Joan Kee Explained

Joan Kee is an American art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art who serves as Professor in the History of Art at the University of Michigan.[1] On June 27, 2024, Kee was appointed as Judy and Michael Steinhard Director of New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, a position she will assume on August 19, 2024.[2]

Academic career

Kee earned her PhD at New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Her supervisor was Shitao scholar Jonathan Hay. Research for her dissertation was supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Kee also obtained a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA from Yale College, where she graduated magna cum laude.[3]

Her first book, Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method, published by University of Minnesota Press in 2013, is credited[4] [5] with sparking global interest[6] in Dansaekhwa, a major constellation of abstract paintings produced in South Korea from the 1960s. In 2014, she curated From All Sides: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method,[7] a group show of representative Tansaekhwa artists that was widely acclaimed.[8] She has been cited as Tansaekhwa's most prominent Anglophone scholar.[9]

Kee's latest book – The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art beyond Solidarity, published April 2023 – presents a framework for understanding the rich and surprisingly understudied relationship between Black and Asian artists and the worlds they initiate through their work. Her previous book, Models of Integrity Art and Law in Post-Sixties America, includes discussion of the following artists, among others; Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Gordon Matta-Clark, Tehching Hsieh, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Sally Mann.[10] Kee is a contributing editor to Artforum,[11] advisory editor to the Oxford Art Journal,[12] editor at large for the Brooklyn Rail,[13] and also sits on the international advisory board of Art History.[14] She has been cited in reference to artists like Zao Wou-ki, Gordon Matta-Clark, and to Park Seobo.[15] [16] [17]

Selected publications

Selected appearances

Fellowships and awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Joan Kee, Professor & Director of Graduate Studies.
  2. Web site: McGlone . Peggy . 2024-06-27 . Joan Kee Named Director of NYU's Institute of Fine Arts . 2024-06-28 . New York University . en.
  3. Web site: Joan Kee, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies.
  4. Web site: 2016-05-18 . artnet Asks: K Auction on the Market's Dansaekhwa Moment . 2019-03-03 . artnet News . en-US.
  5. Web site: 2016-12-12 . Why South Korea's monochrome painting movement is the art world's latest obsession .
  6. 30 September 2015 . The Koreans at the Top of the Art World . September 30, 2015 . The New Yorker.
  7. Web site: FROM ALL SIDES: TANSAEKHWA ON ABSTRACTION . 6 May 2016 . Blum & Poe.
  8. Web site: 17 December 2014 . L.A.'s Best, 2014: Connie Butler .
  9. News: Schwabsky . Barry . 2015-12-17 . It's Time To Stop Ignoring South Korean Abstract Art . 2018-12-21 . The Nation . en-US . 0027-8378.
  10. Book: Kee . Joan . Models of Integrity . March 2019 . 9780520299382 . en.
  11. Web site: Artforum Contributing Editors Release Statement on Allegations . 2019-03-03 . www.artforum.com . en-US.
  12. Web site: Editorial_Board Oxford Art Journal Oxford Academic . 2019-03-03 . academic.oup.com.
  13. Web site: Bui . Phong . 5 February 2019 . Dear Friends and Readers . 2019-03-03 . The Brooklyn Rail.
  14. Web site: Art History . 2019-03-03 . onlinelibrary.wiley.com.
  15. News: Seno . Alexandra a . 2009-05-21 . The Subtle Power of Zao Wou-Ki . 2019-03-03 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  16. News: Feinstein . Laura . 22 February 2018 . New York Needs Gordon Matta-Clark Now More Than Ever . 2019-03-03 . Bloomberg.com . en.
  17. Web site: Seno . Alexandra A. . 2011-05-19 . Park Seo-bo: 'Role of Art Is To Make People Worry' . 2019-03-03 . WSJ . en-US.
  18. Kee. Joan. 2011-07-01. Introduction Contemporary Southeast Asian Art. Third Text. 25. 4. 371–381. 10.1080/09528822.2011.587681. 142968600. 0952-8822.
  19. Book: Contemporary Korean Art. en.
  20. Kee. Joan. 2013. Contemporary Art in Early Colonial Korea: The Self Portraits of Ko Hui-dong. Art History. en. 36. 2. 392–417. 10.1111/j.1467-8365.2013.00950.x. 1467-8365.
  21. SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class journal research. en. 10.1177/1743872114533656. 147125132.
  22. Kee. Joan. 2014-06-01. What Scale Affords Us: Sizing the World Up through Scale. ARTMargins. 3. 2. 3–30. 10.1162/ARTM_a_00079. 57561517. 2162-2574.
  23. Web site: To Scale. Wiley.com. en-us. 2019-03-03.
  24. Web site: FROM ALL SIDES: TANSAEKHWA ON ABSTRACTION. Blum & Poe. en. 2019-03-03.
  25. Kee. Joan. 2015. The Measure of the World: Scenes from a Journey to Kaesŏng. Art History. en. 38. 2. 364–385. 10.1111/1467-8365.12154. 1467-8365.
  26. Web site: Why Performance in Authoritarian Korea? – Tate Papers. Tate. Tate. en-GB. 2019-03-03.
  27. Orders of Law in the One Year Performances of Tehching Hsieh. American Art. 30. 72–91. 10.1086/686549. 2016. Kee. Joan. 155868708.
  28. Art Chasing Law: The Case of Yoko Ono's Rape. Law & Literature. 28. 2. 187–208. 10.1080/1535685x.2016.1185280. 2016. Kee. Joan. 148252029.
  29. Web site: How Art and Law Can Work Together Beyond the Marketplace. 2017-01-12. Hyperallergic. en-US. 2018-12-21.
  30. Web site: Modern Art in Late Colonial Korea: A Research Experiment Modernism / Modernity Print+. modernismmodernity.org. 2019-03-03.
  31. Book: Models of Integrity. March 2019 . 9780520299382 . en. Kee . Joan .
  32. Web site: "12th Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders" Art Agenda. 2018-12-21.
  33. Web site: Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Announces 2007–2008 Appointments. www.nga.gov. 2018-12-21.

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