The Institute of Fine Arts Faculty

Since the mid-1990s, Kee has written broadly on Asian diasporic (including Asian American) artists and Southeast Asian art from the mid-2000s, including editing a special issue on contemporary Southeast Asian art (2014) and serving as advisor to DiB Museum in Bangkok.

Kee is especially interested in applied art history—mobilizing art historical methods, particularly close visual analysis, to address phenomena outside traditional art historical domains, from legal reasoning to digital communication. As Director, she has made this commitment to applied art history and field-building central to IFA's institutional mission: rather than pursuing comprehensive chronological and geographic coverage, IFA trains art historians who can generate new analytical frameworks, work across disciplinary boundaries, and embrace intellectual risk.

She co-leads "Building the Field of Modern Art History in Central Asia," a Getty Foundation-funded initiative establishing scholarly networks for contemporary art in Central Asia, with traveling seminars in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan emphasizing non-Soviet narratives and historically overlooked women and feminist artists. Kee presently co-edits Primary Documents: Korea for the Museum of Modern Art and serves as Contributing Editor at Artforum, Editor-at-Large at Brooklyn Rail, and the advisory boards of Oxford Art Journal, Art History, and Modernism/modernity.