Aileen June Wang is the new associate curator at the
Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University. Prior to this appointment, she taught art history at Penn State University Behrend College and Long Island University Post. She also worked at Christie’s New York as a client advisor to develop Asian and Asian American client bases. Her research interests lie in contemporary art, especially Chinese and Asian American, and secondarily in Renaissance art. Current passions include graffiti and street art, and art utilizing digital media and Web technology as artistic platforms. Aileen was awarded a fellowship in the 2012 National Endowment for Humanities Summer Institute on Asian American Art, hosted by New York University. Before relocating to Manhattan, Aileen regularly lectured for Long Island University’s popular Hutton House Lectures series and for Christie’s Education, and wrote reviews for Art in America and online art and culture magazine artcritical.com.