Academic Team
Pamela Nguyen Corey
Fields of Interest:
- modern and contemporary art history and visual studies (regional focus: Asia, Southeast Asia)
- theories of postcolonialism and decoloniality, urbanism, space, diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, aesthetics, historiography, sound, voice, and textuality
Education: Ph.D. 2015, Cornell University, USA
Bio:
Pamela Nguyen Corey researches and teaches modern and contemporary art history, focusing on Southeast Asia within broader transnational Asian and global contexts. She received her BA (Studio Art) from the University of California, Irvine, and her Ph.D. (History of Art and Visual Studies) from Cornell University. Prior to joining Fulbright University Vietnam in January 2021, she was an assistant professor in the History of Art & Archaeology department at SOAS University of London.
Pamela has published in numerous academic journals, exhibition catalogs, and platforms for artistic and cultural commentary. Her first book, The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia (University of Washington Press, 2021), was the recipient of a Millard Meiss Publication Fund from the College Art Association. In arguing for a renewed understanding of the spatial formation of contemporary art practices in Vietnam and Cambodia, the book centers artists’ engagement with urban forms and temporalities, and complicates prevalent interpretations of postwar artistic subjectivity. Pamela was guest co-editor of “Voice as Form,” a special issue of Oxford Art Journal (2020), which introduces material from recent research into voice, sound, and aurality in contemporary art. Her second book project investigates the media logic and technologies used by artists from Southeast Asia and its diasporas to create what could be called impossible communications. These forms of dialogue and communication are impossibilities predicated on temporality, animacy, and cultural suppression, and are conceived with urgency by artists in contexts of postwar trauma, historical amnesia, and generational and archival loss. In other projects she continues to research global modernism, decolonizing art history debates, and contemporary art from Vietnam and Southeast Asia. In the latter area she is particularly interested in questions related to late socialist aesthetics, diasporic and transnational subjectivities, and historiography as a site of creative and theoretical possibilities.
Her research has been supported by the Fulbright-Hays Program and the Center for Khmer Studies, and by the British Academy for a Newton Mobility Grant-funded project titled “Constructing Decolonial Art Histories of Southeast Asia” (2017-18, in collaboration with the University of Malaya). In 2019 she became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the UK. She is a member of the International Advisory Board for Art History (the journal of the Association for Art History) and serves on research and advisory committees for National Gallery Singapore and The Flow of History: Southeast Asian Women Artists (Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong / AWARE, Paris).
Courses:
- Introduction to Visual Studies
- Introduction to Art History and Theory
- Global Modern Art
- Arts of Southeast Asia
- Visualizing Vietnam
- Contemporary Asian Artists
- Sound Art
Select Publications:
Corey, Pamela N. “The (Calli)graphic Regimes of Contemporary Vietnamese Art.” ArtMargins 13, no. 3 (2024), in press.
Corey, Pamela N. “The Digital Voice as Postcolonial Proxy.” In The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History, eds. Tatiana Flores, Florencia San Martín, and Charlene Villaseñor Black, 353-362. London; New York: Routledge, 2023.
Corey, Pamela N. “Craft and the Making of ‘Global’ Contemporary Art.” In A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework, eds. Jane Chin Davidson and Amelia Jones, 119-131. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023.
Corey, Pamela N. “Hacking the Grid: Urban Interventions by Artists from Southeast Asia.” Lahore Biennale 01 Reader, ed. Iftikhar Dadi, 256-279. Milan, Italy: Skira Editore, 2022.
Corey, Pamela N. The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2021.
Corey, Pamela N. “Toward a Horizon of Un-Knowing: Aurality, Voice, and the Politics of Identification in the Art of Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier.” Oxford Art Journal 43, no. 2 (Summer 2020): 221-38.
Corey, Pamela N., and Wenny Teo, eds. “Voice as Form,” special issue of Oxford Art Journal 43, no. 2 (Summer 2020).
Corey, Pamela N., and Nora A. Taylor. “Đổi Mới and the Globalization of Vietnamese Art.” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 14, no. 1 (March 2019): 1-34.
Corey, Pamela N. “Siting the Artist’s Voice.” Art Journal 77, no. 4 (Winter 2018): 84-96.
Corey, Pamela N. “Beyond yet Toward Representation: Diasporic Artists and Craft as Conceptualism in Contemporary Southeast Asia.” Journal of Modern Craft 9, no. 2 (July 2016): 161-81.
Corey, Pamela N. “Three Propositions for a Regional Profile: The History of Contemporary Art in Ho Chi Minh City.” In Arts du Vietnam: Nouvelles Approches, eds. C. Herbelin et al., 135-144. Rennes, France: Editions Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015.
Corey, Pamela N. “Metaphor as Method: Curating Regionalism in Mainland Southeast Asia.” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 13, no. 2 (March/April 2014): 72-84.
Corey, Pamela N., and Ashley Thompson, eds. “On Modern and Contemporary Cambodian Art and Aesthetics,” special issue of Udaya, Journal of Khmer Studies 12 (2014).
Corey, Pamela N. “The ‘First’ Cambodian Contemporary Artist.” Udaya, Journal of Khmer Studies 12 (2014): 61-94.
Corey, Pamela N. “Crafted Signs of Obsolescence: Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s Aesthetic Artifacts.” Art Journal 71, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 46-57.
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