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SIMON LEUNG
Associate Professor (BA magna cum laude 1987, University
of California, Los Angeles; Whitney Program 1988-89) and Affiliate
Faculty in Asian American Studies, teaches critical theory, art
history, and new genres. His interests lie in the intersection between
ethics/aesthetics, critical theory, politics of sexuality
and post-coloniality, public space, and theories
of modernism and
postmodernism. He is also Affiliate Faculty inAsian American Studies,
the Center in Law, Society and Culture, and the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies.
Leung’s work in various media is project-based. Such projects
include:
a reposing of Duchamp’s oeuvre as an
discourse in ethics; rethinking
the psychological, philosophical, and political dimensions of AIDS in the figure of
the glory hole; and meditations on “the residual space of the
Vietnam
War,” comprising of projects on the squatting body as
counter-architecture, military desertion as askesis,
and surfing. A
recent solo museum exhibition, "Proposal
for The Side of the Mountain,"
an opera/film/sculpture (the opera written in collaboration with composer Michael Webster), was presented at the Santa Monica Museum of
Art in 2002. Selected solo-exhibitions include
Pat
Hearn Gallery
,
NY
(1996); Refusalon,
San
Francisco
(1997); and
Huntington Beach
Art
Center
(1998). His work has also been presented at the Venice Biennale (2003); the Whitney Biennial (1993); the Museum of Modern Art, New York; PS1 Museum, NGBK (Berlin); the Kunstahlle Fredericianum
(Kassel); the MIT List Visual Arts Center
(Cambridge); the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; the Generali
Foundation (Vienna); National Museum of Contemporary Art (South Korea);
Sala Mendoza (Caracas); and the International Museum of Surfing.
His work is discussed in many books, including American Art after 1945
(Thames and
Hudson
,
2003) by David Joselit; Contract with the Skin
(Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1998) by Kathy O'Dell; and the Encyclopedia
of Aesthetics (Oxford
University Press, 1998). Catalogues include the
making of (Generali Foundation 1998); Surf Vietnam (Huntington Beach
Art Center 1998); Flight Patterns
(MOCA 2000); and Simon Leung:
Proposal for The Side of the
Mountain (Santa Monica Museum of Art
2002). Articles on Leung include: X-tra, Vol.5, NO. 4,
2003 (“Concert Notes from Near the Side of the Mountain,”
Christopher Miles); Art in
America, May 1999 (“Of War and Remembrance,” David Joselit); Documents,
Winter 1999 (“Simon
Leung, Surf
Vietnam
,”
Juli Carson); Texte zur Kunst,
June1997
(“Site-specificity revisited: Zu Simon
Leung’s Proposal for Surf
Vietnam,” Pamela Lee); Village Voice, July 9, 1996
(“Code Front,” Bill
Arning). Leung's essay “Squatting
Through Violence,” published in
Documents (Spring 1995) was
recently translated into French in
radiotemporaire
(Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble 2002). Another text, “Notes on Warren Piece (in the ‘70s),” was published and translated into Portuguese in Negociacoes na Zona de Contacto/Negotiations in the Contact Zone, Assirio & Alvim, Lisboa, 2003). He was on the editorial board of Art Journal from 1998-2004.
In 2004, Leung completed
“Botany and Rhetoric,” in collaboration with composer Luke Stoneham, for “gardenLAb experiment: at the Art Center College of Design. An anthology Leung co-edited, Theory in Contemporary
Art since 1985 (Blackwell, 2004), was published by Blackwell the smame year.
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