Into View: New Voices, New Stories Opening Celebration

Join us for a stimulating discussion with woman and/or queer artists Cathy Lu, Younhee Paik, Stephanie Syjuco, TT Takemoto, and Rupy C. Tut highlighting the importance of demanding agency from familiar narratives within a male-dominated art world. Moderated by Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Programs Naz Cuguoglu, this unique event celebrates the opening of Into View: New Voices, New Stories, an exhibition showcasing recently acquired paintings, sculptures, ceramics, prints, and mixed-media work by local and international Asian American and Asian diaspora artists whose alternative narratives of mythology, history, and identity speak to a radically reimagined future.  

The program commences with a special performance by conceptual artist and educator Duto Hardono. Organized in collaboration with KADIST, a vocal group performance explores themes of repetition, language, and communication in dialogue with artworks in the exhibition.

Schedule: 
1:30 PM: Performance, Variation & Improvisation for ‘In Harmonia Progressio’ (2017)
2:30 PM: Artist talk moderated by Into View curator Naz Cuguoglu 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

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  Cathy Lu 卢南燕 (b. United States, 1984) is a ceramic artist working in sculpture and installation to explore Asian American identity and how issues of immigration, cultural hybridity, and assimilation inform American identity. She has been an artist in residence at Recology SF, Archie Bray, and Bemis Center. Her work was recently exhibited at Chinese Culture Center SF, Slash, and Galerie du Monde in Hong Kong. Lu was a 2022 SFMOMA SECA Art Award winner. She currently teaches ceramics at SMFA at Tufts University, and lives between Richmond, CA and Boston, MA. 

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  Younhee Chung Paik (b. Korea, 1945) earned a BFA from Seoul National University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She began exhibiting in the 1970s and has had more than twenty-five solo exhibitions. Her paintings and installations have been featured in major group shows at the Crocker Art Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, among others. In 1995, she participated in the Venice Biennale. Paik lives and works in San Francisco and New York. 

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  Stephanie Syjuco (b. Philippines, 1974) works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of history and citizenship. Syjuco is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has exhibited widely at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and SFMOMA, among others. She is an associate professor at UC Berkeley and resides in Oakland.  

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  TT Takemoto (b. United States, 1967) is a queer Japanese American artist and scholar exploring Asian American history, sexuality, and identity. Takemoto has exhibited at the de Young Museum, Chinese Culture Center SF, Oakland Museum of California, Peabody Essex Museum, SOMArts, SFMOMA, and more. They have received grants and awards from Art Matters, ArtPlace, Fleishhacker Foundation, Lucas Artists Program, and San Francisco Arts Commission. Takemoto served on the board of the Queer Cultural Center, where they co-founded Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts. Takemoto is Dean of Humanities and Sciences at California College of the Arts. They live and work in the Bay Area. 

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  Rupy C. Tut ਰੂਪੀ ਸੀ. ਟੁੱਟ (b. India, 1985) is an Oakland-based painter dissecting historical and contemporary displacement narratives around identity, belonging, and gender. As a descendant of refugees and a first-generation immigrant, Tut’s family narrative of movement, loss, and resilience is foundational to her creative inquiries. Her work has been presented through exhibitions and talks at the de Young Museum, London City Hall, Stanford University, the Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives, ICA San Francisco, the Triton Museum of Art, and Jessica Silverman Gallery. 

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  Naz Cuguoglu is the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Programs at the Asian Art Museum. Originally from Istanbul, she has curated exhibitions and programs internationally at documenta fifteen, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the Walters Art Museum, and the 15th Istanbul Biennial, and locally at the Wattis Institute, Berkeley Art Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Slash. Cuguoglu previously held positions at KADIST, the de Young Museum, and SFMOMA. Her writing has been featured in SFMOMA Open Space, Art Asia Pacific, Hyperallergic, and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. 

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  Duto Hardono (b. Indonesia, 1985) is an artist, experimental musician, and university lecturer. As a musician, his practice ranges from minimal compositions using tape loops and musique concrète to improvisations with modular synthesizers. He teaches Sound Art and Performance in the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung and runs a publication platform/music label called Hasana Editions. He has exhibited his work and performed internationally in notable spaces including Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Belgium), the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Germany), and the National Gallery of Australia (Australia).

Top image: Apollo in Love (detail), 2004, by Younhee Paik (American, b. Korea, b. 1945). Oil on aluminum. Asian Art Museum, Gift of the artist, F2021.20.3. Photograph © Asian Art Museum.