Isabella Ko
Art Institute of Chicago (AIC)
Mentors: Currently mentored by Chinese Art curator Tao Wang, Ko is publishing web content on modern Chinese painters and their works within the collection.
Isabella Ko is a recent Northwestern University graduate with a major in Art History as well as minors in French and Business. Her interests in museum and cultural work stem from a strong belief in the possibilities for collective learning, remembering, and action through the visual. As a 2018-2020 fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago, Ko has pursued projects such as contributing to an exhibition catalogue on contemporary fiber artist Bisa Butler and writing about archival materials from women-run Chicago art spaces for the museum’s website. Her fellowship has also allowed her to conduct research in California for her thesis, which explores Asian Black American solidarity during the 1960s through the lenses of art history and visual culture studies.
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