Art at Americas Society presents the first exhibition in New York City to center the artistic production of the Asian diaspora throughout Latin America and the Caribbean from the 1940s to the present. Focusing on postwar and contemporary art, the exhibition showcases the work of thirty artists from fifteen countries working in a range of artistic mediums including painting, sculpture, performance, photography, and video, to shed light into strategies and themes that resonate across a wide array of Asian diasporic practice in the region.

The exhibition embraces and performs the multiple and interrelated meanings embedded in the notion of appearance, inspired by Japanese Brazilian artist Lydia Okumura’s 1975 print by the same title. From acts of appearing and becoming visible—including different types of apparitions—to the idea of impressions and physical resemblance, artists in the show grapple with the complexities of negotiating (in)visibility, revisiting and remaking family archives and stories, and engaging and reconfiguring spiritual practices. The show also addresses abstraction as a formal strategy linked to language, the senses, and the body in the context of the Americas’ postwar art.  

Accompanying the show, we present a series of public programs:

- Ghost Stories x Asia Art Archives in America: A conversation with the Asianish collective.
   Wednesday, October 2, from 6 to 8 pm ET

- The Appearance: A conference presented by Americas Society and Asia Society.
   Tuesday, October 29, from 2:30 to 8 pm ET

- Art at Americas Society's Performance series: Dictée/Exilée by Suwon Lee.
   Wednesday, November 20, from 8 to 6 pm ET

Solo exhibition at Magenta Plains in New York, NY.

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Solo exhibition at Grant Wahlquist Gallery in Portland, Maine.

Below Grand Gallery is pleased to present Christopher K. Ho's solo project "Black Hole," opening April 14, 5-7pm. The Swiss Army-like sculpture is inspired by Ho's recent move to Hong Kong, where objects are multi-functional and spaces flexible. Photographer's boom arms riotously stretch out from a golf bag, and hold metal cutouts depicting a hedgehog morphing into a fish, each representing a progressive quantum leap. Like the malleable identity of Asian Americans--outsiders in the US, and too Americanized in Asia--the cutouts are distorted according to an invisible event horizon.

https://www.belowgrandnyc.com/

BARELY FAIR is an international art fair operated by Julius Caesar. The invitational fair presents a tiny peek inside the programming of thirty contemporary art galleries, project spaces, and curatorial projects during “Art Week” in Chicago. Included spaces will exhibit works in 1:12 scale booths built to mimic the design of a standard fair.

Julius Caesar is an artist-run project space established in 2008. An ever-evolving group of artists acts as co-directors and at present is Josh Dihle, Tony Lewis, Roland Miller, and Kate Sierzputowski.

Solo exhibition of new work at Notch8 Gallery in Portland, Maine.

Solo show of sculpture in response to climate change at the Boston Sculptors Gallery in Boston, MA.

https://www.bostonsculptors.com/

Bi-weekly March 19 - May 28, 2024

Offering an enhanced public recognition of the Caribbean Diaspora, The Bata Project explores the tradition of house dresses worn in the Caribbean, mainly by women at “home” through community engagements incorporating aesthetics that honors folklore in the urban landscape. By infusing a contemporary lens into intimate memories via community exchange, this project offers a generative hybridity, intergenerational connections, merging of contemporary and fashion history with urban folklore, bringing oral histories, visual art and performance into the public commons.

I invite peers and community members of all ages, genders to participate and wear their batas to join in the interdisciplinary discourse of this project via visual art, storytelling, music, and sharing of folklore. Gatherings occur through a series of public events which highlight this house dress and creates interconnections with fashion and fusion of the isla/urban communities. With multiple creative access points, this project offers agency to multiple community members and artists as well as the general public.

In this process of togetherness and community building, the focus is on the energy of the group that gathers, and the group grows organically through word of mouth as previous participants invite their friends and family members to join them at the next public gathering. This togetherness supports invitations to the public to join in the conversation and share stories.

As The Bata Project unfolds, we will witness how this dress - worn outside in the public eye - subverts social expectations and celebrates the power of home and stories connected with home, care, the body, and history as something you bring with you everywhere.

These gatherings include photo sessions and video documentation of public sharings.

https://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/the-bata-project

Group show, curated by Vladimir Cybill Charlier.

https://garnerartscenter.org/

"Any body try to box you in? Or been called 'too extra'? Watch us girl bosses reclaim the beauty in all or our loudmouthedness, flyness, too muchery, bling, boundless imaginations, and refusal to dim our shine! This is our superpower" -Chenoa Baker

https://www.showupinc.org/master-calendar/extra-jahari-ortega-rixy-and-wavy-wednesday

The Ephemera Project is a crowd sourced archive of the people we love and the objects that hold us together. It is evolving into a powerful collaboration based in memory, self-reflection, and vulnerability. There are notes from loved ones and objects that signify time passing - moments in history, mementos of a vacation and a subway ride. Simple reminders of people we love and homages to life experience. The Ephemera Project seeks crowd participation in order to be inclusive. It welcomes stories and objects as diverse as we are, from all ages and around the world.

My original idea for collaboration with Maine MILL was to work with their collection to add historical context to the ephemera that I had already collected. Following the October 25, 2023 Lewiston shootings, the show expanded to include ephemera from the memorials that we are working together to archive and preserve at the MILL.

https://www.tanjahollander.com/mainemill