Curators in Conversation: Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America

Kang is curator of collections and exhibitions at the Barnes. Since joining the curatorial team in 2017, Kang has been essential to the Barnes’s efforts to highlight the underrecognized contributions of women and artists of color. Over the past nine years, she has served as organizer or co-curator of Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris (2023); Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community (2022); Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray (2020); and Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist (2018). Kang received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Kim is an associate professor of art history at Drexel University. A scholar of American art, she has published articles in American Art Journal, Frontiers, and Visual Resources Journal as well as essays for exhibition catalogues and anthologies. Her research has been awarded grants from the Henry Moore Foundation, USC Shoah Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and Georgia O’Keeffe Research Center. She holds a BA in women’s studies from Barnard College and an MA and a PhD in art history from the University of California, Berkeley.