Joyce Chung is the Curator at Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia. Her curatorial interests include media art, performance, intersections of feminism and visual arts, and identity politics in Asian and Asian American art. Joyce seeks to examine how Asian Diaspora artists develop practices responding to the US’s history of immigration and the Asian American art histories that underpin struggles of decolonization. She previously worked at a number of museums and galleries both in Seoul and New York, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Hyundai Card, Kukje Gallery, as well as for the Gwangju Biennale and Performa, New York. Joyce studied art history at Wesleyan University and the University of Chicago. LinkedIn
Asian Arts Initiative
January 15, 2025
by Joyce Chung
Joyce Chung interviews artist Candice Lin about her exhibit at Ulises and find out about the artist’s history of starting an alternative gallery in Los Angeles. The community-focused artist talks about her work and her use of her cat Roger as a metaphorical stand-in in her art for larger issues.
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September 11, 2024
by Joyce Chung
Artblog contributor Joyce Chung talks with Rachel Hsu about the artist’s new temporary public art in Maja Park on the Ben Franklin Parkway. In this wide-ranging, poetic discussion, they cover issues of how a body interacts in space; and with others, raising issues of community as well as individual experience.
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