Publications
Books
Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes. Curated, edited, and illustrated by Laura Kina and Jave Yoshimoto. Virtual Asian American Art Museum, 2023.
Free online exhibition: https://vaaam.tome.press/chapter/word-of-mouth-asian-american-artists-sharing-recipes/
An expanded print version of our book is forthcoming from the University of Arkansas Press.
Kina, Laura (Illustrator), and Lee A. Tonouchi (Author). Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos. Bess Press, 2019. $18.95 (ISBN1573065323), 48 page
Kina, Laura and Jan Christian Bernabe. Queering Contemporary Asian American Art.
Foreword by Susette Min and Afterword by Kyoo Lee.
University of Washington Press, 2017.
$35 paperback (ISBN: 9780295741376), 304 pp., 47 illus., 36 in color, 7 x 10 in.
eBook available through Amazon.com Kindle.
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Kina, Laura and Wei Ming Dariotis. War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art.
University of Washington Press, 2013.
$35 paperback (ISBN: 9780295992259), 304 pp, 61 illus., 7 x 10 in.
The eBook is available for purchase across multiple platforms including Kindle $35 on Amazon, NOOK book $26.49 on Barnes & Noble, and Kobo eBook $35 from your local bookstore such as Women & Children First in Chicago (Kobo eBook $35).
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Special Issue Journal Editor
Chang Tan, Laura Kina, and Tina Chen, “Special Issue: Visualizing Asian and Asian Diasporic Art,” Verge: Studies in Global Asias Vol 8, Issue 2 (Fall 2022)
Takezawa, Yasuko and Laura Kina, “Special Issue: Trans-Pacific Japanese Diaspora Art: Encountering and Envisioning Minor-Transnationalism,” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas Vol. 6, Issue 1–2 (July 2020).
Exhibition Catalogs
Laura Kina – Over the Rainbow, One More Time
Publication presented in conjunction with Laura Kina’s Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery exhibition, Over the Rainbow, One More Time, March 26 – May 6, 2023.
Essays by Laura Kina and Joanne Aono
Design by Daniel Streeting
32 pages
$15.00 Purchase the exhibition catalog online.
Laura Kina: Holding On. Chicago, IL: FLXST Contemporary, 2019.
Digital exhibition catalog published in conjunction with “Laura Kina: Holding On” at FLXST Contemporary Oct 18–Nov 23, 2019, Chicago, IL. Featuring an invited essay “On Holding on in Okinawa” by Ryan Maasaki Yokota, PhD, DePaul History Department. Download the PDF.
Sugar/Islands: Finding Okinawa in Hawai’i – the art of Laura Kina and Emily Hanako Momohara.
Los Angeles, CA: Bear River Press, 2015. Available through the JANM bookstore.
Catalog published in conjunction with the Japanese American National Museum exhibition. Foreword by G.W. Kimura, curatorial essay by Krystal Hauseur, an invited essay by Margo Machida, an interview with the artists, and full-color reproductions of all 30 images in the show.
$24 paperback (ISBN -13: 978-0-9768528-2-7; ISBN: 0-768528-2-9), 52 pp.
Laura Kina: Uchinanchu. (exhibition catalog in conjunction with Cal Poly Pomona, 2016 solo show) featuring co-curator Michele Cairella Fillmore’s essay “Transnational Lives in Motion.” $29.36 Purchase the exhibition catalog or download a PDF or view online.
Laura Kina: Blue Hawaii (exhibition catalog in conjunction with New Jersey City University, 2015 and University of Memphis, 2014 solo show) featuring an invited essay by Wesley Uenten “Okinawan Diaspora Blues.” Download a PDF of the exhibition catalog or view it online.
Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina (exhibition catalog in conjunction with the Chicago Cultural Center, 2013 exhibition) featuring the previously published invited essays by ML, Johny. “Indigo Inscriptions”; Vali, Murtaza. “The Dye That Binds: Indigo Iconographies”; Yee, Michelle. “Moving Materials: Reclaiming Histories of Migration.” Download a PDF of the exhibition or view it online.
Lee, Larry. Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing. Foundation for Asian American Independent Media 15th Annual Asian American Showcase catalog. 2010.
Indigo: New Work By Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina (exhibition catalog in conjunction with New Delhi/Mumbai, India exhibitions, 2009) featuring invited essays by ML, Johny. “Indigo Inscriptions”; Vali, Murtaza. “The Dye That Binds: Indigo Iconographies”; Yee, Michelle. “Moving Materials: Reclaiming Histories of Migration.” Download a PDF of the exhibition catalog.
Boris, Staci and Sarah Giller Nelson. The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation. Chicago, IL: Spertus Press, 2007. p 40-41 and 91-95. ISBN-10: 0935982655 ISBN-13: 978-0935982657
Chapters
Kina, Laura. “Michiko Itatani: Painting the Cosmic Novel.” In The Virtual Asian American Art Museum, a multi-year, inter-institutional digital humanities project initiated and led by the following major partners: the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Libraries, Getty Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Bowdoin Art Museum, San Francisco State University, DePaul University, Tome, Artl@s/BasART, and Japanese American Service Committee in Chicago, 2018.
Kina, Laura. “The Black Pacific through Okinawan Eyes: Photographer Mao Ishikawa’s “Hot Days in Camp Hansen!!” and “Life in Philly.” In Rethinking Postwar Okinawa: Beyond American Occupation, edited by Pedro Iacobelli and Hiroko Matsudo, 149–168. Lanham: MD, Lexington Books, 2017.
Kina, Laura. “Issei, Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei, Gosei: Painting Okinawan American Champurū Spirit and Hapa Identity.” In Hapa Japan: Identities and Representations (Volume 2), edited by Duncan Williams, 149–162. Los Angles: USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Cultures/Kaya Press, 2017.
Kina, Laura. (in Japanese) “Painting Okinawan American Champurū Spirit and Hapa Identity.” In 沖縄ジェンダー学 3 交差するアイデンティティ (琉球大学国際沖縄研究所ライブラリ) (Okinawa Gender Studies 3 Intersecting Identities), edited by Ikue Kina, 119–147. Tokyo: Otsuki Shoten Publisher, 2016.
Articles and Op-Eds
Laura Kina, “Anti-Trans Legislation to ‘Protect Children’ Harms LGBTQIA+ Youth-Both Now and in the Future,” Ms. Magazine, January 31, 2023. https://msmagazine.com/2023/01/31/anti-trans-legislation-to-protect-children-harms-lgbtqia-youth-both-now-and-in-the-future/
Laura Kina, “Covid’s still around – and decisions about holiday travel are tough,” Chicago Sun Times, December 20, 2022. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/12/20/23516947/covid-immunocompromised-holiday-travel-is-tough
Laura Kina, “Ancestral Cartography: Trans-Pacific Interchanges and Okinawan Indigeneity,” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas Vol. 6, Issue 1–2 (July 2020); 48–70. https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-00601004
Yasuko Takezawa and Laura Kina, “Trans-Pacific Minor Visions in Japanese Diasporic Art,” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas Vol. 6, Issue 1–2 (July 2020); 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-00601001
Kina, Laura. “Contemporary Asian American Art.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press. Article published February 2020. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.845.
Laura Kina, “Reflections on Encountering Minor Transnationalism,” Amerasia Journal, Feb 10, 2020, DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2019.1721654
Yasuko Takezawa and Laura Kina, “Trans-Pacific Japanese Diaspora Art: Encounters and Envisions of Minor-Transnationalism,” Amerasia Journal, Feb 10, 2020, DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2019.1721648
Laura Kina, “Dispatch-Chicago: New Networks for Alterity and Resistance,” ArtAsia Pacific, Issue 113 (May/June 2019): 26.
Laura Kina and Việt Lê, “Towards an Aesthetic of Excess: A Conversation with Laura Kina and Việt Lê,” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, Vol 2, Issue 3 (2016): 323–336.
Laura Kina, “From Okinawa to Hawaii and Back Again: A Painter Follows the Currents of Her Family History,” What it Means to Be an American – a project of the Smithsonian and Zocalo Public Square, August 31, 2015.
G. Reginald Daniel, Laura Kina, Wei Ming Dariotis, Camilla Fojas, “Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies,” Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1 (2014): 6–65. (http://escholarship.org/uc/ucsb_soc_jcmrs)
Michele Elam, Laura Kina, Jeff Chang, and Ellen Oh, “Beyond the Face: A Pedagogical Primer for Mixed-Race Art and Social Engagement,” Asian American Literary Review, Special Issue on Mixed-Race Volume 4, Issue 2 (Fall 2013): 120–154.
Laura Kina, “Mixed-Race Asian American Art: Chanpuru Spirit and ‘hapa’ Identity,” in Gender Studies In Okinawa F.Y. 2012 center research papers (International Institute for Okinawa Studies, University of the Ryukyus, 2013), 1–11.
Laura Kina, “First Response – In Love with Cat and Carm: Queering Asian American Portraiture in Shizu Saldamando’s Stay Gold” and “Second Response,” as part of “Dispatches from the Symposium,” Asian American Literary Review, Portraiture Volume 3, Issue 2 (Fall/Winter 2012): 27–30, 45–48.
Kina, Laura. “Half Yella: Embracing Ethno-racial Ambiguity.”In Embracing Ambiguities: Faces of the Future, edited by Jillian Nakornthap and Lynn Stromick, 5-10. Fullerton, CA: Main Art Gallery, Cal State University Fullerton, 2010.
Kina, Laura. “Mixed Heritage Art.” Mixed Heritage Center. December 2007.
Book Covers
Kina, Laura “Ufushu Gajumaru (giant banyan tree), Valley of Gangala, Okinawa, Japan” 2019. In Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Vol 9, Issue 1, Spring 2023.
Kina, Laura “Flowers for your Heart” 2003–07. In Rethinking Postwar Okinawa: Beyond American Occupation, edited by Pedro Iacobelli and Hiroko Matsudo, 149–168. Lanham: MD, Lexington Books, 2017.
Kina, Laura “Loving series – Eric Glenn, Laura Kina, Shoshanna Weinberger, Greg Grucel” 2006. In The Being of America: Personal Narratives of Being Mixed-Race in the Twenty-First Century by Cathy Schlund-Vials, Sean Frederick Forbes and Tara Betts, Foreword by Michele Elam, Afterword by Heidi W. Durrow, cover image. 2Leaf Press, 2017.
Kina, Laura “Kibei Nisei” 2012. In Gendering the Trans-Pacific World by Catherine Ceniza Choy and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu eds, cover image. Brill, 2017.
Kina, Laura. “Kasuri” 2010. In Transpacific Japanese American Studies: Dialogues on Race and Racializations by Yasuko Takezawa and Gary Okihiro eds., cover image. University of Hawai’i Press, 2016.
Kina, Laura. “Cane Fire,” “Hapa Soap Opera #4,” and “Loving series self-portrait.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, edited by Guisela Latorre and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Vol. 36, No 1, 2015. Cover image and p. 198-199.
Kina, Laura. “Cane Fire” 2010; “Aloha Dreams: Loco Moco” 2007; “Tina Hyun Giving Me A Pedicure” 2006. In Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia, edited by Mary Yu Danico, cover images Vol 2, 3, 4. Sage Publications, 2014.
Kina, Laura. “Kasuri” 2010. In Voices from the Canefields: Folksongs from Japanese Immigrant Workers in Hawaii by Franklin Odo, cover image. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Kina, Laura. “Devon Avenue Sampler.” In Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, cover image. Temple University Press, 2011.
Kina, Laura. “Untitled.” In One Tribe by M. Evelina Galang, cover image. New Issues Press, Western Michigan University, 2006.
Kina, Laura. “Flowers for your Heart.” In Asian American Literary Studies edited by Guiyou Huang, cover image. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
Artwork Publications
Commission “Making Headlines,” Federal Project No. 2 – Re-Examining America, (“Girl Thinking – Maya Mackrandilal brings the #NewGlobalMatriarchy” 2018; “Waiting—Erin O’Brien Watching the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Hearing”2018; “Seiji After a Good Cry” 2019; “She Walks Amongst the Ruins—RIP Red Chador” 2019; “Daily News—Aram Han Sifuentes in Her Studio” 2018; and “Sad Jaishri” 2019), Topic.com, March 2019. https://www.topic.com/fp2/making-headlines
Kina, Laura. “Issei.” Full Circle: New and Selected Poems by Mitsuye Yamada. 27. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019.
Kina, Laura. “Gosei,” “Midori’s Brit Bat,” and “End of Summer.” Asian American Literary Review, Vol. 9, Issue 2: Fall/Winter 2018: 62.
Kina, Laura. “Issei.” In “I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story” traveling banner exhibition and poster series organized by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. See the poster, get the exhibition app, follow the exhibition.
Kina, Laura “Hapa Soap Opera #1.” Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife, edited by Jonathan H.X. Lee and Kathleen M. Nadeau, 92, 99. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Kina, Laura. “Loving: Elena Rubin” and “Loving: Shoshanna Weinberger.” Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out, edited by Adebe DeRango-Adem & Andrea Thompson, 48 and 74. Inanna Publication, 2010.
Kina, Laura “Sugar.” ZEEK: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture. Winter 2010. Cover image and p.62-65.
Kina, Laura. “The Refrigerator Door.” Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility. No. 39 Vo. 661. June 2009: 9.
Sundell, Ivy. “Laura Kina.” Living Artists. Crow Woods Publishing: Evanston, IL, 2004. p. 94-95.
“Laura Kina.” New American Paintings. The Open Studio Press: Boston, 2002. Volume 41.