Christina Hiromi Hobbs

Christina Hiromi Hobbs (she/they) is an art historian, curator, and writer based in the Bay Area. 

She is a PhD student in Art History at Stanford University with an emphasis on American art, modern and contemporary art of the Asian diaspora, and the history of photography. Their work focuses on the intersections of history and memory, race and aesthetics, and the archive. 

Their master's thesis looked to government photographs of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. Departing from prevailing historical readings of this archive, she argues that the photographs from this period require a decolonial critique capable of rendering the incarceration within a longer history of setter colonialism. 

Recent projects include co-curating the exhibition No Monument: In the Wake of the Japanese American Incarceration with Genji Amino at the Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York. The exhibition was featured in the September 2022 issue of Artforum, Momus, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, and Public Seminar. They also contributed a short piece entitled "Image and Memory" to the preface of the paperback edition of Daniel James Brown's Facing the Mountain published in May 2022 by Penguin Random House. 

They have held research and curatorial positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Modern Art Museum of Shanghai, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and The Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust. She is currently working on a forthcoming exhibition slated to open in January 2024 in Berkeley, CA.