Alison Kuo
Director of Programs at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
- Role
- Director of Programs at International Studio & Curatorial Program Iscp
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Alison Kuo
Alison Kuo is the Director of Programs at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP). ISCP is one of the world\'s largest and most prestigious arts residency programs, serving approximately 100 artists and curators per year from around the world. Special initiatives aim to generate more opportunities for artists and curators from underserved regions in SE Asia, Africa, Central America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. At ISCP, Kuo has produced numerous exhibitions including \"Adjani Okpu-Egbe, On Delegitimization and Solidarity: Sisiku AyukTabe, the Martin Luther King Jr. of Ambazonia, the Nera 10, and the Myth of Violent Africa\",\"Sharon Noorwood\'s Drawing Room\",\"Lizania Cruz: Every Immigrant Is a Writer/Todo Inmigrante Es un Escritor\",\"Kyoung eun Kang: Every Morning, Every Evening\", and \"Clae Lu: Playroom.\" Kuo is a second generation immigrant artist who pursues intersectional relationships across communities through artistic engagement. She is the co-founder of the group Sisters in Self-Defense based in Manhattan’s Chinatown. She has shown her work at Think!Chinatown, the Hessel Museum of Art, Cuchifritos, the Abrons Art Center, Beverly’s, CANADA, Happy Family Night Market, Grace Exhibition Space, Marvin Gardens, and the Yeh Art Gallery in New York, and at the UNTITLED Art Fair, and the Young at Art Museum in Miami. Internationally, her work has been shown in the 4th Overseas Chinese Artists Invitational Exhibition at the He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen, Singapore Arts Week 2022, the 2016 Nanjing International Art Festival, and the MATERIAL art fair in Mexico City. She made site specific performance works for Paraiso Bajo in Bogotá, and Malagana Macula in Managua. She is a recipient of a Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2020 Artist Community Engagement Grant and a Hate is Not a Virus grant. She is perhaps most well known for starting the popular blog Accidental Chinese Hipsters.
Experience
Director of Programs
International Studio & Curatorial Program Iscp
Sep 2022 — Present · Brooklyn, NY, US
Education
Southwestern University
BA, Studio Art, Art History
2004 — 2008
School of Visual Arts
Masters of Fine Arts, Fine Arts
2012 — 2014
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