Alice Ming Wai Jim

Alice Ming Wai Jim
Born 1970 (age 47–48)
Nationality Chinese-Canadian
Education MA, Concordia University (1996) , PhD, Dean's Honour Roll, SSHRC and FCAR doctoral fellow, McGill University (2004),
Known for Educator, Independent Curator, Writer, Researcher
Awards Artexte Prize for Research in Contemporary Art

Alice Ming Wai Jim (born 1970) is an art historian, curator and an associate professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She focuses her research on contemporary Asian art and contemporary Asian Canadian art, particularly on the relationships between remix culture and place identity.

Jim was the Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies and the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong. She was also the curator at the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art aka Centre A in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from 2003 until 2006.

Exhibitions and Symposiums

In 2014, Jim participated as a co-organizer for "Performing Asian/Americas: Converging Movements," for the ninth Encuentro of The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Montreal, and as a co-director of the workshop "Contemporary Art and the Inter-Asian Imaginary" for Inter-Asian Connections IV, Istanbul.[1] In 2013 she curated "Yam Lau: A World is a Model of the World" at the Darling Foundry, Montreal.[2]

Publications

Jim is the co-editor of the Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA) with Alexandra Chang.[3] the scope of her published writing work also have taken the form of essays, exhibition catalogues and anthologies. Other texts include "The Maraya Project: Research-Creation, Inter-reference and the Worlding of Asian Cities" in the journal Third Text, Volume 28, 2014, "RoCH Redux" in Yishu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art,[4] "Mediating Place-Identity: Notes on Mathias Woo's A Very Good City" in Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, 2008,[5] "Let Your Fingers Do the Walking: Rereading Ho Tam's The Yellow Pages' in Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen,[6] and "Articulating Spaces of Representation, Contemporary Black Women Artists in Canada" in Racism, Eh? A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada, 2004[7]

  • Cornell, Lauren; Halter, Ed (2015). Mass effect: art and the internet in the twenty-first century. ISBN 978-0-262-33069-5. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  • Ford, Norman Jackson; Jim, Alice Ming Wai; Pamminger, Klaus; Gamauf, Susanne (2001). Traversals. Hong Kong: MapBook Publishers. ISBN 978-962-86040-2-9.
  • Henders, Susan J; Cho, Lily; Jim, Alice Ming Wai (2014). Human rights and the arts: perspectives on global Asia. ISBN 978-0-7391-8473-8.
  • Jessup, Lynda; Robertson, Kirsty; Morton, Erin (2014). Negotiations in a vacant lot: studying the visual in Canada. ISBN 978-0-7735-9637-5. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  • Jim, Alice Ming Wai; Hameed, Ayesha; Institut de recherche en art canadien Gail et Stephen A. Jarislowsky; FOFA Gallery (2008). Rearranging desires: curating the Other within. Montréal: Gail & Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institut for Studies in Canadian Art : Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Concordia University. ISBN 978-0-88947-468-0.
  • Jim, Alice Ming Wai; Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art; Centre A; Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver (2007). Redress express. Vancouver: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. ISBN 978-0-9732711-8-8.
  • Jim, Alice Ming Wai (1996). Transculturalism in Asian Diasporic Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Jim, Alice Ming Wai; Mahan, Patrick; Reeves, Ben; Gu Xiong; Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (2005). Shifting space: Patrick Mahan, Ben Reeves, Gu Xiong. Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.
  • Jim, Alice Ming Wai (1996). "Black women artists in Canada: a documentation and analysis of the 1989 exhibition Black wimmin, when and where we enter".
  • Le, Viet; Ming Wai Jim, Alice; Thinh Võ, Linda (2005). Charlie don't surf!: 4 Vietnamese American artists. Vancouver: Centre A. ISBN 978-0-9732711-1-9.

Awards

Jim was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Faculty of Fine Arts through the nominations of Concordia's Graduate and Undergraduate students in the category of Emerging Teacher.[8] She was also awarded the Artexte Prize for Research in Contemporary Art, the second recipient of the prize since its inception in 2012.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Inter-Asian Connections IV: Istanbul (2013)". Social Science Research Council. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
  2. ↑ "Darling Foundry | A World is a Model of the World". fonderiedarling.org. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
  3. ↑ "Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas".
  4. ↑ Jim, Alice Ming Wai. "RoCH Redux". Yishu Online.
  5. ↑ Olivier Asselin; Johanne Lamoureux; Christine Ross (2008). Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 264–. ISBN 978-0-7735-7439-7.
  6. ↑ Chang, Elaine (2004-10-14). Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen. Coach House Books. ISBN 9781770561878.
  7. ↑ Nelson, Charmaine; Nelson, Camille Antoinette (2004-01-01). Racism, Eh?: A Critical Inter-disciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada. Captus Press. ISBN 9781553220619.
  8. ↑ "3 exceptional Fine Arts instructors earn 2014 Distinguished Teaching Awards". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
  9. ↑ "Alice Ming Wai Jim named recipient of the Artexte Prize for Research in Contemporary Art | Artexte". artexte.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
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