Susette Min, associate professor of Asian-American studies, takes a critical look at how the definitions of Asian-American art stifle more than it reveals in Unnamable: The Ends of Asian American Art (NYU Press, June 2018). Susette Min challenges the idea that Asian American art is an agent of reconciliation or an instrument for marginalized artists to break into the canon or mainstream art scene by outlining its historical conditions and the expansive surroundings of its formation. Undertaking a critical examination of the politics of visibility and the ways in which this classification confines Asian American artists' creations to limited interpretations, Unnamable reimagines Asian American art as a medium that subverts embedded knowledge and representations rather than a subset of objects.

Professor Min received her Ph.D. from Brown University. Before, she was at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University and was Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at The Drawing Center in New York City. Min was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Pomona College. Her research interests include Asian American Literature, Ethnic American Literature, Asian American Art, contemporary art, and visual culture.

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