Amy Kahng: Awarded the Patricia and Phillip Frost Fellowship

 

Amy Kahng has been awarded the Patricia and Phillip Frost Fellowship, a one-year pre-doctoral Smithsonian fellowship offered to support research in American art and visual culture. Under the guidance of a curator, the fellow will be in residence at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, utilizing the materials in the Archives of American Art. 

 

Amy's dissertation project, "From the Frontier to Unrooted Global Citizenship: Twentieth Century Asian American Landscape," examines the work of four twentieth century Asian American artists and their relationship to land and landscape. Through four artist case studies of Chiura Obata (1885-1975), Bernice Bing (1936-1998), Nam June Paik (1932-2006), and Yong Soon Min (b.1953), the project examines how Asian American art production in relation to land from the 1930s-1990s expands our current knowledge of twentieth century American modernism, the more recent politics of multiculturalism in the U.S., and the logics of settler colonialism by non-white actors.