Browse Exhibits

A Chinese Latino Migration Archive
Clarissa Kunizaki's project explores the histories, migrations, and family stories of the…

Foundations of Exclusion: A Timeline of AANHPI Immigration in the Late 18th-20th Centuries
Arun Nayakkar's project constructs the foundations of exclusion fundamental to the United…

Friends of Buttonhook: Indigenous and Asian Solidarities
Amy Feng’s project explores the interconnectedness and solidarity between the Asian…

From Bangladesh to Brooklyn: Mapping the Narratives of Immigrant Women
Through a series of formal and informal interviews conducted over the past few months, along…

Khmer American Histories, Displacement and Resistance
Sor's project explores the histories, displacements, and resistance of the Khmer Refugee…

Korean American Contemporary Artists
Angie’s project showcases the work of three contemporary Korean American artists, primarily…

New York City Indian Intellectuals: 1900s Radical Anti-Colonialism
Ravi Vora’s project explores the early 20th century movement of anti-colonial South Asian…

Rediscovering Our Roots: Bengali Identity Beyond the Classroom
In this project, Mohammad interviewed two Bengali students in New York City to document…

Safe Spaces: The Gentrification of NYC's Chinatown
Karla's project combines her historical knowledge, upkeep with current events, and artistic…

Solidarity and Strife: The Era of Community Control in Two Bridges, NYC
The Two Bridges Model School District was one of three demonstration districts within the…

The 1995 Chinatown Student Hunger Strike
In 1995, restaurant union workers and labor advocates from the Chinese Staff and Workers’…

The Asian American Decentralized Museum
The histories in this project are not the kind that is taught in school, or appear in…

The History Komagata Maru: A Zine
Rohan Sehgal's project covers the history of a moment in East Coast South Asian history that has…

The Visual Historian: The Works of Corky Lee
Corky Lee was born and raised in New York City. Growing up in Queens right around the time of…

Unearthing the Hidden Stories of Chinese Americans in the Transcontinental Railroad
For over a century, the contributions of Chinese laborers to the Transcontinental Railroad…

Vietnamese Oral Storytelling
Vietnamese history and oral storytelling are interwined. Listening to the stories and learning…

We've Always Been Here: South Asian Queer Activism in 90's NYC
Subah Sumaiiyat's research project investigates the history of queer South Asian activism in New…