Lunar New Year Exhibition: Remember

“Remember” highlights the importance of memory to the immigrant experience. As we work to start a life in our new home, we cannot forget where we came from, the people who immigrated before us, and the struggles of trying to prosper in a foreign country. The exhibition honors this and acknowledges that as we work to grow as a community, those memories stay with us throughout.

Woomin Kim depicts city and market scenes remembered from her old home in Korea and from her new home in Queens. Through the use of color, fabric and texture, she creates lively snapshots to celebrate the markets she often frequented in her home country.

Lily and Honglei use old East Asian folktales to heal new wounds for the Asian American and immigrant community. Characters from these traditional stories are combined with modern New York scenes to reflect on Asian-hate sentiment in both American history and the post Covid-19 pandemic era.