Nancy Hom
Nancy Hom (born 1949) is a Chinese-born American visual artist, illustrator, curator, writer, and arts administrator.[1] She served as the executive director of Kearny Street Workshop for many years.[2] Hom lives in San Francisco, California.[2] BiographyNancy Hom was born in 1949, in Taishan in Guangdong, China. She moved at the age of five to New York City, where she was raised.[2][3][4] She graduated in 1971 with a BFA degree in illustration from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.[5] Hom moved to San Francisco in the 1974.[4] Much of her poster art is graphic and political.[4][6][7] She has worked extensively within the Asian American movement.[8] She is a member of the Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA). Hom served as the executive director of Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco, from 1995 to 2003.[2] When she started her role Hom's was working with the first-ever board of directors for the organization, and at the time the Kearny Street Workshop was located on the ground floor of the I-Hotel.[9] In December 1995, the organization was forced to move locations, and restructure the program into a nonprofit, which was led by Hom.[9] Her artwork is in museum collections, including at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas;[10] the Oakland Museum of California;[11] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;[12] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C..[13] Publications
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