Artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen creates multimedia installations that blend fact, memory, myth, and mysticism and use lush imagery to draw out these entanglements. By digging deep into archives and collaborating with communities, his projects weave together many voices to reveal other truths about — and strategies of repair from — colonial violence. In this Washington, DC debut, his video work […]

 Artist Christine Sun Kim brings her performance piece, Five Finger Discount History, to SAAM, challenging misconceptions in this “crash course” on the history of Deaf culture. Across her practice, Kim draws from her personal experiences to explore the nuances of language and communication.  This program is presented in ASL and spoken English. The performance received […]

Join SAAM’s Curator of Time-Based Media Saisha Grayson for a special, before public hours tour of Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s single-channel color video The Island (2017). Nguyen’s video, set on the Malaysian island of Pulau Bidong, combines history with futurism to explore contemporary topics such as the impact of forced global migrations in imaginative and striking […]

Join guest curator and professor at the University of California, Merced, ShiPu Wang, for the opening of SAAM’s exhibition Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo. The exhibition is an in-depth look at the careers of these three trailblazing American women of Japanese descent and asserts their rightful place in American art.In […]