Mills College Art Lecture Series: Margo Machida

Margo Machida: "Trans-Pacific Visions: Islands and Oceanic Imaginaries in Asian American Art"
October 20, 2016
7:00 PM, Lisser Theater

Margo Machida, PhD, is Professor of Art History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut.  Born and raised in Hawai’i, she is a scholar, independent curator, and activist cultural critic specializing in Asian American art and visual culture. Her book, Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2009) received the Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. She is an Associate Editor of the international journal, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (Brill) and co-editor of the 2017 special issue, “Island Worlds, Oceanic Diasporas, & Global Flows.”

Recent publications include: “Trans-Pacific Sitings: The Roving Imagery of Lynne Yamamoto” (Third Text, Spring 2014); “Devouring Hawai’i: Food, Consumption, and Contemporary Art” in Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader (New York University Press, 2013); and “Convergent Conversations – The Nexus of Asian American Art” in A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). Jane Green Endowed Lecture in Art History.