Kimberly Yu studies contemporary art with a focus on the legacies and entanglements of Japanese and U.S. imperialism. Her dissertation project examines interdisciplinary artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's engagements with earth, air, body, and spirit, tracing feminist ties in the artist's oeuvre to other artists' practices across the transpacific. Yu graduated from Dartmouth College in 2018 with degrees in art history and English. She has held curatorial positions at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art, and the Hood Museum of Art. Her writing and the exhibitions she's organized have touched on subjects such as gendered and racialized artistic labor, ongoing histories of American colonialism, and Asian American video and performance art.
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