Art at Americas Society presents the first exhibition in New York City to center the artistic production of the Asian diaspora throughout Latin America and the Caribbean from the 1940s to the present. Focusing on postwar and contemporary art, the exhibition showcases the work of thirty artists from fifteen countries working in a range of artistic mediums including painting, sculpture, performance, photography, and video, to shed light into strategies and themes that resonate across a wide array of Asian diasporic practice in the region.

The exhibition embraces and performs the multiple and interrelated meanings embedded in the notion of appearance, inspired by Japanese Brazilian artist Lydia Okumura’s 1975 print by the same title. From acts of appearing and becoming visible—including different types of apparitions—to the idea of impressions and physical resemblance, artists in the show grapple with the complexities of negotiating (in)visibility, revisiting and remaking family archives and stories, and engaging and reconfiguring spiritual practices. The show also addresses abstraction as a formal strategy linked to language, the senses, and the body in the context of the Americas’ postwar art.  

Accompanying the show, we present a series of public programs:

- Ghost Stories x Asia Art Archives in America: A conversation with the Asianish collective.
   Wednesday, October 2, from 6 to 8 pm ET

- The Appearance: A conference presented by Americas Society and Asia Society.
   Tuesday, October 29, from 2:30 to 8 pm ET

- Art at Americas Society's Performance series: Dictée/Exilée by Suwon Lee.
   Wednesday, November 20, from 8 to 6 pm ET