AAPI Artist Spotlight: Chemin Hsiao

Chemin Hsiao’s ‘Dandelions Know’ (2021) is the inaugural winner of the Noguchi Museum’s Open Call for Artist Banners. Across six banners, Hsiao's work conveys messages of healing and solidarity for victims of Anti-Asian violence.
Join Chemin in his studio as he discusses the process and inspiration behind his watercolor pieces.
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In 2021, the Museum launched its first Open Call for Artist Banners with the aim of raising awareness and standing in solidarity with the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community against escalating and continued violence. Chemin Hsiao joins fellow artists and finalists Woomin Kim and Mo Kong in a series of programming and free admission days to celebrate their projects and community engagement on the first Saturdays of April, May, and June 2022. Learn more: noguchi.org/artist-banners/
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Special thanks to Chemin Hsiao and Chashama Studios
Video by Jesse Winter
Artworks © Chemin Hsiao
Music by Aria Rostami (ariarostami.ba...)
Isamu Noguchi, ‘I Become a Nisei,’ 1942, courtesy of The Noguchi Museum Archives
© The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, NY / Artists Rights Society