The Appearance: A Conference by Americas Society and Asia Society

Mariola V. Alvarez is associate professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art and director of Graduate Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. She is the author of The Affinity of Neoconcretism: Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Brazilian...

Howie Chen is a New York-based curator engaged in collaborative art production and research. He is currently the director and curator of 80 Washington Square East (80WSE) gallery at NYU.

A founding director of Chen's, a townhouse gallery in Brooklyn, and Dispatch, he has held...

Tao Leigh Goffe is associate professor of literary theory and cultural history with a focus on Afro-Asian intimacies at Hunter College, City University of New York. She has conducted over a decade of research and teaching on Black feminist engagements with Indigeneity and Asian...

Tie Jojima is Curator of Global Contemporary Art at the Phillips Collection. Jojima is completing her doctoral dissertation at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she has focused her research largely on postwar Latin American art. At Americas Society she has co-curated the...

Kolleen Ku is a PhD candidate in Art History at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, working on global modern and contemporary art. Her dissertation project explores the convergence of modernist abstraction, Asian racialization, and alien citizenship through the work of...

Yasufumi Nakamori joined Asia Society in August 2023 as Director of the Museum and Vice President of Arts and Culture. An experienced museum leader, curator, and noted scholar, he is responsible for overseeing the museum’s exhibition program and collection, as well as arts and...

Chantal Peñalosa Fong (Tecate, Baja California, México, 1987) studied for a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts at the Autonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana campus, and the University of Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her solo exhibitions include: Otros Cuentos...

Yudi Rafael is an independent curator based in São Paulo, Brazil. He is the curator of Transoceanic Perspectives—a long-term research and exhibition program dedicated to the arts of the Asian diasporas—at Almeida & Dale, in São Paulo, where he curated the solo shows Candice Lin...