CHRISTINE Y. KIM
CONTEMPORARY ART CURATOR
LOS ANGELES
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Exhibitions
Edgar Arceneaux: Drawings of Removal, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2002)
The Light Show, Gale Gates (Emerging Curator Series), Brooklyn, 2000
Peter Norton Residence, CPW1, New York (2005 - 06)
18th Annual, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 2010
19th Annual, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 2011
Art Public, Art Basel Miami Beach, 2011
Art Public, Art Basel Miami Beach (2012)
John Bankston: Capture and Escape of Mr. M, Ch. 1, 2001
Hands On, Hands Down: Artists-in-Residence,* 2003
Lamar Peterson: Picture in a Picture, 2005
Portraits, Landscapes and Abstractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem Permanent Collection at City Hall,* Hon. Michael Bloomberg, 2007-09
Ironic Iconic: Artists-in-Residence, 2002
Scratch: Artists-in-Residence, 2005
Collection in Context: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Quid Pro Quo: Artists-in-Residence, 2006
Collection in Context: Silhouette, 2007
Midnight’s Daydream: Artists-in-Residence, 2007
Odili Donald Odita: Equalizer, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2008)
Figure and Form in Contemporary Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection, 2012
Frances Stark: The Magic Flute, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2017)
Purloined, group exhibition, Artists Space, New York, 2001
Freestyle, group exhibition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2001
Africaine, group exhibition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2001
Black Belt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2003
Figuratively: Dave McKenzie, Wangechi Mutu, and William Villalongo, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2004
Meschac Gaba: Tresses, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2005
Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2005
Nadine Robinson: Alles Grau, 2006
Philosophy of Time Travel, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2007
Henry Taylor: Sis and Bra, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2007
Flow, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2008
Kehinde Wiley: World Stage Africa, Lagos – Dakar, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2008
Teresa Margolles in collaboration with Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), 2010-11
Human Nature: Selections from the Permanent Collection, co-curated with Franklin Sirmans, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011
Christian Marclay: The Clock, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011, 2012, 2015
James Turrell: A Retrospective, 2013-15, co-curated with Michael Govan in conjunction with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York; toured National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2014
My Barbarian: Double Agency, co-curated with Rita Gonzalez, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015
Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination, 2015, co-curated with Lynne Cooke; toured Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2016-17
The Ends: The Politics of Participation in the Post-Internet Age, 12th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, 2018
Isaac Julien: Playtime, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019
Julie Mehretu, co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2019-2022
Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2021-22
Minor Feelings, co-curated with Harry Choi, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2027-29
sister dreamer, lauren’s halsey’s ode to tha surge n splurge of southcentral los angeles, presented by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), in partnership withsummaeverythang community center, Los Angeles, 2026-27
Sovereignty of Quiet: Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Colescott, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Barkley Hendricks, Rashid Johnson, Tau Lewis, Jennifer Packer, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Charles White, Tate Modern 2026-27
Poetics of Blackness: Dawoud Bey and Roy DeCarava, Tate Modern 2025-26
Barbara Chase-Riboud and Robert Motherwell, Tate Modern, 2024-25
WRITINGS
“From Dual to Plural: Five Korean American Artists.” The Korean War in American Art & Culture: Fifty Years Later exhibition catalogue, East Hampton: Keener’s East End Litho (2000)
"(212) Staging Illusion.” (212): Diti Almog, Wayne Gonzales, Odili Donald Odita, Lisa Ruyter, and John Tremblay exhibition catalogue (2000)
“Intervention with Odili Donald Odita.” Odili Donald Odita exhibition catalogue, Florence Lynch, New York (2001)
“Faux Real: Interview with Kehinde Wiley.” Black Romantic exhibition catalogue, ed. Thelma Golden, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2002)
“Colorblind? Luis Gispert, Rico Gatson, Glenn Kaino, Julie Mehretu, Yunhee Min, Kori Newkirk, Nadine Robinson, Eduardo Sarabia, Eric Wesley.” V Magazine (March/April 2003)
“Kehinde Wiley Faux Real.” Issue Magazine (Fall 2003)
“Long Ago and Far Away.” Eduardo Sarabia exhibition catalogue, I-20, New York (2003)
”Kori Newkirk.” Issue Magazine (2015)
“Candice Breitz: Third Degree Burn.” Candice Breitz: Cuttings exhibition catalogue, Centrum fϋr Gegensartskunst, Linz, Austria (2001)
“Mark Bradford: it’s tricky to rock a rhyme to rock a rhyme that’s right on time.” Zing Magazine (Winter 2005)
“Wangechi Mutu: The Pin-ups.” Wangechi Mutu: A Shady Promise, Damiani Press (2008)
“Deposing Dualities in Prospect 3.” Prospect 3: Notes for Now, Prestel, NY (2014)
“1966 and the Light in LA.” Unexpected Light: Works by Young-Il Ahn, LACMA, Baik Art Gallery (2017)
”Letter to my Sixth Grade Self.” Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts, eds. Christopher K. Ho and Daisy Nam, Paper Monument (2021)
“Calida Rawles: In Conversation.” Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides, exhibition catalogue, ed. Maritza M. Lacayo, Pérez Art Museum Miami (2024)
“Mickalene Thomas: Experimentation and the Aughts.” Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, exhibition catalogue, ed. Ed Schad, The Broad, Los Angeles and Hayward Gallery, London (2024)
“The Aughts and the F Shows: Studio Museum in Harlem 2000-08." The Studio Museum in Harlem, forthcoming publication (2026)
“Julie Mehretu." Meaning, Matter, Memory: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2025)
“Suki Seokyeong Kang: Willow Drum Oriole.” Suki Seokyeong Kang: Willow Drum Oriole, exhibition catalogue, ed. June Young Kwak and Harry Choi, Leeum Museum, Berlin: Hatze Cantz Verlag (2024)
press
5 Questions, 5 Artists: Representing Legacy | Mr. Wash, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (August 2022)
“Black American Portaits, LACMA.” IMUUR2: Art, Aesthetics, and Asian America convening, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University (October 28-20, 2022)
5 Questions, 5 Artists: Reframing Portraiture | Titus Kaphar, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (December 2021)
Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest, film, Checkerboard Foundation (2021)
Christine Y. Kim and Calida Rawles | Conversations with Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (September 2020)
Readings from Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts, GYOPO (June 2021)
Julie Mehretu _ Shifting Architectures and Painted Landscapes, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (April 2020)
Pérez, Marina. "Isaac Julien: Standing the test of time." Metal Magazine (2019)
Lifson, Edward. “James Turrell Experiments with ‘The Thingness of Light Itself’.” National Public Radio (September 2014)
Conversations | Salon | Art Public Talk | Theaster Gates, Art Basel (December 2011)
Sirmans, Franklin. “Mapping a New, and Urgent, History of the World.” The New York Times (December 9, 2001)
Murray, Derek Conrad. “Freestyle.” Nka Journal Contemporary African Art (Fall/Winter 2001), 92
Cotter, Holland. “Invoking Marcus Garvey While Looking Ahead.” The New York Times (August 24, 2001), E30
Saltz, Jerry. “Post-Black: Radical Intelligence at The Studio Museum in Harlem.” Village Voice (May 22, 2001)
Interview with Thelma Golden, Christine Y. Kim, Sanford Biggers and Adia Millett by Charlie Rose, Charlie Rose, PBS (June 8, 2001)
Cotter, Holland. “For Hikers Seeking Art, Brooklyn Is a Left Bank.” The New York Times (December 15, 2000), E37
Sirmans, Franklin. “The Light Show.” Time Out New York (October 12-19, 2000), 58
Cotter, Holland. “A Full Studio Museum Show Starts with 28 Young Artists and a Shoehorn.” The New York Times (May 11, 2001), E36
Cotter, Holland. “Claudia and Julia Mueller, Olu Oguibe, Senam Okudzeto, Outtara Watts.” The New York Times (July 27, 2001), E29
Griffin, Tim. “Ironic/Iconic.” Artforum (November 2002), 189
Cotter, Holland. “Ironic/Iconic.” The New York Times (August 2, 2002)
Barliant, Claire. “Africaine.” Art on Paper (July-August, 2002)
Murray, Derek. “‘Ironic/Iconic’ at the Studio Museum in Harlem.” Art in America (March 2003), 127
Dailey, Meghan. “Black Belt.” Artforum (September 2003), 70
Budick, Ariella. “Bruce Lee: Icon of African-Asian Fusion.” Newsday (October 23, 2003)
Nicols, Matthew Guy. “Hands On, Hands Down,’ at the Studio Museum in Harlem.” Art in America (February 2004), 126
Fineman, Mia. “The History of Art, in Baggy Jeans and Bomber Jackets.” The New York Times (December 19, 2004), AR 39
Eleey, Peter. “Black Belt.” Frieze (March 2004), 95
Cotter, Holland. “Black Comes in Many Shadings.” The New York Times (August 13, 2004), E29
Vogel, Carol. “An Artist’s Gallery of Ideas.” The New York Times (May 5, 2005), E1
Smith, Roberta. “Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist.” The New York Times (November 18, 2005), E37
Smith, Roberta. “Altered Views in the House of Modernism.” The New York Times (April 29, 2005), E31
Jana, Reena. “Paint it Black.” TimeOut New York, Issue 519 (September 8-14, 2005), 21
Lowry, Vicky. “A Fresh Take.” Elle Décor (September 2005), 160-63
Cotter, Holland. “Studio Museum in Harlem: Scratch: 2004-05 Artists-in-Residence: William Cordova, Michael Queenland and Marc Andre Robinson.” The New York Times (August 18, 2005), E23
Gronlund, Melissa. “Frequency.” Frieze. Issue 97 (March 2006), 154-5
Goodyear, Sarah. “Wangechi Mutu: An Artist Comes Into Her Own.” BKLYN (Spring 2006), 20-3
Cotter, Holland. “Quid Pro Quo: Rashawn Griffin, Karyn Olivier, and Clifford Owens.” The New York Times (Saturday, 8, 2006), E28
Schwendener, Martha. “Three Contemporaries, Each With A Different Way to View the Past.” The New York Times (August 11, 2007), B13
Richard, Frances. “Midnight’s Daydream: Titus Kaphar, Wardell Milan II, Demetrius Oliver.” Artforum (November 2007), 371
Finkel, Jori. “A Reluctant Fraternity, Thinking Post-Black.” The New York Times (June 10, 2007), AR 29
Bayliss, Sarah H. “c.” ARTnews, Vol. 106. No. 8 (September 2007), 140-41
Smith, Roberta. “Art Review. Kehinde Wiley: A Hot Conceptualist Finds the Secret of Skin.” The New York Times (Sept. 4, 2008)
Lipton, Shana Tang. “Student Art Show Takes a Field Trip to Chinatown.” Los Angeles Times (May 29, 2008), 26
Kunitz, Daniel. “Wiley Conquers the ‘World Stage.’” The New York Sun (August 8, 2008)
Fels, Sophie. “Paint it Black: Portraitist Kehinde Wiley temporarily sets up shop in Africa.” TimeOut New York, Issue 667 (July 10-16, 2008)
Collins, Lauren. “Studio Visit: Lost and Found.” The New Yorker (Sept 1, 2008)
Myers, Holly. “Art that Makes a Public Spectacle of Itself.” Los Angeles Times (June 6, 2010)
Olivier, Ellen. “Scene & Heard: Los Angeles Nomadic Division art fundraiser.” Los Angeles Times (July 25, 2010)
Johnson, Reed. “For Christian Marclay, ‘The Clock’ continues to tick.” Los Angeles Times (May 18, 2011)
Pincus-Roth, Zachary. James Turrell’s Mind-Bending One-Person Light Show is the Hottest Ticket in L.A.” LA Weekly (May 25, 2013)
Nathan, Hillary. “Light at the End of the Turrell.” ARTnews (April 4, 2013)
Stromberg, Matt. “In Diana Thater’s Immersive Videoscapes at LACMA, Viewers Enter a World Governed by Animals.” Artsy (November 30, 2015)
Velasco, David. "My Barbarian talks about Double Agency” at LACMA.” Artforum (April 27, 2015)
Kim, Christine Y. “Diana Thater ‘The Sympathetic Imagination’ at LACMA, Los Angeles.” Interview with Diana Thater, Mousse Magazine (2016)
Wagley, Catherine G. “Sweet Melodies: Frances Stark Stages Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’ in Los Angeles.” ARTnews (May 5, 2017)
Griffin, Jonathan. “Frances Stark: ‘Contemporary artists are hyper-alienated and hypercompetitive.’” The Guardian (April 24, 2017)
Zion, Amy. “12th Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders.” e-flux (October 19, 2019)
Perlson, Hili. “The Gwangju Biennale is Overly Ambitious, Muddled, Difficult to Navigate -- and at Times, Extremely Rewarding.” Artnet (September 11, 2018)
Moldan, Teresa. “Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders.” Ocula Magazine (September 20, 2018)
Movius, Lisa. “11 Curators Delve into South Korea’s Hidden Traumas.” The Art Newspaper (October 1, 2018)
Kwon Mee-yoo. “Looking for Needle in Gwangju’s Biennale’s Haystack.” The Korea Times (September 13, 2019)
Chung, Hayoung. “Curators Strive to Transcend National Borders at the Gwangju Biennale.” Hyperallergic (October 12, 2018)
Wagley, Catherine. “Julie Mehretu’s New LACMA Survey Reveals an Artist at the Peak of Her Power—But Also One Unusually Eager to Share the Credit.” Artnet (November 11, 2019)
Merjian, Ara H. “Julie Mehretu Review: War, Racial Conflict and Migration Simmer Beneath Abstract Surfaces.” Frieze (November 27, 2019)
Scott, Chadd. “Julie Mehretu Mid-Career Survey Dazzles At Los Angeles County Museum Of Art.” Forbes (December 29, 2019)
Greenberger, Alex. “The Studio Museum in Harlem Effect: How the Institution Became a Key Art Space.” ARTnews (December 8, 2020)
Gerwin, Daniel. “Julie Mehretu’s Sublime Abstractions of History.” Hyperallergic (January 6, 2020)
Bryan-Wilson, Julia. “Julie Mehretu, LACMA.” Artforum (February 2020)
Pogrebin, Robin. “Julie Mehretu’s Reckoning with Success.” New York Times (March 21, 2021)
Kennicott, Phillip. “At the Whitney, the monumental works of Julie Mehretu begin to stack up.” Washington Post (July 7, 2021)
Keats, Jonathan. “In A Thrilling Whitney Retrospective, Ethiopian-American Artist Julie Mehretu Maps A Radical New Path For Geopolitics.” Forbes (April 26, 2021)
Ho, Christopher K.; Nam, Daisy. “Interviews: Christopher K. Ho and Daisy Nam.” Artforum (May 21, 2021)
George, Cassidy. “The Irreducible Julie Mehretu.” New York Magazine (March 26, 2021)
Hicks, Cinque. “Review: Powerful ‘Black American Portraits’ at Spelman sets new benchmark.” Arts ATL (March 6, 2023)
Feaster, Felicia. “A thrilling exhibition of Black subjects and artists at Spelman.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (February 15, 2023)
Murray, Derek Conrad. “Freestyle.” Nka Journal Contemporary African Art (Fall/Winter 2001)
Murray, Soraya. “Africaine.” Nka Journal Contemporary African Art (Fall/Winter 2002)
Smith, Roberta. “A Cornucopia of Cultural Exchange, Beginning With a Martial Arts Hero.” The New York Times (November 28, 2003)
Cotter, Holland. “Meschac Gaba: ‘Tresses.’” The New York Times (March 4, 2005)
Kastner, Jeffrey. “Frequency.” Artforum, Vol. XLIV, No. 5 (January 2006)
Cotter, Holland. “Nadine Robinson: Alles Grau.” The New York Times (Saturday, 8, 2006)
Goodbody, Bridget L. “Riffing on Modernism: Through the Roof, Brancusi!” The New York Times (April 20, 2007)
O’Toole, Sean. “Flow.” Frieze (June – August 2008)
Gilbert, Alan. “New African Art, Resisting Assimilation.” The Village Voice (April 29, 2008)
Cotter, Holland. “Out of Africa, Whatever Africa May Be.” The New York Times (April 4, 2008)
Sheets, Hilarie M. “A Tribute for Light Into Art.” New York Times (March 21, 2013)
Knight, Christopher. “The Light through James Turrell’s eyes.” Los Angeles Times (May 28, 2013)
Hylton, Will S. “How James Turrell Knocked the Art World off its Feet.” New York Times Magazine (June 13, 2013)
Griffin, Jonathan. “James Turrell Interview.” Financial Times (May 24, 2013)
Binkley, Christina. “James Turrell Brings Light to LACMA.” Wall Street Journal (May 10, 2013)
Mizota, Sharon. “‘Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination’ stuns the senses.” Los Angeles Times (December 9, 2015)
Kino, Carol. “Film and Video Artist Diana Thater’s First Retrospective at LACMA.” Wall Street Journal (November 5, 2015)
Griffin, Jonathan. “Diana Thater at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.” Art in America (February 1, 2016)
Sherlock, Amy. “Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders” Frieze (October 15, 2018)
Knight, Christopher. “In ‘Julie Mehretu’ at LACMA, the world explodes on canvas.” Los Angeles Times (December 19, 2019)
Cotter, Holland; Smith, Roberta; Farago, Jason; Schwendener, Martha. “Best Art Books of 2019.” New York Times (December 5, 2019)
Knight, Christopher. “Review: Obama portraits find good company in L.A. museum show that signals Black lives matter.” Los Angeles Times (November 7, 2021)
Farago, Jason. “Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home.” New York Times (March 25, 2021)
Cheng, Scarlet. “LACMA acquires 60 works with a focus on Black representation.” The Art Newspaper (December 16, 2021)
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Press
Conversations | Salon | Art Public Talk | Theaster Gates, Art Basel (December 2011)
Barliant, Claire. “Africaine.” Art on Paper (July-August, 2002)
Bayliss, Sarah H. “c.” ARTnews, Vol. 106. No. 8 (September 2007), 140-41
Binkley, Christina. “James Turrell Brings Light to LACMA.” Wall Street Journal (May 10, 2013)
Brito, Daniella. “Julie Mehretu Reminds Us That Borders Are Meant to Be Trespassed.” Hyperallergic (May 3, 2021)
Bryan-Wilson, Julia. “Julie Mehretu, LACMA.” Artforum (February 2020)
Budick, Ariella. “Bruce Lee: Icon of African-Asian Fusion.” Newsday (October 23, 2003)
“Black American Portaits, LACMA.” IMUUR2: Art, Aesthetics, and Asian America convening, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University (October 28-20, 2022)
Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest, film, Checkerboard Foundation (2021)
Cheng, Scarlet. “The forgotten faces of American art: LACMA surveys 200 years of Black portraiture.” The Art Newspaper (November 5, 2021)
Cheng, Scarlet. “LACMA acquires 60 works with a focus on Black representation.” The Art Newspaper (December 16, 2021)
Chung, Hayoung. “Curators Strive to Transcend National Borders at the Gwangju Biennale.” Hyperallergic (October 12, 2018)
Collins, Lauren. “Studio Visit: Lost and Found.” The New Yorker (Sept 1, 2008)
Cotter, Holland; Smith, Roberta; Farago, Jason; Schwendener, Martha. “Best Art Books of 2019.” New York Times (December 5, 2019)
Cotter, Holland. “Out of Africa, Whatever Africa May Be.” The New York Times (April 4, 2008)
Cotter, Holland. “Nadine Robinson: Alles Grau.” The New York Times (Saturday, 8, 2006)
Cotter, Holland. “Meschac Gaba: ‘Tresses.’” The New York Times (March 4, 2005)
Cotter, Holland. “Quid Pro Quo: Rashawn Griffin, Karyn Olivier, and Clifford Owens.” The New York Times (Saturday, 8, 2006), E28
Cotter, Holland. “Studio Museum in Harlem: Scratch: 2004-05 Artists-in-Residence: William Cordova, Michael Queenland and Marc Andre Robinson.” The New York Times (August 18, 2005), E23
Cotter, Holland. “Black Comes in Many Shadings.” The New York Times (August 13, 2004), E29
Cotter, Holland. “Ironic/Iconic.” The New York Times (August 2, 2002)
Cotter, Holland. “Claudia and Julia Mueller, Olu Oguibe, Senam Okudzeto, Outtara Watts.” The New York Times (July 27, 2001), E29
Cotter, Holland. “A Full Studio Museum Show Starts with 28 Young Artists and a Shoehorn.” The New York Times (May 11, 2001), E36
Cotter, Holland. “Invoking Marcus Garvey While Looking Ahead.” The New York Times (August 24, 2001), E30
Cotter, Holland. “For Hikers Seeking Art, Brooklyn Is a Left Bank.” The New York Times (December 15, 2000), E37
Dailey, Meghan. “Black Belt.” Artforum (September 2003), 70
Eleey, Peter. “Black Belt.” Frieze (March 2004), 95
Farago, Jason. “Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home.” New York Times (March 25, 2021)
Feaster, Felicia. “A thrilling exhibition of Black subjects and artists at Spelman.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (February 15, 2023)
Fels, Sophie. “Paint it Black: Portraitist Kehinde Wiley temporarily sets up shop in Africa.” TimeOut New York, Issue 667 (July 10-16, 2008)
Fineman, Mia. “The History of Art, in Baggy Jeans and Bomber Jackets.” The New York Times (December 19, 2004), AR 39
Finkel, Jori. “A Reluctant Fraternity, Thinking Post-Black.” The New York Times (June 10, 2007), AR 29
Readings from Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts, GYOPO (June 2021)
Gelt, Jessica. “Lauren Halsey unveils the design for a monumental sculpture part in South L.A.” The Los Angeles Times (May 20, 2024)
George, Cassidy. “The Irreducible Julie Mehretu.” New York Magazine (March 26, 2021)
Gerwin, Daniel. “Julie Mehretu’s Sublime Abstractions of History.” Hyperallergic (January 6, 2020)
Gilbert, Alan. “New African Art, Resisting Assimilation.” The Village Voice (April 29, 2008)
Goodbody, Bridget L. “Riffing on Modernism: Through the Roof, Brancusi!” The New York Times (April 20, 2007)
Goodyear, Sarah. “Wangechi Mutu: An Artist Comes Into Her Own.” BKLYN (Spring 2006), 20-3
Greenberger, Alex. “The Studio Museum in Harlem Effect: How the Institution Became a Key Art Space.” ARTnews (December 8, 2020)
Griffin, Jonathan. “Diana Thater at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.” Art in America (February 1, 2016)
Griffin, Jonathan. “James Turrell Interview.” Financial Times (May 24, 2013)
Griffin, Jonathan. “Frances Stark: ‘Contemporary artists are hyper-alienated and hypercompetitive.’” The Guardian (April 24, 2017)
Griffin, Tim. “Ironic/Iconic.” Artforum (November 2002), 189
Gronlund, Melissa. “Frequency.” Frieze. Issue 97 (March 2006), 154-5
Harris, Gareth. “February book bag: from overlooked female Abstract Expressionists to a tome of new and old Black American Portraits.” The Art Newspaper (February 7, 2023)
Hicks, Cinque. “Review: Powerful ‘Black American Portraits’ at Spelman sets new benchmark.” Arts ATL (March 6, 2023)
Ho, Christopher K.; Nam, Daisy. “Interviews: Christopher K. Ho and Daisy Nam.” Artforum (May 21, 2021)
Hylton, Will S. “How James Turrell Knocked the Art World off its Feet.” New York Times Magazine (June 13, 2013)
Jana, Reena. “Paint it Black.” TimeOut New York, Issue 519 (September 8-14, 2005), 21
Johnson, Reed. “For Christian Marclay, ‘The Clock’ continues to tick.” Los Angeles Times (May 18, 2011)
Kastner, Jeffrey. “Frequency.” Artforum, Vol. XLIV, No. 5 (January 2006)
Keats, Jonathan. “In A Thrilling Whitney Retrospective, Ethiopian-American Artist Julie Mehretu Maps A Radical New Path For Geopolitics.” Forbes (April 26, 2021)
Kennicott, Phillip. “At the Whitney, the monumental works of Julie Mehretu begin to stack up.” Washington Post (July 7, 2021)
Kim, Christine Y. “Diana Thater ‘The Sympathetic Imagination’ at LACMA, Los Angeles.” Interview with Diana Thater, Mousse Magazine (2016)
Kino, Carol. “Film and Video Artist Diana Thater’s First Retrospective at LACMA.” Wall Street Journal (November 5, 2015)
Knight, Christopher. “Review: Obama portraits find good company in L.A. museum show that signals Black lives matter.” Los Angeles Times (November 7, 2021)
Knight, Christopher. “In ‘Julie Mehretu’ at LACMA, the world explodes on canvas.” Los Angeles Times (December 19, 2019)
Knight, Christopher. “The Light through James Turrell’s eyes.” Los Angeles Times (May 28, 2013)
Kunitz, Daniel. “Wiley Conquers the ‘World Stage.’” The New York Sun (August 8, 2008)
Kwon Mee-yoo. “Looking for Needle in Gwangju’s Biennale’s Haystack.” The Korea Times (September 13, 2019)
5 Questions, 5 Artists: Reframing Portraiture | Titus Kaphar, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (December 2021)
5 Questions, 5 Artists: Representing Legacy | Mr. Wash, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (August 2022)
Christine Y. Kim and Calida Rawles | Conversations with Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (September 2020)
Julie Mehretu _ Shifting Architectures and Painted Landscapes, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (April 2020)
Lifson, Edward. “James Turrell Experiments with ‘The Thingness of Light Itself’.” National Public Radio (September 2014)
Liou, Caroline Ellen. “A Survey of Black American Portraiture is a Revelation.” Hyperallergic (January 16, 2022)
Lipton, Shana Tang. “Student Art Show Takes a Field Trip to Chinatown.” Los Angeles Times (May 29, 2008), 26
Lowry, Vicky. “A Fresh Take.” Elle Décor (September 2005), 160-63
Merjian, Ara H. “Julie Mehretu Review: War, Racial Conflict and Migration Simmer Beneath Abstract Surfaces.” Frieze (November 27, 2019)
Mizota, Sharon. “‘Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination’ stuns the senses.” Los Angeles Times (December 9, 2015)
Moldan, Teresa. “Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders.” Ocula Magazine (September 20, 2018)
Movius, Lisa. “11 Curators Delve into South Korea’s Hidden Traumas.” The Art Newspaper (October 1, 2018)
Murray, Soraya. “Africaine.” Nka Journal Contemporary African Art (Fall/Winter 2002)
Murray, Derek Conrad. “Freestyle.” Nka Journal Contemporary African Art (Fall/Winter 2001)
Murray, Derek. “‘Ironic/Iconic’ at the Studio Museum in Harlem.” Art in America (March 2003), 127
Murray, Derek Conrad. “Freestyle.” Nka Journal Contemporary African Art (Fall/Winter 2001), 92
Myers, Holly. “Art that Makes a Public Spectacle of Itself.” Los Angeles Times (June 6, 2010)
Nathan, Hillary. “Light at the End of the Turrell.” ARTnews (April 4, 2013)
Nicols, Matthew Guy. “Hands On, Hands Down,’ at the Studio Museum in Harlem.” Art in America (February 2004), 126
Olivier, Ellen. “Scene & Heard: Los Angeles Nomadic Division art fundraiser.” Los Angeles Times (July 25, 2010)
O’Toole, Sean. “Flow.” Frieze (June – August 2008)
Perlson, Hili. “The Gwangju Biennale is Overly Ambitious, Muddled, Difficult to Navigate -- and at Times, Extremely Rewarding.” Artnet (September 11, 2018)
Pincus-Roth, Zachary. James Turrell’s Mind-Bending One-Person Light Show is the Hottest Ticket in L.A.” LA Weekly (May 25, 2013)
Pogrebin, Robin. “Julie Mehretu’s Reckoning with Success.” New York Times (March 21, 2021)
Pérez, Marina. "Isaac Julien: Standing the test of time." Metal Magazine (2019)
Richard, Frances. “Midnight’s Daydream: Titus Kaphar, Wardell Milan II, Demetrius Oliver.” Artforum (November 2007), 371
Interview with Thelma Golden, Christine Y. Kim, Sanford Biggers and Adia Millett by Charlie Rose, Charlie Rose, PBS (June 8, 2001)
Saltz, Jerry. “Post-Black: Radical Intelligence at The Studio Museum in Harlem.” Village Voice (May 22, 2001)
Schwendener, Martha. “Three Contemporaries, Each With A Different Way to View the Past.” The New York Times (August 11, 2007), B13
Scott, Chadd. “Julie Mehretu Mid-Career Survey Dazzles At Los Angeles County Museum Of Art.” Forbes (December 29, 2019)
Sheets, Hilarie M. “A Tribute for Light Into Art.” New York Times (March 21, 2013)
Sherlock, Amy. “Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders” Frieze (October 15, 2018)
Sirmans, Franklin. “Mapping a New, and Urgent, History of the World.” The New York Times (December 9, 2001)
Sirmans, Franklin. “The Light Show.” Time Out New York (October 12-19, 2000), 58
Smith, Roberta. “A Cornucopia of Cultural Exchange, Beginning With a Martial Arts Hero.” The New York Times (November 28, 2003)
Smith, Roberta. “Art Review. Kehinde Wiley: A Hot Conceptualist Finds the Secret of Skin.” The New York Times (Sept. 4, 2008)
Smith, Roberta. “Altered Views in the House of Modernism.” The New York Times (April 29, 2005), E31
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