Asia Adomanis is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History of Art at The Ohio State University studying modern American art and Asian American artists during the twentieth century with research interests also in global modernism and modern Chinese art. Outside of the department, Asia has worked as a Research Assistant at the Wexner Center for the Arts and been in residency as a Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Asia’s dissertation focuses on the relationship between abstraction and race and the politics of style in the work of Chinese American artists active during the Cold War.