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 | 2006-2007
| 2007-2008 | 2008-2009 | 2009-2010 | 2010-2011
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
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
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
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, large works
were excluded by the curators.
June 9 - Sept 30, 1989 at the Arts Centre
Oct 12 - Nov 12, 1989 at Blum Helman where large
works were also included.
Nov 20 -Jan 12, 1990 - Extended exhibition at the
Arts Centre
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
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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
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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)
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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
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Milieu Part II
Dec 1996
Curated by Robert Lee
Participating Artists:
| Alfonso
Ossorio |
Matsumi
Kanemitsu (Ca) |
Chao
Chung-Hsiang (HK)
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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
Silk Light:
Four Artists From Korea
Guest Curated by Choong Sup Lim
May - June 1998
Inside One :
Columbia Fiero and Bivas Chaudhuri
June - July 1998
Curated by Robert Lee
Columbia Fiero Bivas Chaudhuri
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1998-1999
Leah Melnick:
a Memorial Exhibition
An exhibition of photographs of Leah Melnick's
work as a college student documenting the
Cambodian refugee community in the Bronx and
later her humanitarian work in Bosnia.
The Day and Night Transparent AAAC 8th Annual
October 16 to November 21, 1998
Gulp and
Gallop!
Guest Curated by Hideki Kurasawa
7lb9oz: The
Reintegration of Tradition into Contemporary Art
Curated by Robert Lee
Six O'Clock
Observed: Photo by Toyo Tsuchiya
A Mid Career Exhibition
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1999-2000
Cross-cultural
Voices II: Between Memories
Sept 1 - Oct. 15, 1999
A collaboration with The Korea Society and the
Stephen Gang Gallery
Curated by Young M. Park
Sukran
Aziz
Bing Hu
Wenda Gu |
Hey-Yeun
Jang
Jin Seok Kim
Shu-Min Lin |
Osamu
James Nakagawa
Leemour Pelli
Nicholetta West
|
FIREHOUSE: AAAC
25th Anniversary
Oct 30 - Nov. 14, 1999
25 Participating Artists
"This
Used To Be a Poodle" - 9th Annual
October 29 to December 14, 1999
Selection Panel: Zhang Hongtu, Kaoru Yanase,
Zarina Hashmi, Junghyang Kim, and Fay Torres-yap
Participating Artists:
Apartment #3F
March 17 - April 29, 2000
Jean Shin, Niizeki Hiromi, Yangah Ham
Curated by Mihee Ahn, this exhibition
conceptually convert the exhibition gallery space
back into its once original living environment
and in this way, challenge the formalists' notion
of viewing art in an empty, pristine "white
cube."
MILIEU PART
III: Color in the Art of
May 18 to July 15, 2000
Asian American
Artists and their Milieu 1945-65 - Third in a
Series
Curated by Robert Lee
Panel Discussion: Natvar Bhavsar, Corinne Robins,
Ninochka Rosca, Patricia Karetzky, co-sponsored
by China Institute
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2000-2001
10th Annual Sept
22 - Nov 4, 2000
A collaboration with The Korea Society
This exhibition includes selections from recent
entries into the Asian American Artists Archive.
This show does not adopt a theme nor seek to
establish a current notion of
"Asianness."
Panelists: Hitomi Iwasaki, Il Lee, Shazhia
Sikander, Fred Yee, Lydia Yee
Soo-Yeun
Ahn
Woo Song Bang
Han Sam Son |
Byung-Wang
Cho
Taro Hattori
Sookjin Suh |
Akiko
Ikeuchi
Soonok Jung
Jane Tsong
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Car Pooling
from LA
Nov 17 - Dec 30, 2000
A collaboration with The Korea Society
Organized by Tam Van Tran
Susan
Choi
Shirley Tse |
Dean
Sameshima
T. Kim-Trang Tran |
Kyungmi
Shin
Tam Van
Tran |
This show
consists of four foreign born Asian American
Artists. In all the work there is a attempt to
make visible the experience of living in cities
which are epicenter of colonized spaces. Cities
represent achieved human experiences.
Colin Lee at
Mid Career
March 16 - April 28, 2001
The Arts Centre initiates the Mid Career Group
annually to select peer artist/s to be featured
in this exhibition series. This Mid Career Artist
Exhibition features Collin Lee. Panelists were Natvar Bhavsar, Tony Wong,
Byron Kim, Reiko Tomii, and Mako Wakasa.
Point Arabesque - Charles Yuen
May 11 - June 23
Curated by Robert Lee and essay by Lilly Wei
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Power Print
July 13 - Aug 3
Artist: Ram Kumar Panday
This woodblock prints exhibition from Napal
reflects a view on modernity from a 3rd World
nation that is shaped by the ancient Vedic
language whose historic texts are crucial to the
earliest beginnings of civilization. For Napal
this remains a living language today. Ram Kumar
Panday through his own creative vision, has
culled and combined these symbols and applied
them to contemporary living.
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2001-2002
Mitochondria
Emancipation: 11th AAAC Annual Exhibition
In
collaboration with The Korea Society
September 21 - November 3 2001
Artists: Paolo Arao, Shelly Bahl, Julia Cowing,
Mayumi Hamanaka, May Jong, Mija Jung, Ed Pien,
Okhee Ryu, Micki Watanabe, Steven Wong
Selection Panel: Weijun Cao - curator, Mihee Ahn
an independent curator, Christina Kim curator at
the Studio Museum of Harlem; Essay by Timothy
Liu, critic for ArtPapers. [ Press Release ]
17 Squares:
Long Nguyen at Mid-Career
On The Vietnam War relationship to September 11th
November 16th, 2001 - January 4th 2002
Artist Talk: Long Nguyen, Tai Dang, Performance
Artist and 3rd Speaker.
Selection Panel: Koan Jeff Baysa, Sungho Choi,
Sundaram Tagore, Reiko Tomii, Charles Yuen Essay by Koan
Jeff Baysa. [ Press Release ]
Chinese New Year Woodblock Prints
Birmingham Museum, Alabama
Loaned from the Permanent Folk Art Collection, AAAC
January - March 2002
REAPPEARING
EXIT IV:
Performance Art of Zheng Lianjie
March 15th -
April 28th, 2002
Panel discussion: Gao Minglu, Prof. at SUNY
Buffalo, Qian Zhijian, Post-doctoral Candidate at
the Institute of Fine Arts and Bing Yi,
independent curator, Robert Lee & Zheng
Lianjie. [ Press Release ]
The AAAC Story
May 23- July 13, 2002
A conference co-sponsored by AAAC & Asian/ Pacific/ American Studies Program & Institute at New York University
A critical review of the Arts Centre's 27 years of work which will be mounted throughout the gallery. In an extensive exhibition of selected documents, past programs,
dance performances, video tapes, photographs, posters, folk art, slide show, and 120 art works from the Permanent Collection of the Arts Centre, an examination of Asian American Art and the social and political eras in which
it thrived, from 1945 onward, will be on display.
Artists from the Permanent Collection
Diyan Achjadi, Yoshiki Araki, Dino Blanche, Santiago Bose, Juan Boza, Manon Briere, Dina Bursztyn, Luis Camnitzer, "Elmhurst Chaldio", Bivas Chaudhuri,
Debbie Ray Chaudhuri, Chi Bai Shi, Fay Chiang, Jeannie Chiang, Chen Zhen, Emily Cheng, Mel Chin/ Buong Trung, Susan Choi, Theresa Chong, Julia Nee Chu, John Dempsey, Agnes Denes, Lotus Do, Eng Jin Liang, Ming Fay, Fung Ming
Chip, Leon Golub, Byron Goto, Joseph Goto, Larry Hama, Zarina Hashmi, Matsusaburo Hibi, Mei Ling Hom, Nancy Hom, Bob Hsiang, Hu Bing, Arlan Huang, Sui Ying Hung, Dorothy Imagire, William Jung, Rocky Kagoshima, Mike Kanemitsu,
Ik Joong Kang, Hei Han Khiang, Heejung Kim, Hugo Kobayashi, Akiko Kotani, Toshinori Kuga, Anna Kuo, Nina Kuo, Jerry Kwan, Kwok Man Ho, Sue Kwok, Dinh Le, Lanie Lee, Lee C. Lee, Colin Lee, Corky Lee, Seungmin Lee, Liao Shiao
Ping, Donald Lipski, Amy Loewan, Mikiya Matsuda, Leah Melnick, Seong Moy, Eric Morr, Chee Wang Ng, Tetsu Okuhara, Peter Osman, William Osterman, Franc Palaia, Eung Ho Park, Linda Peer, Ed Pien, Lillian Porter, Mike Quon,
Bidyut Roy, Frank Russell, Tara Sabharwal, James Schmidt, Jinnie Seo, Ela Shah, Shi Chong, Nora Shih, Jean Shin, Kyungmi Shin, Shu Quaing, Kunie Sugiura, Ching Yu Sun, Tam Van Tran, Tseng Kwong Chi, Rumiko Tsuda/Dan Georges,
Kaori Ukaji, Dolly Unithan, Sokhi Wagner, Jill Waterman, Martin Wong, Paul Wong, Carrie Yamaoka, Anthony Tsang Yee, Cheung Yee, Junko Yoda, Charles Yuen, Danny NT Yung, Zhang Hongtu, and Zheng Lianjie.
Conference - June 1, 2002
The Players: Asian American Art
A conference co-sponsored by AAAC & Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program & Institute at New York University was held at New York University Main Building, 100 Washington Sq. East.
June 1st
Looking at America: The Asian American Presence
After World War II in the United States of 1945, many artists were challenged by the prospects of the post war years including artists of Asian background. A few,
like Yun Gee, were awakened much earlier. With them began the quest for a contemporary art, an art touched by a complexion all its own, and wrought by hands that imparted a value beyond its modern surface. Asian American
Art raises a multitude of questions - the role of past traditions and sensibilities, the issue of quality vs. ethnicity, and the perspective of critical terms like multiculturalism. Such questions mark this stage of Asian
American Art History seeking to compliment the fire artists passion bring in urging forward the quest. The significance of Asian American Art is open to discovery.
Panel One
The Early Years - Panelists: Mohan Samant artist, Jeffrey Wechsler Senior Curator, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers U., Midori Yoshimoto Art Historian/Curator. Teresa
Rodriguez Art Historian, Montclair College, Emily Cheng artist, moderator.
Panel Two
Recent views on Asian America - where and how is an Asian voice found? Points of departure in shaping a critical perspective. Jeff Koan Baysa Practicing Physician
& Curator, Jonathan Goodman Independent Art Writer, Yu Yeon Kim Independent Curator, Margo Machida Independent Curator/Cultural Critic, Robert Lee moderator.
Panel Three
The Future of young artists talking about their vision, their direction, the internet, the new globalism, with comments by two new curators. Melissa Chiu Asia
Society, Eung Ho Park artist,Rina Bannerjee artist, Patricia Karetzky Art Historian/Curator, Betty YaQin Chou artist, Christine Y. Kim Assistant Curator of Studio Museum of Harlem moderator.
June 22nd
Panel One - A Role for the Arts in Community Development
A spirit of Community has shaped many years of Asian Americans activities, particularly not-profit arts and cultural organizations. Will the arts continue to help
shape the development of the Asian American community? Will the visible differences of an Asian ethnicity continue to be accepted long term in America? In the age of virtual technologies, what role exists for local cultural
not-profits and for-profits?
Robert Lee AAAC, Jack Tchen A/P/A Studies Program NYU, Lillian Cho Asian American Art Alliance, Jan Lee Sinotique, Phillip Liu Community Liaison for C. Virginia Fields,
the Manhattan Borough President, Steve Yip Director of Operations at the Chinese American Planning Council.
Panel Two - Funding Art: A Community's Infrastructure
The health and vitality of the spirit of a people is reflected and sustained by the Arts. Thats why in 1965 the National Endowment for the Arts was founded.
However, in 1995, Expansion Arts, that part of the Endowment that supported diverse communities, was eliminated. What has been the effect on Asian American communities? What actions if any on other levels of government have
been taken to fill the gap that was left. What is the future of arts funding in regards to diverse community development.
Nicolette B Clarke Exec. Dir. of the New York State Council of the Arts, EVonne Colman Rorie former NEA Expansion Arts Assistant Director, Lenard Detlor Director of
Program Service, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
Selected documents in the document room from 1969 with the beginnings of the Asian American Movement up through to the present, touching upon many key moments,
organizations, people, events, and ideas. A treasure of over forty rare video tapes amplify the documents. For example: the choreography of Eleanor Yung, a 1983 Asian American Artist Panel talk, a 1988 installation by Epoxy,
a 1991 interview of four Chinese artists by Alexandra Monroe, Nuo Mask Ritual Theatre in Jiangxi 1992, Eunjin Oh speaking at TAAC (The Assoc. of American Cultures) in 1994 in St. Louis, a 1996 CC Wang interview, a 1997
interview with VC Igarta, The NEA Tapes by Paul Lamarre 2000, Freud: In Search of Chinese Matter and Mind 2001 By Zuni Icosahedron. These and other artifacts assembled formed a context for the art works presented.
Much of the work in selecting and organizing the documents was done with the assistance of an outside research consultant, Young M. Park, who has contributed a critical
essay entitled,
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2002 - 2003
12 th. Annual Exhibition: Contrary Equilibriums
Sept 27 to Nov 8, 2002 A collaboration with The Korea Society
Seongmin Ahn, Susan Choi, Phuong M. Do, C.J. Lee,
Eva Lee, Asuka Ohsawa, Sara Ching-Yu Sun, Noelle Tan,
Mary Ting, Kaori Ukaji, Katarina Wong.
Eleven artists who reflect the diversity of work being done today annually. Selected artists were chosen from a national field of nearly 150 submissions by the
selection panel: Mihee Ahn, Timothy Liu, Margo Machida Tricia Paik, & Lydia Yee
Not Your Chop Suey Chinatown: Eight Photographers selected by Corky Lee
Dec 6, 2002 - Jan 13, 2003
Chien-Chi Chang, Alan Chin, Julia Cowling, Cheng Hui Hsu, Botumroath Keo Lebun, Chee Wang Ng, Wai Ng, Joseph Songco
Each artist offers a different point of view that expresses the contemporary world of Chinatown in today's society. After 9/11, this exhibition seeks to show the
inner life of Chinatown. Bringing these images into focus may help alter how Chinatown is regarded, cutting through misperceptions and the neglect of too many years.
Below The Canal: After 9/11
March 21 - May 2, 2003
Grimanesa Amoros, Olivia Beens, Y.J. Cho, Jane Freeman, Carter Hodgkin, Tishan Hsu,
A. Lebowski, Pamela Lee, Choong Sup Lim, Karen Margolis, John L. Moore, Naoto Nakagawa, Paolo Pelosini,
Richard Rudich Paul K Wong
Long time residents in the Chinatown neighborhood can help to revitalize Lower Manhattan and place 9/11 in a context of local history.
The indigenous role and vital meaning of New York's downtown should not be diminished by large scale undertakings.
Shaping Wholeness: Asian American Artists Create
May 14 -31, 2003
Elmhurst Hospital exhibition Bob Lee, Curator
Seongmin Ahn Trang Bui Dallas Chang Rona Chang
Iwao Hosoda Marina de Rosario Huang Vandana Jain
David Diao/Gang Zhao: Mid Career IV
May 16 - June 27, 2003
Nominating Panelists: Ko'an Jeff Baysa, Emily Cheng, Johnathan Goodman, Lilly Wei.
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2003 - 2004
In the Shadow of 9/11: A Chinatown Memorial Exhibition
Sept 11 - Oct 15, 2003 extended to Nov. 2nd, 2003
The Gallery at SilkRoad Place 30 Mott Street
Alan Chin, Sung-Hee Choi, G.L. Eng, Lambert Fernando,
Su-Li Hung, Cheng Hui Hsu, Corky Lee, Kalvin Lee,
Chieng Chung Li, Donald Lipski, Nobuho Nagasawa, Chee Wang Ng,
Eung Ho Park, Tara Sabharwal, Noriko Shinohara, Toyo Tsuchiya,
Katarina Wong, Yoichiro Yoda,
Provocations: The 13thAnnual Exhibition
September 26 to November 7, 2003
AAAC in Collaboration with The Korea Society
Toby Barnes, Irene Chan, John Yoyogi Fortes, Eunjung Hwang, Garrick Imatani, Lara Nguyen, Soon-Hwa Oh, UiJin Park, Gordon M. Sasaki, Soon Ae Tark
Selection Panel: Timothy Liu, Jeff Koan Baysa, Susette Min, Midori Yoshimoto, & Christine Y. Kim
Dream So Much
2 November 21st, 2003 to January 9th, 2004
Guest Curated by Richard S. Chang and Alexandra Chang,
James Marshall (Dalek), Kenji Hirata, Sandro Tchikovani (Misk),
Tomo Matsuyama (MatzuMTP)
Japanese graffiti artists who have relocated to New York City are included in this exhibition of 2ed generation developments in graffiti. The artists fluid movement between overlapping cultures in the realm of the cultural hybrid, defying artificial definitions of cultural authenticity or straightforward appropriation.
Landscape and Memory
March 19 thru April 30
Ken Fukushima and Wei Jane Chir
Organized by Yoland Skeete & Hal Laessig
as a collaboration with the Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center.
Two artists whose works have developed in compelling, transcending ways. Ken Fukushima,
holds a scale up to experience, measuring one history to another, one culture to another, linking historical Japan
to present thought. Wei Jane Chirs abstractions seek sublime goals. Her measurements of mundane urban experience
basks in the music of silence while Fukushima's work exults in the music of time, and its progeny, history.
Carol Sun/Nobuho Nagasawa Mid Career V
May 22 - June 25, 2004
Two artists installations: Carol Sun's video installation builds on her grandfathers who never met, one influenced by the West,
the notion of legacy and family into a wider dialogue of communities and cultures. Nobuho Nagasawa's "Mapping Chinatown: Making the Invisible Visible", collaborates with art
students of SUNY Manhattan to print information about Chinatown on specially designed chopstick sleeves distributed to co-operating local restaurants. Nominating Panelists: Ko'an Jeff
Baysa, Emily Cheng, Johnathan Goodman, Lilly Wei.
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2004-2005
Butternut Ink: the 14th Annual Exhibition
Sept 24 - Nov 5 2004; collaboration with The Korea Society
Artists: Rutherford Chang, Schwufen Lee, Jessie A. Tong, & Yoichiro Yoda from New York, Hirokazu Fukawa from Bloomfield, CT, James Jack from Wenham, MA. Evri Kwong from San Francisco, CA, John Lavery from Washington, D.C., Jawshing Arthur Liou from Bloomington, IN, Jaye Rhee from Chicago, IL, & Rashmi Talpade from Wallingford, CT.
Selection Panelists: Koan-Jeff Baysa, a New York-based curator who maintains a specialty medical practice in Tribeca, Joan Kee, Formerly a visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Cultures and Globalization, U of HK, she is an independent art historian and critic, Christopher Ho, a New York-based artist and curator, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, a an Assistant Professor in History of Art and Asian American Studies at Cornell University, Jean Shin, an artist based in Nerw York City whose recent projects include site-specific installations at The Museum of Modern Art.
The Topography of Absence
Nov 19 - Dec 31 2004
Artists: Amy Kao, Shin-il Kim, Cynthia Lin, Steve Gwon and Lisa Young
Curated by Katarina Wong
This exhibition offers different ways artists delve into the landscape of their own experiences in an attempt to understand and grasp absence
as fullness. Through work that offers viewers a series of quiet meditations of overlooked actions, impulses and detritus, the empty trivial mundane moments of life are given an unexpected wonder.
By examining the topography of their lives, artists find overlooked landscapes, not unlike the visual voyage through a Chinese landscape painting, providing an opportunity for us to re-assess what
is truly important.
"New York Eviction Blues"
March 31 - MAY 12, 2005
Artists:
ON/Megumi Akiyoshi, Judith Bernstein, Lotus Do Brooks, Lee Brozgold, Bivas Chaudhuri,
Theresa Chong, Gregory Coates, Adger W. Cowans, Eun Young Choi, Sung Ho Choi, Julia Cowing, Pedro Elias Cruz-Castro, Kelly Darr, Barbara Ellmann,
Edward Fausty, Walter Field, Fred Fleisher, Ralph Raphael Fleming, Kay Gordon, Rebecca Goyette, Steven Gwon, Kenji Hirata, Christopher K. Ho,
Vandana Jain, Amy Kao, Akiko Kotani, Anna Kuo, Nina Kuo, Su Kwok, Evri Kwong, Corky Lee, Lanie Lee, Choong Sup Lim, Ryan S. Lemke, Eve Mantel,
John L. Moore, Chee Wang Ng, Judith T. Page, Eung Ho Park, Tara Sabharwal, Libby Seaberg, Elisa Soliven, Jane Tsong, Rumiko Tsuda, Eugenie Tung,
April Vollmer, Katarina Wong, Yoichiro Yoda, Charles Yuen & Lianjie Zheng.
Asian American Arts Centre (AAAC) fights eviction from its home of 28 years. It
featured a select group of artists who have supported AAAC over many years. Many have a statement/story about their struggle with space, landlords, city regulations
and real estate. The history of this urban struggle is reviewed, beginning in the 60s, to the passage of the Loft Law in 1982, to the current recognition among
planners and government agencies of the central role the arts play in neighborhood revitalization.
Panel Talk April 13th Arlene Raven art critic, Rebecca Goyette of First St. Studios,
and Cathy Nanda of chashama.
Another exhibition space - ABC No Rio V mounted a sister show in solidarity. April 21 - May 12, 2005
Mid Career: Mei-ling Hom / Zhang Jian-jun
May 27 - JULY 1 2005
Mid-Career Nominating Panelists: Reiko Tomii, Lilly Wei, Johnathan Goodman, Judy Collischan, and Tomie Arai.
ARTSLAMS at AAAC
June 16: Ernest Concepcion, Nathelie Pham, Eugenie Tung, Wayne Liu, and Kim Tran.
June 23: Asma A. Shikoh, Avani Patel, Robin Gaynes-Bachman, Victoria Law, and Avantika Bawa.
June 30: Haegeen Kim, Yamini Nayar, Kiriko Shirobayashi, La Thoriel Badenhausen, and Deanna Lee.
Each evening five artists presented their work and had an interactive exchange of ideas with the audience. This is an opportunity for
Asian American artists and artists influenced by Asia to share their work with peers in an open forum for critical exchange.
Curators Reiko Tomii and Midori Yoshimoto were often present, as was artist Emily Cheng. Artist/university art instructor Bovey
Lee also joined the discussion.
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2005-2006
Exhibition of Nuo Masks
November 28, 2005 - March 10, 2006
The Nuo ritual has been practiced in China since primitive times over four
thousand years ago. Ritual "Nuo" masks may be the only living art tradition
linked historically to the Bronze Age of China. The origins of Nuo culture in
Zhejiang province can be traced back to the Liangzhu culture of the Neolithic
period. Nuo is a form of masked drama. Priests or specially trained
shaman-dancers used masks to perform at ritual ceremonies to expell ghosts and evil
spirits. Nuo is also a theatrical opera held at festival, aimed to establish ties
and norms between heaven and earth, man and gods. Traditionally, following the
solemn ritual, the Nuo opera was performed to entertain the spirits.
According to Chinese folklore, a street parade of legendary generals and deities
could best expel evil from the community. The "Nuo" masks exhibited are more than
a hundred years old. Their historical value cannot be underestimated. Please
help AAAC acquire these masks before they must be returned to Beijing this
Spring by contributing to the fund to do this.
For additional information about the Lunar New Year Nuo Mask Exhibition click
here. (LOUISE, This should go to Traditional Arts) You can donate online to
contribute to the fund for AAAC to acquire these historic Nuo Masks and keep
them in New York's Chinatown. Or mail your contribution directly to AAAC 26
Bowery 3fl NY, NY 10013.
Exhibition of Tibetan Thangka Paintings
January 2 - March 10, 2006, Monday - Friday 12:30 - 6:30 pm
These museum quality Tibetan Thangka paintings usually serve as a
supplementary aid to religious educational development. They are meant as focal elements
for visualization, concentration, meditation and contemplation. Their
purpose lies in assisting individuals in pursuing the path set by Buddha over two
thousand years ago in northern India. They are "assistants" to evoke, to embody,
and to elevate individuals to a higher path and realm. An individual's
spiritual quest for enlightenment, is central to all Buddhist thought.
Thangkas usually depict deities and saints, aspects of the life of the
Buddha, as well as the more abstract Mandalas, astrological charts, medical
descriptions and scenes. Thangkas can be found painted on temple walls as large
hangings enclosing space in monasteries and as scrolls above altars in private
homes. They can serve the teaching purposes of lamas and monks or be used
privately by lay persons. These works on exhibit are on loan from Lama Tenzin, and
the Mamse Bangdzo Bookstore of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra of Woodstock.
"The Art of Sand Mandala" Lecture by Ven. Lama Tenzin
February 4, 2006, Saturday 2 - 4 pm
To celebrate the Lunar New Year, Lama Tenzin Yignyen will create a Sand
Mandala on the two weekends of the Jan. 28 and Feb. 4. By visually and methodically
displaying the multitude of humanity with an architectural perspective, every
sentient being's wish to find peace and happiness and avoid suffering is
addressed. Each individual Mandala is an imaginary palace that is contemplated
during meditation. The creation of a Sand Mandala as the multi-colored sands
are poured is a very exacting process based on the sacred geometry presented in
ancient scriptures. After completion it will remain on view until Sunday,
Feb. 5 when, in the spirit of impermanence and non-attachment, a closing
ceremony will take place to bless and dismantle the sand Mandala. Dismantling the
Mandala consists of gathering all the sands, walking together to the East River
and, after prayers, pouring the sand in the water. Part of the Mandala's sand
will be saved and later presented to those participating in the ceremony.
Lama Tenzin's full schedule is as follows: Jan. 28 (Sat.) at 10am (press
conference) and 11am-5pm (1st session of the Mandala), Jan. 29 (Sun.) 10am-5pm
(2nd session), Feb. 4 (Sat.) 10am-1pm (3rd session), Feb. 4 (Sat.) 2-4pm Lecture
on "The Art of Sand Mandala," Feb. 5 (Sun.) 10-12pm and from 2-4pm dismantling
of the Sand Mandala.
The Venerable Lama Tenzin Yignyen is an ordained Tibetan Buddhist monk. He
holds a degree of Master of Sutra and Tantra Studies from the Namgyal Monastery
of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. Lama Tenzin taught
Tibetan Buddhism, Art, and Language in Namgyal branch Monastery in Ithaca, NY for
the three years. He has created sand Mandalas in many museums and educational
institutions throughout the U.S., including the Cleveland Museum of Art in
Ohio, and The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. He is a visiting professor
for Tibetan Buddhism at Hobart and William Smith College in New York.
DETAINED
March 24 - May 5, 2006

Designer Nobue Hirabayashi
Artists: Wafaa Bilal, Chitra Ganesh, Mariam Ghani, Dorothy Imagire, Pia Lindman, Trong Nguyen,
Lina Pallotta, Jenny Polak, Dread Scott, Visible Collective/ DisappearedInAmerica.org, and Rene Yung,
Organized by Rabab Abdulhadi, Director, Center for Arab American Studies, U of Michigan. & Robert
Lee, exec.dir of AAAC.
"DETAINED" is an exhibition focused on the issues of race, exclusion and spirituality. These currently manifest as unjustified
detention, racial profiling, torture, and deportation. This is what is happening and what is possible in the United States today. Arab,
Muslim and South Asian immigrant communities are under siege. Arab Americans are being targeted and the Asian American potential of being
targeted again cannot be far off. Its time immigrant and marginalized communities awake to unseen threats.
Chaplain James Yee's story illustrates these issues. Born and raised in New Jersey, a graduate of West Point, he chose to convert to Islam
after serving in the US Army during the Gulf War. Several years later while serving at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he was secretly
arrested and accused of being a spy and a traitor. He was detained for 76 days in solitary confinement before all criminal charges were
dropped. Chaplain Yee's story is only one example of what is happening.
 Wafaa Bilal
Now when we see cartoons that deliberately insult observant Muslims, that initiate an
international culture war, we see art being used as a trigger. Art can enable us to think and appreciate differences and
problems. Art can evoke compassion and a willingness to accommodate the differences that lead others to war.
In "DETAINED," eleven artists address questions of identity, immigration and detention, especially in
today's post-9/11 climate:
Wafaa Bilal includes political commentary in his work to encourage dialogue and self-reflection and to promote a sense
of self-empowerment instead of powerlessness. Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani create a physical library housing video,
critical texts, portraits and prints addressing the human costs of public policy and the role of language in defining
and redefining the rights, struggles and perceptions of immigrants in post-9/11 United States. Dorothy Imagire addresses
ethnic identity. Performance artist Pia Lindman challenges viewers to question how our media environment alters and
changes our perception of 'others.' Trong Nguyen's "Messages from Guantanamo" explores the question of who
is detained at Guantanamo Bay. Lina Pallotta's portraits of Afghan women delve into not only the culture from which
these women have come, but also their awareness of the influence that American culture has had on them. Jenny Polak
& Dread Scott address the issues of immigrant detention and anti-Arab/anti-Muslim sentiment in Welcome to America.
Visible Collective/ DisappearedInAmerica.org , traces migration impulses and hyphenated identities in post-9/11 security
panic. Rene Yung draws on the idea of a community peace wall to create Meditations, an interactive piece referencing the
Islamic tradition of making art with non-images.
THREE WOMEN: Art and Spiritual Practice
September 22nd to November 3rd, 2006
Artists: Mikyung Kim, Anna Kuo, Younhee Paik
All art to some extent, lays claim to concerns of
the spirit. For some
artists, however, spiritual issues occupy a central concern, some
indicate
another realm or existential plane, others are based on access to
esoteric
knowledge and posit this in their work. The art making practice of
these
three women is affected by such beliefs as well as the mental states
and artistic recipes that have evolved for them as individual
personalities,
coming to bare fruit with the fragrance of each art work created. In
this
way, Mikyung, Anna, & Younhee is an individual, and though one
may not
draw a direct tie to any one proposition on the spiritual, it is
possible
to say that to the extent a viewer can appreciate the art created is
the
extent a viewer senses the fragrant moment of its conception. Such art
intimates a disclosure – that this life is staged in the
context of a
larger mystery and mundane habits and occurrences can be transformed by
the light of this mystery. Curated by Robert Lee.
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2006-2007
FUTURE CREATURES IN CHINATOWN
October 31st - November 30, 2006
Eunjung Hwang explores dream and subconscious imagery in public moving image
installations at multiple sites in Chinatown. These two minute animation loops
during the evening hours introduce a variety of fanciful characters and
visionary narratives inspired by illusions of a fragmented reality. Each display
unit presents itself in a subtle random way, attempting an intimate and
unexpected encounter for public viewing. The works are intended to puzzle, provoke
thought in a chance moment of epiphany. The animated content based wholly on
fantasy, reveals the mystic and visual motives drawn from the ancient traditions
of Asia and its related symbolism. Eunjung Hwang received her MFA from SVA.
She received the Principal prize in the Oberhausen International Short Film
Festival in Germany. See www.futurecreatures.net or www.eunjunghwang.com for
additional information.
Supported in part, by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the September
11th Fund. Community Sponsor - Asian American Arts Centre
Site locations: HSBC Bank at 11 East Broadway, Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation (CPLDC) St. 60 James Place, Silkroad Place, 30 Mott St., AAAC on 26 Bowery & Other Locations
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FRACTURED FAIRYTALES: The 16th Annual Exhibition
December 8, 2006 - January 19, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, December 8, 2006, 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Artist Talk: Thursday, January 18, 2007, 7 p.m.
Artists: Jon Cuyson, Saeri Kiritani, China Marks, Naoe Suzuki, and Jan-Ru Wan
In a complex society with multiple contradictory interests at work, the drive
to encompass certain themes through creativity is a sustaining mark of these
artists works. Fractured Fairytales features five artists whose artwork
reflects a nexus of themes around personal icons - fantasy, dreams, pop culture,
identity and appropriation. Together they compose a very current part of the
contemporary presence of Asia in America.

China Marks
Christ Enters Left
Fabric, lace, thread, plastic netting, silk-screen ink, fusible adhesive
2006
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CHINESE CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENTAL ART
December 18, 2007 - March 16, 2007
Artistic ornamental color painting on architectural structures shows the
unique spirit and concept of China's classical building - an
architectural culture of ornamental art. China's classical architecture
can be traced back to 3000 years ago. This art form first appeared on
buildings during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-220 BC), and was a
status symbol for the occupants of these buildings.
The architectural ornamental art has progressed along with the
development of Chinese classical architecture through the application of
colors, subject matter and technique. The subjects used in this art form
varied from clouds, plants, animals, and spiritual deities in the Han
Dynasty to lotus flowers in Six Dynasties Period. In Tang Dynasty,
geometric figures and plants were more often applied. Qing Dynasty saw
the peak of architecture in Chinese history. Its development combined
Xuanzi painting and created palace style, Hexi style, Yuanlin Shu style
among many others.
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MIXED SKIN
June 1st to July 13th, 2007
Artists: Kip Fulbeck, Dorothy Imagire, Toni Thomas
Organized by Vikki Law & Robert Lee
Opening reception: Friday, June 1st, 5:30pm to 8 pm
Artist talk and panel discussion on mixed race issues: Tuesday, June 19th, 7 pm
In an age of mixing cultural and ethnic identities, how do we define ourselves? This is a question that even for a community like New Yorks Chinatown, with so many energies pulling and tugging at its fabric, cannot be ignored. Chinatowns ethnic coherence can be sustained and celebrated as it embraces all of its diverse children and welcomes all of its potentialities.
In this art exhibition entitled, Mixed Skin, Asian American Arts Centre recognizes and celebrates the heart centered relationships that are the basis for diversity, and that are the final response to the erection of barriers everywhere. National barriers included. Three multi-ethnic artists atest to this by coming to grips with this question.
In his Hapa Project, Kip Fulbeck, a film director, artist and professor. He is of Cantonese, English, Irish, and Welsh background. His photographs of several hundred people who identify as Hapa (half Asian-Pacific American) records how each defines him- or herself.
After interviewing Sanseis, 3rd generation Japanese Americans who are also people of mixed Asian descent, Dorothy Imagire, an artist of Japanese and Iranian descent, blends fabrics from different cultures to create unique personalized kimonos reflecting each person's ethnic and cultural backgrounds. She will also be exhibiting, for the first time, her latest project - baby blankets reflecting the next generation of people of mixed Asian/Japanese descent-Quapa (or quarter Asian-Pacific American) children.
Toni Thomas, an artist of African and Native American roots, draws on the history of the former Chinatown in the predominantly African-American community in Newark, New Jersey. Her poignant series of collaged and painted quilts explore what sparks inter-community ties and integrated relationships among Asian and African American communities.
On Tuesday, June 19th, artists Dorothy Imagire and Toni Thomas will be jointed by other writers and artists for a panel discussion on the subject of mixed culture and identities. Filipina-Finnish writer Johanna Eva has been exploring what it means to be of mixed ethnicity in her zine Sisu. Additional participants to be announced (TBA), on this website.
AAAC is pleased to have two essays written for this exhibition. One by Albert Chong, and prominent Jamaican-Chinese artist/photographer who exhibited at AAAC in 1987, and who has done extensive research on Jamaican history. The other by Troung thi Kim Tuyen was born to a Vietnamese mother and African-American Marine father, and came to the US in 1975. She holds a BFA degree from Howard University and has studied at art schools in the US and London. She works in the arts and entertainment industry on marketing and production.
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2007-2008
FIBERS: FIERO, KOTANI, KIM
October 11rd to December 7th 2007
Open on Saturday evening of December 1st, 6p.m. to 9p.m.
Open House: Sunday, December 2nd, 1p.m. to 7p.m.
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 11th, 5:30 to 8 p.m.
**Extended until December 7th, 2007
Artists: Columbia Fiero, Akiko Kotani and Soon-im Kim
These three artists, Columbia Fiero, Akiko Kotani and Soon-im Kim, work in the medium of fibers,
using materials such as thread, cloth, and cotton demonstrating how common materials can be innovatively used to integrate both Asian and Western sensibilities.
In doing so they touch on a lightness and informality that is physical yet intangible, daring to harness the intangible lightness of air. Each artist in her own
way touches upon a vital presumption about matter's physicality and its seemingly ephemeral properties. This exhibition is organized by Robert Lee with assistance from Marisa Stenson.

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RARE TRIBAL TEXTILES FROM CHINA
November 23rd to December 7th, 2007
December 14th to February29th, 2008
Accompanying the Fibers exhibition from November 23rd to December 7th will be an exhibition of Chinese Tribal Textiles from the Minority Peoples of China.?? These are museum quality fabrics from Dr. Andrew Wang, a collector of tribal arts and textiles from Asia, representative of historical tribal traditions. They are from the peoples known as: Miao, Gejia,Yao, Yi, Dai, Li, and Zhang.?? A selection of these will be on display to match the contemporary Fibers exhibition. The public is invited to view fibers as an art form, both traditional and contemporary, and to consider these two in relation to each other.?? In this way the Art of the New can be seen in the context of the Art of the Traditional.
A more extensive selection of these garments will be exhibited filling the entire gallery through the holiday season, from December 14th to February 29th, 2008. A reception will be held to mark this exquisite display of pattern and skill, the highest quality embroidery of China.
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YEONG GILL KIM
July 11th to August 1st, 2008
Opening Reception: Fri July 11, 2008 from 5:30pm - 8:30pm
VIEW YEONG GILL KIM'S ESSAY
Yeong Gill Kim is a Korean American artist who has lived in NY for many years. He saw the transition in Korea from a feudal society to a modern country and the confusion it brought to the people. By 1995 he had given up purely contemporary idioms and returned to materials and ideas that had inspired so much of Korea's artistic tradition. Inflected by modernity in the uniformity of the color of the strokes, by the washed surface, his gesture to contemporary times is there, and to that extent, to the West. The complexity of his brush work on muslin has attained a breathtaking clarity and simplicity.

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ARTSLAM 2008
WED, JULY 16, 2008 & FRI, AUGUST 15th 2008
Time: 7:00pm - Onwards
Admission: FREE.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Abha Dawesar, Vivian Wong, Kenji Kojima, Yasuko Shingu
Friday, August 15th 2008, from 7 to Onwards:
Barbara Coleman, Cecile Chong, Dana Zaldo, Kikuko Tanaka, Ugur Kunst
For more information please email aaacinfo@artspiral.org or call 212.233.2154
This event is organized by Adliana Bahrin, program assistant at AAAC.
"What I found that evening [of the ArtSlam] was a group of artists who were hungry to show their work and to dialog with other artists and critics. They absorbed the conversation around each others' work and participated generously, giving their own thoughts and observations. I thought the ArtSlam was exactly what a community of artists needs periodically. They need a chance to come together, share and test out their work and ideas in an intimate environment. Outside the university setting, this kind of evening is all too rare and precious." Emily Cheng (read full letter)
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ARTSLAMS TESTIMONIALS
For the past few years, the Asian American Arts Centre has held ArtSlams, an interactive gathering of artists, curators, and community members. The ArtSlam engenders an environment in which the audience and artists engage in dialogue that provides constructive criticism and feedback to emerging artists who are influenced by Asia or Asian America. With the assistance of additional funding, we hope to host more ArtSlams to further the professional and creative growth of fledgling artists.
"I cannot begin to express what you gave me other than to say a whole new confidence in the value of continuing to take risks, make mistakes and do it all again. Thank you for the opportunity you gave my work to be seen and criticized by young professional artists and educators and well-informed artists as yourselves." -- Lathoriel Badenhausen
(read full letter)
"I cannot quantify the impact that ArtSlam has brought to my art career since the event, but the confidence that I got from the success of the event was tremendous, and gave me the strength and belief required to further pursue and sustain my practice in the art which eventually led to more valuable opportunity and endeavors." -- Eugenie Tung
(read full letter)
"ArtSlams program provides emerging and young artists a competitive yet productive occasion for presenting their works and receiving feedbacks. "-- Reiko Tomii
(read full letter)
"What I found that evening [of the ArtSlam] was a group of artists who were hungry to show their work and to dialog with other artists and critics. They absorbed the conversation around each others' work and participated generously, giving their own thoughts and observations. I thought the ArtSlam was exactly what a community of artists needs periodically. They need a chance to come together, share and test out their work and ideas in an intimate environment. Outside the university setting, this kind of evening is all too rare and precious." Emily Cheng
(read full letter)
"I am sure that the artists felt fantastic from the serious manner in which their work was discussed by the audience critics and curators. I thought the program was well organized and the tone was casual yet professional." -- Barbara Ellmann
(read full letter)
"The ArtSlam afforded me a much needed chance to express my views on my work in a supportive environment. This was very beneficial as English is not my mother tongue." -- Soyeon Cho
"The audience benefits because it lets them into a world seldom seen other than within the artist's studio. For the artist it is invaluable. Contact with a community group enriches the solitary artist by provocative feed back to take to their studio."-- Akiko Kotani
"In addition, ArtSlams are also a very unique and valuable program that offer the kind of opportunity that is unlike other art institutions, such as commercial galleries and museums that don't always focus on assisting young and under-represented artists to develop their professional portfolios and skills necessary for their budding careers." -- Bovey Lee
(read full letter)
"The ArtSlam programs are an invaluable resource for artists, from which they can develop networks, receive feedback, and learn presentation skills. Artists thrive best within a community that allows a free exchange of ideas and opinions, and this dynamic allows their work to thrive as well." -- Deanna Lee
"...the AAAC's ArtSlams have offered [participating artists] the rare opportunity to transcend the myriad cultural and ethnic barriers that can falsely and sadly divide New York's artists rather than offer them a larger and richer heritage." -- Libby Seaberg
The Reintegration of Tradition into Contemporary Art:
A Panel talk with Marie Yoho Dorsey & Yeong Gill Kim
Friday, August 8, 2008 5pm - 7pm
The panel talk with Marie Yoho Dorsey and Yeong Gil Kim will be held at Asian American Arts Centre, 26 Bowery on Friday, August 8, from 5pm to 7pm.
Afterwards there will be a reception. The artists will speak on the synchronicity of Asian traditions and contemporary ideas, where they meet in
their own art and lives. Images and art works will be shown and there will be time for questions to be discussed. This event is FREE, donations are welcome.
Young Gill Kim is a Korean American artist who has lived in NY for many years. He saw the transition in Korea from a feudal society to a modern country and
the confusion it brought to the people. By 1995 he had given up purely contemporary idioms and returned to materials and ideas that had inspired so much of
Korea's artistic tradition. Inflected by modernity in the uniformity of the color of the strokes, by the washed surface, his gesture to contemporary times
is there, and to that extent, to the West. The complexity of his brush work on muslin has attained a breathtaking clarity and simplicity. With a disarming
soft spoken simplicity Kim brings innovations to indigenous Asian traditions and points to a direction for a diverse American society.
As the curator, Robert Lee has said, "Yeong shows that contemporary art in America need not be founded on a break with the past, nor on claims of a new age
of global technology. He demonstrates that a crisis of identity, a gap born of two irreconcilable cultures, can be spanned with a renewed confidence in
the vitality of one's Asian traditions."
Marie Yoho Dorsey is an artist well trained for four years in the Japanese art of Ikebana. This has turned her skilled mind to the art of painting,
the process of direct gravure, collage and installation to create delicate and masterful renderings on fabric. Her mystical journeys through landscapes
and clouds capture the precious and ephemeral.
Ms Dorsey grew up in a bi-cultural family with a Japanese mother and American father. She was able to experience tradition and contemporary culture and
takes part in transplanting the art of Ikebana here. She says, "Where East meets West the ideas behind Ikebana are imbued with a different set of cultural
and artistic values inherent to the culture it finds itself."
Ms Dorsey says: classical Japanese philosophy understands the basic human reality as impermanence. It is a call to vital activity in the present moment
and gratitude for another moment granted. "My work is a direct representation of an awareness of the world around me. I experience beauty as an emotion. All
my materials have an ephemeral and a vulnerable quality to them. Ritual and contemplation are key elements to the work. Wonder and curiosity about the
connections and associations which I entertain with the world around me inspire my image/object making."
MARIE YOHO DORSEY
August 8th to August 29st, 2008
Opening Reception: Fri August 8, 2008 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm
*Panel talk with Marie Yoho Dorsey & Yeong Gill Kim: 5pm - 7pm
Marie Yoho Dorsey is an artist well trained for four years in the Japanese art of Ikebana. This has turned her skilled mind to the art of painting, the process of direct gravure, collage and installation to create delicate and masterful renderings on fabric. Her mystical journeys through landscapes and clouds capture the precious and ephemeral, despite the noise of the cities of New York and Florida where she lives.

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2008-2009
METRO POLES IN CHINATOWN
October 2008 - January 2009
PANEL TALK:
Fri, Dec 5, 2008, 5:30pm at AAAC
PRESS CONFERENCE:
Fri, Oct 24, 2008 3pm
WALKING TOUR:
Oct 27, Nov 12, Dec 5 2008

Participating Artists:
Katarina Wong, Wennie Huang, Tamiko Kawata,
Olivia Beens, Wan Ling Li, Angela Valeria,
Tamara Gubernat, Laura Chipley, Francisca Porali,
Nathalie Pham, Avani Patel.
This Fall the Asian American Arts Centre joins in a cross-borough collaboration called Metro
Poles occurring simultaneously in Jamaica, the Bronx & Lower Manhattan. Metro Poles in Chinatown
marks the first time AAAC will partner with the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center & Chinatown
Manpower Project & other local entities as installation sites for artists art works. This will open
community institutions to the innovations and ideas of new art inviting a New York audience from
Manhattan & other boroughs together with local people & residents.
*** Note: There will be a continuation of the Metro Poles In Chinatown at Columbus Park in the summer 2009
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ZERO CAPITAL'S CLUSTERBOMB! AT AAAC
December 13 - January 15, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION & PERFORMANCES:
Saturday, Dec 13, 6pm-onwards
CLOSING RECEPTION:
Thurs, Jan 15, 6pm - onwards

Zero Capital's CLUSTERBOMB! will open at the Asian American Arts Centre at 26 Bowery, 3rd floor with a reception and performances from 6 to 9 pm. Asian American Arts Centre welcomes Zero Capital and is proud to support their initiating exhibition.
CLUSTERBOMB! is a creative response to physical and psychological displacement in the post 9-11 era of disillusionment and artistic inertia. It is an interdisciplinary, intergenerational and transnational network of artists, writers, activists, cultural workers and youth. Participants are posing a collective challenge to the issue of have and have-nots, why those who have are getting more and those who don't have are getting less or nothing.
Zero Capital is a collective of NYC based, as well as national and international artists, writers, activists, cultural workers and youth, with outsider artists messaging a possibility. Artists include: Tomie Arai, Regie Cabico, Fay Chiang, Jean Chiang, Jason DaSilva, Paul Gilman, Lauren Hokoyama, Arlan Huang, Jason Kao Hwang, Siddhartha Joag, Mia Kang, Perry Mamaril, Mari Nakano, Danny Phelan, F. Omar Telan, Laura Wilde and Bella Noir, Angel Velasco Shaw and others.
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A LUNAR NEW YEAR FESTIVAL 2009
Exhibition of Tibetan Thangka Paintings
FOLK FESTIVAL:
Sunday, February 1st, 2009 | 3:00PM - 5:30PM
EXHIBITION OF TIBETAN THANGKA PAINTINGS:
January 21 - March 31 2009
OPENING RECEPTION:
Sun, Feb 8 2009 3:00pm-5:30pm at AAAC
To celebrate the Lunar New Year, the Arts Centre is pleased to announce "A Lunar New Year Folk Arts Festival" featuring Asian Folk Artists, and a Tibetan folk singer. Five traditional artists/crafts people will be giving hands on demonstrations. Artists include: Ye Xun - a Chinese miniature dough figurine artist, Rose Sigal-Ibsen - Sumi-e ink calligrapher, Kavita Vyas - an Indian Mahendi hand painting artist, Duong Truong - fortune teller, Kwok Kay Choey - an Er Hu performer, together with Jampa Youden - a Tibetan folk singing performance. New Year delicacies will also be served.
Audiences will have the opportunity to interact with skilled folk artists who demonstrate their crafts and will have the opportunity to ask questions, make requests and the chance to learn and delight in the magic of a traditional craft and to enjoy traditional folk singing. This is an ideal event for families. The music, art and performances will delight both old and young alike.
Festival Admission: General - $12; Senior Citizens, Students - $6; Children 3 - 12 - $6: and for Children 3 and under - Free.
* Come early. Space is limited! For reservation and information, write to aaacinfo@artspiral.org or call 212.233.2154.
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Tibetan Thangka Paintings Exhibtion
The exhibition of high quality Tibetan Thangka paintings will be on view during this festival. The dates of the exhibition are January 26 till March 13, 2009. Thangka paintings usually depict deities and saints, aspects of the life of the Buddha, as well as the more abstract Mandalas, astrological charts, medical descriptions and scenes, usually serving as a supplementary aid to religious educational development. They are meant as focal elements for visualization, meditation and contemplation. A talk by Lama Tenzin Yignyen is expected at the opening reception. Write aaacinfo@artspiral.org for info.

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THE DIGITAL ARCHIVE: ARTASIAMERICA
Launching in Spring 2009

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All Hands On Deck: Crafting The Teachable Moment
Date: March 23, 2009
Location: South St. Seaport Museum, New York, NY

AAAC education programs will be featured at Cool Culture from 9am to 130pm on March 26 at South St
Seaport called Crafting the Teachable Moment. Come and experience AAAC culturally diverse approach to
art education. Or book a tour of AAAC gallery directly through aaainfo@artspiral.org
By encouraging an encounter with an art work in relation to one's own background, a viewer can become
conscious of what is learned visually, intuitively. Doing this with young children for over a dozen years
has demonstrated how diversity and visual games can be integrated seamlessly as a valid and enriching
addition to education. You can become conscious of what is learned visually.
THE 30TH ANNUAL ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL
Sunday May 3, 2009 | 12-6PM
Location: Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47th. St. NYC
Featuring a variety of Folk artists from different backgrounds, five traditional artists/crafts people will be giving hands on demonstrations. As for this year, the artists joining Asian American Arts Centre are:
Jampa Youden : a Tibetan folk singer who also does traditional jewelry design.
Kavita Vyas - Mehandi artist
Ming Liang Lu: master paper cutter of portraits
Rose Sigal Ibsen : Sumi-e Calligraphy Artist
Ye Xun : Dough figurine master artist
Audiences will have the opportunity to interact with skilled folk artists who demonstrate their crafts and will have the opportunity to ask questions, make requests and the chance to learn and delight in the magic of a traditional craft! Go here to read more about our folk artists.
This is an ideal event for families. The music, art and performances will delight both old and young alike. See you there this weekend!
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"AMERICA'S CHINATOWN VOICES" AT COLUMBUS PARK
MAY 9 - AUGUST 8, 2009
LOCATION: Columbus Park, Chinatown
ARTISTS: Avani Patel & Nathalie Pham
PRESS CONFERENCE:
Friday, May 8, 3pm at AAAC
OPENING RECEPTION:
Thurs, May 14, 2009, 6:30pm - 8:30pm at AAAC

A special outdoor art event will occur in Columbus Park this Spring/Summer. To rally the community to come together and speak about their community.
From children to seniors, in English & in Chinese, with images or without, this opportunity is for all to be heard. Especially welcome are those atuned
to the decisions that face Chinatown and know that the future of Chinatown is in our hands. Their voice, ideas, and statements will be painted on panels
18x24 inches all around the outside gates of Columbus Park at a distance of 15-20 feet of each other. A total of about 70-80 panels will be up, Once a week
the artists (and volunteers) will come in on the weekend to repaint some panels, and repaint new comments and thoughts on the panels. On the weekends an Open
Day where the artists will attend the installation and invite community members to write down their comments on the panels.
Each panel will have an email address or phone where the community can email the artist their thoughts and comments to be posted the next week.
Volunteers are welcome to sign up and help to mount this extensive weekly effort by contacting Nat@npham.com or aaacinfo@artspiral.org
For updates, go to http://www.nycmetropoles.com
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ARTSLAM 2009
FRIDAY, JULY 3RD 2009 | 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Participating Artists:
Hwa Hyun Kim, Kerry Ann Lee, Nung-Hsen Hu, and Xiaoqing Ding

For the past several years, the Asian American Arts Centre has held a series of slide/art slams,
allowing emerging artists the opportunity to present and talk about their work, meet and network
with each other as well as with more established artists and critics/curators. Last year, the Centre
hosted two slide slams, showcasing the work of nine artists working in various media.
On Friday, July 3rd, Asian American Arts Centre will be hosting the annual ARTSLAM, showcasing
the work of emerging Asian-American & Asia influenced artists.
Admission is FREE. EVERYONE is invited. This event is organized by Adliana Bahrin.
The ARTSLAM Series is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on
the Arts, a state agency and from The New York Department of Cultural Affairs. The Asian American
Arts Centre was founded in 1974 in New York City as a not-for-profit organization to address the
distinctive concerns of Asian Americans in the United States. Its mission is to promote the
preservation and creative vitality of Asian American cultural growth through the arts, and its
historical and aesthetic linkage to other communities.
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HOME MADE: Picturing Chinese Settlement in New Zealand
ARTIST TALK WITH KERRY ANN LEE
DATE: Wednesday, July 8rd, 2009
TIME: 5:30PM - 7:00PM

Kerry Ann Lee is an artist, designer and educator based in Wellington, New Zealand and is currently in New York doing an Artists residency at the School of Visual Arts with support from the Fulbright New Zealand and the Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust.
Home Made is a visual art and design project that draws upon Lee's heritage to interogate Chinese identity in New Zealand. The lavishly illustrated artist book expands the discussion on mid-19thC Cantonese Diaspora and celebrates an alternative cultural history of Chinese settlement through cut-paper, paint, found text and images.
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CHINA: JUNE 4, 1989
June 4, 2009 - Ongoing
Online Exhibition: Website

On June 5, 1989, in response to the massacre of the students in Tiananmen Square, the Asian
American Arts Centre in NY initiated a year long exhibition that eventually brought over 300 artists
to participate, drawing attention to this historic tragedy. After the exhibit traveled to several
sites over the next few years and the calls to have it and the informative materials that accompanied
it died away, the exhibition and the art work that it encompassed lay dormant. Now, on the occasion
of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Student Movement this exhibition is being revised
with this online exhibition for all to see. Much has passed and China may no longer be the China that
it was. For this exhibition, this is not the issue. Tiananmen Square, however, must not be forgotten.
So many artists came forward to give selflessly to this cause, creating innumerable memorable images.
These images manifest & reflect the global outcry and passion that was felt around the world. If
there is any message of these art works to be remembered, like the image of that sole resistor who
stood before a line of tanks stopping them in their tracks, it is to stand up for what you believe.
Remember Tiananmen Square...
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Computer Art Residency: A Collaboration with Immigrant Social Service Inc.
JULY 27 - JULY 31, 2009
Location: Immigrant Social Service (ISS), 137 Henry St
Artist: Jiawei Gong
Press Conference: Thurs, Jul 30, 2009, 1:30pm
Sponsored by Asian American Arts Centre with support from a collaboration with Immigrant Social Service, the artist Jiawei Gong will be in residence for this week from July 27 to July 31, 2009 Monday to Friday daily from 3pm to 6pm at the Immigrant Social Service at 137 Henry St. He will install some of his new art work as it is developing and work on his computer in the basement community space of Immigrant Social Services where local teenagers gather daily. During the Residency he will interact with these teenager on a casual, informal basis, spending time with them, answering their questions and curiosity, and in this way introduce young people to creativity & how technology can be used to further creative goals.
This is a pilot program of AAAC with funding from the Asian American Arts Alliance, investigating innovative ways for the arts to be effective in a community setting. Local community centers and facilities as sites for contemporary artists work enables AAAC to reach non-traditional audiences and encourage new and interesting perceptions by participates and viewers. Visitors are welcome to see Jiawei Gong's installation, see the process of bringing work from the digital realm to realization, and witness the learning environment that will be created -- visitors will be permitted in from 4:00PM - 5:30PM daily.

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2009-2010
ARTASIAMERICA.ORG IS LAUNCHED!
Date: July 28, 2009
WEBSITE WWW.ARTASIAMERICA.ORG

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Out Of The Archive: PROCESS & PROGRESS
'35th Anniversary Celebration of the Asian American Arts Centre'
SEPTEMBER 18 - OCTOBER 30, 2009
Curated by Angel Velasco Shaw
OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday September 18th 6:00pm - 9:00pm
GALLERY TALK (with Artists & Scholars):
Wed, October 7th, 6 - 8pm.
Location: WHITE BOX 329 Broome St.
*LIVE BROADCAST USTREAMTV
ARTISTS: Tomie Arai, John Yoyogi Fortes, Swati Khurana, Albert Chong.
WRITERS: Karen Su, Karlyn Koh, Jan Christian Bernabe, Sarita Echavez See & Midori Yoshimoto



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Farewell To 26 Bowery
'We are moving!'

After thirty-five years of operation, Asian American Arts Centre will leave its home at 26 Bowery, continuing its cultural work from a new address.
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Dialogues in the Visual Arts Series:
Out of the Archive: Progress and Community
DECEMBER 9, 2009, 7PM
LOCATION: BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center at 19 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007
ENTRY: $5 inclusive of refeshments.
Moderator: Robert Lee, Executive Director of AAAC with Artists Nathalie Pham,
Eun Young Choi, and Triple Edwards.
Curator: Susan Fleminger, deputy director at Abrons Arts Center of Henry Street Settlement
A panel conversation about the Asian American Art Centre's important web site artasiamerica.org,
reflecting 60 years and several generations artistic production by Asian American artists
and the organization's current community development efforts.

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China on the Way to Modernization (From the Republic to the Present)
"A Case Study on Inheritance and Development of Jingdezhen Ceramic Craftsmanship."
Two Lectures On Sunday by Dr. Fang Lili and Zhu Legeng
DATE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009, 7PM
LOCATION: University Settle at Houston Street Center, 273 Bowery
ENTRY: Free
The talk will explain Dr. Fang's understanding of how tradition and cultural heritage have
presented new sources of economic growth. Jindezhen is the case study because its
traditional ceramic craftsmanship and the culture system based on it were attacked
and essentially overthrown by a modern, industrial system. The craft persisted and
was well preserved in the new culture.
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NEW YORK LUNAR NEW YEAR FESTIVAL 2010
DATE: Fri. Feb 12, 2010, 10am-10pm & Sat 2/13 10am-7pm
Location: Sara D. Roosevelt Park, Chinatown, NYC (map)
Admision: FREE!
"A Lunar New Year Folk Arts Festival" featuring Asian Folk artists and musicians. Traditional artists/crafts people will be giving
hands on demonstrations. Artists include a Chinese miniature dough figurine artist, a calligrapher, a Korean Knotting artist, an Indian
Mahendi hand painting artist, an Er Hu performer, together with a Tibetan folk dance and music performance. New Year delicacies will also
be served. Audiences will have the opportunity to interact with skilled folk artists and ask questions, make requests and learn and delight
in the magic of a traditional craft and music. This is an ideal event for families.
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THE 31TH ANNUAL ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL
DATE: SUNDAY, MAY 2ND, 2010
TIME: 12PM - 6PM
LOCATION: UNION SQUARE PARK, E 14th ST. (BTWN. BROADWAY & PARK AVE.)
Featuring a variety of Folk artists from different backgrounds, five traditional artists/crafts people will be giving hands on demonstrations. As for this year, the artists joining Asian American Arts Centre are:
Karen Ahn: Korean Maedeup (Knotting)
Kavita Vyas: Mehandi artist
Ming Liang Lu: Master paper cutter of portraits
Jampa Youden : A Tibetan folk singer who also does traditional jewelry design.
Rose Sigal Ibsen : Sumi-e calligrapher
Ye Xun : Dough figurine master artist
Audiences will have the opportunity to interact with skilled folk artists who demonstrate their crafts and will have the opportunity to ask questions, make requests and the chance to learn and delight in the magic of a traditional craft! Go here to read more about our folk artists.
This is an ideal event for families. The music, art and performances will delight both old and young alike. See you there this weekend!
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AMERICA'S CHINATOWN VOICES:
Exhibition & Silent Auction
Red Panels from Summer 2009 Outdoor Exhibition in Columbus Park
"A Gathering of the Arts in Chinatown"
View panels HERE to auction.
DATE: APRIL 23 - MAY 9, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION: APRIL 22, 6PM - 8PM
CLOSING & MOTHER'S DAY PARTY: SUNDAY, MAY 9, 4PM-7PM
LOCATION: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, 3rd Floor (map)
Artists: Avani Patel, Nathalie Pham, and the Chinatown community Panels/artworks by the community from the outdoor installation "America's Chinatown Voices"
at Columbus Park
About 80 - 90 red panels were painted by community people, children, artists & other New Yorkers from
the previous installation "America's Chinatown Voices" will be mounted at Clemente Soto Velez
Cultural Center. There will be a night where the panels will be auction.
The artists will mount an online gallery of the panels for viewing, in the mean time please go to
HERE to view pictures from the exhibition at Columbus Park last year.
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CHINA: JUNE 4, 1989
June 4, 2010 - August 4, 2010
Online Exhibition: Website

On June 5, 1989, in response to the massacre of the students in Tiananmen Square, the Asian
American Arts Centre in NY initiated a year long exhibition that eventually brought over 300 artists
to participate, drawing attention to this historic tragedy. After the exhibit traveled to several
sites over the next few years and the calls to have it and the informative materials that accompanied
it died away, the exhibition and the art work that it encompassed lay dormant. Now, on the occasion
of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Student Movement this exhibition is being revised
with this online exhibition for all to see. Much has passed and China may no longer be the China that
it was. For this exhibition, this is not the issue. Tiananmen Square, however, must not be forgotten.
So many artists came forward to give selflessly to this cause, creating innumerable memorable images.
These images manifest & reflect the global outcry and passion that was felt around the world. If
there is any message of these art works to be remembered, like the image of that sole resistor who
stood before a line of tanks stopping them in their tracks, it is to stand up for what you believe.
Remember Tiananmen Square...
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2010-2011
ARTSLAM 2010
discussion/panel talk
DATE: THURSDAYS | 10/14 & 10/21 | 530PM-730PM
THURSDAY OCT 14TH, 5PM-630PM
Participating Artists:
Jing Zhou, Vivian Oyarbide, Maia Cruz Palileo, and Uday Kdhar.
THURSDAY OCT 21ST, 5PM-630PM | POTLUCK!!! Bring your friends and food!
Participating Artists:
Carol Tanjutco, Susan Lee Yung, Justin Baldwin, Betty Taopat Kaos, and Roshani Thakore.

For the past several years, the Asian American Arts Centre has held a series of slide/art slams,
allowing emerging artists the opportunity to present and talk about their work, meet and network
with each other as well as with more established artists and critics/curators. Last year, the Centre
hosted an art slam, showcasing the work of 5 excellent artists working in various media.
On Thurdays, October 14th and October 21st, Asian American Arts Centre will be hosting the annual ARTSLAM, showcasing
the work of emerging Asian-American & Asia influenced artists.
Admission is FREE. EVERYONE is invited.
The ARTSLAM Series is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on
the Arts, a state agency and from The New York Department of Cultural Affairs. The Asian American
Arts Centre was founded in 1974 in New York City as a not-for-profit organization to address the
distinctive concerns of Asian Americans in the United States. Its mission is to promote the
preservation and creative vitality of Asian American cultural growth through the arts, and its
historical and aesthetic linkage to other communities.
**CORRECTION: Carol Tanjutco will present on Oct 21. Dmitry Borshch is unable to attend.
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8 ARTISTS: FROM THE ARCHIVE
exhibition
DATE: AUGUST 14 - SEPTEMBER 11, 2010
LOCATION: CUCHIFRITOS, NYC
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, AUGUST 14th, 4PM - 630PM
Artists: Charles Yuen, Dinh Q. Le , Dorothy Imagire, Eunjung Hwang, Howardena Pindell, Nancy Hom, Roger Shimomura, and, Sin-ying Ho.

In collaboration with the Artists Alliance Inc. (AAAI), exhibition entitled tentatively, Eight Artists: From The AAAC ArchiveÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ, will be installed in the Cuchifritos art gallery/project space located inside the Essex Street Market from August 14th - September 11th 2010.
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OF FILMI LOVE AND OTHER DEMONS:
exhibition
Exhibit: October 1, November 24
Opening Reception: Friday, October 29th, 6:00 p.m.
Location: Asian Arts Initiative , 1219 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Artists: Jaishri Abichandani, Shelly Bahl, Siona Benjamin, Swati Khurana, Nitin Mukul, Pratima Naithani.
Curated by Shelly Bahl

AAAC and AAI presents you our often explicit and sometimes secret celluloid obsessions. Oh, how to explain our joyful passions and guilty pleasures in reenacting these choreographed gestures of love, longing, betrayal and loss!
Do not fear this charmed world of ours. Some may mock it as a place of artifice and stylized emotions, set to song and dance sequences. Ah, but these are not merely empty gestures, but rather, a doorway into a magical realm where epic narratives gain strength through consistent repetition.
Filmi Love the traces of sticky sweet smudges from glittery kisses upon our fingertips, as we dance through the florid gardens of our imaginations. Join us, and we spin you right round, baby, right round.
The six artists in the exhibition are all currently based in New York City and vicinity. Their works in this exhibition comprising of painting, mixed-media, photography, video and installation, reflect on the omnipresent influence of Bollywood cinema within contemporary popular culture in South Asia, the Diaspora and beyond.
A collaboration between Asian American Arts Centre and Asian Arts Initiative. The reception is co-sponsored by Twelve Gates Art Gallery.
Asian Arts Initiative's visual arts programming is supported in part by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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ACTIVISM AND THE RISE OF THE ALTERNATIVE SPACES AT EXIT ART
discussion/panel talk
DATE: FRIDAY, OCT 29TH, 6PM-9PM
LOCATION: EXIT ART, 475 Tenth Ave, New York, NY 10018 (map)
In conjunction with Exit Art's Alternative Histories exhibition, a panel talk entitles "Activism and the Rise of Alternative Art Spaces" will be held on Friday 10/29.
Robert Lee, director of Asian American Arts Centre will discuss the founding of the Asian American Art Centre:
Its relation to the Asian American movement; its emergence from the activities of the Basement Workshop (1970-mid1980s); Its establishment as the non-profit Asian American Dance Theatre in 1974 and changing to its current name in 1986; its expansion to include the presentation of contemporary art exhibitions in 1983, as well as its other folk art and educational programs and activities.
Moderator: Mary Anne Staniszewski, Associate Professor and Acting Head of the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY
Participants: Robert Lee, Director, Asian American Arts Center; Beka Economopoulos, Co-Founder / Director, Not An Alternative; Alanna Heiss, Founder, P.S.1, Director, AIR and Clocktower Gallery; Avram Finkelstein, Gran Fury; Melissa Rachleff Burtt, Clinical Associate Professor of Arts Administration, NYU
Investigating the early history of New York alternative spaces, this panel looks at the genesis, culture and legacy of this movement in the context of activism and political agency.
Please RSVP to this event: http://www.exitart.org/support/rsvp. Each public event during the Alternative Histories exhibition is $5.00 which can be paid on line or at the door.
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