EDUCATION
1995-97	MFA, Photography, UCLA.
1993-94	Critical Studies, Whitney Independent Studies Program, NY.
	BA (Hons) Fine Art, Bath Academy of Art, England.
	Foundation Art, Goldsmiths College, London, England.
ONE and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS/ROOM INSTALLATIONS
2003	Talwar Gallery, NY: people in white houses
	Oboro Gallery, Montreal, Canada: Will **** for Peace. Collaboration w/- Y.S. Min.
	Ssamzie Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea: Will **** for Justice. Collaboration w/- Y.S. Min.
2002	Mezzanine Gallery, U. Minnesota, Minneapolis: Will **** for Peace. Collaboration w/- Y.S. Min.
2001	Talwar Gallery, NY
	Art In General, NY: Terrain
	Susanne Vielmetter Projects, LA: Terrible Beauty (a re-Sitation of an unnaturally conditioned Mind, cast upon the treacherous waters between International Style and Nationalist Fervor).
2000	The Brewery, LA: Nonzero Sum Games. Collaboration with Yong Soon Min.
1998	The Upstairs at the Market Gallery, LA: All You Can Eat.
1997	Highways, Santa Monica, CA; Threshold
	Menschel Gallery, Syracuse, NY: AlterNatives. w/- Y.S. Min (cat.)
1994	Camerawork, London: alter idem/performing personae. w/- Y. S. Min
1989	Kafe Klatsch, Wiesbaden, Germany.
1986	Tara Arts Centre, London: Lifting the Veil, Clearing the Mists.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003	Museum of African Art, NY: Looking Both Ways. (cat.)
	San Jose Museum of Art, CA: Un/Familiar Territory.
	Contemporary Art Musuem, Uni. of S. Florida, Tampa; H and R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, MO; Fisher Gallery, USC, CA: Unnaturally. (cat.)
2002	India Habitat Centre, New Dehli, India: Borderless Terrain. (cat.)
	Fisher Gallery, USC, LA: Global Address. (cat.)
	Cherrydelosreyes, LA: Dermatone.
2001	Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA: Phigment.
	India Center of Art and Culture, NY: Home and The World. (cat.)
2000	Rosamund Felsen Gallery, LA: Cosmic Dermis.
	London Biennale, The Freud Centre, England: Imaging the Wunderboard.
	Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY: ID/Y2K (cat.)
	Laemmle Grand Fourplex Theatre, LA: Not Coming.
	Baum Gallery, Conway, AR: Contemporary Art and Identity. (cat.)
	The Advocate Gallery, LA: Damage Control.
1999	Camerawork, San Francisco: Body/Language.
	Miller/Durazo, LA: Transit.
	Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Inst. of Chicago, IL: Not On Any Map. (cat.)
	Barnsdall Art Gallery, LA: The Mourning After. (cat.)
	Black Paint Studio, Toronto: Dia*sperse.
	Eagle Rock Community Center, LA: Broadcast.
1998	Galeria da Mitra, Lisbon, Portugal: Where I am. (cat.)
	New Museum, NY: Urban Encounters.
1997	The Photographers Gallery, London; City Uni., NY: Translocations.
	Studio Museum, Harlem, NY: Transforming the Crown. (cat.)
	Korean American Museum, LA: Kimchee Xtravaganza. (cat.)
	The Queens Museum, NY: Out of India. (cat.)
	CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY: Uncommon Traits.
	Los Angeles Zoo: SaFARi, organised by FAR (Foundation for Art Resources), w/ Y.S. Min.
	Wight Gallery, UCLA: Thesis exhibition.
1996	American Photography Institute, NY: National Graduate Photography.
	Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY: AIM Benefit.
	UC Irvine Gallery: Terminals, also available on the internet, curated by Connie Samaras.
1995	MTA/Arts for Transit & Organization of Independent Artists,NY: "Fire Without Gold" at Jamaica St. and Yankee Stadium subway stations.
1994	Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY: Fire Without Gold. (cat.)
	Houston Center for Photography, TX: Picturing Asia America.
	Desh Pardesh Festival, Toronto, Canada.
	Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY: Beyond the Borders. (cat.)
	India Mission, NY: Contemporary Indian Artists.
1993	National Conference Center, Baguio, Philippines: Fourth Baguio Arts Festival.
	Art in General, NY: Good and Plenty.
	Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY: AIM Show. (cat.)
	Whitney Museum, NY: Whitney Biennial. Video collaboration with Yong Soon Min, included in Shu Lea Chang's installation, "Those Fluttering Objects of Desire."
	Rashtrapati Vidya Bhavan, NY: Inaugural Show.
	Gallery of Photography, Dublin; Lighthouse Media Center, Wolverhampton: Ecstatic Antibodies. (cat.)
	10 on 8, NY: Double Time, cur. Todd Ayoung.
1992	Walsall Art Gallery, England: Realms of Glory.
	494 Gallery, NY: Family Values, collaboration with Yong Soon Min; cur. Lucy Lippard.
	Exit Art, NY: Those Fluttering Objects of Desire, collaboration with Yong Soon Min.
	Citizens Gallery, London: Strains of War. (cat.)
	Leicester City Gallery; Oldham Museum and Art Gallery; Cartwright Hall, Bradford; South London Gallery, England: Crossing Black Waters. (cat.)
	South London Gallery, England: Second Coming.
	Worcester Health Authority: Ecstatic Antibodies. (cat.)
1991	Black Art Gallery, London: Value for Culture.
	Art In General, NY: Artists Engulfed Against War.
	Horizon Gallery, London: In Focus.
	Grey Art Gallery, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Madison Art Center, Madison; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham: Interrogating Identity. (cat.)
	Diorama, London: Light a Candle for Peace.
	Battersea Arts Center, London; Street Level, Glasgow; La Maison de la Culture, Quebec, Canada; Barbican Theatre, Plymouth; Gallery of Photography, Dublin; Worcester Health Authority, England: Ecstatic Antibodies. (cat.)
	Collins Gallery, Glasgow; Watermans Arts, Middlesex, England: Fabled Territories. (cat.)
1990	Herbert Gallery, Coventry; South London Gallery; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Cartwright Hall, Bradford; Castle Museum, Nottingham, England: Let the Canvas Come to Life With Dark Faces. (cat.)
	John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool: Fabled Territories. (cat.)
	Embassy Cultural Center, London, Ontario: Siting Resistance.
	Institute of Education, London: Distinguishing Marks. (cat.)
	Camerawork, London; South Bank Centre, England: Autoportraits.
	Darlington Arts Centre, England: The Elvis Show.
	Impressions Gallery, York; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Chapter Arts, Cardiff: Ecstatic Antibodies. (cat.)
1989	Leeds City Gallery, England; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada: Fabled Territories. (cat.)
	National Museum of Havana, Cuba: Third Havana Biennale.
	Montefiore Centre, London: Drawing Back the Curtain.
1988	Diorama, London: The Outlook.
	Community Copyart, London: Against the Clause. (cat.)
	Soho Poly, London: Panchayat.
	Chisenhale Gallery, London; Laing Gallery, Newcastle; City Gallery, Huddersfield; Herbert Gallery, Coventry; Gardner Arts, Brighton; The Minories, Colchester, England: The Essential Black Art. (cat.)
1987	Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester: The Image Employed. (cat.)
	Chelsea School of Art, London: The Devils Feast. (cat.)
	Bedford Hill Gallery, London: Copyart goes South.
	Shaw Theatre, London: Photocopyart.
	Cockpit Gallery, London: Copyart at the Cockpit.
	Whitechapel Gallery, London: Whitechapel Open.
1986	Elbow Room, London: Unrecorded Truths. (cat.)
	Wapping Sports Centre, London: Brushes With the West.
1985	Hounslow Civic Centre, Middlesex: HAVAC.
1983	Royal Academy, London: Stowells Trophy.
	The Ambulance Station, London: Signs of Life.
PUBLISHED BOOKS
1992	Crossing Black Waters, co-editor, with Merali, S., pub. Working Press, London
1986	The Sikhs in Britain, pub. Batsford, London.
PUBLISHED FICTION
2000	Voyeurism, FELIX Journal of Media Arts and Communications: Our Lady.
1998	Re.Visions, Betty Lee exhib. cat., Fellows of Contemporary Art: critical fiction, Re.Visions.
	Queer PAPI Porn, ed. Joel B. Tan, Cleis Press: Rainsbow’s End.
1997	Asiam, No. 1, NY: Dirt.
1996	Things That Quicken the Heart, exhib. publication, ed. Soo Jin Kim: Pantheon
	Amerasia Journal, Vol.22, No.1, Asian American Studies, UCLA: Once Bitten.
1995	On a Bed of Rice, ed. Geraldine Kudaka, Doubleday: Stories to Read Aloud.
	Strange Fruit, exhib. cat., Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies: Biology Lessons.
1994	Rungh Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4, Vancouver: photo-text, Indian Aphorisms.
	Tracing Culture, Whitney Museum, NY: Re-Placing Angels (extracts and extractions).
	Casablanca Magazine, No. 11, London: Notes of a Native Informant.
1993	Asian Pacific American Journal, NY, Vol. 2, No. 2: Circle of Tongues.
1990	Ecstatic Antibodies, ed. Sunil Gupta, pub. Rivers Oram Press, London: Portrait of the Artist as a Dirty Young Man.
PUBLISHED NONFICTION and ARTWORK
2003	X-Tra, Vol. 5.3, The Dream of the Audience: the works of Theresa Hak Kyung cha.
2002	Los Angeles Times, Counterpunch: Does Riefenstahl Make a Fascist Statement? (10/7)
	Kunst Nach Ground Zero, ed. H.P. Schwerfel, Dumont Press, Germany: p.187-189.
	Angelic States, Connie Samaras exhib cat., SFAI: The Truth is Out There.
	X-Tra, Vol. 14, No.3, editor.
2001	Alt/–, University of Southern California online journal: Re: Turn of the Living Dead Author.
	Suite 16, Collage Ensemble, anthology music/sound CD: California Dreaming.
2000	VC FilmFest, LA Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival, catalogue: film reviews.
1999	Terminals, CD-ROM, accompanying book, eds. C.Samaras, V.Vesna; UC Regents: artworks, An American Notebook.
	X-tra, Vol.2, No.2, LA: Responses to the Irwin Garden at the Getty.
	Side Street, online magazine: Pile Up.
1998	Framework, Vol.9, No.1, LACPS: Dick and Jane, artist pages.
	Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age, ed. Ella Shohat, New Museum/MIT Press: artwork, p.443.
	The Headless Buddha; Dinh Le, exhib. cat., LACPS; Uncommon Traits, CEPA, Buffalo, NY: interview with the artist.
1997	Third Text, London, No. 38; Memories of Overdevelopment, exhib. cat., Plug In Editions, Winnipeg, Canada: essay, The Flight of/from the Primitive. p.65-79.
	Positions, East Asia Culures Critique, Vol. 5, No.2, Duke Uni. Press: cover and artist portfolio, p. 391-401.
	Amerasia Journal, Vol.23, No.2, Asian American Studies, UCLA: essay, Return to Bhowani Junction; and cover artwork, Taj Company. p.124-139.
	Suitcase, Vol. 2, No. 1 & 2, UCLA: photograph.
	Disorient Journalzine, No, 5, LA: artwork and photograph.
1996	Race and Ethnicity, book catalogue, Routledge: cover photograph.
	Asian American Sexualities, ed. Russell Leong, Routledge, NY: photographs.
	Naked Truths, exhib. cat., U. Hawai'i: essay, Notes on the Margins of the White Body.
1995	New Observations, No.107, NY; Quest, Reed College: essay, Sushi Deluxe: Star Trek, Oedipus and the Native Informant.
	Grand Larceny, Vol. 2, UC Irvine, CA: photograph.
	Art In General Manual, 93-94, Art in General, NY.
	Godzilla Newsletter, NY: essay on education.
1994	Trophies of Empire, exhib. cat., Bluecoat/Arnolfini Galleries; Beyond Destination, exhib. cat., Ikon Gallery, Birmingham: essay, Going Native.
	Photography Quarterly, #61, Vol. 15, No.4, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.
1993	Third Text, London: essay, The Spoken Word.
	Wolgan Art Monthly, South Korea; Harbor Journal, Montreal: essay, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Other Things Seen, Other Things Heard.
1992	Autograph Newsletter, London: exhib. reviews, Chila Burman and Roshini Kempadoo.
	Casablanca Magazine, No. 1, London: photo-feature collaboration with Yong Soon Min
	A Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, NY: essay with Yong Soon Min, The Family Album.
	Creative Camera, London: exhib review, Confrontations.
	Autograph Newsletter, London: essay, Returning the Gaze.
	Bazaar, No. 19, London: exhib. reviews, Shoba Broota and Shafique Uddin.
	Oldham City Gallery: gallery essay, The Death of Cleopatra.
	Crossing Black Waters, pub. Working Press, London: essays, The Colonial Legacy and The Screaming Distance.
1991	4 x 4, Harris Museum, Preston: catalogue essay, Shaheen Merali.
	Bazaar, No. 16, London: essay, The Maharajah's New Clothes.
1990	Bazaar, No. 15, London: photo essay, Elvis Was Black!
	Bazaar, No. 11, London: essay, Cuba Libre: The Havana Biennale.
1989	Bazaar, No. 9, London: illustration feature, 12 Pamellas, 12 Salmans.
	Bazaar, No. 9, London: exhib reviews, Prafulla Mohanti and Kamakshi Pant.
	Bazaar, No. 9, London: essay, Goan Dancing.
	Bazaar, No. 7, London: exhib reviews, Chila Burman and Bhajan Hunjan.
	Artrage, Spring, London: review, The One Spirit Gallery.
1988	Artrage, London: essay, Clausetrophobia: The Effects of Section 28 on Black Arts Practice.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2003	Lecturer: Studio Art Dept, UC Irvine.
2002	Lecturer: Studio Art Dept, UC Irvine: Visual Culture.
	Lecturer: Photography Dept, CalArts.
	Visiting Artist: U. Minnesota, Minneapolis.
2000	Lecturer: Studio Art Dept, UC Irvine.
1999	Lecturer: Studio Art Dept, UC Irvine.
	Workshop leader: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), LA.
	Instructor: The HeArt Project, LA
	Instructor: The Backyards Project, LA.
1998	Lecturer: Studio Art Dept, UC Irvine.
1997	Visiting artist: The Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA.
	Substitute teaching: Otis School of Art, CA; UC Irvine;
93-94	Lecturer: College of New Rochelle, NY.
	Instructor: Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY.
1992	Artist in Residence: Houndsfield School, London
1991	Artist in Residence: Scott Wilkie School, London; Weston All Saints School, Bath, England.
1990	Artist in Residence: Prospect School, Reading, Berkshire; Cranford Community School, Middlesex; Alumwell School, Walsall; The Residential Centre, Oxford; Zabalaza Arts Festival, London.
1989	Artist in Residence: Pelsall Community School, Walsall; Aldridge Teachers' Centre, Walsall.
1987	Visiting Artist/Tutor: SHAPE, London.
1986	Artist in Residence: Daneford School, London; Tara Arts Centre, London.
GUEST LECTURES
2002	Pomona College. CA.
2001	U.C. Irvine
1998	Burren College of Art, Co. Clare, Ireland.
	Keynote Speaker: Columbia Uni., NY: Asian Pacific Awareness.
1997	UC Berkeley;
1996	U.C. Berkeley, English and Ethnic Studies departments.
1995	U.C. Irvine.
1994	Society for Photographic Education, Monterey, CA.
	Hunter College, NY.
	U.C. Irvine.
1992	Ithaca College, NY; Cardiff Institute of Higher Education, Wales; Leicester City Gallery; Newham Arts and Education Centre, London; Museum of the Moving Image, London; Kingsway Princeton College, London; Asian Youth Conf., London; Winsford School, Cheshire.
1991	Garhi Studios, New Delhi, India; Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India; Menai Centre, Anglesey, Wales
1990	Central St. Martins School of Art, London; Selby College, Yorkshire; Mid-Cheshire School of Art; Walsall School of Art; Maidenhead Teachers' Centre; Camerawork Gallery, London; Hayward Gallery, London; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Community Photography Conference, Newcastle; Photography in Education Conference, Birmingham; Isledon Training Center, London; Oakwood School, Manchester;
1988	Tate Gallery, Liverpool; Camden Arts Centre, London; North London Polytechnic.
1987	Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester; Bedford Hill Gallery, London; Cockpit Gallery, London.
PANELS/READINGS
2002	Owangiu Biennale, Korea, moderator: Predicament of Place, symposium.
	The Village, LA, moderator: Artwallah festival.
	Verle Annis Gallery, USC, panel: Globalization: Opportunities and Threats.
	UC Irvine, CA, panel: The Dream of the Audience, The work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
2001	Notre Dame, Indiana, speaker: Paretition and Memory Conference.
	Shades of Black, conference, Duke Uni. N. Carolina.
	Home and the World, India Center for Arts and Culture, NY, artists’ panel.
1999	Ex-Centric Conference, Cochrane Theatre, London.
	Santa Monica Museum: Terminals.
1998	South Asian Student Alliance Conference, UC Berkeley.
	The Village, LA: Boys’ Life.
1997	CAA Conference, NY: Art in Flux.
	Wight Gallery, UCLA: Impudent.
	Reading: Cal State Northridge: Asian American Sexualities conference; A Different Light, LA.
1996	Racial Spirits Conference; UCLA: Once Bitten.
	Reading: Pomona College, CA; Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA; California Coffee House, Culver City, CA; Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco.
1995	Reading: Casablanca Salon, London; Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA; Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA; California Coffee House, Culver City, CA.
1994	Whitney Museum, NY: Orientalizing Asia: Japanese American Identity in Art.
	Bronx Museum, NY: Grounded Transmissions.
1993	Artists Talk on Art, Broad Reach/International Collaborations, NY.
	Art in General, NY: Migrating Selves/Race-ing Histories.
1992	Center for Fine Arts Miami, Interrogating Identity.
1991	Ikon Gallery, Birmingham: Ecstatic Antibodies,.
1990	Wolverhampton Art Gallery: The Other Story.
	South London Gallery: Let The Canvas Come To Life With Dark Faces.
1989	Third Havana Biennale: Third World in the First World, Havana, Cuba.
1988	Chisenhale Gallery: The Essential Black Art, London.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2002	Program/Curatorial Committee: LA Freewaves Festival.
	Funding Panel: California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.
2001	Pre-Selection Committee, Art In Motion Festival, USC/Santa Monica Museum of Art.
	Funding Panel: California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.
	Editorial Board: X-tra Magazine.
	Pre-Selection Committee: Art in Motion Festival, USC/Santa Monica Museum of Art.
2000	Program Committee: LA Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival.
	Funding Panel: California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.
1999	Co-chair: College Art Association Conf., LA: Dissident Art and International Art Markets.
	Selection Panel: Cultural Affairs Department, LA: Literature.
1998	Consultant/editor: LA Culture Net, Getty Institute: Neighborhood Views website.
	Moderator: The Queens Museum, NY: Out of India.
	Moderator: Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies: Upstaging Hollywood.
	Member, Board of Directors: Foundation for Art Resources (FAR).
1997	Moderator: Ko