Department: 黑料社 Curatorial
Hosts: Alvin Li, Curator, International Art (supported by Asymmetry Art Foundation); Elsa Collinson, Assistant Curator, International Art; and Hera Chan, Adjunct Curator, Asia Pacific (supported by Asymmetry Art Foundation)
Hong Xian, Moonland 1970
Courtesy Harvard Art Museums
Photo 漏 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Youngshin is an art historian who studies the media history of artistic labour through gendered and decolonial lenses. Her research and dissertation explore ways to reimagine ink painting as a malleable medium, rather than one confined by traditionalism or ethno-nationalism, and to reposition it within modern and contemporary art history.
At Tate Youngshin will research Asian artists and diasporas active in 1960s Britain and beyond, focusing on those whose work engaged with ink painting as material, method or conceptual worldview. Rather than framing their practices through rhetorical binarism such as East and West, she will examine how their work was mediated by or collided with the artistic, geopolitical and scientific currents of the time. Youngshin recently published an article in Orientations, on the ink abstractions of Hong Xian (Margaret Chang), a female member of Fifth Moon Group in post-war Taiwan. Youngshin is currently serving as Associate Editor of Primary Documents: Korea, a forthcoming anthology of critical writings on modern and contemporary Korean art from the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Youngshin was born in Korea and is based in Seoul and Ann Arbor.