Margo Machida
Assistant Professor of Art, Art History
and Asian American Studies
Fine Arts Building - Rm 217
860 486. 2678

kini2@pipeline.com

Margo Machida received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is a New York-based educator, independent curator, researcher and writer specializing in Asian American visual art. A recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities, Ms. Machida was Director of the Cultural Dialogue Project at the Asian/American Center, Queens College - CUNY, from 1994-96, where she developed interdisciplinary programs and humanities-based scholarship devoted to the study of Asian diasporic communities in the Americas. Prior to her appointment at UConn, beginning Fall Semester 2002, she had been teaching courses on contemporary Asian and Asian American art and social issues for the APA Studies Program at NYU.

Research Interests and Works in Progress include Asian American art and social issues; contemporary Asian and Asian American art; Asian/Pacific/American experience; Art and community formation; Asian American women artists; themes of Migration and the social construction of Identity in art; Social Memory and Trauma; and Asian American visual art and social relations. She has recently co-organized two exhibitions: Uncommon Traits: Re/Locating Asia for the CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY; and Japanese and Japanese American Contemporary Printmaking for Brandywine Workshop, Inc. in Philadelphia, PA. And with co-editors Elaine Kim and Sharon Mizota, Ms. Machida is preparing a major anthology on Asian American identity and social issues in the visual arts, entitled Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Asian American Issues in the Contemporary Visual Arts which will be published by the University of California Press.

Selected Publications:
"The World as Home" in Zarina: Mapping a Life, 1991-2001 (Oakland: Mills College Art Museum, 2001), 19-27.

"Whose 'Asia?' Whose 'America?': Visual Art and the Imagining of Asian America," catalogue essay for Shifting Perceptions: Contemporary L.A. Visions, Pacific Asia Museum, May-September 2000.

"Out of Asia: Negotiating Contemporary Asian Identities in America," catalogue essay for ASIA/AMERICA: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, co-published by The Asia Society Galleries and The New Press, New York, 1994.