Kevin Hong

Kevin Hong studies the history of photography with a focus on the intersections of technology, race, and environment. His dissertation, “Intimate Exposures: Critical Histories of the Polaroid Corporation,” mobilizes artists’ Polaroid experiments to surface the Corporation’s historical entanglements with chemical pollution, the military industrial complex, and racial capitalism. More broadly, Kevin is interested in the materiality and circulation of photographic objects, with particular regard for alternative photographic techniques, representations of Asian diasporas, and imperial and capitalist networks. Kevin has worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Houston Climate Justice Museum. He received an A. B. in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard College in 2015 and a M.Phil in Criticism and Culture from the University of Cambridge in 2016, where he was a Herchel Smith Fellow.