Bio

Kimberly Yu studies contemporary art with a focus on how new media visualize current conditions of capitalism and geopolitical struggles in the transpacific. Her research interests include institutional critique, critical race theory, queer theory, intersectional Marxist feminism, and Asian American studies. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2018 with degrees in art history and English. She has held positions at the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art, the Hood Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and Talley Dunn Gallery. Her writing and the exhibitions she has contributed to have touched on subjects such as colonial legacies in contemporary American art, gendered and racialized artistic labor, and Asian American video and performance art.