Artist Showcase
Asian American Cultural Center Presents
"Fighting for Visibility"
Exhibition will be displayed at the AACC - April 3, 2018 - May 12, 2018
Art Reception: Thursday, April 12, 2018 5pm-7pm
Asian American Cultural Center
URBANA, IL – The Asian American Cultural Center is proud to feature a group art exhibition for the Boneyard Arts Festival brought to you by community members and students at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. The new art exhibition entitled “Fighting for Visibility” will be exhibited starting April 3, 2018 to May 12, 2018. This art exhibit shows how Asian Americans are breaking stereotypes.
Curator Tiffany Mei stated, “I came up with this theme to showcase the many ways Asian and Asian Americans fight for visibility in the world. Asian/Asian Americans are rarely seen in the media and appreciated for their talents. But through this art exhibit we can see Asian/Asian Americans expressing themselves in their own different ways.”
“Fighting for Visibility” features art work from various artists including; Afifa Chaudhry, AJ Poe, A Na Kim, Heather Hua, Holly Situ, Jihee Lee, Lingjun Jiaang, Mandi Shi, Mew Tachibana, Mohan Kaur Tracy, Reikin Ahokawa, Sylvia Peng, Tiffany Mei, Veronica Clement and Xudong Guan.
Previous Showcases
Living History: Our Stories from 1970s to Now
August 24, 2015 - December, 1, 2015
November 3, 2014 – January 30, 2015
"A Community of Immigrants" Group Art Exhibit
July 2014-October 2014
#WeAreIllinois by the Intercultural Horizons Intens
January 2014-March 2014
"this voice of mine" by Puja Patel
November 2013- February 2014"Child of the World" by Jessica Lee Rojas
August - November 2013"What Do You Care About?" Art Exhibit by University of Illinois Student Leaders
August - November 2012Spirit of the Brush and Ink by Jason Xing
March - July 2012Art Blank Activism: 10 Years of Project A
Hua NianDecember 2011- March 2012Drama of Black & White
Kate AgathonJanuary - April 2011ImaginAsian
Lena Domyung ChoeOctober - December 2010Halmoni's Hanboks
Jason TranJune - October 2010Bridging
Champaign-Urbana Asian and Asian American ArtistApril - June 2010Celebrating Asian American Heritage Through Artas part of the Boneyard Arts Festival
Annie Rong, Wynee Bao, Andrea Bajcsy and Sergio JuanFebruary - April 2010Sharing with the World
Photographer Kate Agathon & William SnyderNovember 2009 - February 2010commUNITY
Yunnan Art Institute, UIUC, and Parkland CollegeSeptember - October 2009Not Between But from the East and the West
Rajni ShinghalMay - September 2009Infusion
Community and StudentsApril - May 2009"Through an Asian American Lens of Identity and Culture" featuring mixed media works
Sarah Seyoung Kim, BFA candidateApril - May 2009"Vague" featuring mixed media works
Hyon Joo KimDecember 2008 - March 2009"Knotted Passion Box" feat. mixed media works
Lei Zhang ShanbhagAugust - November 2008"To the East" featuring mixed media works
Hermia SooMay - July 2008"My Recollections of the Joy of Art Creation" featuring mixed media works
Saemi Yi, BFA candidateApril 2008Art Exhibit featuring mixed media works
Asian American Women (Community and Students)February - April 2008Asian American Women Art Show: "Reflections of Who I Am…” featuring mixed media works
Intercultural Friendship FoundationStudent OrganizationNovember 2007 - February 2008"Devotion and Love in Islamic Art" featuring mixed media works
Sujata Dey-KoontzChampaign residentApril - June 2007"Om. A Creative Goddess Vision's The Mother Essence" featuring watercolors, colored pencil, mixed media works and photography
Umeeta SadaranganiChampaign residentJanuary - March 2007"Journeys" featuring watercolors, mixed media works and photography
Hua NianUrbana residentMarch - May 2006"Paper Tearing Art" featured twelve pieces
Dan MaUIUC MFA 2006January - March 2006"Displace" featured eleven photographs
Other Exhibits
Areujana Sim, BFA candidateApril 16-27, 2007"Reconstructing Korean Memory"
"Rice, Chopsticks, and the Melting Pot: Asian American Restaurants in Chicago"presented as part of the Filipino American Coming Together Conference by the Philippine Student Association and the Columbia College of ChicagoOctober 2006
Jeannie Chang, Jessica Rubenacker, and Eunji Rhimall UIUC BFA candidatesMay 2006"Constructing the Middle Ground"
