Produced by OH Art Foundation
4th Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts
Still After: Threads of Remembrance
May 1st 2026 - July 12th 2026
4th Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts
Still After: Threads of Remembrance
May 1st 2026 - July 12th 2026
Highlighting Business Venues and Storefronts
OH Art Festival Opening Reception: May 15th 2026 7:30pm
1029 W 35th Chicago IL 60609, Zhou B Art Center
2nd Floor Gallery, May 15th 2026 - July 12th 2026
3rd Floor Gallery, May 15th 2026 - July 12th 2026
Morgan Business Corridor Activation
Store Front Gallery: 3314 S Morgan Chicago IL 60608
May 1st 2026 - June 7th 2026
June 19th 2026 - July 12th 2026
Store Front Gallery: 3302 S Morgan Chicago IL 60608
May 15th 2026 between 8pm - 10pm
Private Empty Lot: 3319 S Morgan Chicago IL 60608
May 15th 2026 between 9:30pm - 10:00pm
4th Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts “Still After: Threads of Remembrance” produced by OH Art Foundation highlighting APA creatives through open call group exhibitions, solo featured artist, live music performances, community workshops, and curator lead OH Art Tours with selected OH Art Youth Advocate Leader (YAL).
Still After: Threads of Remembrance, a group exhibition curated by Yi Cao, brings together contemporary artists who understand memory not as a fixed archive, but as an embodied, recursive, and unfinished process. For diasporic and displaced subjects, remembrance is often a form of labor—painful and necessary, yet also rich with connection and discovery—moving through the body, materials, and acts of making.
Featuring 23 artists of diverse Asian and Asian diasporic backgrounds, Still After unfolds across painting, sculpture, video, photography, and installation. Together, the works trace interwoven familial and collective histories, where memory moves unevenly across generations, taking shape in fragments, gestures, and forms. They gather around a set of open questions:
How does a body absorb and negotiate the pressures of care, discipline, migration, and inheritance, where tenderness and violence, agency and constraint, become difficult to separate?
What remains when a language is no longer fully one’s own, misremembered, untranslated, or held through pieces, songs, and gestures?
And what happens when histories surface through images, documents, and symbols that are partial, illegible, or shaped by other hands, when what is seen cannot fully account for what has been lived?
Moving between rupture and return, these practices do not resolve what they contain. Instead, they linger, reworking, reinhabiting, and gently insisting on what remains, what changes, and what continues to unfold.
Opening Reception May 15th 2026 7pm - 10pm
Location: OH Art Foundation inside of Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th 2nd fl. and 3rd fl. Gallery Chicago IL 60609
Selected Visual Artists
Curated by Yi Cao, May 15th - July 12th 2026
1029 W 35th Chicago, 2nd fl. Gallery
Chris G. Abara, Renee Baker, Kari Blak, Rose Blouin, Monica Brown,
Keith Conner, Phillip Cotton, Rhonda Gray, Juarez Hawkins, Senyah Haynes, Morgan Reneé Hill, Jennifer Hodges, Jesse Howard, Candace Hunter, Jermaine Jackson, Malika Jackson,
Natalie Jackson, Jason E. Jones, Nesha Logan, Lyssa Lovejoy, Thomas Lucas, Reggie McFly, Courtney Nzeribe, Earica Parrish, Bri Robinson, Tony Smith, Dorian Sylvain, Pearlie Taylor, Norman Teague, Markel Thomas, Arlene Turner-Crawford, Antonio Wade, Martha Wade,
Tanya Ward, Reisha Williams, Thomas Williams, Eli Williamson, Sadie Woods, and Arthur Wright
What Remains
Solo Exhibition by Dianne Lee
Curated by Yue Ren, May 15th - July 12th 2026
1029 W 35th Chicago, 3rd fl. Gallery
What We Carry Forward
Community Group Exhibition
Curated by Kim, JungSoo, June 19th - July 10th 2026
3314 S Morgan St. Chicago, Storefront Gallery
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Before It Settles : What Passes, What Appears
Duo Exhibition by Daun Suh and Kim, JungSoo
June 19th - July 12th 2026
1029 W 35th Chicago, 3rd fl. Gallery
Music and Dance Performances
Talchum: Korean Mask Dance
by Suwan Choi, Deokhwan Kim, Chansoo Lee
1029 W 35th Chicago, 2nd fl. Gallery, May 15th 2026 @ 7:40pm
DaeGeum Solo Performance
by Cheong-ra Ha
3302 S Chicago, Storefront Gallery, May 15th 2026 @ 8:30pm
Registration Required
Limited sittings available
TOYOAKIMOTO Contemporary OZASHIKI
Shamisen Performance
by Tatsu Aoki
3302 S Chicago, Storefront Gallery, May 15th 2026 @ 9:00pm
Registration Required
Limited sittings available
Outdoor Audio Visual Performance
by Ian Kang and Yun Lee
3319 S Chicago, Private Empty Lot, May 15th 2026 @ 9:30pm
White Moon
Solo Dance Performance by Juliann Wang
3314 S Morgan St. Chicago, Storefront Gallery, June19th 2026 @ 7:30pm
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OH Art Tours
Curated lead tour with Yi Cao
Moderator Jung Soo Kim, and OH Art Youth Advocate Leader (YAL)
May 16th, 10am - 12pm
OH Art YAL, Jonah Sanderson from SAIC
Meeting 10am at 1029 W 35th Chicago - OH Art Foundation
Tour Locations: 2nd fl. and 3rd fl. Gallery of 1029 W 35th Chicago
3314 S Morgan St. Chicago, Storefront Gallery
July 11th, 10am - 12pm
Panel Discussion with Curator Yi Cao
Meeting 10am at 3314 S Morgan Chicago - OH Art Foundation
OH Art Foundation's APAFA exhibitions viewing recommended prior
Oh Art Workshops
Luminous Remains: Community Art Workshop
Organized by Dianne Lee
May 23st, 10am - 12pm
Location: 1029 W 35th Chicago, 3rd fl. OH Art Studio
Registration required
Alchemy of Memory: Community Healing & Renewal Workshop
Organized by Sam del Rosario, Nina Dinh
May 30th 10am - 12pm
Location: 3314 S Morgan St. Chicago, Storefront Gallery
Registration required
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About the Curators:
Yi Cao is a curator based in Chicago and Beijing. She develops curatorial projects that foster cross-cultural dialogue, exploring nuanced dynamics of culture, history, and identity, particularly as they manifest in “global” Asia. Yi is currently Director of the Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Selected projects include If Shadows Could Shine (2024, apexart NYC), Liu Wei: Invisible Cities (2019, MoCA Cleveland), and Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads (2016, Carnegie Museum of Art). Her bilingual writings have appeared in ArtAsiaPacific, Museum 2050, and artnet News, among others.
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