EventsThe New Social Environment#1162

Kenneth Tam: The Medallion

Featuring Tam and Christina Yang

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Kenneth Tam joins Rail contributor Christina Yang for a conversation.

Kenneth Tam

A photo of Kenneth Tam on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Photo by Christian Carroll

Kenneth Tam is an interdisciplinary artist who works across video, sculpture, installation, performance and photography. Tam's work examines themes including the performance of masculinity, the transformative potential of ritual and expressions of intimacy within groups.  The artist has held solo exhibitions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Queens Museum, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; among others. His work is included in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, and Hammer Museum, and more. Tam is an assistant professor at Rice University in Houston and is faculty at The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. He is represented by Commonwealth & Council. 

Christina Yang

A photo of Christina Yang on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Christina Yang is Executive Director of AAMC Foundation as well as an independent curator based in New York and Williamstown. She specializes in spectatorship, politics of the image, experimental genres, and feminist care. She has been a curator at The Kitchen, Queens and Guggenheim Museums, as well at Williams College and UC Berkeley. She teaches in SVA’s Masters Program in Curatorial Practice. She participated in Asia Art Archive in America’s 2024 Leadership Camp led by Simon Wu and Daniel Chew. She received her Ph.D in performance studies from NYU in 2025. 

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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