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DESCRIPTION:&lt;em&gt;Portraiture Now&lt;/em&gt; displays the diversity of contemporary
  Asian American identity through the groundbreaking work of seven visual a
 rtists&amp;mdash\;CYJO\, Zhang Chun Hong\, Hye Yeon Nam\, Shizu Saldamando\, R
 oger Shimomura\, Satomi Shirai\, and Tam Tran.\n\n&lt;strong&gt;Roger Shimomura&lt;
 /strong&gt; is a third-generation American of Japanese descent who deconstruc
 ts Asian American stereotypes through his art. Born in San Francisco\, &lt;st
 rong&gt;Shizu Saldamando&lt;/strong&gt; blends references to youth subculture in So
 uthern California with nods to her Japanese and Mexican heritage. Other ar
 tists use concepts of diaspora\, migration\, and transnationalism to expan
 d the meaning of their Asian American identity.\n\nArtists from Asia who w
 ork in the United States&amp;mdash\;&lt;strong&gt;Satomi Shirai&lt;/strong&gt;\, who moved
  to New York City from Tokyo\; or\, &lt;strong&gt;Hye Yeon Nam&lt;/strong&gt;\, who ca
 me to this country from Korea to study art\; and &lt;strong&gt;CYJO&lt;/strong&gt;\, a
 n artist currently based in China&amp;mdash\;regularly travel back and forth f
 rom Asia to the United States and craft unique portraits of encounter from
  their experiences.\n\nArtists who now live in this country&amp;mdash\;&lt;strong
 &gt;Zhang Chun Hong&lt;/strong&gt;\, who recently spent a year in her native China 
 but makes her home in Kansas\; or\, &lt;strong&gt;Tam Tran&lt;/strong&gt;\, whose fami
 ly relocated to Tennessee from Vietnam&amp;mdash\;inflect their journey in exp
 ressive ways. This group of artists demonstrates\, in microcosm\, the nuan
 ces inherent to the Asian American experience. Their portraits of encounte
 r offer representations against and beyond the stereotypes that have long 
 obscured the complexity of being Asian in America and reveal the threads o
 f contemporary life in novel ways.\n\nFor more information and related pub
 lic programs\, visit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.janm.org/portraiture-now&quot; target
 =&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;janm.org/portraiture-now&lt;/a&gt;\n&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;\n&lt;em&gt;This exhibition is 
 a collaboration between the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npg.si.edu/&quot; target=&quot;_blan
 k&quot;&gt;Smithsonian&#x27;s National Portrait Gallery&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://apa
 .si.edu/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;
 /em&gt;\n\nPhoto credit: &lt;em&gt;Daniel Dae Kim&lt;/em&gt; by CYJO\, digital pigment pr
 int\, January 29\, 2007. Collection of the artist. &amp;copy\; CYJO
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SUMMARY:EXHIBITION: Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter
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