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Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim is a curator and an associate professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She teaches on various subjects within the visual arts such as contemporary art, media art, ethnocultural and global art histories. Having received her MA in 1996 at Concordia University and her PhD in 2004 at McGill University, she focuses her research on contemporary Asian art and contemporary Asian Canadian art, particularly on the relationships between remix culture and place identity. She is also a member of the Screen Culture Research Group at Concordia University and a Research Associate with the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis at Carleton University.

She was the Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies and the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong with her doctoral dissertation addressing urban metaphors in Hong Kong media art in context of questions surrounding place identity, history and spatial culture. Her MA thesis focused on the first exhibition in Canada consisting of entirely black women artists, "Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter".

Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim was also the curator at the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art aka Centre A in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from 2003 until 2006.

Awards
Dr. Jim was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Faculty of Fine Arts through the nominations of Concordia's Graduate and Undergraduate students in the category of Emerging Teacher. She was also awarded the Artexte Prize for Research in Contemporary Art, the second recipient of the prize since its inception in 2012.

Exhibitions and Symposiums
Since 2004, Dr. Jim's curatorial and organizational practice has encompassed directing and organizing various exhibitions, symposiums and workshops that have discussed notions of identity, race and representation in contemporary visual culture. In 2014, Dr. Jim participated as a co-organizer for “Performing Asian/Americas: Converging Movements,” for the ninth Encuentro of The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Montreal, and as a co-director of the workshop “Contemporary Art and the Inter-Asian Imaginary” for Inter-Asian Connections IV, Istanbul. IN 2013 she curated “Yam Lau: A World is a Model of the World” at the Darling Foundry, Montrea l. In 2009, she was also the co-director at the conference “Can-Asian, Eh? Diaspora, Indigeneity and the Transpacific” for the Canadian Asian Studies Association, Vancouver, 2009.

Publishing
Dr. Jim has published widely across Canada and internationally alongside her curatorial and educational work in order to promote the visibility and relevance of Asian and Asian Canadian artists, artwork and adjacent discourses at a transnational level. Currently, she is the co-editor of the Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA) with Alexandra Chang, published by Brill (Leiden/Boston), a journal in partnership between the Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University (New York) and Concordia University’s Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art (Montreal). the scope of her published writing work also have taken the form of essays, exhibition catalogues and anthologies. Notable texts include “Dealing with Chiastic Perspectives: Global Art Histories in Canada” in the book "Negotiations in a Vacant Lot, Studying the Visual in Canada", published by McGill- Queen's University Press as a part of the 14 part series  McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Series in 2014, “The Maraya Project: Research-Creation, Inter-reference and the Worlding of Asian Cities” in the journal Third Text, Volume 28, 2014, "RoCH Redux" in Yishu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Volume 15, Number 4, July/August 2016, "Mediating Place-Identity: Notes on Mathias Woo's A Very Good City" in Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, 2008 , "Let Your Fingers Do the Walking: Rereading Ho Tam's The Yellow Pages' in Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen , "Articulating Spaces of Representation, Contemporary Black Women Artists in Canada" in Racism, Eh? A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada, 2004 amongst other notably published works in various platforms and institutions.