Alice Ming Wai Jim

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Alice Ming Wai Jim
NationalityChinese-Canadian
EducationMA, Concordia University (1996), PhD, Dean's Honour Roll, SSHRC and FCAR doctoral fellow, McGill University (2004),
Known forEducator, Independent Curator, Writer, Researcher
AwardsArtexte Prize for Research in Contemporary Art

Alice Ming Wai Jim is an art historian, curator and Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as well as an Adjunct Professor in Graduate Studies at OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She focuses her research on diasporic art in Canada, contemporary Asian art and contemporary Asian Canadian art, particularly on the relationships between remix culture and place identity. She currently holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art History (2017–2022). [1]

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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 Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from 2003 until 2006.

Jim is the founding co-editor of the Journal ofAsian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA) with Alexandra Chang published by Brill (Leiden, NL) in association withGail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art (Concordia University) and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute (New York University). She is a board member of CAA (The College Art Association). [2]

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. [3] In 2013 she curated "Yam Lau: A World is a Model of the World" at the Darling Foundry, Montreal. [4] In 2019, Jim as a visiting professor for Summer Institute 2019: Future Commons at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong as well as a co-chair for the Artistic Committee (Exhibition) for ISEA2020 Montreal: Why Sentience? (International Symposium on Electronic Art). [5]

Publications

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, [6] "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, [7] "Let Your Fingers Do the Walking: Rereading Ho Tam's The Yellow Pages' in Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen, [8] 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 [9]

Research Interests

As an art historian and curator, Jim's work has helped to amplify new discourses throughout the fields of ethnocultural and global art histories, critical race theory, media arts, and curatorial studies. With a focus in primarily contemporary Asian Canadian and Black Canadian artists, Jim has curated exhibitions with over fifty artists, and has also been involved in organizing a number of scholarly events and arts community organizing on these topics. [10]

Selected curated exhibitions

Exhibition catalogues

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 and the Christopher Jackson Teaching Award from the Department of Art History in 2016. [26] She was also awarded the Artexte Prize for Research in Contemporary Art, the second recipient of the prize since its inception in 2012. [27] In November 2019, Jim will be elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars for her contributions in the field of arts and humanities. [28]

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  4. ↑ "Darling Foundry | A World is a Model of the World". fonderiedarling.org. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
  5. ↑ Ming Wai Jim, Alice (March 24, 2022). "Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim, PhD - Detailed Biography".
  6. ↑ Jim, Alice Ming Wai. "RoCH Redux". Yishu Online.
  7. ↑ 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.
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  9. ↑ Nelson, Charmaine; Nelson, Camille Antoinette (2004-01-01). Racism, Eh?: A Critical Inter-disciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada. Captus Press. ISBN   978-1-55322-061-9.
  10. ↑ Ming Wai Jim, Alice (March 24, 2022). "Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim - Detailed Biography".
  11. ↑ Tsui, Howie (March 2017). Howie Tsui : retainers of anarchy. Vancouver Art Gallery. ISBN   978-0-88885-381-3. OCLC   1050686419.
  12. ↑ "Review". Insoon Ha. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
  13. ↑ Ming Wai Jim, Alice (2008). Rearranging desires : curating the 'Other' within. Gail & Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institut for Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University. ISBN   978-0-88947-468-0. OCLC   312370247.
  14. ↑ Wai Jim, Alice Ming (January 2007). "Redress Express: Chinese Restaurants and the Head Tax Issue in Canadian Art (Deliberations on a Preliminary Course)". Amerasia Journal. 33 (2): 97–114. doi:10.17953/amer.33.2.a367746162795516. ISSN   0044-7471. S2CID   218510831.
  15. ↑ Cheung, Amy (2007). Devil's advocate. Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst. ISBN   978-3-939738-62-6. OCLC   173252116.
  16. ↑ Di zhou zhuan yi : Xianggang yi shu jia dui Xianggang hui gui shi zhou nian de hui xiang = Reversing horizons: Artists reflections of the Hong Kong handover 10th anniversary. Gong, Mingguang., 龚明光. Shanghai: Shanghai wen yi chu ban zong she. 2007. ISBN   9787807036807. OCLC   772981035.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  17. 1 2 Jim, Alice Ming Wai (2005). Shifting space : Patrick Mahan, Ben Reeves, Gu Xiong. Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. OCLC   85226214.
  18. 1 2 Ming Wai Jim, Alice (2007). "Thoughts on the Meaning of Return: HKG><YVR". Journal of Visual Culture. 6 (3): 333–341. doi:10.1177/1470412907084509. S2CID   220718692.
  19. ↑ Jim, Alice Ming Wai (2005). Neighbourhood : Video Works by Desmedia, Dana Claxton, Patrick Connelly, Andrea Fatona & Cornelia Wyngaarden, Randy Grskovic, Karin Lee, Michael Lithgow, Lynda Nakashima, Christian Nicolay, Portia Priegert, Jayce Salloum, Karen Tam. Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A). OCLC   948717538.
  20. ↑ Archive, Asia Art. "DARR: 37 conversations: Samina Mansuri". aaa.org.hk. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
  21. ↑ Li, Tim; Leung, Chi Wo; Wong, Sarah; Man, Phoebe; Lai, Linda; Wong, Gina; Leung, Jeff; Wong, Cindy; Chan, Carol; Chan, David Ho Yeung; Jim, Alice Ming Wai; Bull, Hank (2004). Para/Site : Open Work. Centre A. OCLC   948724148.
  22. ↑ Jim, Alice Ming Wai (2004). Mei-Kuei Feu: Zone flottante. Canada: Centre A Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. pp. 4–7. OCLC   436332111.
  23. ↑ Jim, Alice Ming Wai (2004). Informal residency : Gailan Ngan. Centre A – Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. OCLC   978089997.
  24. ↑ Dietz, Steve; Nadarajan, Gunalan; Ga, Zhang; Pau, Ellen; Jim, Alice Ming Wai; Pijnappel, Johan; Roh, Soh Yeong; Lawler-Dormer, Deborah (August 2006). "Container Culture". Leonardo. 39 (4): 290–303. doi:10.1162/leon.2006.39.4.290. ISSN   0024-094X. S2CID   57560033.
  25. ↑ Jim, Alice Ming Wai (2005-09-22), "Transculturalism in Asian diasporic art", Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t097962, ISBN   9781884446054
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  27. ↑ "Alice Ming Wai Jim named recipient of the Artexte Prize for Research in Contemporary Art | Artexte". artexte.ca. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
  28. ↑ Fortier, Ashley (September 12, 2019). "The Royal Society of Canada recognizes 2 Concordia researchers for their contributions to digital culture and diasporic art". concordia.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
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