Kimiko Matsumura
Specialization
Modern and Contemporary Art History
Education
PhD Art History, Rutgers University
MA Art History, Indiana University
BA Art History, Human Biology, Minor in French, University of Kansas
Research Interests
Art and Science
History of Museums and Collecting
Histories of Vision
Courses Taught
ARTH 110: Introduction to Visual Arts and Design
ARTH 200: Survey of New Media in Art, Design, Technology, and Culture
ARTH 215: Reformation to Revolution: 1600-1800
ARTH 325: Women, Art, and Society
ARTH 360: Contemporary Art
Publications
Peer-Reviewed
“The Death of Painting and its Afterlife in Yasumasa Morimura’s Portrait (Futago).” Arts 12, no. 5 (September 2023): 196.
“We Who Are Enemy:” Incarceration Redress in the Paintings of Roger Shimomura.” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 5, no. 1-2 (April 2019): 129-154.
In Progress
“Sex, Death, and Plastic: Alexis Rockman’s Eco-Tourist as Punchline” In Unserious Ecocriticism, Jessica Landau and Maria Lux, eds. Amherst College Press, forthcoming.
“Multisensory Art History for Equitable Teaching.” For Equity-Enhancing Strategies for the Art History Classroom, Jenevieve Delossantos and Kathleen Pierce, eds. Amherst College Press (under review)
“Computer Vision, Human Vision, and Future Visions: Lessons from AI in the Liberal Arts Classroom.” In-progress for Art History & Artificial Intelligence, Leda Cempellin and Melissa Geiger, eds. Palgrave Macmillan. (under review)
Modalities of Nature: The Habitat Diorama and Contemporary Art (in progress)
Other
“Lizzo’s Rumors.” Guest. No Cure for Curiosity (Podcast). Released September 20, 2021.
“Diorama Drama: The “Bumpus-Dean Controversy” at the American Museum of Natural History,” Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, The Gotham Center for New York City History, September 7, 2017.
Selected Presentations
“Computer Vision, Human Vision, and Future Visions: Lessons from AI in the Liberal Arts Classroom” for session Teaching Art History with Artificial Intelligence. SECAC. October 25, 2024.
“Glass and Vision in the Hall of North American Mammals.” Invited symposium presentation for The Greenhouse Effect: Atmospheres of the Botanical Humanities, Smith College. March 30, 2024.
“Vision and Control in the New York Zoological Park, 1895-1926,” for session Learning at the Crossroads: Parks as Sites of Knowledge Production in the Nineteenth Century City. SECAC. October 2023.
“‘How’s life on the farm?”: Biotechnology and Monstrosity in Contemporary Art," for Popularizing STEM: Science and Technology in 21st-Century US Popular Culture. PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies, November 15, 2021.
"Dioramas for the Future: Natural History Display and Climate Change in Alexis Rockman’s Great Lakes Cycle,” for session Visualizing the Anthropocene. Southeastern College Art Conference, December 5, 2020.
“Drawing on and Writing Over: Reimagining Anthropological Display with Chris Pappan,” for session American Museums: From Temples of Art to Sites of Social Justice Session II. Southeastern College Art Conference, October 18, 2019.
“Diorama Nation: Glass, Vision, and Patriotism in the Hall of North American Mammals,” for session Collecting Culture from WWII to the 1960s. College Art Association Annual Conference, February 16, 2019.
“Reflecting on Natural History: Robert Smithson, Glass, and the Reinterpretation of the Diorama,” for session American Conceptual Art and the Political Imagination, from Cold War to Globalization, College Art Association Annual Conference, February 18, 2017.
“Morimura’s ‘Ruined Picture’: Medium, Fragmentation, and Identity in Yasumasa Morimura’s Portrait (futago),” for session The World in the Frame: Photography's Inclusions and Exclusions, Southeastern College Art Conference, October 20, 2016.