ALICE MING WAI JIM is an art historian and curator based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She is currently Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Curatorial Studies and Decolonizing Art Institutions and founding editor-in-chief of the journal Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (Brill, in association with Concordia University and New York University). Her research and teaching on diasporic art in Canada and contemporary Asian art has generated new dialogues within and between the fields of ethnocultural and global art histories, media arts, critical race museology, and curatorial studies. She has curated numerous exhibitions by artists of colour and Indigenous artists and organized major scholarly events within academic settings and for the broader arts community in Canada and internationally.
She is a co-investigator member of the international media arts Hexagram Research-Creation Network in Art, Culture, and Technology (funded by FRQ-SC Regroupement de recherche grant) and a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant project, Thinking Through the Museum. Jim is a member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada and was inducted as a Companion to l’Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec in 2024. A core member of the NYU Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange since 2014, Jim co-convened GAX 2019 Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal): Asian Indigenous Relations in Contemporary Art and is currently editing with Jacqueline Lo and Sebastian De Line the GAX anthology on the same theme and the group’s activities for over a decade.
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