Eunice Uhm joins the School of Art and Design

The San Diego State University School of Art and Design is pleased to welcome Eunice Uhm as the new Assistant Professor of Art History. 

Uhm is an art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art, with a transnational focus on the United States and East Asia. Her work examines the conditions of migration and the diasporic aesthetic subjectivities in the works of contemporary Japanese and South Korean art from the 1960s to the present. 

Her current book project, tentatively titled The Subversive Possibilities: Representation of Domesticity in East Asian Diaspora, considers how diasporic women artists addressed the racialized and gendered questions of modernity and cultural labor through the notion of domesticity. 

Beyond her academic research, she has curated several exhibitions on themes such as the Korean diaspora and migration and ecology. She is also a member of numerous grassroots community organizations for Asian Americans and immigrant rights, and she was involved in immigrant rights campaigns such as Love Has No Borders: A call for justice in our immigration system. 

Uhm received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University.