[10] Columbia Journalism Review credited Kuo for shifting the magazine towards an academic direction with issues focused on identity politics and the place of art in daily life.
[4] Kuo resigned from her post at Artforum in October 2017, ending her tenure with the January 2018 issue, following reports of alleged sexual harassment by one of the magazine's publishers.
[9] In February 2018, Kuo was appointed the Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.
[16][17] The New Yorker art editor Andrea K. Scott described the exhibition as an "exciting expression of the ethos of the newly renovated MOMA.
Her uncle initially planned to study physics after emigrating from Taiwan, but ultimately became an artist and illustrator and moved to Nashville to create "everything from country music album covers to paintings addressing Chinese American identity.