pindell and Adger Cowans,” New Social Environments series for The Brooklyn Rail (virtual), February 2023Panelist, “Curating Contemporary Asian Art,” Asia Society Museum, October 2022Presenter, “Military Brides and Camptown Romance: Histories of Korean Immigrant Women in Family Albums,” Association of Asian Studies, Honolulu, March 2022 Presenter, “Manifest Destiny in Internment: Situating Chiura Obata’s Modernist Landscapes,” CAA, February/March 2022 Presenter, “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 Presenter, “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 Presenter, “Contemporary Korean Art: Lee Bul’s Feminist Art in the 1990s,” Center for Korean Studies Fellowship Presentation, Stony Brook University, November 2020 Presenter, “GI Brides and American Dreams: The Futurity of Yanggongju Photographs,” Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on “Decolonial Histories,” Stony Brook University, September 2020 Presenter, “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 Presenter, “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 Invited Presentations Guest Lecturer, “Moving Towards Home” in “Easts, Near and Far,” Asian American studies course, Yale University, February, 2026 Guest Lecturer, “Art, Landscape, and Contested Borderlands Under US Empire, 1900-2000,” Visual Ecologies course, Pitzer College, October 2025 Presenter/Discussion leader, “Art and Incarceration,” Asian American Art, Pasts and Futures Study Day, Smithsonian American Art Museum, March 2025Invited Speaker, “Moving Towards Home Curator Talk” Society for Curatorial and Museum Practices, Sarah Lawrence College, November&nbsp;2024&nbsp; &nbsp; Guest Lecturer, “Contemporary Korean Art,” Introduction to Art History: Asia course, Fordham University, November&nbsp;2024 Moderator, “Cold War Baby: Historical Context meets Aesthetics with Simon Leung, Sunny Xiang, and Steven Lee,” Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, UC Irvine and GYOPO, LA, November&nbsp;2024&nbsp; &nbsp; Guest Speaker, “Mis/Communication: Language and Power in Contemporary Art Curator’s Talk,” Dorksy Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, September&nbsp;2024&nbsp; &nbsp; Guest Speaker, “Mis/Communication: Language and Power in Contemporary Art Curator’s Talk,” Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Adirondack, October&nbsp;2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Guest Speaker, “Curator Talk: Moving towards Home: Art for Palestine in New York City 1989 &amp; 2024,” Korean Cultural Alliance for Palestine, Seoul, August&nbsp;2024&nbsp; &nbsp; Co-presenter, “Revisiting 5+1,” Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display Book Launch, Bard College, May&nbsp;2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Guest Lecturer, “Curatorial Process for Revisiting 5+1,” Museum Studies course (virtual), UMass Boston, March 2023&nbsp; Panelist, “Revisiting 5+1 Artist Talk featuring Howardena Pindell and Adger Cowans,” New Social Environments series for The Brooklyn Rail (virtual), February&nbsp;2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Panelist, “Curating Contemporary Asian Art,” Asia Society Museum, October&nbsp;2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Moderator, “Korean American Young Adult Fiction Today,” GYOPO LA, April&nbsp;2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Guest Lecturer, “Biennials and Global Art,” Global Contemporary, UC Irvine, May&nbsp;2019&nbsp; &nbsp; Presenter, “Art and Feminism Walkthrough,” Doosan Gallery NY, December&nbsp;2018&nbsp; &nbsp; Panelist, “Art Critics Panel,” Cheongju Residency, April&nbsp;2016&nbsp; &nbsp; Work Experience (selected) Gallery and Museum Experience November 2020-November 2025 February 2018 – August 2018January 2018 – August 2018August 2016 – May 2017 June – August 2016 November 2012 –April 2016 June – August 2015 August 2014 – April 2015 June – August 2014June 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 &amp; 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 &amp; Public Programs | Venice Arts | Venice, CA Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Academy Los Angeles County Museum of Art Teaching Experience Fall 2025– Summer 2024 Spring 2024 Fall 2023–&nbsp; Fall 2020– Fall 2018 – Fall 2021 August 2014 – April 2016 Brandeis University | Waltham, MAInstructor Asian Diasporic and Islander Art in the Pacific World (fall 2026, scheduled)Asian American Art (fall 2025) Sotheby’s Institute of Art | New York, NYInstructor&nbsp; Art History Brooklyn College | Brooklyn, NY Instructor Introduction to Art History (spring 2024)Fordham University | Bronx, NY Instructor World Art (spring 2024) Japanese Art (fall 2023, upper division undergraduate) Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY Instructor Topics in Korean Studies: Migration and Diaspora in Korean Art (summer 2023, online upper division undergraduate) Writing About Art (summer 2023, online upper division undergraduate) Topics in Korean Studies: Korean American Art (summer 2022, online upper division undergraduate) Topics in American Art: Asian American Art (spring 2022, upper division undergraduate) Arts of Asia (spring 2020, summer 2020 online, fall 2020 online, winter 2020 online, summer 2021 online, winter 2021 online, winter 2024 online) Modern Art (summer 2022 online, summer 2023) History of Photography (winter 2023 online) Teaching Assistant, 2018-2021 Modern Art (fall 2018) Arts of Asia (spring 2019, fall 2019, spring 2021) History of Photography (fall 2021) Pepperdine University | Malibu, CAArt History and Religion Division Research Mentor https://amykahng.com/contact Fri, 04 Mar 2022 16:04:09 +0000 Amy Kahng https://amykahng.com/contact contact emailaskahng (at) gmail (dot) com amykahng (at) brandeis (dot) edu ig @queenkahng twitter @amykahngaroo https://amykahng.com/Mis-Communication Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:11:40 +0000 Amy Kahng https://amykahng.com/Mis-Communication Mis/Communication:Language and Power in Contemporary ArtThis exhibition features video, sculpture, drawing, and interactive media artworks by contemporary artists who explore the power of language in a cultural context. Artists examine issues such as the global predominance of English and the societal tendency to censure other languages, dialects and linguistic practices. Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New PaltzExpanded presentationJune 15 - November 3, 2024Times of the Hudson Hyperallergic, Your Guide to Art Excursions Outside NYC in Fall 2024 Hyperallergic, 15 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York This Summer ︎ dorsky museum of art <img width="2000" height="1124" width_o="2000" height_o="1124" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a29b905f89c5491770d113b22aa795f7739211a331aa6794a32a297c6d539a1/Miscommunication-02.jpg" data-mid="245413814" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a29b905f89c5491770d113b22aa795f7739211a331aa6794a32a297c6d539a1/Miscommunication-02.jpg" /> Mis/Communication:Language and Power in Contemporary Art Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Adirondack Community College <img width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5207af7c7214ab456532389ebfad5d458aa8dfe7e98b29729ad92fc3cb864e38/IMG_4543.jpg" data-mid="245413817" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/5207af7c7214ab456532389ebfad5d458aa8dfe7e98b29729ad92fc3cb864e38/IMG_4543.jpg" /> Mis/Communication:Language and Power in Contemporary Art Marion Gallery, SUNY FredoniaNotes from the Aisle Seat ︎ marion gallery <img width="3456" height="2304" width_o="3456" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31e3c9afb6270e00e16fc64d40d6a80ee196a3e344c155f85c2ac1c2710cc656/IMG_3274.JPG" data-mid="245413818" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31e3c9afb6270e00e16fc64d40d6a80ee196a3e344c155f85c2ac1c2710cc656/IMG_3274.JPG" /> Mis/Communication:Language and Power in Contemporary Art November 11, 2021 - March 12, 2022Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University︎ paul w. zuccaire gallery Hyperallergic Carla<img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d540c0beed478d0a82ab9d6de01bedc87a92571be1f60a8b4fce88f3181aaa9f/3-2.jpg" data-mid="245413820" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d540c0beed478d0a82ab9d6de01bedc87a92571be1f60a8b4fce88f3181aaa9f/3-2.jpg" />