Profile

Midori Yamamura, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History at the CUNY Kingsborough, an Alcaly/Bodian Distinguished Scholar, The CUNY Graduate Center. The author of Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular (MIT Press: 2015), Yamamura specializes in feminist art and global contemporary art history, focusing on Asia and its diaspora. She was a contributor to Kusama’s Tate Modern retrospective (2012). Among various distinctions, Yamamura received a Smithsonian American Art Museum predoctoral and JSPS postdoctoral fellowships. She is currently completing a book manuscript on Japanese contemporary art. Yamamura is a recipient of the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asian Research Consortium, now seeking to expand her field into contemporary Southeast Asian art.