Hương Ngô + Kim Yasuda
Date of Conversation
10.2024
Bios
Hương Ngô is an interdisciplinary, research-based artist. She was born in Hong Kong, holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art & Technology Studies(2004), and was a Whitney Independent Study Fellow (2011-2012). She was awarded the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant in Vietnam (2016) for work that has been described as"deftly and defiantly decolonial" by New City and "what intersectional feminist art looks like'' by the Chicago Tribune. She works across mediums, traversing borders and making connections through differences. At once intimate and political, Ngô’s practice listens for what remains.
Kim Yasuda is an artist and professor emeritus of Public Practice in Art at UC SantaBarbara. Her work investigates the role of art, artists, and institutions in community development and civic life. Her commemorative public art works in St. Louis, San Jose, and Hollywood are designed to recover underrepresented histories of these communities. Yasuda’s research intersects her university teaching with her public art practice, shaping pedagogical experiments that explore the intersection between institutional knowledge production and creative practice. Yasuda and her students have worked together on temporary public interventions and permanent urban renewal projects in Isla Vista.
Photo: Hunter Ridenour.