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Margo Machida

Margo Machida

 

 

Margo Machida

Associate Professor of Art History
and Asian American Studies
Fine Arts Building - Rm 217
Phone: 860 486 . 2678
Email: margo.machida@uconn.edu

 

Margo Machida is Associate Professor of Art History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from SUNY Buffalo.

A scholar, independent curator, and cultural critic specializing in Asian American art and visual culture, her most recent book is the forthcoming Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Duke University Press, January 2009).

She is also the co-editor of Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art (University of California Press, 2003). This volume received the 2005 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies.

Among her recent publications are:

  • "Icons of Presence: Three Chinese American Artists" in Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art (Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, October 2008)
  • "Art and Social Consciousness: Asian American and Pacific Islander Artists in San Francisco 1965-1980" in Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970, eds. Gordon Chang, Mark Dean Johnson, & Paul Karlstrom (Stanford University Press, September 2008)
  • "Diasporas in Motion: The Visual Arts and Communities of Affinity,” in Alexandra Chang, Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Art Collectives from Godzilla, Godzookie, to the Barnstormers (Timezone 8 Art Books, Beijing, China, 2008)
  • "Into the Jungle: The Art of Ming Fay” in Jungle Tango (Eight Modern Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 2008)
  • "Object Lessons: Materiality and Dialogism in the Art of Flo Oy Wong” in Seventy/Thirty—Seventy Years of Living, Thirty Years of Art (Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, San Francisco, May 2008)
  • "Reframing Asian America” in One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now (New York: Asia Society, 2006).

Dr. Machida received the national 2009 Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, presented in conjunction with the College Art Association conference in Los Angeles in February 2009.

Download Margo Machida's Curriculum Vitae (PDF)