The Museum of Chinese in America - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The Museum of Chinese in America. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Responses: Asian American Voices Resisting the Tides of Racism” Exhibition
Responses: Asian American Voices Resisting the Tides of Racism features a comprehensive timeline on the gallery’s perimeter walls that traces 200 years of racism against Asians and Asian American Pacific...More »
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“The Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belonging” Exhibition
This lively and immersive exploration on music in Chinese communities unites disparate histories – Cantonese opera; Asian American Movement music; Taiwan and Hong Kong pop music; karaoke; Beijing underground...More »
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Bud Glick “Interior Lives: Photographs of Chinese Americans in the 1980s”
In 1981, the New York Chinatown History Project (now the Museum of Chinese in America) commissioned photographer Bud Glick to document the street life, people, and domestic scenes of Chinatown during a...More »
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“Radical Machines: Chinese In The Information Age” Exhibition
The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)’s Fall 2018 exhibition Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age explores the historical significance and technological innovation behind the Chinese typewriter,...More »
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“Fold: Golden Venture Paper Sculptures” Exhibition
The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)’s Fall 2017 exhibition, FOLD: Golden Venture Paper Sculptures, features unique folk art created by Chinese immigrants detained between 1993 and 1997 at York County...More »
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“SUB URBANISMS: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns, and the Contested American Landscape” Exhibition
An award-winning anthropological case study by designer Stephen Fan, SUB URBANISMS explores the controversial conversion of suburban single-family homes into multi-family communities by immigrant Chinese...More »
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“Chinese Style: Rediscovering the Architecture of Poy Gum Lee, 1923-1968” Exhibition
In this survey exhibition, architectural historian Kerri Culhane documents and explores Poy Gum Lee’s (1900-1968) nearly 50-year long career in both China and New York and examines Lee’s modernist influence...More »
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“Water to Paper, Paint to Sky: The Art of Tyrus Wong” Exhibition
In celebration of the Museum’s 35th anniversary this spring, MOCA presents Water to Paper, Paint to Sky: The Art of Tyrus Wong. Celebrated painter, muralist, kite-maker, lithographer and calligrapher,...More »
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“Waves of Identity: 35 Years of Archiving” Exhibition
Waves of Identity transforms the Bloomberg Special Exhibitions gallery into an archive environment encouraging open exploration of MOCA’s rich collection of Chinese American history. This exhibition will...More »
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Phillip Chen “Memory Prints: The Story World of Phillip Chen”
Memory Prints is a solo exhibition by Phillip Chen, a visual artist from the Midwest. In fifteen relief etchings centering around his family, Chen reckons with significant moments in Chinese American history....More »
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“Oil and Water: Reinterpreting Ink” Exhibition
This exciting contemporary exhibition presents the work of three renowned Chinese contemporary artists: Qiu Deshu, Wei Jia, and Zhang Hongtu. Ink is the primary medium of traditional Chinese two-dimensional...More »
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Tomie Arai “Portraits of New York Chinatown”
Portraits of New York Chinatown was initiated as an oral history project by artist Tomie Arai and scholar Lena Sze as MOCA prepared to move into its current home in 2009. The project addressed the vital...More »
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Annie Ling “A Floating Population”
In A Floating Population, photographer Annie Ling uses her camera as an entry point to establish a deep connection with the people and spaces of Chinatown. Ling, who photographs for the New York Times,...More »
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“The Lee Family of New York Chinatown Since 1888” Exhibition
Founded in 1888, Harold L. Lee and Sons, Inc. is a cornerstone of Chinatown. The business is named after Lee Lun (who took the American name Harold), the son of Lee Kee Lo who came to the United States...More »
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“Front Row: Chinese American Designers” Exhibition
Front Row traces and celebrates the rise of Chinese American designers who decided to make their marks in New York. In the 1980s, designers such as Anna Sui, Yeohlee Teng, Vera Wang and Vivienne Tam emerged...More »
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“Shanghai Glamour: New Women 1910s-40s” Exhibition
Shanghai Glamour explores how Shanghai women and their fashionable dress epitomized the seduction and mystery of this legendary city as it was modernizing in the early 20th century. Shanghai was established...More »
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"Marvels and Monsters: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics, 1942-1986 and Alt.Comics: Asian American Artists Reinvent the Comic" Exhibition
MOCA presents two connected exhibitions that trace the complex relationship between Asian Americans and comics: Marvels and Monsters examines the history of stereotypical and politically charged depictions...More »
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"America through a Chinese Lens" Exhibition
America through a Chinese Lens surveys photography of American life as shot by contemporary Chinese and Chinese American artists, documentary photographers and non-professionals, identifying the specific...More »
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"Media and Mobilization Beyond Tiananmen Square" Exhibition
June 4, 1989: Media and Mobilization Beyond Tiananmen Square draws from MOCA’s extensive collection of Asian-American and Chinese-language periodicals to reconstruct a narrative of the coverage of and...More »
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Lee Mingwei "The Travelers and The Quartet Project"
For over a decade, Taiwan born American artist Lee Mingwei has been at the forefront of an artistic impulse that has gained traction in recent years: participatory art. This fall, MOCA presents a solo...More »
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Lee Mingwei "The Travelers"
On the day of the Chinese Moon Festival, September 22, 2010, MOCA launched Lee Mingwei’s artist project, The Travelers. Lee custom-made 100 blank notebooks for the project. Released into the world from...More »
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Carole Wong Chesek "Unearthing"
The exhibit Unearthing presents an unprecedented selection of Carole Wong Chesek’s oeuvre, focusing on work from her mixed media assemblages and selections from two series of recent ceramic pieces. Wong...More »
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"Chinese Puzzles: Games for the Hands and Mind" Exhibition
The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) invites visitors to explore the intellectual, Chinese Puzzleshistorical, aesthetic, and cultural dimensions of puzzles with an exhibition of antique games from China....More »
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"Chinatown POV: Reflections on September 11th" Exhibition
This installation of first-person accounts, photographs, and mixed-media represents voices from a neighborhood just ten blocks away from Ground Zero. Shortly after the tragic events of September 11th,...More »
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"Both Here and There: Yale-China and a Century of Transformative Encounters" Exhibition
This exhibit explores the hundred-year history of the Yale-China Association and the personal narratives behind its long history of cross-cultural exchange. Both Here and There: Yale-China and a Century...More »
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"Here & Now: Chinese Artists in New York Chapter III Towards Transculturalism" Exhibition
Presented in Chapter III of Here & Now: Chinese Artists in New York, Towards Transculturalism includes 4 artists of Chinese descent who endeavor to be part of the transculturalism trend in the era...More »
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"Here & Now: Chinese Artists in New York" Exhibition
Here & Now is MOCA’s first group show of contemporary artists, and features prominent Chinese artists who live and work in New York. For the past two decades, artists in the Chinese Diaspora have drawn...More »