Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Author Dorothy Moss will present on Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands, a catalogue of the stunning work by the late contemporary Chinese American artist Hung Liu (1948-2021), who blended painting and photography to offer new frameworks for understanding portraiture in relation to time, memory, and history.
The Bangladeshi-American population is one of the fastest growing South Asian communities in the U.S., but is often overlooked in the art world. Source: Bangladeshi Photography Exhibit Comes to New York City – NBC News
This talk is part of a new graduate-level course, Critical Asian American Issues and Actionable Solutions, taught by AAARI’s first CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor, Dr. Paul Ong from UCLA, at the CUNY Graduate Center. For this talk, Corky Lee will exhibit twenty-four of his photographs and discuss their cultural and historical significance to New York City’s Asian American community.