Midori Yamamura, Ph.D., is the Alcaly/Bodian Distinguished CUNY Scholar,  the Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC), The CUNY Graduate Center and the Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art at CUNY Kingsborough. She is the author of Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular (MIT Press, 2015) and Co-Editor and a contributor to Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles: Arts in East and Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2021).