Alice Ming Wai Jim


Alice Ming Wai Jim is an art historian, curator and an associate professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She focuses her research on contemporary Asian art and contemporary Asian Canadian art, particularly on the relationships between remix culture and place identity. She holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art History.
Jim was the Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies and the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong. She was also the curator at the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art aka Centre A in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from 2003 until 2006.
Jim is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas with Alexandra Chang published by Brill in association withGail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute. She is a board member of CAA.

Exhibitions and Symposiums

In 2014, Jim participated as a co-organizer for "Performing Asian/Americas: Converging Movements," for the ninth Encuentro of The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Montreal, and as a co-director of the workshop "Contemporary Art and the Inter-Asian Imaginary" for Inter-Asian Connections IV, Istanbul. In 2013 she curated "Yam Lau: A World is a Model of the World" at the Darling Foundry, Montreal.

Publications

The scope of her published writing work also have taken the form of essays, exhibition catalogues and anthologies. Other texts include "The Maraya Project: Research-Creation, Inter-reference and the Worlding of Asian Cities" in the journal Third Text, Volume 28, 2014, "RoCH Redux" in Yishu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, "Mediating Place-Identity: Notes on Mathias Woo's A Very Good City" in Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, 2008, "Let Your Fingers Do the Walking: Rereading Ho Tam's The Yellow Pages' in Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen, and "Articulating Spaces of Representation, Contemporary Black Women Artists in Canada" in Racism, Eh? A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada, 2004

Exhibition Catalogues

Jim was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Faculty of Fine Arts through the nominations of Concordia's Graduate and Undergraduate students in the category of Emerging Teacher and the Christopher Jackson Teaching Award from the Department of Art History in 2016. She was also awarded the Artexte Prize for Research in Contemporary Art, the second recipient of the prize since its inception in 2012. In November 2019, Jim will be elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars for her contributions in the field of arts and humanities.