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
Produced by OH Art Foundation
Curator: Yi Cao
Group Exhibition: May 1st 2026 - July 12th 2026
OH Art Festival Opening Ceremony: May 15th 2026 7:00pm
1029 W 35th 2nd fl. Gallery Chicago IL 60609, Zhou B Art Center
Still After 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.
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.
Celebrating 4th Annual Aisan Pacific American Festival of the Arts, OH Art Foundation provides various art and cultural programs including four group exhibitions, solo and duo exhibitions, live dance and music performances, panel discussion, and two community workshops.
The OH Art Foundation (OHAF) was established in 2013 by visual artist and arts educator InJung Oh. Based on Chicago’s South Side, OHAF is dedicated to celebrating diversity through accessible art and cultural programming. The organization focuses on amplifying underrepresented voices and fostering a deeper understanding of diverse cultures through shared creative experiences. Committed to arts education, OHAF provides culturally inspired art programs for children and youth, supporting their social and emotional development.
OHAF will host its 4th Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts from May 1 through July 12, 2026, across various locations in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood. The opening reception will be held on May 15, 2026, at OHAF’s second-floor gallery space (1029 W 35th St., Chicago), located inside the Zhou B Art Center.
The festival, titled Still After: Threads of Remembrance, showcases over 100 creatives, including artists, curators, dancers, and musicians. Attendees are invited to explore the Zhou Brothers’ artwork collections, view the open-call group exhibition curated by Yi Cao, and enjoy live performances, including Talchum (Korean mask dance), daegeum by Cheong-ra Ha, and contemporary ozashiki shamisen by Tatsu Aoki.
As a part of OH Art Festival- 4th APAFA, OH Art Foundation features "Sarcasam" a group exhibition curated by the Korean Students Association at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a new media group exhibition "Phototaxis" curated by Ian Kang and Yun Lee.
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