Asian Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean is the focus of exhibition at Americas Society, New York

Chen-Kong Fang, Mario N. Ishikawa and Tikashi Fukushima are featured in the group exhibition The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean. Organized by the Americas Society with the support of Almeida & Dale, the exhibition sheds light on the often neglected artistic trajectories of subjects and collectives who were part of the Asian diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The exhibition brings together works by thirty artists of fifteen nationalities, made between the 1940s and the present, whose languages explore various media: painting, sculpture, performance, photography and video. The exhibition understands diaspora as an embodied experience and as a concept, underlining the political implications of positioning oneself as a diasporic subject in order to address historical silences.

On view from September 4 to December 14, 2024, “The Appearance” is curated by Tie Jojima, former Associate Curator and Exhibitions Manager at the Americas Society in New York, and Yudi Rafael, an independent curator and researcher who lives and works in São Paulo.