Christina Hiromi Hobbs

Christina Hiromi Hobbs is an independent curator, writer, and art historian based in the Bay Area.

She is a PhD student in Art History at Stanford University with an emphasis on twentieth century American art, modern and contemporary art of the Asian diaspora, and the history of photography. Their work focuses on the intersections of history and memory, race and aesthetics, and the archive. 

Her recent projects include curating the exhibition In the Presence Of: Collective Histories of the Asian American Women Artists Association which is on view at Berkeley Art Center from January 27 - April 20, 2024. She is also the co-curator of No Monument: In the Wake of the Japanese American Incarceration with Genji Amino at the Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York. The exhibition was featured in Artforum, Momus, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, and Public Seminar. They also contributed a short piece entitled “Image and Memory” to the preface of the paperback edition of Daniel James Brown’s Facing the Mountain published by Penguin Random House in 2022.

They have held research and curatorial positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Modern Art Museum of Shanghai,  Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and The Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust. Her scholarship has been supported by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.