Recognition: Asian Artists and Community

For many artists of Asian descent, the journey to understanding one’s roots, heritages, cultures and their multiple histories has been a powerful and creative force for their work. The personal journeys that artists have embarked upon in order to make sense of themselves has resulted in a looking outward as well as inward. What many have discovered is that the answers were often closer to home than originally anticipated.

Recognition brings together a collection of videotapes from a variety of artists of Asian heritage who have looked to their mothers, fathers, and families in order to recognize themselves, as well as to learn more of what might inform their identities and foster a stronger sense of belonging. This exhibition celebrates Asian communities and artistic communities, their work and aspirations.