Some Asian American Artist Resources
(and maybe a bent towards Korean American)
April 10, 2021 (will be updated as needed)
I can’t keep up with the amount of artists, articles and books I come across, so I decided to keep a running list here. Feel free to add a comment with recommendations.
Articles
“America Ruined my Name for Me” by Beth Nguyen, The New Yorker (April 1, 2021)
“Swelling Anti-Asian Violence: Who is Being Attacked Where” by By Weiyi Cai, Audra D. S. Burch and Jugal K. Patel (April 3, 2021)
“From colonialism to Covid: Viet Thanh Nguyen on the rise of anti-Asian violence” by Viet Thanh Nguyen (April 3, 2021)
“France In Grips Of Racism Epidemic, As Coronavirus Fans Anti-Asian Hysteria” by Tamara Thiessen (February 11, 2020) – was struck by the main photo in the article
“Someone Threw Acid in Her Face. Her Family Doesn’t Know Why.” New York Times (April 23, 2021)
“Uncle Chul Gets Rich” by Chang-rae Lee, New York Times, May 12, 1996
“The Faintest Echo of Our Language” by Chang-rae Lee, New England Review, Summer 1993
Artists
Jungjin Lee – photographer based in NYC
Mike Han – artist and designer based in Detroit, MI
Myoung Ho Lee – photographer based in South Korea
Naoya Hatakeyama – photographer based in Japan
Toshio Shibata – photographer based in Japan
Dayanita Singh – photographer based in Delhi, India
Chan-Hyo Bae – photographer based in London
Yasumasa Morimura – artist based in Osaka, Japan
Priya Kambli – photographer/professor in Missouri
Kwang Young Chun – paper/sculpture artist based in South Korea
Wu Guangzhong (1919-2010) – painter from China
Youngmin Lee – textile artist based in San Franscisco, CA
Books
I have read these books. These books range from fiction to biography and from varied cultures blending Asian and/or American experiences. (Note: The books contain Amazon affiliate links.)
The Best We Could Do (illustrated memoir)
Thi Bui
Pachinko (novel)
Min Jin Lee
Ten Thousand Sorrows (memoir)
Elizabeth Kim (pen name)
The Vegetarian (novel)
Han Kang
Grass (illustrated biography)
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Yolk (novel)
Mary H.K. Choi
One Left (novel)
Kim Soom
Please Look After Mom (novel)
Kyung-Sook Shin
Almost American Girl (graphic novel)
Robin Ha
Friend: A Novel from North Korea (novel)
Nam-nyong Paek
My Brilliant Life (novel)
Ae-ran Kim
Websites
Anti-Asian Violence Resources (posted by a friend via Instagram)
Anti-Racism/Anti-Bias Resources for Educators and Families (Google Doc)
Zoom Talks
CedarBough Saeji: “How Cultural Difference Became K-pop’s Key to Success around the World” – October 8, 2020
Candace Epps-Robertson: “BTS and ARMY: A Synergistic Experience in Transcultural Fandom” – October 22, 2020
Jenny Wang Medina: “Korean Literature and Film as ‘World Literature and Cinema’” – November 5, 2020
Michelle Cho: “K-Drama Fever: Platforms, Serial Narrative, and Global TV” – November 19, 2020
The Stories We Tell and the Objects We Keep: Asian American Women and the Archives – March 5, 2021
Your Recommendations
Do you have any recommendations? Feel free to share in the comments.
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