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Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter

Through the work of seven artists from across the country, Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter offers provocative artistic responses to the Asian experience in America and the meaning of being Asian American. Their visual stories offer representations against and beyond the stereotypes that have long obscured the complexity of being Asian in America. Their approaches to identity and portraiture elicit mixed feelings of ambivalence, individuality, nostalgia, pride and pain. The disparate threads of race, ethnicity, gender, diaspora, hybridity and transnationalism are laid bare in these rich and exciting portraits of encounter.

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Previous Exhibitions:

• Sweet & Sour: A Look at the History of Chinese Food in the United States
• Filipinos in America: From Colonial Subjects to Citizens
• Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon
• Creating Hawaii
• Barriers to Bridges
• Gliding to Golden Vistory—Apolo Ohno's skates
• Japanese American Pioneers of the Jet Age
• Through my Father's Eyes
• Miracle under the Waves
• Do-Ho Suh's Staircase IV
• Dreams and Reality
• A More Perfection Union
• Kaho'olawe: Ke Aloha Kupa'a I Ka'Aina
• On Gold Mountiain
• Gateway to Gold Mountain
• Fly to Freedom
• From Bento to Mixed Plate