Christina Hiromi Hobbs is a curator, writer, and art historian based in the Bay Area. She is a PhD student in Art History at Stanford University with a minor in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity whose work focuses on modern and contemporary art of the Asian diaspora, the history of photography, and vernacular archival practices. They are particularly interested in the ethics of visibility, the materiality and representation of historical memory, and methods of accounting for lost objects.
Her recent projects include curating the exhibitions In the Presence Of: Collective Histories of the Asian American Women Artists Association at Berkeley Art Center (2024) co-curating No Monument: In the Wake of the Japanese American Incarceration at the Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York (2022). In addition, they have held research, archival, and curatorial roles at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Modern Art Museum of Shanghai, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, The Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust, and the Leo Valledor Estate. Her scholarship has been supported by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.