Clarice Lee (she/her) is a second-year M.A. student specializing in Modern and Contemporary Art informed by feminist, critical race, and postcolonial studies. Her research broadly focuses on the notion of nationhood in relation to globalism, third world feminisms, and the legacies of colonialism. At the Institute, she is also a member of IFA Contemporary Asia. She is currently the Curatorial and Education intern at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Clarice received her B.A. from the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at NYU in 2021.
Malaika Newsome is a second-year M.A. student at the Institute of Fine Arts with focus on African and African Diasporic Art in Europe during the 19th and 20th century. She worked at the WCU Fine Art Museum where she curated works in Cultivating Collections: Vitreographs, Glass, Works by Black Artists, and Ceramics. She served as a curator for the online exhibition Straight Lick as part of the Black Art Sessions. Additionally, she volunteered at Atlanta History Center, High Museum of Art, and MOCA GA and has worked on projects with The Curator’s Pick. She obtained her B.A. in Anthropology from Western Carolina University in 2022.
Ruiqi Wang, a graduate from the School of Humanities at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, is currently pursuing her second year of studies in Art History at the MA level. Her research is centered on female and transgender immigrant labor groups within the contemporary Sinosphere. In 2021, she curated the exhibition "Touch the Heat" in Guangzhou and has gained internship experiences at Beijing Contemporary and the Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Fiona Yu is a second-year M.A. student at the Institute of Fine Arts. Anchored in critical race and feminist studies, her current research focuses on Asian American art in the 1990s. She is interested in the psychological and material impacts of colonialism and how the evolving legal infrastructures and capital interests come to shape the racialization of Asian Americans. While being a co-organizer of IFA Contemporary Asia, she has assisted in multiple curatorial projects at the Amant Foundation, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, and Richard Taittinger Gallery. Fiona holds a B.A. from the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at NYU.
This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Valeria NapoleoneXX.
We extend special thanks to the artist, Maia Ruth Lee, and to the Tina Kim Gallery and Diana Lee. Catherine Quan Damman, Christine Poggi, Sarah Higby, and Sofia Palumbo-Dawson provided faculty and administrative support; Jason Varone designed the website.
Since 1932, The Institute of Fine Arts has been dedicated to graduate teaching and advanced research in the history of art, archaeology, curation, and conservation. The Great Hall Exhibition was formed as a student-led coalition in 2013 with a focus on presenting contemporary art in the Duke House’s Beaux-Arts interior. Acclaimed artists Lynda Benglis, Rachel Harrison, Martha Friedman, Judith Hopf, Jamie Eisenstein, Amy Yao, Sarah Peters, Xaviera Simmons, Cauleen Smith, Avital Meshi, and Mónica Félix are among those featured to date.
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