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EXHIBITIONS

A short intro on the highlights and aims of the exhibition program can be found here.

The "Annual Exhibition" exhibits emerging Asian America artists or artists significantly influenced by Asia. The artists are selected from submissions to the Arts Centre's Asian American Artists Slide Archive by a panel of artists and art professionals.

Mid Career Artist Exhibition Series focuses on recognizing the achievements of mid-career artists. This is selected by a panel of peer artists & critics.

"Milieu" series is an exhibition series based on on-going research to light Asian American artists within their historical context in the post World War era, and to provide a historical basis for the cultural presence of the young Asian American artists of today.

 
Two curated exhibitions are organized in a year by the Arts Centre and/or guest curators.

PAST EXHIBITIONS

1982-1983 | 1983-1984 | 1984-1985 | 1985-1986 | 1986-1987
1987-1988 | 1988-1989 | 1989-1990 | 1990-1991 | 1991-1992
1992-1993 | 1993-1994 | 1994-1995 | 1995-1996 | 1996-1997
1997-1998 | 1998-1999 | 1999-2000 | 2000-2001 | 2001-2002
2002-2003 | 2003-2004 | 2004-2005 | 2005-2006| 2007

1982-1983
Eye To Eye
This was the first panel on the East Coast bringing together Asian American visual artists to discuss mutual concerns. A slide show of 21 important artists was presented.
Panel Discussion: David Diao, Margo Machida, Lucy Lippard, Lydia Okumura, Kit Yin Snyder, John Woo, John Yau
Participating artists:

Arakawas
V. C. Igarta
Alan Kikuchi
Isamu Noguchi
Kunie Sugiura
Robert Yasuda
Chao Chung Hsiang
E'wao Kagoshima
Kim Won Sook
Helen Oji
Keung Szeto
Emily Cheng
On Kawasra
Hisako Kobayashi
Manuel Rodriguez
Paul Wong
The-Ching Hsieh
Kazuko
Moon Mi-ae
Toshio Sasaki
Tony Wong

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1983-1984
In the Spirit of Dunhuang: Studies by Zhang Hongtu
Catalogue includes a foreword by Robert Lee. Preface by guest curator Ross Lewis. Essays by Annette Juliano and Zhang Hongtu
Participating artist:
Chihung Yang, Works on Paper
Catalogue includes an introduction by Robert Lee, essay by John Yau, and several color illus.


Door Gods and Other Household Deities
Participating Scholars:
Maxine Miska and Anne Goodrich
Rooted in the folk practices and beliefs of China, diverse paper gods are often placed on the doors and in various areas of the house, especially during holidays; they are invested with a wonderful sense of enchantment, piety and humor. Introduction by Anne Goodrich. Essays by Maxine Miska and Robert Lee.

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1984-1985
Emily, Anna and Ti Shan: the First Generation

Emily Cheng Anna Kuo Ti Shan Hsu

Curated by Robert Lee

Triangular Langscapes

Young Hee Han Akiko Mashima Lydia Okumura

Curated by Robert Lee
Catalogue includes essays by _____ and Robert Lee.


Dreams and Fantasies

Helen Oji Ming Fay Paul Wong

Curated by Robert Lee
Catalogue includes essays by Barry Schwabsky and Robert Lee.


The 1st Annual Open Studio Show
Featured guided tours to ten artists studios in Chinatown commnity, and a group show of works by eleven artists.
June 1985
Artists with open studios:

Joh Duff
Kunie Sugiura
Yu Min Gu
Jerry Kwan
Tom Butter
Woong Kim
Arsa Artha
David Sipress
Elise Siegal
Arlan Huang
Tjokorda Gede

Artists with works at the Arts Centre:

Amy Cheng Hugo Kobayashi Santiago Bose Zarina Hashmi
Ai Wei Wei
Martin Wong
Ming Chip Fung
Kwok Man Ho
Vivian Tsao
Cissy Pao
Chuck Yuen

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1985-1986
The 2nd Annual Open Studio Show
Featured guided tours to thirteen artists studios in Chinatown commnity, and a group show of works by fifteen artists.
May 1986
Artists with open studios:

Arlan Huang
John Allen
Amy Cheng
Eva Goetz
Virginia Buchan
Janet Gillespie
Patty Harris
Calvin Reid
Janet Morgan
Kazuko
Yun Shan Lau
Cari Rosmarin
Stephcie Smith

Artists with works at the Arts Centre:

Albert Chong
David Diao
V.C. Igarta
Nina Kuo
Prawat Laucheron
Bing Lee
Kyung Lim Lee
Yan Li
Tetsu Okuhara
Toshio Sasaki
Alvin Tada
Vivian Tsao
Ai Wei Wei
Martin Wong
Chihung Yang

Ming Chip Fung: The Seal 1975-1985
Jan 9 - Feb 5 1986
Curated by Robert Lee
This show includes a catalogue pamphlet with essay by Wang Fangyu (which was reprinted by Han Art Gallery in Hong Kong years later.)


The City
Curated by Robert Lee

Y. J. Cho Jerry Kwan Ming MurRay

Orientalism

Margo Machida Charles Yuen

Curated by Robert Lee
This show includes a catalogue with essays by Robert Lee.


Fathers

Tomie Arai
Santiago Bose
Fay Chiang
Bob Hsiang
Arlan Huang Kazuko
Hugo Kobayashi
Anna Kuo Yong Soon Min
Tetsu Okuhara
Kunie Sugiura
Lisa Suzuki
Alvin M. Tada
Mary Ting
Xing Fei
Zarina

Catalogue includes essays by _____ and Fay Chaing.

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1986-1987
The 3rd Annual Open Studio Show
Featured guided tours to seven artists studios in Chinatown commnity, and a group show of works by sixteen artists.
May 1987
Artists with open studios:

Kar Shan
Kwok
Amy Cheng
Bob Wesler
Manabu Kimura
Roz Dimon

Artists with works at the Arts Centre:

Suzanne Benton
Jean Chiang
Oh Chigyoun
Shaih Li Fa
Gloria Garfinkel
Gilbert Hsiao
Jin Sook Kim
Ruby Levesque
Editha Mesina
Ming Mur-Ray
Toshio Sasaki
Akiko Shirai
Stephanie Smith
Carol Sun
Carrie Yamaoka
Teru Yoshida

The Mind's Series
Curated by Robert Lee

The Mind's I, Part 1: artists of diverse backgrounds approach their changing self-conceptions

Banny Andrew
Raphael Soyer
Chiu Ya-Tsai (Taiwan)
Martin Wong

The Mind's I, Part 2: artists of diverse backgrounds approach their changing self-conceptions
Luis Cruz Azaceta      Robert Colescott      Margo Machida

The Mind's I, Part 3: artists of diverse backgrounds approach their changing self-conceptions
William Jung      Charles Parness      Jorge Tacla

The Mind's I, Part 4: artists of diverse backgrounds approach their changing self-conceptions
Albert Chong      Linda Peer      Alison Saar      Patti Warashina

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1987-1988
The 4th Annual Open Studio Show
Featured guided tours to six artists studios in Chinatown community, and a group show of works by twelve artists.
April - May 1988
Artists with open studios:

Kenneth Goldsmit
Oli Sihvonen
Stewart Wilson
Tricia Ward
Marianne Van Lent
Tom Beverly

Artists with works at the Arts Centre:

Yee Jan Bao
Hwa Kyung Chang
Kang Lok Chung
Roz Dimon
Sheila Hamanaka
Kunio Izuka
Ming MurRay
Mari Oshima
Kunie Sugiura
Martin Wong
Zhang Hongtu

Confucius Life Story: a mural installation of original rubbings.
September 1987
Participating Artist: Sun Jingbo from Beijing

One Eye or Two
Dec 4, 1987 - Jan 6, 1988 Curated by Robert Lee
Tseng Kwong Chi      
E'wao Kagoshima      Bing Lee
Catalogue includes essays by _____ and Robert Lee.

From Cambodia to the Bronx

An exhibit of photographs documenting the Cambodian refugee community in the Bronx. This exhibition was later taken by the Smithsonian for a national tour. See exhibitions 1999.
January - February 1988
Participating Artist: Leah Melnick, (Bronx)

Yesterday: Reflection on Childhood

Works that reflected their unique perspective as Asian American through experiences in their childhood with catalogue essay by Kimiko Hahn.
March - April 1988

Yoshiki Araki
Amy Cheng
Byron Kim
Hugo Kobayashi
Anna Kuo
Kyung Lim Lee
Lanie Lee
Mary Lum
Sharon Lumho
John Nakazawa (MA)

Carol Sun
Gordon Wong
Carrie Yamaoka
Chuck Yuen

Public Art in Chinatown
May - July 1988
A selection of sculptures, models, drawing and site plans proposed for specific locations in the Downtown/Chinatown community. Catalogue in newspaper format freely distributed with essays by John Yau, Kyong Park, and Robert Lee.
Curated by Robert Lee

Mikyung Kim
Mo Bahc
Kazuko
Mel Chin
Carol Kumata
Shiro Shinohara
Ritsuko Taho
Kim Tran
Bill and Mary Buchan
Ming Fay
Kimiko Kogure
Ju Ming (Taiwan)
Toshio Sasaki
Kyong Park

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1988-89
The 5th annual Open Studio Show
October 1988
Featured guided tours to six artists studios in Chinatown commnity, and a group show of works by ten artists.
Artists with open studios:

Lee Brozgold
Bruce Edelstein
John de Fazio
Arlan Huang
Arleen Schloss
April Vollmer

Artists with works at the Arts Centre:

John Allen
Toyo Tsuchiya
Rashid Arshed
Paul Wong
Sun Joon Choh
Goro Fujii
Sue Kwok Gross
Ken Hiratsuka
Kazumi Matsumoto
Hilda Shen

Epoxy "Eighteen Levels of Hell"
Kang Chung        Kwok Man Ho       Andrew Culver       Bing Lee       
Ming Fay

Invented Selves: Images of Asian American Identity
Guest Curator Margo Machida
Ken Chu       Susan Suzuki       David Chung

2 Emerging Artists
Guest Curator John Yau
Editha Mesina       Cal Lom (New Mexico)

Uptown/DownTown
Held in two locations, the Arts Centre and the Dept. of Cultural Affairs at Columbus Circle
Curated by Robert Lee

Toshio Sasaki
Martin Wong
Tony Wong
Charles Yuen
Jean Chiang
Ming MurRay
Rumiko Tsuda
Kazuko

Ik-Joong Kang
Zhang Hongtu
Yoshiki Araki

CHINA June 4 ... 1989" First Stage
June 9 - Sept 30, 1989 at the Arts Centre
Participating artists

Stephen J. Albair
John Allen
David Amdur
Luis Cruz Azaceta
Mo Bahc
Tina Bergen
K. Bloss
Yuen Cheng
Sung Choi
Ken Chu
Liza Collado
Katie Cooper
Esperanza Cortes
Elba Damast
Roz Dimon
Fred Duignan
Sue Kwok Gross
Billy Harlem
Hoop
Elizabeth Ierulli
Hei Han Khiang
Kucio Ijuku
Kiyoshi Ike
Sharon Jacques
Ik Joon Kang
Anna Kuo
Pamela Chin Lee
Josiah Y. F. Leung
Yuen Li
Liz & Val
Marcelo Llorens
Mary Lum
Gerry Lynch
Eva Mantell
Cynthia McLean
Ming MurRay
Franc Palaia
Marlene Perkinske
Dana B Parlier
An Phan
Mike Quon
Pascal Rodrigo
Tepi Rosen
Arleen Schloss
Diu Seid
Shalom
Jill Slaymaker
Martha Slaymaker (NM)
Richard Sloat
Robert Smith
Suzy Sureck
Gladys Triana
Vee
April Vollmer
Wendy White
K. K. Wong (Hong Kong)
Zhang Hongtu

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1989-90
"Aurora"
Guest curated by Fred Wilson
March 8 - April 4th, 1990
Sook-Jin Jo            Richard Tsao            Gar Wong

"Witnesses" (CHINA June 4 ... 1989" )
May 10 - June 29, 1990
Participating artists:
Stefan Umaerus (Switzerland)                  Alan Chan
"Deng" (Zhang Yong Xu) (from China)

"CHINA June 4...1989"
Organized by the Arts Centre
June 9 - Sept 30, 1989 at the Arts Centre
Oct 12 - Nov 12, 1989 at Blum Helman where large works were also included.
Extended exhibition Nov 20 -Jan 12, 1990 at the Arts Centre
Apr 22 - June 17, 1990 at PS 1 Museum
This exhibition included 170 doors linked together to form two large spirals. About one hundred small works were also selected by the guest curators John Yau, Susanna Leval,
¬¨¬®¬àˆù¬¨ˆÝ¬¨¬±¬¨¬®¬àˆù¬¨ˆÝ¬¨¬±? Large works were excluded by the curators.

CHINA June 4 - International Memorial Arts Festival
June 4 - June 24, 1990
At the Hong Kong Art Centre Participating artists: 271 total

Vito Acconci
Stephen Albair
John Allen
Francisco Alvardo-Juarez
Candida Alvarez
David Amdur
Grimanesa Amoros
Benny Andrews
Marie Annick-Brown
Thomas R. Aprile
Ken Aptekar
Erin Butler Araki
Yoshiki Araki
Diane Arndt
Alice Aycock
Luis Cruz Azaceta
Mo Bahc
Yee Jan Bao
Roland Baron
Hugo Xavier Bastidas
Betty Beaumont
Susan Bee
Tina Bergen
K. Bloss
Joseph Bower
Daniel Bowman
Juan Boza
Lex Braes
Jeanette Brew
Manon Briere
Patrick Brill
Rolando Briseno
Susan Broemmelsier Buehner
Dina Bursztyn
James Jay Byler
Luis Camnitzer
Rimer Cardillo
Champe Carter
Alfredo Ceibal
Chak
Eric Chan
Harkim Chan
Lei Chang
Paul Chelstad
Chenhung Chen
Yuen L. Cheng
Jean Chiang
Allan Chin
Mel Chin & Corcoran School of Art (DC)
HoYoon Choi
Ken Chu
Chun (FRANCE)
Nancy Chunn
Scott Klee Clark
Eva Cockcroft
Maria Cocchiarelli
Muriel Colin
Katie Cooper
Esperanza Cortes
James Costanzo
Eric de la Cova
D.M. de Creeft
Daina Dagnija
Elba Damast Daniels
Vinod Dave
Nancy Davidson
James Dawson
Agnes Denes
"Deng" (CHINA) Dan Devine David Diao
Devon Dikeou
Roz Dimon
Bob Dombrowski
Andre Doty
Kevin Downs
John Duff
Fred Duignan
Ken Ecker
Stefan Eins
Lois Ellison
Sarah Emery
Maggie Eng
Ron Engush
Geraldine Erman
Eric Ernst
Zhong-Ming Fan (JAPAN)
Merilyn Fairskye
Ann Elise Farrell
Cindy Feldman
Liza Fleishman
Paul Fowler (MA)
Lucy Fradkin
Onofre R. Fraticelli (CT)
Jerry Fu
Woody Fu
Zhao Gang
Sharon Garbe
Dan George
Ava Gerber
Enrico Giordano
Leon Golub
Maria Elena Gonzalez
Elizabeth Grajales
Hei Han Khiang
Sue Kwok Gross (DC)
Anne Guermont
Thomas Haggerty
Will Hallgren
Gerald Halpern
Tona Hamashige
Kim Hardiman
Billy Harlem (Ling Ling)
David Hales
H.N. Han
David Hazard
Edgar Heap of Birds (OK)
Neddi Heller
Pamela Heller
Ed Herman
Robin Hill
LeAnne Hitchcock
Eban John
Hogerty Hoop
Wen Yi Hou
John Howard
Maggie Wei Hsu
Ava Hsueh
Bing Hu
Arlan Huang
Holly Hughes
Su-li Hung
Ying S. Hung
Elissa Tatigikus Iberti
Elizabeth Ierulli
Kiyoshi Ike
Rodolfo Innez
Cathy Ishino
Michi Itami
Kunio Izuka
Sharon Jacques
Valerie Jayne
Sook jin Jo
Andrew Jones
Jari Jula
William Jung
K.Y.
Craig Kane
Ik-Joong Kang
Gale Kaseguma
Kazuko
Byron Kim
Gloria Kisch
Sherie Kley
Susan Kleinberg
Harald A. Klimek (GERMANY)
Erika Knerr
Hisako Kobayashi
Vivienne Koorland
Akiko Kotani (PA)
Barbara Kruger
Jane Krupp
Christopher Kuhl (GA)
Anna Kuo (PA)
Leo Kwan (IL)
Leslie Lalehzar
Benny Lam
Anna Lascari
Ian Laughlin
Joan Bleyer Lazarus
Stephanie Brody Lederman
Bing Lee
Gerald Lee
Kwang Lee
Kyung-lim Lee
Pamela Chin Lee
Jerrold Lerner
Josiah Leung
Lorraine Leung
Ross Lewis
Benjamin Lietelt
Joman Lin
Donald Lipski
Dik Liu
Marcelo Llorens
Suzanne Van Loon
Louis Lopez
Lotus
David Lowe
Hal Lum
Mary Lum
Ming Ma
M.A. MacCarrou
Peter Mackie
Matt Magee
Lenore Malen
Paivi Maunu
Eva Mantell
Julio Mateo
Brookie Maxwell
Alba Esther Maya
Howard McCalebb
Cynthia McLean
Patricia Mei
Tom Merwin
Monika Misslbeck
Fashion Moda
Nanae Momiyama
Chris Moorez
Erik Morr
Jean Msika
Ming Mur-Ray (CA)
Michael Murphy
Nana
Julio Nazario
Eva Nebeska
Vernita Nemec
Sara Nicastor
Jessica Nissen
Rodolfo Nunez
Machiko Ogawa
Mary Anne O'Malley
Mari Oshima
Saul Ostrow
Catherine Owens
Nam June Paik
Franc Palaia (NJ)
Joyce Parcher
Kwan Wook Park
Dana Parlier
Rodrigo Pascal
M. Pelletiere
Marlene Perchinske
Liliana Porter
Ye Xing Qian
Mike Quon
Kristin Reed
David Reynolds
Janet Richmond
Jorge Luis Rodriguez
Tepi Rosen
Ce Roser
Robin Ross
Ikuko Roth
Susan Rowland
Andrew Ruhren
Judith Russell
Hong Sammons
Judite Dos Santos
Ann Schaumburger
Christina Schlesinger
Arleen Schloss
James Schmidt
Mira Schor
Fred Schober
Peter Sebok
Lynn Seeney
Kim Seltzer
Shalom
Hong-Juin Shieh
Nora Shih
Pamela Shoemaker
Wendy Siegelman
Craig Silver Valerie Sivilli
Dui Seid
Jill Slaymaker
Martha Slaymaker(NM)
Ben Sloat
Richard Sloat
Robert Smith
David Speed
Red Spot
Anita Steckel
Corey R. Stevens
Janet Stewart
Suzy Surece
Junko Suzuki
Keung Szeto
Jorge Tacla
Elyse Taylor
Tenesh
Gladys Triana
Richard Tsao
Yiu Wa Tso
Rumiko Tsuda
Stefan Umaerus (SWEDEN)
Nancy Ungar
Dolly Unithan
Nobuhiko
Utsumi (JAPAN)
Liz & Val
Vee
Jack Vengrow
Carl Vicars II
April Vollmer
Kate Voorsanger
Jessica Voorsanger
Sokhi Wagner
Gar Wang
Tim Watkins
Jason Weller
Peter White
Wendy White
Dale Wilhelm
K.K. Wong (HONG KONG)
Martin Wong
Yim Wong (MA)
Sarah Wright
Wei Xiao-Feng
Qian Yeng
Laura Young
Sun Shing Yu
Sofia Zezmeu
Zhang Hongtu
Sui Kang Zhao

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1990-91
AAAC 1st Annual 1990
September - November 1990

Lalitha Ananthanaman
Henry Cainglet
Ho-Yoon Choi
Julia Nee Chu
Lawrence K. Fulbeck
Ron Gee
Sui Ying Hung
Shu Jane Lee
Kwang S. Lee
Mi-Lu
Hal Lum
Dean-E Mei
Keiichiro Momose
Kazuyoshi Nakamuda
Stanley Nishimura
Sui-Kang Zhao

Focus on Artists from Hong Kong
November-December 1990
Panelists: Look Up
Participating Artists:
Choi Yan Chi (HK) with Terry Chen          Comyn Mo (HK)
Pia Ho (HK)

Violence of Victory

April-May 1991
Curated by Robert Lee
Participating Artists:
Vinod Dave         Dorothy Imagire
Leo Kwang (in collaboration with Vivian Mak)

Okuhara Tetsuaki
July 1991
Curated by Robert Lee

One-person show: Tetsu Okuhara

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1991-1992
AAAC Annual: "From 'Star Star' to Avant Garde - Nine Artsits from China",
Part 1

October 17 - November 14th
Organized by

Fan Zhongming (Japan)
Ling Ling
Wenda Gu
Xu Bing (Wisconsin)

Zhang Hongtu

Part 2 November 21 - December 20

Chen Zhen (Paris)
Bing Hu
Ling Ling
Sui K. Zhao
Zhang Jianjun

Ling Ling was presented twice as a memorial to his untimely death in Times Square.

One person show: Ik-Joong Kang

Curated by Robert Lee &

Tai Dang performance at Henry St. Settlement
April 26-7 1991
Participating artist: Tai Dang

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1992-1993
"CHINA June 4 1989 ..."
Traveling exhibition Mexic-Arte in Austin, Texas
June 4, 1992 to July 14, 1992,
Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio August 24, 1992 to Ocotber 4, 1992.
Participating artists:

Aprile, Thomas R.
Albair, Stephen J.
Allen, John Amoros, Grimanesa
Azaceta, Luis Cruz
Bahc, Mo
Baron, Ronald
Beaumont, Betty
Bowman, Daniel
Boza, Juan
Briere, Manon
Byler, James Jay
Camnitzer, Luis
Chin, Mel & Concoran School of Art
Chu, Julia Nee/Ca
Clark, Scott Klee
Colin, Muriel
Cortes, Esperanz
Decreeft, Donna Maria
Denes, Agnes
Diao, David
Dimon, Roz
Do, Lotus
Duff, John
Fowler, Paul M.
Fu, Woody
Golub, Leon
Gonzalez, Maria Elena
Heap of Birds, Edgar
Hill, Robin Hoop
Hughes, Holly
Hung, Kuan - Chak
Hung, Ying S.
Ishino, Cathy
Izuka, Kunio
Kang, Ik-Joong
Kim, Byron
Koorland, Vivienne
Kruger, Barbara
Kuo, Anna
Laughin, Ian
Lascari, Anna
Lee, Bing
Lee, Gerald Ling Ling (Billy Harlem)
Lipski, Donald
Lum, Mary
Mei, Dean-I
Morr, Erik
Msika, Jean
Mur-Ray, Ming

Nabeska, Eva
Nemec, Vernita
Oshima, Mari
Palaia, Franc
Parcher, Joyce
Porter, Liliana
Rodrigo, Pascal
Red Spot (J. Allen Daugherty)
Ruhren, Andrew
Schimdt, James T.
Shih, Nora Ling-Yun
Shoemaker, Pamela
Sivilli, Valerie
Tacla, Jorge
Tsuda, Rumiko & Georges, Daniel
Hei Han Khiang
Watkins, Tim
White, Peter
Wong, Martin
Young, Laura
Yu, Sun Ching
Zezmer, Sofia
Zhang, Hongtu

"And He Was Looking for Asia: Alternatives to the Story of Christopher Columbus Today."
September 25 - October 29, 1992
Curated by Robert Lee

Mo Bahc
Joanna Osburn
Big Feather
Willie Cole
Arlan Huang
Young K.
Betty Lee
Jorge Tacla
Barbara Takenaga

The AAAC Annual: "My Eyes Blur Sometimes, at Beauty" 2ed Annual
November 20 - December 30, 1992

Ela Shah
Gaye Chan (HI)
Hee-Sook Kim
Hyun-Mi Yoo
Jacqueline Chang
May-Ling Chang
Sungmi Naylor (IL)
Yoshiko Shimada (Japan)
Ava Hsueh
Sowon Kwon
Ellen Pau (Hong Kong)

"Yin Peet", a one woman show
Curated by Robert Lee
March 12-April 16, 1993

"We Count! The State of Asian Pacific America"
May 10-May 31, 1993
Extensive document accompanied the exhibition on issues gathered by LEAP and amplified by Lorinda Chen with information on NYC. Portions were published in Artspiral.
Curated by Robert Lee

Rashid Arshed
Kip Fulbeck
Kitty Katz
Yeong Gill Kim
Marcelo Krasilcic
Vijay Kumar
Dinh Le
Sang Kyoon Noh
Alfonso Ossorio
Yin Peet
Rudjen Roldan
Halide Salam
Roger Shimomura
Sikay Tang
Kwong Chi Tseng
Toyo Tsuchiya
Dolly Unithan
Charles Yuen
Zarina

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1993-1994
Three: Works by 1992-1993 Artists-in-Residence

Oct 1 - Nov 1, 1993
Elaine Tin Nyo         Alexander Ku          Dinh Le

Milieu: Part I

Nov 19 - Dec 29 1993
Based on the research project begun in 1986 entitled "Asian American Artists and Their Milieu 1945 - 1965"
Curated by Robert Lee
Artists: Bernice Bing         Byron Goto         
Ted Kurahara

Betrayal/Empowerment Part II 3rd Annual

Mar 18-Apr 30, 1994

Diyan Achjadi
Monica Chau
Tony J.H. Cho
Anujan Exhikode
Madeline Fan

Hanako Hanafusa
Katherine Hu Fan
Sui Ying Hung
Jung Hyang Kim
Franky Kong
Robert E. Reynolds
Suzanne K. Saylor
Anjum Singh

Betrayal/Empowerment Part I
Apr 18-May 4, 1994; extended to June 10, 1994
Curated by Robert Lee
Held at Columbia U. Teacher's College as part of a conference on Asian American issues.

Arun Bose
Joseph Goto
Sang Nam Lee
Quynh Nguyen (Tx)
Lily Yeh
Junko Yoda
Toshihisa Yoda
Charles Yuen
Sui Kang Zhao

"CHINA June 4 1989 ..." Traveling exhibition
Oct 14, 1994 to Nov 30, 1994
Buckham Gallery in Flint Michigan
This was an art exhibition organized by Asian American Arts Centre marking the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 in Beijing. The exhibition was jointly curated by Lau Gin Wei of Hong Kong, Robert Lee, director of the Asian American Arts Centre, and John Yau, poet & art critic. This exhibition has traveled from Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY to the Institute for Contemporary Art P. S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, from April 22 to June 17 in 1990, to the Hong Kong Arts Center, and to Buckham Gallery in Flint, Michigan from October 7 to November 26, 1994. The second part contains information about the exhibition itself, focusing on the censoring of three pieces by a United States Senate Committee when a portion of the show was to exhibit at the Russell Rotunda in 1990. This exhibition was selected by the Art in America as one of the most important exhibitions of the year.

The purpose of this exhibition is to educate the public about the Tiananmen Square massacre and the struggle for human rights. Hundreds of artists have joined together to create this event, a momentous symbol to perpetuate the memory of Tiananmen Square. Now, five years after Tiananmen Square and less than a year after the World conference on Human Rights in Vienna, the terror of Tiananmen Square has receded in time. The memory of Tiananmen Square, however, has not been forgotten. This exhibition of the art that was forged in its aftermath continues to keep that memory alive. Tiananmen Square and the terror of what a government can do to its own people is a potent reminder. Tiananmen Square continues to be a spectacle of a government's capacity to crush human lives and ideals.

Participating are such artists as Leon Golub, Barbara Kruger, Vito Acconci, Nam June Paik, Edgar Heap of Birds, Ik Joong Kang, Byron Kim, Agnes Denes, Bing Lee, Donald Lipski,
Zhang Hung-tu, Jorge Tacla, Ling Ling, John Duff, Martin Wong, Liliana Porter, Luis Camnitzer, Betty Beaumont, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Robin Hill, Mel Chin, Dolly Unithan and many others. The exhibition continues to be open to all artists of every background. The symbolic core of the exhibition is a wall of free standing doors, painted and sculpted, which are linked together, enabling additional artists to join in shaping the form of this wall. Linked freestanding doors express and symbolize hope for the future of China through collaboration and participation.

This exhibition raises the issue of human rights in China. However, it also is a lesson to Americans, for it demonstrates the attack on people's rights in the United States, specifically the right to freedom of expression. This exhibition, marking the Chinese people's quest for liberty, was itself refused the right to free expression and was censored by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics in June 1990, when it traveled to a Congressional Rotunda. "CHINA - June 4, 1989..." educates the public about Tiananmen Square, about the story of the people who fought for freedom and democracy, about the threats to fundamental rights in the United States and it does this through the response of artists and an outpouring of art. The meaning and the drama of Tiananmen Square remain for all people to see and respond.

Participating artists:

Aprile, Thomas R.
Albair, Stephen J.
Allen, John
Amoros, Grimanesa
Azaceta, Luis Cruz
Bahc, Mo
Baron, Ronald
Beaumont, Betty
Bowman
Daniel Boza
Juan Briere
Manon Byler
James Jay
Camnitzer, Luis
Chin, Mel & Concoran
School of Art
Chu, Julia Nee
Clark, Scott Klee
Colin, Muriel
Cortes, Esperanz
Decreeft, Donna Maria
Denes, Agnes
Diao, David
Dimon, Roz
Do, Lotus
Duff, John
Fowler, Paul M.
Fu, Woody
Golub, Leon
Gonzalez, Maria Elena
Heap of Birds, Edgar
Hill, Robin
Hoop
Hughes, Holly
Hung, Kuan - Chak
Hung, Ying S.
Ishino, Cathy
Izuka, Kunio
Kang, Ik-Joong
Kim, Byron
Koorland, Vivienne
Kruger, Barbara
Kuo, Anna
Laughin, Ian
Lascari, Anna
Lee, Bing
Lee, Gerald
Ling Ling (Billy Harlem)
Lipski, Donald
Lum, Mary
Mei, Dean-I
Morr, Erik
Msika, Jean
Mur-Ray, Ming
Nabeska, Eva
Nemec, Vernita
Oshima, Mari
Palaia, Franc
Parcher, Joyce
Porter, Liliana
Rodrigo, Pascal
Red Spot (J. Allen Daugherty)
Ruhren, Andrew
Schimdt, James T.
Shih, Nora Ling-Yun
Shoemaker, Pamela
Sivilli, Valerie
Tacla, Jorge
Tsuda, Rumiko & Georges, Daniel
Hei Han Khiang
Watkins, Tim
White, Peter
Wong, Martin
Young, Laura
Yu, Sun Ching
Zezmer, Sofia
Zhang, Hongtu

Additional Artists from Flint who joined the exhibition:

Chris Waters
Kay Goodall
Connie Daros
Joseph Mihalic
Michelle Reidling
Kathryn Pekarek
Mike Lily
Meghan Carbary
Debra Grissom
Kathryn Gehrs-Pahl
Cheryl Dyelle
Laura Cloud's sculpture students at Michigan State University
Gary Gebhardt
James Lawton
Laura Cloud
anonymous student
John Dempsey
Cathy Smith

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1994-1995
Three: Works by 1993-1994 Artists-in-Residence
Sept 29 - Nov 11, 1994
Debi Ray-Chaudhuri         Sowon Kwon         Sikay Tang

Photography and Community: 4th Annual
November 17 - December 31
Mei-Ling Hom, CA         Corky Lee         Wing Young Huie, CA

Chinese/Korean Calligraphy
Organized by Dr. Sun Wuk Kim & Robert Lee
Feb. 9-March 4, 1995
Participating Chinatown calligraphers & artists:

Tsui Jin Yuk
S.F. Chu
You ng Chu
S.Y. Huang
Sun Wuk Kim
Young Ae Lee
Kong W. Mui
M.F. Ng
Young Jin Park
H.S. Sha
C.L. Ting
George Young
Wang Fong Yu
Jeanette Hsu

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1995 - 1996
Ancestors
Curated by Robert Lee

Camille Billops
Robert Craddock
Helen Oji
Roy Hiro Calloway ,AfJA
David Higginbotham
Yoland Skeete, AfCA (NJ)
Simone Leigh, AfCA
Toshinori Kuga
Anton Wong ,AfCA
Sana Musasama
Lisa K. Yi
Lily Yeh (Pa)
Howardena Pindell, AfAsA
Faith Ringgold ,AfA (Ca)
Eunju Kang
Thomas Vu Daniel, VA (T)
Lotus Do Brooks ,EurCA
Charles Burwell Elaine Wong ,AfCA (Ma)
Albert V. Chong ,AfCA (Co)
Hyon Joo Kim (W)
Lui Lan Ding (China)
Richard Mafong (NC)
Prestone Jackson,AfA (W)

Musicians: Butch Morris & Sumi Tonooka, AfJA

Joseph Yen, a one person exhibition

Sept 1995

12 Thoughts and Frank 5th Annual
Nov 1995
Paticipating Artists:

Wei-in Chen
Min S. Lee CA
Jill Waterman
Theresa Chong
Qing-Min Meng (T)
Fay Torres-Yap
Hwangbo Imi
Gilbert O
Jason S. Yi (Va)
Sky Kim
Bidyut Roy (India)
Maho Kino
Frank Russell (Ireland)

Passion and Compassion
Jan 96
Curated by Robert Lee
Participating artists:

Junko Chodos (Ca)
Heejung Kim
Choong-Sup Lim
Linda Peer
Yin Peet (Ma)

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1996-1997
12 Cicadas in the Tree of Knowledge 6th Annual
Sept 1996
Participating Artists:

Kenta Furusho
Hae Yuon Kim (Ca)
Lily Tsong (MN)
Yoshio Itagaki
Jinhee Kim
Khangh Vo (Ca)
Yun Fei Ji
Cynthia Lin (Tx)
Paul Wong
Jessie Joo
B.G. Muhn (MD)
Furong Zhang

Milieu Part II
Dec 1996
Curated by Robert Lee
Participating Artists:

Alfonso Ossorio Matsumi Kanemitsu (Ca) Chao Chung-Hsiang (HK)

Folk Art
Feb 1997
Thang ka painter, Ms. Kelsang Wangmo

Three Generations: Towards a History of Asian American Art
Curated by Robert Lee
April - May 97
Tseng Ta- Yu (Ca)             Phillip P. Chan (Oh)             Theresa Chong

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1997-1998
Stream Segment: The Reintegration of Tradition in Contemporary Art 7th Annual
October - December 1997

Salma Arastu
Sukran Aziz
Barbara Bartholomew
Charles DiConstanza
Shun Endo
Columbia Fiero
Ming Chip Fung
Earl Jung
Bovey Lee
Soo K. Kim
Amy Loewan