SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Editor and contributing author. Asian American Artists: 1840–NOW. Phaidon, forthcoming 2027.

Editor and contributing author. Spirit House: Hauntings in Contemporary Art of the Asian Diaspora. Cantor Arts Center and Gregory R. Miller & Company, 2024.

Edited Special Issue

Co-editor with Marci Kwon. “In the Round: Asian American Art: Pasts and Futures.” Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 7, no. 1 (2021).

Essays and Articles

“Which Is to Say, Ourselves.” In Wonder Women: Art of the Asian Diaspora, edited by Kathy Huang. New York: Rizzoli, 2025.

“Cathy Lu’s Secret Garden.” In Reunited: Bay Area Candidate Artists from the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ Women to Watch Program 2018–2024. San Francisco: Colpa Press and the San Francisco Advocacy for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2025.

“Tidawhitney Lek’s Elsewheres.” Exhibition essay for The Stories We Tell: Tidawhitney Lek, Emil Sands, Khalif Tahir Thompson. Victoria Miro Gallery, London, 2024.

“Drawn Together: Ruth Asawa and Community.” In Ruth Asawa: Through Line, edited by Kim Conaty and Edouard Kopp. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023.

“Atlas for the Twenty-first Century.” Catalogue essay in Panorama, Cantos Unfolding: The Art of Xiaoze Xie. Whitman College: Sheehan Gallery, 2023.

“‘Regional’ Is Not a Dirty Word.” In Unfolding Forms: Studies in Honor of Roger P. Hull, edited by Ricardo de Mambro Santos and John Olbrantz. Salem, OR: Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 2023.

“Future Pictures from the Yellow Pages of History.” Catalogue essay in Lien Truong: From the Earth Rise Radiant Beings. Davidson College: Van Every/Smith Galleries, 2021.

“Asian American Art and the Obligation of Museums.” Conclusion to “In the Round: Asian American Art: Pasts and Futures.” Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 7, no. 1 (2021).

“Magic City Modern: A Short History of the Birmingham-Bessemer School.” Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 6, no. 1 (2020).

Short Texts and Interviews

“Pinaree Sanpitak.” Vitamin P4: New Perspectives in Painting. New York: Phaidon, 2026.

“Ruth Asawa” and “Bernice Bing.” The American Art Book, revised and updated edition. New York: Phaidon, 2025.

“Interviews: Reagan Louie on Surviving the American Dream.” Aperture 251, Being & Becoming: Asian in America, Summer 2023.

“In Conversation: Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander with Dominique Fung.” Critics Page, The Brooklyn Rail, July–August 2022.

“Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor.” Book review. Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 6, no. 1 (2020).

“One of Black Southern Art’s Greatest Advocates, William S. Arnett, Dies at 81.” Hyperallergic, September 1, 2020.

“Thornton Dial Takes Fifth Avenue.” Critics Page, The Brooklyn Rail, July–August 2018.

“Jug Head I,” “Jug Head II,” “Lovers,” “Homage to Malcolm,” “The Afro American Thunderbolt,” and “Bosom for Aunt Surlina.” Catalogue entries in Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.

“Toys,” “Glass Bowl with Fruit,” “Chalkware,” “Milliner’s Head,” “Noah Purifoy,” “Baby in a Red Chair,” and “Index of American Design.” Catalogue entries in Outliers and American Vanguard Art. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2018.

“Ronald Lockett’s The Enemy Amongst Us and the Artistic Lineage of Bessemer, Alabama.” Collection Insights, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.

“Art Brut.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Taylor & Francis, 2016.

“Hobby,” “High Trash,” “Lists,” “Classification,” “Accumulation/Collection,” and “Scrapbooks.” Catalogue entries in Henry Darger 1892–1973. Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2015.