Join us for the closing reception of Hai-Wen Lin’s exhibition on December 21st.

Scored by Steven Hou, the afternoon will feature a performance by Chicago-based dancers, extending the work beyond the space.

This reception offers a chance to experience how Hai-wen explores the performance and movement-based aspects of their practice. View Steven’s interpretation of drobe as it comes together on the body and in motion.

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Performers:
Mue Wu aka eg0d34th
Kate
Yixiao Yao
Chun An Huai
Steven Hou

Performance starts at 3 p.m.

Content Advisory: This performance includes partial undressing. The performers will remain in undergarments at all times.

Hai-Wen Lin presents drobe, a playful look at cultural patterns, care, and what we choose to dress and protect in our world. Curated by Larry Lee.

This exhibition playfully riffs on the “dressing” of chairs, beds, or floors – the “chair-drobe”, “bed-drobe”, “floor-drobe” where clothes are tossed rather than properly placed in a “wardrobe” – observing the meaning of common fabric motifs and how the world should be cared for.

The show explores familiar cultural patterns in Asian culture, worked into clothing and protective coverings. Lin’s past kite-making, which she sees as “dressing” the sky, expands here into a larger question of what should adorn the world and what deserves protection.

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Hai-Wen Lin is a Taiwanese American artist living somewhere beneath the sky. Their work explores constructions of the body and the attunement of oneself to the environment, often moving through metaphor, etymology, sunlight, wind, and the way time passes perfectly when you are out walking on a beautiful day. Lin holds an MDes from SAIC and is a Skowhegan alum. Some honors include the Burke Prize and Luminarts Fellowship, and they have held residencies at places such as MacDowell, Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, and many others.

This exhibition will run from November 16th to December 21st, 2025.

As a proud partner site of Open House Chicago 2025, we are excited to debut Percy Lam's “Light Light Light Show” this Saturday, October 18!

Lam's depictions of Hong Kong, through diverse techniques and materials, explore his complex relationship with a city he still thinks of as home, even long after immigrating to the US. By recreating the city’s buildings and skylines in his laborious weaving, sewing, and neon works, Lam builds bridges between his past and present as a member of the Hong Kong diaspora, gazing back to his homeland from afar, and repeatedly revisiting the connections.

Lam's current work highlights Hong Kong’s disappearing neon culture, unique housing phenomenon, and recent social unrest. The weaving gestures towards mending, a symbolic redress for the keen sense of lost identity that comes from a long-term disconnection.

Percy Lam was born and raised in Hong Kong, and he immigrated to the U.S. with his family as a teenager. Lam is a fiber-based artist, and his practice focuses on explorations of his remote relationship to Hong Kong while he is currently located in the U.S

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Open House Chicago, one of the largest architecture and urban exploration festivals in the world, is happening this weekend! Visit us and more than 200 other sites in 25+ neighborhoods. Check out architecture.org/open-house-chicago for more details.

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Featured Work:
Millions of Neon Show: The Light of Hong Kong 萬䊹霓虹綉：香港之光
Hand-embroidery on paper, 3 x 3 in (each), 2017-present

The 50 States Journey: HI  五十州之旅：夏威夷州
PEZ wrapper, thread, 33 x 55 in, 2016

Light Light Light 光 光 光
neon, 16 x 24 x 3 in, 2019

The New Milk exhibition featuring artist Jenyu Wang 王人玉 opens next week, our upcoming Spotlight show curated by Larry Lee.

New Milk is the magical substance that brings life. Not only life, but also the full force of a new life. The body goes through radical changes—both beautiful and horrifying—to create milk, and then more change reaching its postpartum reality—a new reality. New Milk meditates on this powerful substance and expresses its manifestation in milky, glossy fantasies, with eyes that peer back.

jenyujenyu is an artist and researcher, interested in temporal and spatial relationships largely due to growing up in a fractured cultural-political environment. Born in Taiwan and immigrating to the United States as a teenager, Jenyu perceives her world in disjunction instead of continuity. She received her MFA in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

By utilizing photography, video, and sculptural objects, Jenyu interrogates the gap between thinking and feeling. In pursuit of such gap, her work concentrates on the moments that show the vulnerable body, the traumatic body in the psychology of the 'everyday.' Jenyu's projects provide indexical content where she constructs and magnifies moments of dissonance and resonance.

Her other projects include writings published in criticism websites Chicago Artist Writers and LA-based art blog Temporary Art Review, and curating an exhibition on pluralism in contemporary Asian visual culture, titled Plural Vision, at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

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Featured Work:
Everything Everywhere All At Once 媽的多重宇宙(diptych) 2025,
poplar frames, resin casts, Dell monitors each 24", media player

This exhibition will run from September 20th to November 2nd, 2025.

Join us for the closing reception of Finding Our Way (through a triple double) featuring an artist talk by Dan S. Wang on the Syntax of History.

In his talk, Wang will trace themes of mobility, belonging, and transnational identity through a personal lens. Framed as a reintroduction to Chicago after years away, Wang will reflect on his lifelong cycles of movement and return, weaving them into the larger fabric of his family’s diasporic history.

Dan S. Wang is an artist and writer whose practice began with letterpress printing and evolved to include drawing, sculpture, and video. He co-founded Chicago’s Mess Hall and has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent solo projects in Los Angeles, Montreal, and at Dartmouth College, where he was the 2025 winter Artist-in-Residence. Wang co-edited LASTGASPISM: Art in the Age of Survival, named one of Hyperallergic’s top 20 art books of 2022. He splits his time between Chicago and Los Angeles.

CAMOC is proud to partner with artist Irene Hsiao to bring Guardians of the Earth and Sky to Chicago’s parks this summer!

This is an interactive, all-ages journey with the Four Celestial Guardians: the White Tiger of the West, Black Tortoise of the North, Azure Dragon of the East, and Vermilion Bird of the South.

Through storytelling, music, dance, tai chi, and art-making, you’ll explore connections between seasons, elements, colors, and constellations. Led by Irene and a multicultural ensemble of artists — fluent in languages from Mandarin and Cantonese to Spanish, Korean, and Swahili — this performance invites you to not just watch, but participate: walk alongside the Guardians, sing, move, and create your own headpiece to wear in the procession.

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Art supplies provided | Dress for walking ~1 mile

Learn more about this experience and the artists behind it!

How do everyday objects like advertising from the 1800’s help shape ideas about race we live with today? Join guest curator Lenore Metrick-Chen for an in-depth alternative “walkthrough” of Race Making.

This event begins in the main gallery, where visitors will explore the show independently and photograph a card or artifact that resonates with them. Then we will convene upstairs in the Reading Room to dive into the history, inscriptions, and meanings embedded in the selected cards.

Whether you're curious about media history, cultural identity, or just want to see what can be uncovered in the margins of print ephemera, this is a rare chance to hear directly from the curator and join a thoughtful, open exchange.

This event is free, and all are welcome.

Is your garden as healthy as it looks?

Soil can tell a deeper story. Join us for a bilingual workshop to explore the environmental history of Greater Chinatown and its impact on the Asian American community.

In this workshop, you will:

• Learn about soil contamination in Greater Chinatown neighborhoods

• Discover safe gardening practices to protect your health

• Connect with Asian American and environmental justice communities in Chicago

• Take home free Asian vegetable seeds to start your own garden

Presented by Chicago Asian Americans for Environmental Justice, this workshop will be taught in English and Cantonese.

We are welcoming friends, family, and members of the community to join CAMOC in celebrating Ed at the museum. Ed’s family will help us memorialize his life, work, and commitment to the museum with a glass brick dedication. Light refreshments will be served.

Showing this August, we are pleased to share our upcoming Spotlight Artist: Dan S. Wang with Finding Our Way (through a triple double), curated by Larry Lee.

This exhibition explores themes of mobility, belonging, and transnational identity through a personal lens. Framed as a reintroduction to Chicago after years of living elsewhere, Wang reflects on his lifelong patterns of movement and return, connecting them to his family's diasporic history.

Rather than honoring blood ancestors, he pays tribute to three “chosen ancestors” of Chinese America—Grace Lee Boggs, Wing-tsit Chan, and Martin Wong—each of whom embodied hybrid identities and crossed cultural, intellectual, and geographic boundaries. Their influence forms the conceptual foundation of the show, which embraces ambiguity, layered meaning, and the ongoing search for place and self within overlapping worlds.

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Dan S. Wang is an artist and writer whose practice began with letterpress printing and evolved to include drawing, sculpture, and video. He co-founded Chicago’s Mess Hall and has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent solo projects in Los Angeles, Montreal, and at Dartmouth College, where he was the 2025 winter Artist-in-Residence. Wang co-edited LASTGASPISM: Art in the Age of Survival, named one of Hyperallergic’s top 20 art books of 2022. He splits his time between Chicago and Los Angeles.

This exhibition will run from August 3rd to September 7th, 2025.

Join us next week with Susan Blumberg-Kason as she discusses her book “When Friends Come From Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago’s Chinese American Service League.” The afternoon will feature a conversation with longtime civic leader CW Chan, moderated by Grace Chan McKibben, Executive Director of CBCAC. At once intimate and broad in scope, this book traces one woman’s life to reveal the story of a vital Chicago institution.

Born in Hong Kong, Bernie Wong moved to the United States in the early 1960s to attend college. A decade later, she cofounded the Chinese American Service League (CASL) to help meet the needs of the city’s isolated Chinese immigrants. Susan Blumberg-Kason draws on extensive interviews to profile the community and social justice organization. Weaving Wong’s intimate account of her own life story through the CASL’s larger history, Blumberg-Kason follows the group from its origins to its emergence as a robust social network that connects Chinatown residents to everything from daycare to immigration services to culinary education. Blumberg-Kason also traces CASL activism on issues like fair housing and violence against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Susan Blumberg-Kason is the author of When Friends Come From Afar (2024 Zibby Awards winner) and Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon (2023 Zibby Awards finalist). A regular contributor to Asian Review of Books, Cha, and World Literature Today, her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and PopMatters.

Grace Chan McKibben is Executive Director of the Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community, focusing on civic education and leadership in Chicago’s Chinatown. With a background in higher ed, government, and policy, she has earned honors including the University of Chicago Alumni Diversity Award, the Mayor’s Medal of Honor, and Crain’s 2025 Notable Leaders in Philanthropy.

CW Chan 陳增華 is a retired entrepreneur and longtime civic leader with over 50 years of service to Chicago’s Chinese American community. He founded or led major organizations, including the Chinese American Service League, the Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, and CBCAC. His leadership has advanced civic engagement and helped make Chicago’s Chinatown one of the most thriving in North America.

Ready for a challenge? CAMOC welcomes Hong Kong stilts masters, Carol Ho and Lewis Choy of Art Home, for an interactive workshop on the Traditional Art of Chinese Stilts.

Learn the history of stilts in different cultures, the basics of both hand-held and hands-free stilt walking, and practice the essential first moves in one session!

Participants must wear socks for the hands-on stilt walking practice. For hands-free stilt walking, nonslip shoes such as sneakers are required for safety.

This workshop will be taught in English and Cantonese. All ages are welcome!

Queer Asian Play Reading: The Trouble with My Hair
A solo performance by Ada Cheng
Co-organized with: Nothing Without a Company

Join us for a reading of The Trouble with My Hair, a new solo play by Ada Cheng—an intimate exploration of gender and sexual identity told through her evolving relationship with her stylist and her hair.

The reading will be followed by a conversation between Ada Cheng and Anna-Rose Ii-Epstein, co-founder of Nothing Without a Company, discussing the play’s themes, Ada’s creative process, and the broader landscape of queer women’s storytelling in theatre.

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Dr. Ada Cheng is a Chicago-based educator, storyteller, and performance artist who leverages personal narratives to illuminate structural inequities and amplify marginalized voices. Transitioning from academia to the arts, she has become a prominent figure in community-based storytelling and social advocacy.

*Thanks to the generous support of the DCASE Neighborhood Access Program grant.

We’re excited to invite you to an After Hours Pride event – Passing Through the Same House: LGBTQ Animated Shorts, highlighting the work of queer Chinese and Asian animators based in Chicago, on Friday, June 27, from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM.

This special evening will feature a selection of animated short films curated by Jonni Peppers, followed by a conversation with participating artists Charlotte Hong Bee Her, Stella Chen, Shirley Zhong, and Elaine Yue. Historian Mian Chen will moderate the discussion.

Featured Artists:
Stella Chen, EXYL, Sherry Xie, Elaine Yue, Xingpei Shen, Asia Miller, Shirley Zhong, Jordan Wong, Vivian Hu and Charlotte Hong Bee Her

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Jonni Pepper-GoLions (Joan-ee Pepper Go Lions) is an award-winning animator and filmmaker from Los Angeles, currently based in Chicago. She is the lead animation programmer at Slamdance Film Festival and founder of Transfiguration International Film Festival, a traveling film festival focused on underrepresented voices in film and animation.

Mian Chen is a historian from Northwestern University. His research focuses on transnational history, sexualities, and media.

*This event is funded in part by the DCASE NAP grant.

China officially ended its international adoption program on August 28, 2024, marking the close of more than three decades of transnational adoptions that began officially in 1992. During this period, over 160,000 Chinese children were adopted abroad—more than half by families in the United States, many of them placed in rural or predominantly white communities.

Join us for an in-person and personal conversation, storytelling session with two local artists—both queer Chinese adoptees—as they share their personal journeys, creative work, and reflections on identity, belonging, and adoption.

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Katherine Plier, also known professionally as "Kai," is a multifaceted artist and community organizer based in Chicago. She is renowned for her dynamic roles as a pianist, vocalist, and arts leader, seamlessly blending her musical talents with a deep commitment to social impact.

Chun An Huai is a jeweler whose work explores their experience as a queer Chinese American adoptee, blending traditional Chinese aesthetics with contemporary jewelry design.

*Thanks to the generous support of the DCASE Neighborhood Access Program grant.

CAMOC is pleased to welcome its next Spotlight Artist, Ariel Zhang, with Distant View Nearby.

In this installation, painting becomes an act of quiet construction, tracing the invisible ways architectural spaces shape how we build, dwell, and belong. The artist’s work moves beyond capturing exact places, instead tracing what lingers: “the shift of light across a surface, the feeling of texture when leaning against a wall—the quiet impressions that remain long after the space is gone.” In constructing these spaces, the artist reminds viewers that dwelling is not just about inhabiting a place, but about being shaped by what we create and what we choose to carry.

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Ariel Zhang is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist working across painting, installation, and sculpture. Her practice explores the spatial and psychological dimensions of architecture through geometric forms and fragmented compositions. Zhang earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago after studying German and Economics, and has exhibited in Chicago, São Paulo, St. Louis, and Annapolis.

CAMOC’s ongoing Spotlight Series, curated by Larry Lee, exists to showcase the dynamic array of Chinese American artists working in the vibrant world of contemporary fine arts in Chicago and beyond.

This exhibition will run from May 4th to June 8th, 2025.

Join us for the reception of Race Making and a chance to meet the curator, Lenore Metrick-Chen!

This exhibition explores how the racial category “Chinese” was socially constructed and redefined in 19th-century America, leading the way to the images and stereotypes that persist in framing the perception of Asian Americans today.

Through curated selections of these American Advertising trade cards, the precursor to our postcards, Race Making offers a unique lens into how Chinese identity was imagined by Americans during a time of shifting social values, technological change, and national anxieties.

While themes like labor and nationhood directly influenced how Chinese racial identity was shaped, the exhibition also explores broader cultural dynamics. Gender, for instance, emerges as a recurring thread—then, as now, evolving ideas about gender were deeply entangled with larger social transformations, and Chinese imagery was often used to challenge or reimagine existing norms.

Race Making invites visitors to immerse themselves in a complex narrative, where past and present intermingle. The exhibition is not only about history—it is also about the ways race is continuously made and remade in American life.

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Curated by Lenore Metrick-Chen, Former Education Director and Curator at the Fort Des Moines Museum in Des Moines, IA., and an emeritus professor of Art and Cultural History at Drake University. Through teaching, writing, and curation, she explores art as a material object and as a language for memory and social change, especially in relation to race, immigration, and ethnicity.

We’re excited to share this off-site program as a part of EXPO ART WEEK, in celebration of the city’s incredible contemporary arts ecosystem.

This Sunday, April 27, curator/writer Cristobal Alday and gallerist Francine Almeda of Tala Chicago will be helping us close out the current Spotlight exhibition, Looking Out, with the show’s artist Jiaming You. Together, they’ll reflect on building creative networks and community care across Chicago’s BIPOC art scenes.

Join us for this special panel discussion, Walking the Joint Path.

CAMOC invites you to attend the 24th Benefit Dinner: Celebrating 20 Years Strong, Building 20 Years More!

This year marks the Chinese American Museum of Chicago’s 20th year. Join us as we celebrate together and raise critical funds necessary to continue to do the work we do.

We look forward to seeing you and the CAMOC community over a traditional full-course Chinese banquet dinner, live performances, raffle prizes, silent auction, dessert bar, live DJ, dancing, and more.

Thank you for supporting the museum and Chinese American stories!

A heartfelt thank you to all our auction sponsors for making this event possible:

Show your Pride in Chicago's queer Asian community here in the heart of Chinatown.

CAMOC celebrates the dazzling artistry and unwavering spirit of our local Asian American drag queens. These talented artists embody strength, creativity, and joy, and highlight the diversity of brilliance within the Asian American community.

Love to DJ Club Chow & these iconic queens for the light they shine:

• Squeaky C. Banks

• Kenzie Coulee

• Dear Jamie

• Markiki Jones

• Cumli Cumari

CAMOC is pleased to present Spotlight Artist, Jiaming You, with Looking Out.

This exhibition explores the act of looking, something often done subconsciously, but a conscious drive for the artist. Figures in the work look into the picture as an act of personal revelation. Rather than obscuring faces to challenge stereotypes, now “their existence does not depend on being the subject of someone’s gaze,” and the work highlights their autonomy. Filling silhouettes with images of places and patterns, this show challenges the classic “figure-ground” relationship, inviting reflection on how self-presentation is shaped by social context.

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Jiaming You is a Chicago-based painter and installation artist with an MFA from SAIC (2022) and a BS from UW-Madison (2018). A recipient of the Carrie Ellen Tuttle Fellowship, Jiaming has exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Shanghai Art021 2024, and featured in Soft Lightning Magazine, Emerge Magazine, CanvasRebel, Sina News, Artdaily, New City, Art Insider, and Chicago Reader.

CAMOC’s ongoing Spotlight Series, curated by Larry Lee, exists to showcase the dynamic array of Chinese American artists working in the vibrant world of contemporary fine arts in Chicago and beyond.

This exhibition will run from March 9th to April 13, 2025.

Join us for the Spotlight Series closing on February 23, featuring a special workshop by the artist, Linye Jiang.

Explore photography beyond technical precision through interactive exercises spanning portraits, landscapes, and self-portraiture. How do we connect with subjects, environments, and ourselves in a way that feels intuitive and natural? Inspired by Undisclosed Location, this session invites you to explore photography as an organic and personal practice that values presence, observation, and emotion over perfection

There will be three interactive exercises:
Portraits – Building trust, letting moments unfold naturally, and capturing presence
Landscapes – Observing light, embracing stillness, and lowering expectations for more authentic compositions
Self-Portraits – Using available surroundings, experimenting with timers, and expressing identity

*No professional equipment needed. Just bring a phone, camera, or whatever you like to capture images with.

From Disney’s Bambi to Hallmark greeting cards, explore the artistic legacy of the pioneering Chinese American artist Tyrus Wong.

Join CAMOC on Saturday, January 25, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM in the FL2 gallery space for a screening of Bluff City Chinese, A Documentary Film, followed by a panel Q&A.

Runtime: 45 min

Genre: Documentary Feature

Language: English

Bluff City Chinese is a powerful documentary following the intertwined journeys of two Chinese-American storytellers from different generations, who come together to recover and share the untold history of Chinese immigrants in Memphis, Tennessee. Directed by Thandi Cai (Anna) and featuring their mentor and Delta Chinese elder, Emerald Dunn, the film dives into the layered and challenging process of reconstructing a community’s history from the ground up. Set against a backdrop of social and racial tensions, Cai and Dunn work to build an authentic record of Memphis’s Chinese community, navigating profound questions of identity, belonging, and intergenerational understanding along the way.

The story begins with parallel narratives: Emerald Dunn’s extensive historical research, which has documented Chinese experiences in the South, and Cai’s own return to Memphis in 2020. Brought together by the Chinese Historical Society during a time of increased anti-Asian sentiment nationwide, they share a sense of urgency to reclaim the voices of the past. Drawing on Dunn’s independently gathered archives of photographs, genealogical records, and news clippings, they embark on a journey beyond personal discovery, inviting others from the Chinese Memphian community—ages 15 to 92—to share their stories. These conversations result in 28 collected oral histories, forming a rich 150-year long patchwork of stories and to spin a tapestry of memories, hopes, and dreams.

The two storytellers then take the audience to explore the untold narratives of Chinese settlers in the Mississippi Delta. By guiding viewers through their journey, from the Main Library to historic Elmwood Cemetery and everything that happened in-between, this film invites you to reflect on the past, connect with the present, and consider the future of Chinese-American heritage in the American South.

By telling this history, Cai and Dunn forge an intergenerational bond that bridges distinct upbringings and perspectives, shaped by shared experiences of fear, hope, and pride as Chinese Americans in Memphis. Reflecting this diversity, the documentary team includes first- through fourth-generation Chinese Memphians, all dedicated to capturing the community’s complex and evolving identity.

At its core, Bluff City Chinese is a tribute to the Chinese Memphian community—a powerful testament to how storytelling, tradition, and a shared vision for the future can bring generations together. As Cai and Dunn explore what it means to preserve their community’s legacy, they reveal the resilience of a people reclaiming their narrative, ultimately offering an inspiring call for unity, identity, and the passing of wisdom from one generation to the next.

Learn more:
https://bluffcitychinese.com/

https://www.instagram.com/bluffcitychinese/

CAMOC is pleased to present the first Spotlight Artist of 2025, Linye Jiang with Undisclosed Location.

In this installation, Jiang’s work is a love letter to photography, focusing on overlooked, peripheral details in the landscape rather than grand, iconic scenes—poetic fragments that feel personal and familiar. By stepping into the frame and re-photographing their own work, the artist challenges the invisibility often expected of photographers, occupying the space between observer and participant. “Undisclosed locations—private, unmarked, and unseen—exist because I chose to withhold them,” and offer here a quiet inquiry into absence, visibility, and the complex relationship between self and landscape.

Linye Jiang (@linye.j) is a lens-based artist whose work explores gender roles, human complexity, and the intersection of societal culture with personal experience. With a focus on pushing the boundaries of photography, Linye integrates the medium with sculptural forms and performance, creating immersive installations. Her work draws from personal narratives, this intimate connection infuses her work with authenticity and emotional depth. Based in Chicago, Linye actively engages with the local and international art communities through exhibitions, collaborations, and educational programs.

CAMOC’s ongoing Spotlight Series, curated by Larry Lee (@‌lardamang), exists to showcase the dynamic array of Chinese American artists working in the vibrant world of contemporary fine arts in Chicago and beyond.

RSVP for the opening reception on Sunday, January 19, 2-5 PM.

This exhibition will run from Jan. 19th to Feb. 23rd, 2025.

Join us on December 8th, 3–5 p.m., for the closing reception of UNGROUND by C. C. Ann Chen. The event features an artist talk with Larry Lee, Annie Morse, and Holly Cahill, exploring the evolution of landscape and its resonance with contemporary times, inspired by C.C. Ann Chen’s sailing journeys in the North Atlantic.

Panelists:

Larry Lee: A multimedia artist, art historian, and educator. He curates the Spotlight Series and teaches at the SAIC, DePaul University, and Columbia College Chicago.

Annie Morse: An independent art educator and curator with deep roots in Chicago’s art community. Formerly Assistant Director for College and Professional Programs at the Art Institute of Chicago, she has worked with Hyde Park Art Center, 3Arts, and others. She holds advanced degrees in 20th-century art history and library science, and her recent curatorial work includes exhibitions for the Chicago Cultural Center.

Holly Cahill: A visual artist and curator whose work draws on natural phenomena to explore themes of growth, transformation, and embodied experiences. Her art has been exhibited at Hyde Park Art Center, Secrist|Beach, 65GRAND, and Epiphany Center for the Arts. As a member and director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago, she has led innovative curatorial projects, including a forthcoming 2025 solo exhibition of C.C. Ann Chen.