Books
Spirit House: Hauntings in Contemporary Art of the Asian Diaspora
Editor and author. Gregory R. Miller & Co./Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, 2024. Link
Selected Essays + Articles
“Which Is to Say, Ourselves.” Wonder Women: Art of the Asian Diaspora
Edited by Kathy Huang. Rizzoli Electa, 2025. Link
“Asian American Art and the Obligation of Museums”
Conclusion for “In the Round: Asian American Art, Pasts and Futures” section for Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, Spring 2021. Link
“Tidawhitney Lek’s Elsewheres”
For Victoria Miro Gallery, 2025. Link
“Future Pictures from the Yellow Pages of History”
For the exhibition Liên Trương: From the Earth Rise Radiant Beings, presented at the Van Every Smith Galleries at Davidson College, 2021. Link
“Magic City Modern: A Short History of the Birmingham Bessemer School”
For “In the Round: ‘Little of Artistic Merit? The Art of the American South,’” section for Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, Spring 2020. Link
Edited by Kim Conaty and Edouard Kopp; exhibition catalogue for Ruth Asawa: Through Line, presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Menil Drawing Institute. Yale University Press, 2023. Link
“Drawn Together: Ruth Asawa and Community.” Ruth Asawa Through Line
Interviews + Short Texts
Catalogue entry for Vitamin P4: New Perspectives in Painting
Entry on Pinaree Sanpitak, Phaidon, 2026. Link
Spirit as a Portal: Death, Ghosts, and Hauntings as a Door to Other Realms of Possibility
Interview with Nina Vichayapa, Social Forms of Art (SoFA) Journal, Fall 2025. Link
Catalogue entries for The American Art Book
Entries on Ruth Asawa and Bernice Bing, Phaidon, 2025. Link
Interview: Reagan Louie on Surviving the American Dream
Aperture 251, Being & Becoming: Asian in America, Summer 2023. Link
Critics Page, In Conversation: Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander and Dominique Fung
The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics, and Culture, July/August 2022. Link
One of Black Southern Art’s Greatest Advocates, William S. Arnett, Dies at 81
Hyperallergic, September 2020. Link
Book Review: Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor
Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, Spring 2020. Link
Critics Page: Thornton Dial Takes Fifth Avenue
The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics, and Culture, July/August 2018. Link
Perspectives: Ronald Lockett’s The Enemy Amongst Us and the Artistic Lineage of Bessemer, Alabama
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018. Link
Catalogue entries for Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963 — 2017
Published to accompany the exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2018. Link
Catalogue entries for Outliers and American Vanguard Art
Published to accompany the exhibition at The National Gallery of Art, DC, 2018. Link
Catalogue entries for Henry Darger 1892 — 1973
Published to accompany the exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2015. Link
Catalogue entries for Roll Call: Two Hundred Years of Black American Art
Entries on Ronald Lockett and Bill Traylor, Birmingham Museum of Art, 2026. Link