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OH Art Foundation is 501c3 non profit organization celebrates diversity through accessible, cross-cultural and intergenerational art and cultural programs that connect artists, youth, and communities across generations.

05/25/2026

APAFA2026 Featuring Artist : Daniella Thach

Still After : Threads of Remembrance is a open call group exhibition curated by Yi Cao as a part of 4th Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts (APAFA 2026) produced by OH Art Foundation

Daniella Thach is a Cambodian-American artist whose works collapse a violent past and volatile present to envision possible futures. They trace this history and the diasporic impact of genocide, assimilation, and the loss of heritage within their family to form a new, amalgamous identity. 
Thach has exhibited works across America such as the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA and The Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul, MN.. They were an artist in residence at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, WA and Chautauqua School of Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY. Their artwork has been featured in publications including New Glass Review, Sixty Inches From Center, and The Oxford Blue. Currently, they are a MFA candidate studying glass at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where they are also an Education Graduate Research Scholar (Ed-GRS) on fellowship 2024-2027.

Artwork Description:
Always dreaming, unforgettably thinking, ចេះតែស្រមៃ នឹកមមៃឥតភ្លេច
Hand-stitched felt, 2026

How can I hold onto a mothertongue I did not inherit? In my childhood memories spent at my grandparents’ in Skokie, long ribbons of karaoke text grow from left to right on the TV screen. I cannot read nor sing along, but in this soft process of hand cutting and stitching, I hold this lyric in front of me in attempts to learn and remember. This lyric comes from Pen Ran’s song, Longing for a Lover.

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APAFA 2026 art and cultural programs sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, American Metro Bank, and Zhou B Group

Celebrating the 4th Annual Asia Pacific American Festival of the Arts - Still After: Thread of Remembrance, produced by ...
05/25/2026

Celebrating the 4th Annual Asia Pacific American Festival of the Arts - Still After: Thread of Remembrance, produced by OH Art Foundation

Still After, curated by Yi Cao , brings together contemporary artists who understand memory not as a fixed archive, but as an embodied, recursive, and unfinished process. For diasporic and displaced subjects, remembrance is often a form of labor—painful and necessary, yet also rich with connection and discovery—moving through the body, materials, and acts of making.
 
Featuring 23 artists of diverse Asian and Asian diasporic backgrounds, Still After unfolds across painting, sculpture, video, photography, and installation. Together, the works trace interwoven familial and collective histories, where memory moves unevenly across generations, taking shape in fragments, gestures, and forms. They gather around a set of open questions

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05/23/2026

APAFA2026 Featuring Artist : Hyun Lee .1ee

“Phototaxis” new media group exhibition, curated by Ian Kang and Yun Lee, as a part of 4th Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts (APAFA 2026) produced by OH Art Foundation

Hyun Lee is a media artist based in Illinois. She has studied painting, art history, media art, and art and technology. Her work explores renewed questions about the nature of humanity, as well as the potential threats and paradoxes that emerge as media technology advances. She examines how media and technology reshape perception and influence everyday life, often by engaging with familiar contexts such as chatbots, gaming, and play.

Anytime Mom is a parental-style assistant that combines firm yet compassionate guidance, functioning as both an emotional counselor and a guardian of kindness. Inspired by Robophilosophy, it explores ethical human–AI relationships through conversations grounded in timeless and positive caring. Designed as an always-available companion, it offers emotional support without negative responses such as judgment. By providing a safe and steady presence, it helps users express their feelings openly while encouraging resilience, kindness, and thoughtful decision-making.

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APAFA 2026 art and cultural programs sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, American Metro Bank, and Zhou B Group

05/21/2026

APAFA2026 Featuring Artist : Richard Gessert .gessert

Still After : Threads of Remembrance is a open call group exhibition curated by Yi Cao as a part of 4th Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts (APAFA 2026) produced by OH Art Foundation

Richard Gessert is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. His artwork is informed by his interests in design and visual culture, particularly their cultural and historical milieux. His work has been exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center, the Evanston Art Center, Terrain Exhibitions, the Chicago Public Library, the Rockford Art Museum, the Northern Illinois University Art Museum,
Northwestern University’s Dittmar Memorial Gallery, and the Rockefeller Center. Richard holds a BA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and completed a 2022–23 Fulbright grant to research modern art in Vietnam.

Artwork Description:
This portrait explores the Vietnam War’s legacy and reflects on my family history, which includes Amerasians, South Asians migrants in Vietnam, and Vietnamese refugees. The photograph is set in Olive Park in Chicago, which is dedicated to Milton L. Olive III, a Black Vietnam War veteran. In the background is the John Hancock Center, which was built during the peak of the war in 1969 and designed by immigrants Bruce Graham and Fazlur Rahman Khan.

Reduplication reflects on a French Indochina butterfly parasol design and its absence from public consciousness between c. 1908–2023. The parasol’s recent resurfacing in an online group sparked questions about colonial histories, what endures, and what remains legible. In particular, since the parasol’s last known documentation, the written character for butterfly [bướm; 𧊉] in Nôm—a dead vernacular script—has become esoteric and functionally illegible. Additionally, at the time this artwork was created, AI could not decipher Nô

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APAFA 2026 art and cultural programs sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, American Metro Bank, and Zhou B Group

05/21/2026

APAFA2026 Featuring Artist : Phoebe Chen

Still After : Threads of Remembrance is a open call group exhibition curated by Yi Cao as a part of 4th Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts (APAFA 2026) produced by OH Art Foundation

Phoebe Guyuzi-Chen (b. Shenzhen) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Los Angeles and Chicago. Working across installation, photography, and performance, her practice explores the hidden systems that sustain built environments, tracing networks of maintenance, labor, and material circulation. She received a BFA in Sculpture and Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally in China, Korea, Italy, and the United States.

Artwork description
Rolling Human was created during the pandemic, a time when the presence and absence of bodies became deeply felt. Confined to Heshui Village during this period, the artist began collecting unwanted clothing from various families. Each piece of clothing carries the trace of a person who once wore it. They become a fragile collective presence shaped by memory, absence, and shared vulnerability.

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APAFA 2026 art and cultural programs sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, American Metro Bank, and Zhou B Group

05/19/2026

APAFA2026 Featuring Artist : Liang He

“Phototaxis” new media group exhibition, curated by Ian Kang and Yun Lee, as a part of 4th Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts (APAFA 2026) produced by OH Art Foundation

Liang He (b. 2000 in Foshan, China) is a research-based artist working with computers and machines in the extended field of sculpture and installation. He attained MFA degrees in Art and Technology Studies and BFA degree in studio art at SAIC where he was awarded Presidential Merit Scholarship. He presented at The Ars Eletronica Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Wrong Biennale, Museum of Communication Frankfurt, Evanston Art Center, Gene Siskel Film Center.

Artwork description: 
Title: Dash! バスター!
Materials: Cosplay mega man helmet, motors and mechanism

The helmet belongs to Mega Man—a self-conscious cyborg from the video game Mega Man X(1993). In the installation, Mega Man dashes and バスター, the Japanese word for buster, in game it refers to the firing of its cannon. The machine performs heroism without a hero, plays games without a player, enacting the pleasure that persists after the subject has left the room.

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APAFA 2026 art and cultural programs sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, American Metro Bank, and Zhou B Group

05/19/2026

APAFA2026 Featuring Artist : Snow(Sinuo) Chen

“Phototaxis” new media group exhibition, curated by Ian Kang and Yun Lee , as a part of 4th Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts (APAFA 2026) produced by OH Art Foundation

Snow(Sinuo) Chen is a multimedia artist and researcher with a deep fascination for cultural rituals and the dynamics of social media platforms and communities. Her work engages with techno-spiritualities, language, identity, and cyberspace, weaving art and technology to reactivate ancient narratives in contemporary resonance, while exploring the relationship between the virtual and the real. Her work has been performed and exhibited in art spaces, clubs and on public large screens across Asia, North America and Europe.

Artwork description:
The neon abstract symbols depict the Bagua from the I Ching, where broken yin lines and solid yang lines form eight trigrams representing elemental forces and directional energies, parallel to 0 and 1 in the binary computational system. As live weather and planetary data continually reshape the trigrams, flickering animation reveals a cosmological process that functions like an artificial intelligence core, maintaining balance within shifting conditions of the contemporary world.

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APAFA 2026 art and cultural programs sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, American Metro Bank, and Zhou B Group

05/18/2026

APAFA2026 Featuring Artist : Jiayao Shan

“Phototaxis” new media group exhibition, curated by Ian Kang and Yun Lee , as a part of 4th Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts (APAFA 2026) produced by OH Art Foundation

Jiayao Shan is an artist working with interactive digital media and experimental 3D animation, based in Chicago/Hangzhou. Her practice examines how everyday structures shape perception and behavior. Starting from familiar objects and spaces, she reconfigures them into open-ended situations that gradually reveal their embedded conditions and constructed systems. She approaches digital media as tools for materializing thought and experimentation, and her works speak in a quiet yet persistent way, unfolding subtle resistance within the ordinary.
Rosy- Rosy Xu is a multimedia artist working with digital media and ceramics, based in Chicago/Shanghai. She creates playful healing scenes, virtual spaces, and interactive narratives that evoke empathy. Her practice utilizes technological methods to transform her exploration of the perception of time, memory, and collective experiences into interdisciplinary forms, including time-based installations, projections, explorative games, animations, and expressive web art. She is currently pursuing her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Inspired by the idea of the Panopticon, this interactive work invites viewers to move through a space where they are constantly seen. Their image appears in real time, then slowly blurs and fades. As this happens, the boundary between watching and being watched becomes unclear. The piece mirrors the experience of migration, where identity can feel unstable, shaped by how others see you, and subtly changing over time.

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APAFA 2026 art and cultural programs sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, American Metro Bank, and Zhou B Group

Celebrating the 4th Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts, Still After: Threads of Remembrance, OH Art Fou...
05/18/2026

Celebrating the 4th Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts, Still After: Threads of Remembrance, OH Art Foundation presents two community workshops leading into What We Carry Forward, a group exhibition honoring collective community voices.

Community Workshop 1
1029 W 35th Chicago IL 60609

Luminous Remains
May 23, 2026 | 10 AM – 12 PM

Transform your photograph into an artwork by the end of the class. No art experience necessary. Selected community visual stories will be featured in the upcoming group exhibition.

Community Workshop 2 + Healing Performance
3314 S Morgan Chicago IL 60608

Alchemy of Memory
May 30, 2026 | 10 AM – 12 PM
Invisible Boundaries: Healing the Internal Landscape
Performance by Juliann Wang .jw
Between 10 AM – 10:30 AM

Alchemy of Memory is a community-centered workshop exploring how personal histories — especially difficult or painful experiences — can be honored, transformed, and carried forward with intention.
Participants are encouraged to bring an object or photograph connected to memory and personal history.

What We Carry Forward
June 19 – July 10, 2026
Opening Reception: June 19, 2026 | 7 PM – 10 PM
3314 S Morgan Chicago IL 60608

A group exhibition sharing collective community stories through art, memory, and cultural dialogue.

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2026 OH Art Festivals – APAFA sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, American Metro Bank, and Zhou B Group

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