Responses is an offering to our country in a moment of crisis. Chinese and Asian Americans are being blamed as the genesis of the coronavirus and targeted in assaults across the country, harming their bodies as well as their sense of belonging. To help us navigate what is happening, the exhibition explores the lessons of history and raises a collective voice against the rising tide of anti-Asian hate and violence.
Responses: Asian American Voices Resisting the Tides of Racism
Jennvine Wong, Black Lives Matter march through Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, 2020.
Not A Virus PSA, 2020 by Kyra Yip 葉雪恩
Mary Luke, Anti-Asian Hate Rally in Columbus Park, 2021.
Tewfic El-Sawy, Deserted, April 15, 2020.
Seema Shakti, Solidarity With Our Asian Brothers and Sisters, 2021
“It is an honor to be part of The Warhol Foundation’s mission to support the visual arts coupled with its commitment to specifically support the voices of women, POC, Native Americans, and LGBTQ. It is simply thrilling to be part of an organization where we get to see these values writ large and implement real change in real life ways in the visual arts community that still so needs to move forward in terms of social justice, equality, and diversity. We put our money where our mouth is. How many institutions actually do that?”
Deborah Kass, Artist