| DATE: | Saturday, September 13, 2008, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
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| PLACE: | Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue |
| SPONSORS: | Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Mills College Art Department, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Korea Foundation |
Patricia Berger
Patricia Berger is Associate Professor of Chinese Art and Chair of the Department of the History of Art at UC Berkeley. Before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1997, she served as Curator of Chinese Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and taught at Oberlin College and the University of Southern California. Her most recent book, Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China (University of Hawaii, 2003) deals with the 18th-century Qing court's use of Buddhist art in their relationship with Mongolia and Tibet. Her current research focuses on Buddhist painting and photographic portraiture in early 20th-century China and Inner Asia.
Pamela Blotner
While a Professor at the University of San Francisco, artist and writer/curator Pamela Blotner founded the Sculpture Program of the Department of Visual Art. Over the last 25 years, her work has been informed by her experiences as an Illustrator/Mission Specialist on missions for Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights, and the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center. She examines the survival strategies used by artists, the works they create in response to violence or war, and the power of art to serve as a touchstone that shapes a culture and ensures its continued survival. In December 2007 Blotner completed the first phase of her ongoing project, "The Burmese-American Art Exchange."
Sandra Cate
Anthropologist and folklorist Sandra Cate explores the material and expressive culture of Southeast Asia, in such diverse manifestations as Buddhist temple murals, contemporary art, tourism and silk weaving, Mien/Yao embroidery, festival scrolls, and traffic jams in Bangkok. Her publications include Making Merit, Making Art: A Thai Temple in Wimbledon and Converging Interests: Travelers, Traders, and Tourists in Southeast Asia. She teaches anthropology at San Jose State University and, in Spring, 2008, contemporary Thai art at Mills College.
Linda Inson Choy
L. Inson Choy is a Guest Curator for Mills College Art Museum's fall exhibition, The Offering Table: Women Activists Artists from Korea. She is an independent art historian based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her research has focused on the burgeoning feminist art/artists movement in Korea. In the spring of 2001, she curated Reconciling Femininity and Confucianism: Expressions of Contemporary Korean Women Artists, featuring six emerging feminist artists from Korea. As an independent curator and writer, she has authored several articles and essays that appear in publications including Art Asia Pacific Magazine, Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Art Journal of Discussion and Activism, and Artwomen.org.
Hyung-Min Chung
Hyung-Min Chung is Professor of Art History at Seoul National University and the Director of the Museum of Art, Seoul National University (MoA). Chung received her B.A. from Wellesley College in art history, and an M.A. from the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Penny Edwards
Penny Edwards is the Chair of the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley. A member of the department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, she specialises in the modern cultural and political history of Cambodia and Burma, with a focus on textual, material and visual narratives of national, religious, gender and racial identity. Her book Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860 -1945 (Hawaii University Press, 2007) explores the crystallisation of concepts of nation in and between Khmer and French secular and religious intellectual milieux.
Patricia Graham
Patricia Graham is an independent scholar affiliated with the University of Kansas Center for East Asian Studies as a Research Associate. She also works as a consultant and appraiser of Asian art to museums, individuals, and businesses throughout the United States . She received a Ph.D. in Japanese art history from the University of Kansas and subsequently taught Japanese art and culture at several universities, including Cornell, Hobart & Wm Smith Colleges, and the University of Kansas, served as a curator of Asian art at the St. Louis Art Museum, and Consultant for Japanese Art for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. She has been the recipient of many research grants including a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship. Her numerous publications include Tea of the Sages, the Art of Sencha (University of Hawai'i Press, 1998), Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600-2005 (University of Hawai'i Press, 2007), essays in exhibition catalogues, journals, including Orientations and Artibus Asiae, and encyclopedias, including the Grove Dictionary of Art and Encarta Encyclopedia. Her current research is for a book, Buddhist-Inspired Art in Contemporary Japan: Intersections of Tradition and Imagination. Additional information on her can be found on her web site: http://patriciagraham.net.
Charlotte Horlyck
Dr Charlotte Horlyck is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London where she lectures on Korean art and archaeology, and on theories related to the study of material culture. Prior to taking up her post at SOAS, she spent six months at the Academy of Korean Studies near Seoul as a visiting professor. She formerly curated the Korean collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Her research interests include arts of the Goryeo period, in particular bronze mirrors, Goryeo funerary material and theoretical issues relating to the study of space and material culture. She has authored several articles on Korean art and culture, and is currently co-editing a volume on Korean burial practices and perceptions of death.
Joan Kee
Joan Kee is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor focusing on modern and contemporary art in East Asia. Currently on research leave at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., Joan is working on a book project that examines painting in 1970s Korea as a crucible through which to examine the idea of a discrete contemporary Korean art. Recent writings include catalogue essays for the exhibition catalogues "Global Feminisms" (Brooklyn Museum, 2007) and "Your Bright Future," (Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2009).
Honghee Kim
Honghee Kim is the Director of Gyeonggido Museum of Art and Adjunct Professor, Hong-ik University. She received her Ph.D. in Western Art History from Hong-Ik University Graduate School, Seoul, and M.A. in Art History from Concordia University Graduate School, Montreal. She has organized numerous exhibitions in Korea and abroad, and is the recipient of the 1996 Presidential Award for the Gwangju Biennale.
Youngna Kim
Dr. Youngna Kim is a professor of Art History in the Dept. of Archaeology and Art History, Seoul National University. Before turning to research in modern and contemporary Korean art, she was trained at Ohio state University in Modern European Art. Her essays have been published in Korea, Japan and Australia. Her latest book publications are Tradition, Modernity and Identity: Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea (Hollym, 2005) and Twentieth Century Korean Art (Laurence King,London, 2005). Youngna Kim also served as the director of the Seoul National University Museum, and curated several exhibitions, including "Picasso Prints: His Art and His Love" at Samsung Museum. Currently, she is organizing a contemporary Korean art exhibition at Central House of Artists in Moscow, which will open on September 25, 2008.
Junghee Lee
Junghee Lee is Full Professor of Asian Art History in the Portland State University Department of Art, as well as a faculty member in International Studies. Her specialties are Korean art and Chinese and Korean Buddhist art. She works to introduce Korean art to the United States by presenting scholarly papers and curating contempory Korean art exhibitions across the country. After majoring in Aesthetics at Seoul National University, Junghee Lee earned her MA in Modern and Western Art History at UCLA as well as a PhD in Buddhist art. She has taught at Portland State since 1994 and worked as Consulting Curator of Korean art from 1994-1997, curating a Korean museum gallery and the special exhibition. For more information, please visit http://www.art.pdx.edu/faculty.
Hung Liu
Born in Chang Chun, China, in 1948, Hung Liu was sent to the countryside for "proletarian reeducation" for four years during the Cultural Revolution. After receiving a graduate degree and teaching at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, she was accepted into the Graduate Program in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, but waited four years for the Chinese government to issue her a passport. She finally arrived in the United States in 1984 and took her MFA in 1986. Since 1990, Hung Liu has been teaching in the Art Department at Mills College, where she is presently Full Professor. Hung Liu is a two-time recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Painting Fellowship, in 1989 and 1991, as well as a Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Award in 1992, a Eureka Fellowship in 1993, and a Joan Mitchell Painting Fellowship in 1998. In 2000 Liu also received the "Outstanding Alumna Award," University of California, San Diego, California. She has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Asia. She is represented in New York by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, in Miami by the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, and in San Francisco by the Rena Bransten Gallery. For a full CV, please visit her website, http://www.hungliu.com.
Brenda Louie
Louie is a painter and an art installation artist; her art fuses Western and Eastern visual cultures beginning with Chinese calligraphic practices and American Abstract Expressionism. As her work evolved it increasingly engaged her Chinese diasporic experiences in art that recalls, for example, memories of the social and political turmoil that was the backdrop of her youth. Brenda Louie was born Lei Yanwen in 1953 in southern China and grew up in Hong Kong. Louie immigrated to the United States in 1972. After earning a degree in Economics, Louie returned to school to study art, receiving her Master of Arts degree in painting from California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) in 1991 and her Master of Fine Arts degree in painting, drawing and art installation from Stanford University in 1993. Louie has been teaching drawing and painting at CSUS since 1996. Louie's work has been exhibited in China and the United States. For more information, please visit her website at http://www.brenda-louie.net.
Margo Machida
Dr. Margo Machida is Associate Professor of Art History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from SUNY Buffalo (2002). A scholar, independent curator, and cultural critic specializing in Asian American art and visual culture, her most recent book is the co-edited volume Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art (University of California Press, 2003). This volume received the 2005 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Among her current publications is "Reframing Asian America" in the exhibition catalogue, One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now (New York: Asia Society, 2006). Forthcoming and recent books and articles include: Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Duke University Press, February 2009); "Into the Jungle: The Art of Ming Fay" in the exhibition catalogue Jungle Tango (Eight Modern Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 2008); "Object Lessons: Materiality and Dialogism in the Art of Flo Oy Wong" in the exhibition catalogue Seventy/Thirty-Seventy Years of Living, Thirty Years of Art (Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, San Francisco, May 2008); and "Diasporas in Motion: The Visual Arts and Communities of Affinity," in Alexandra Chang, Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Art Collectives from Godzilla, Godzookie, to the Barnstormers (Timezone 8 Art Books, Beijing, China, 2008).
Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker
Professor Milford-Lutzger is the Carver Professor of Asian Art History as well as the Provost of Mills College. She has written extensively on the art of South and Southeast Asia and has curated exhibitions of Indian, Indonesian, Chinese, and Japanese art. Her current research is on contemporary Indian women artists.
Yong Soon Min
Yong Soon Min's artistic practice, inclusive of curatorial projects, incorporates diverse media and interdisciplinary processes that engage issues of representation and cultural identities, the intersection of history and memory, and the role of the artist and the arts as agents of social change. Her recent international exhibitions include: 09 Havana Bienal, 08 Gwangju Biennale, 08 Guangzhou Triennale, Gyeongiddo Museum, Cultural Center of Philippines, and Foundation for Culture and Civil Society, Kabul and Kunsthalle Darmstadt. Recent curatorial projects include transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix (with venues in Seoul, Sai Gon, Los Angeles and San Francisco); Exquisite Crisis and Encounters (Asian/Pacific/American Studies Institute of New York University); and THERE: Sites of Korean Diaspora (Fourth Gwangju Biennale). She is Professor of Studio Art at University of California, Irvine.
Mayumi Oda
Mayumi Oda was born into a Buddhist family in Tokyo. A practitioner of Soto Zen, she teaches Every Day Zen. She is a graduate of Tokyo University of Art, and she has been creating Goddesses, strong images of the feminine, for decades, exhibiting internationally. She founded Plutonium Free Future in Berkeley and Tokyo, and works for peace and environmental justice worldwide. Mayumi lives on the Big Island of Hawai'i, where she is establishing an organic farm.
Midori Yoshimoto
Midori Yoshimoto is associate professor of art history and gallery director at New Jersey City University, who specializes in Japanese avant-garde art of the 1960s. Her publications include: Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York (2005); an essay in Zen'ei no Josei 1950-1975 (2005); and entries in Yes Yoko Ono (2000). She is currently editing an issue of Women and Performance on "Women and Fluxus" and co-editing a volume of Positions on "Collectivism in the 20th century Japanese art." Yoshimoto serves as the Chair of CAA's Committee of Women in the Arts. For further information, see http://www.njcu.edu/dept/art/galleries/.
Clare You
Clare You is the Chair of the Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley. She has taught in and coordinated Korean language program for more than 25 years. In addition to teaching Korean, as Chair of the Center for Korean Studies, she directs the Center's activities. She is the recipient of the Korean Silver Medal of Culture (2003), awarded by the President of Korea in recognition of her contributions to Korean education abroad and cultural exchanges between Korea and the United States.
O Zhang
O Zhang is a Chinese artist working in photography and mix media. A graduate of Royal College of Art in London and Central Academy of Art in Beijing, she moved to New York in 2004. Her work has been included in shows throughout Europe, America and China, including Kunsthalle Museum (Hamburg), Miro Museum (Barcelona) and is in the collections of Guggenheim Museum (NY), Santa Barbara Museum (CA), etc. O Zhang was the recipient of The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Artist Fellowship and has been invited to give lecture in Oxford University. She will have a solo show in New York CRG gallery and artist residency at the Queen's Museum this fall. Website: http://www.ozhang.com.
