Joan Kee
Professor, History of Art Department, University of Michigan

TOPIC: “Afro-Asia: Frames, Boundaries, Mythologies”

Joan Kee is Professor in the History of Art at the University of Michigan focusing on modern and contemporary art from multiregional and cross-disciplinary perspectives. She is the author of Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method (2013) and Models of Integrity: Art and Law in Post-Sixties America (2019). Kee also co-edited “Contemporaneity and Art in Southeast Asia,” a thematic issue of Third Text (2011), “To Scale," a special issue of Art History (2015), and an upcoming issue of Law and Literature (2020) on the subject of art and law. Current projects include a book-length study of black and Asian artistic intersections in the late 20th century as a necessary complication of received histories of art and a general-interest book discussing emojis as a critical threshold for thinking about structural conditions manifested through law, politics and market pressures.  A 2019 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow, Kee is a contributing editor to Artforum and serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards in the U.S. the U.K., and Asia.