Johnny Tang: World of One (March 23–May 5, 2019)
In the surreal and mind-bending images of WORLD OF ONE, photography Johnny Tang explored themes of individuality, conformity, and otherness.
Arlan Huang and Mee Mee Chin: Closing Distances (Feb. 2–March 17, 2019)
Painter Arlan Huang and amateur Cantonese opera performer Mee Mee Chin were more than just co-exhibitors — they're cousins! Learn more about their exhibition, which used paintings and textiles to explore what it means to be Asian American and what it means to be family.
Diane Wong and Huiying B. Chan: Homeward Bound: Global Intimacies in Converging Chinatowns (Nov. 10, 2018–Jan. 25, 2019)
As queer Chinese American scholars, organizers, and artists, Diane Wong and Huiying B. Chan curated this exhibition centering narratives of home, community, and intergenerational resistance.
Yumi Sakugawa: Fashion Forecasts (Sept. 15–Nov. 4, 2018)
What if fashion celebrated our ancestral lineage and the elders in our community? What if it created spontaneous energetic collaborations among strangers in sound, healing, performance, dialogue, and movement all over public spaces and in daily life?
Dingding Hu: Hu is Hungry: An Illustrated Journey of a Starving Artist (July 19–Sept. 9, 2018)
Inspired by decorative art, Hu’s delightfully whimsical illustrations document her culinary journeys and observations from around the world, bringing the everyday to life (and sometimes larger than life) and revealing the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Andrew Kung and Emanuel Hahn: The Mississippi Delta Chinese (May 18–July 15, 2018)
Through a mixture of audio recordings, portraiture, and environmental photography, this project from these New York-based photographers explores the lives of the Chinese community in the rural South.
Yingqian Cao: The Illusion of Certainty (April 5–May 12, 2018)
In our first abstract art exhibition, multimedia artist Yingqian Cao explores nature and the changes and disruptions passing time can have on our precious environment.
Xin Song: Sparkling (Feb. 18–March 24, 2018)
Contemporary artist Xin Song takes the ancient Chinese folk art of papercutting to a whole new level.
Hiroyuki Ito: The Flip Flop Diary: Japan 2011–2018 (Jan. 18–Feb. 5, 2018)
When New York Times freelance photographer Hiroyuki Ito returned to his native Japan for the first time in almost 20 years, he found himself viewing it as a foreign country. People and practices that were once familiar now seemed strange. So he did what any artist would do: he began to document.
Ben Sloat: The Pearls That Were His Eyes (Dec. 9, 2017–Jan. 2, 2018)
Artist Ben Sloat and curator Julia Kirchmer explore Chinese history, old and new, by layering idealized images of both ancient and modern worlds — from sumptuous gold wallpaper depicting a life long gone, to oil paintings of the father of modern China, to the walls of Pearl River itself.
Kam Mak: From Tank to Palette (Oct. 6–Nov. 11, 2017)
Slithery eels. A lone sharp-beaked soft shell turtle. Strikingly blue crabs with one scuttling out of frame. Kam Mak's provocative paintings explore his memories of food as a child growing up in Hong Kong and New York City's Chinatown.
Felicia Liang: #100DAYSIANS: An Illustrated Exploration of Asian American Identity (Aug. 12–Sept. 23, 2017)
Artist and illustrator Felicia Liang began #100DAYSIANS with the idea of creating one drawing every day for 100 days ― and in the end discovered much more.