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Rika Hiro is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her doctoral dissertation looked at the aftereffects of the atomic bombs in arts and exhibition culture in postwar Japan. She co-founded the non-profit art space Art2102 in Los Angeles and co-curated Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950-1970 and Radical Communication: Japanese Video Art, 1968-1988 at the Getty Research Institute. She is currently researching Japanese diaspora artists in mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles with a fellowship of the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion.