Jennie Yoon

Jennie is a PhD candidate studying modern and contemporary art. Her research focuses on art of the Asian diaspora in the United States and Latin America, with an emphasis in critical race and ethnic studies, feminist pedagogy, and queer aesthetic critique. She holds a BA in History of Art with high honors and a minor in Education from the University of California, Berkeley.

Her dissertation is a monograph on the artist, teacher, and advocate, Ruth Asawa, which examines how the notion of “the unseen” troubles the visibility politics through which Asawa’s work has been evaluated while constituting the central question of form that she pursued across her sculptures, paintings, and drawings. It argues that Asawa generated innovative aesthetic strategies that conceptualized “the unseen” as both an approach to form and a theory of being.

Her writing has been published in Floating Realities: The Art of Masami Teraoka (Grand Central Press, 2018) and Ruth Asawa: Retrospective (Yale University Press, 2025).