Futures We Carry: group show at Kearny Street Workshop
May 16, 2026 - June 13, 2026
Kearny Street Workshop's AVA (AAPI Visual Artists) Lab, an annual mentorship and community arts fellowship for emerging AAPI visual artists, opens its 2026 group exhibition, The Futures We Carry, on May 16th, 2026. The exhibition imagines futures carried forward through memory, resistance, and collective imagination, grounded in ancestral knowledge and counter-narratives that propose alternative ways of being and belonging. Rather than presenting the future as speculative or detached, the exhibition positions it as already in motion—embedded in inherited practices, community rituals, survival strategies, and acts of care. The works reflect how artists navigate tension, difference, and transformation, offering visions shaped by accountability, cultural continuity, and community wisdom.
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Selected Works in Exhibition
Risingsun Eng. Co, 2025. Concrete, wood panel, oil paint, 4’x4’.
Shower House, 2025. Concrete, wood panel, oil paint. 4’x4’.
“Yeh” means leaf, 2024. Organza, decaying organic materials sourced from homes I’ve lived in, 6’x4’.
Smedley Drive, 2024. 16mm scratch animation film, home videos, found footage, original audio collage. 5:32.