Alice Ming Wai Jim

Alice Ming Wai Jim is an art historian, curator and Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as well as an Adjunct Professor in Graduate Studies at OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

She focuses her research on diasporic art in Canada, contemporary Asian art and contemporary Asian Canadian art, particularly on the relationships between remix culture and place identity.

She was also the curator at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from 2003 until 2006.

Jim is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA) with Alexandra Chang published by Brill (Leiden, NL) in association withGail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art (Concordia University) and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute (New York University).

She is a board member of CAA (The College Art Association).

She was also awarded the Artexte Prize for Research in Contemporary Art, the second recipient of the prize since its inception in 2012.

In 2013 she curated "Yam Lau: A World is a Model of the World" at the Darling Foundry, Montreal.

In 2014, Jim participated as a co-organizer for "Performing Asian/Americas: Converging Movements," for the ninth Encuentro of The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Montreal, and as a co-director of the workshop "Contemporary Art and the Inter-Asian Imaginary" for Inter-Asian Connections IV, Istanbul.

Other texts include "The Maraya Project: Research-Creation, Inter-reference and the Worlding of Asian Cities" in the journal Third Text, Volume 28, 2014, "RoCH Redux" in Yishu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, "Mediating Place-Identity: Notes on Mathias Woo's A Very Good City" in Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, 2008, "Let Your Fingers Do the Walking: Rereading Ho Tam's The Yellow Pages' in Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen, and "Articulating Spaces of Representation, Contemporary Black Women Artists in Canada" in Racism, Eh? A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada, 2004

As an art historian and curator, Jim's work has helped to amplify new discourses throughout the fields of ethnocultural and global art histories, critical race theory, media arts, and curatorial studies.

With a focus in primarily contemporary Asian Canadian and Black Canadian artists, Jim has curated exhibitions with over fifty artists, and has also been involved in organizing a number of scholarly events and arts community organizing on these topics.

Jim was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Faculty of Fine Arts through the nominations of Concordia's Graduate and Undergraduate students in the category of Emerging Teacher and the Christopher Jackson Teaching Award from the Department of Art History in 2016.

She currently holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art History (2017–2022).

Jim was the Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies and the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong.

In 2019, Jim as a visiting professor for Summer Institute 2019: Future Commons at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong as well as a co-chair for the Artistic Committee (Exhibition) for ISEA2020 Montreal: Why Sentience?

(International Symposium on Electronic Art).

The scope of her published writing work also have taken the form of essays, exhibition catalogues and anthologies.

In November 2019, Jim Will be elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars for her contributions in the field of arts and humanities.