She teaches and writes about modern and contemporary art history, curatorial studies, Asian American Studies, ethnic American literature, and cultural studies. Formerly, she was the Curator of Contemporary Art at The Drawing Center in NYC. She has curated and managed exhibitions at the Asia Society, Berkeley Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Barnsdall Art Center, Painted Bride Art Center, Troy Arts Center, and the Los Angeles Center of Photography. She is also the Arts Editor of the journal Social Text and the North American Editor for Asian Diasporic Visual Culture and the Americas (ADVA). She is currently working on a curatorial project that engages site-specificity and community art making in Oakland.