Nancy Hom
{{Short description|Chinese-born American artist (born 1949)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Nancy Hom
| image = Kearny Street Workshop.jpg
| caption = Nancy Hom takes artwork out of the International Hotel in San Francisco, a day after the hotel's tenants were evicted
| native_name = 谭咏诗
| native_name_lang = zh
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1949}}
| birth_place = Taishan, Guangdong, China
| education = Pratt Institute (BFA)
| occupation = Visual artist, illustrator, printmaker, curator, writer, arts administrator, social activist
| spouse = Bob Hsiang
| website = {{URL|http://www.nancyhomarts.com/}}
}}
Nancy Hom (born 1949) is a Chinese-born American visual artist, illustrator, curator, writer, and arts administrator.{{Cite web |date=May 12, 2011 |title=APEX Express |url=https://kpfa.org/episode/69740/ |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=KPFA |language=en-US}} She served as the executive director of Kearny Street Workshop for many years.{{Cite web |date=July 30, 2024 |title=Nancy Hom |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2022/07/criticspage/Nancy-Hom/ |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=The Brooklyn Rail |language=en}} Hom lives in San Francisco, California.
Biography
Nancy 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.{{Cite web |date=2019-04-21 |title=Nancy Hom |url=https://queerculturalcenter.org/nancy-hom/ |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=Queer Cultural Center |language=en-US}}{{Cite book |last=Ressler |first=Susan R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=keKW15lChagC&pg=PA52 |title=Women Artists of the American West |date=2003 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-1054-5 |pages=52–53 |language=en}} She graduated in 1971 with a BFA degree in illustration from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.{{Cite web |date=2011-08-19 |title=CEMA: Nancy Hom |url=https://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/cema/NancyHom |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=UCSB Library |language=en}} Hom moved to San Francisco in the 1974.
Much of her poster art is graphic and political.{{Cite web |last=Kost |first=Ryan |date=2017-05-17 |title=In exhibition, 40 artists consider Yuri Kochiyama’s legacy |url=https://www.sfgate.com/art/article/In-exhibition-40-artists-consider-Yuri-11153132.php |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=SFGATE |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Bonetti |first=David |date=February 19, 1999 |title=Saluting two generations of artists |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/saluting-two-generations-of-artists-3095976.php |work=SFGate}} She has worked extensively within the Asian American movement.{{Cite news |last=Chao |first=Julie |date=September 6, 1998 |title=Outmoded media image of Asians draws fire |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Outmoded-media-image-of-Asians-draws-fire-3309808.php |work=SFGate}} 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. 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.{{Cite news |last=Nakao |first=Annie |date=December 7, 1995 |title=Kearny workshop finds a home |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/kearny-workshop-finds-a-home-3117835.php |work=SFGate}} In December 1995, the organization was forced to move locations, and restructure the program into a nonprofit, which was led by Hom.
Her artwork is in museum collections, including at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas;{{Cite web |title=Nancy Hom |url=https://blanton.emuseum.com/people/11311/nancy-hom |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=Blanton Museum of Art |language=en}} the Oakland Museum of California;{{Cite web |title=Carnaval San Francisco 1987 |url=https://portal.museumca.org/catalog/6faa4d04-7ba1-4fc3-a7e6-c198440ef703 |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) |language=en}} the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;{{Cite web |title=Hom, Nancy |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Nancy_Hom/ |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=SFMOMA |language=en-US}} and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C..{{Cite web |title=Nancy Hom |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/nancy-hom-31868 |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |language=en}}
Publications
- {{Cite book |last=Rohmer |first=Harriet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4AJLFytPs8MC&pg=PA17 |title=Honoring Our Ancestors: Stories and Pictures by Fourteen Artists |last2=Hom |first2=Nancy |date=1999 |publisher=Children's Book Press |isbn=978-0-89239-158-5 |pages=17– |language=en |chapter=My Father: Fook Tow Hom}}
- {{Cite book |last=Rohmer |first=Harriet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MvR_5v785DAC&pg=PA10 |title=Just Like Me: Stories and Self-portraits by Fourteen Artists |last2=Hom |first2=Nancy |date=1997 |publisher=Children's Book Press |isbn=978-0-89239-149-3 |pages=10– |language=en}}
- {{Cite book |last=Xiong |first=Blia |title=Nine-In-One, Grr, Grr |publisher=Children's Book Press |others=Nancy Hom (illustrator) |year=2013 |isbn=9780892391103}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-nancy-hom-21990 Oral history interview with Nancy Hom, 2020 August 30] from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
- [https://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/cema/NancyHom Nancy Hom Papers], at University of California, Santa Barbara
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Category:American arts administrators
Category:American women curators
Category:Artists from San Francisco