ThroughApril 2, 2023 This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, DC
This exhibition highlights the role that artists play in our world to spark essential conversations, stories of resilience, and methods of activism—showing us a more relational and empathetic world.
Through August 14, 2022 Design and Healing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum New York, NY
This exhibition examines design’s role in times of crisis. It features the work of communities and individuals who came together to aid each other, push for change, and create new spaces, objects and, services.
June 11 — August 7, 2022 Home-Land: Exploring the American Myth American University Museum Washington, DC
This exhibition features artists who simultaneously honor and confront the American dream—it highlights how the artists consider the idea of home and have found their place within multiple frameworks of identity, both ascribed and subscribed.
July 28 — August 22, 2022 Squaring Up Histories Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua Institution Chautauqua, NY
From the iconic quilts of Gee’s Bend to the reimagined Korean bojagi, this exhibition features works that explore various aspects of traditional quilt-making such as storytelling, piecework, and the forging of community-based connections.
Through January 15, 2023 #mask: Creative Responses to the Global Pandemic Museum of International Folk Art Santa Fe, NM
This exhibition is an ode to the mask, and to the artists and everyday citizens making their way during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Other Recent Events
The Washington Post In the galleries: Connecting modern abstraction with personal identity
Julia Kwon's work, which is included in the exhibition In Spite of Modernism, is featured in this review by Mark Jenkins. Jenkins discusses artists' works that confront the modern movement’s exclusions of race, gender and sexuality.
Correspondence Archive Conversation by Furen Dai and Julia Kwon
In this conversation, Furen Dai and Julia Kwon discuss their recent projects and how they challenge ideas of racial and aesthetic categorization. They also speak about the erasure and devaluation of labor, especially the labor of marginalized individuals.
