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 East Asian diasporic artists in the early twentieth-century United States. Originally from Hong Kong, Kolleen received her B.A. from Columbia University in Art History and English. She was the 2023-24 Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art. (Photo credit: Marcin J. Muchalski)