Some Asian American Artist Resources

(and maybe a bent towards Korean American)

April 10, 2021 (will be updated as needed)

I can’t keep up with the amount of artists, articles and books I come across, so I decided to keep a running list here. Feel free to add a comment with recommendations.

Articles

America Ruined my Name for Me” by Beth Nguyen, The New Yorker (April 1, 2021)

Swelling Anti-Asian Violence: Who is Being Attacked Where” by By Weiyi Cai, Audra D. S. Burch and Jugal K. Patel (April 3, 2021)

From colonialism to Covid: Viet Thanh Nguyen on the rise of anti-Asian violence” by Viet Thanh Nguyen (April 3, 2021)

France In Grips Of Racism Epidemic, As Coronavirus Fans Anti-Asian Hysteria” by Tamara Thiessen (February 11, 2020) – was struck by the main photo in the article

Someone Threw Acid in Her Face. Her Family Doesn’t Know Why.New York Times (April 23, 2021)

Uncle Chul Gets Rich” by Chang-rae Lee, New York Times, May 12, 1996

The Faintest Echo of Our Language” by Chang-rae Lee, New England Review, Summer 1993

Artists

Jungjin Lee – photographer based in NYC

Mike Han – artist and designer based in Detroit, MI

Myoung Ho Lee – photographer based in South Korea

Naoya Hatakeyama – photographer based in Japan

Toshio Shibata – photographer based in Japan

Dayanita Singh – photographer based in Delhi, India

Chan-Hyo Bae – photographer based in London

Yasumasa Morimura – artist based in Osaka, Japan

Priya Kambli – photographer/professor in Missouri

Kwang Young Chun – paper/sculpture artist based in South Korea

Wu Guangzhong (1919-2010) – painter from China

Youngmin Lee  – textile artist based in San Franscisco, CA

Books

I have read these books. These books range from fiction to biography and from varied cultures blending Asian and/or American experiences. (Note: The books contain Amazon affiliate links.)


The Best We Could Do
 (illustrated memoir)
Thi Bui

Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (memoir)

Bich Minh Nguyen

The Memory Police (novel)

Yoko Ogawa


Pachinko (novel)
Min Jin Lee


Ten Thousand Sorrows (memoir)
Elizabeth Kim (pen name)


The Vegetarian (novel)
Han Kang


Grass (illustrated biography)
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim


Yolk (novel)
Mary H.K. Choi


One Left (novel)
Kim Soom

Please Look After Mom (novel)
Kyung-Sook Shin

Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches (academic)

Edited by Claire Perkins & Constantine Verevis

Almost American Girl (graphic novel)
Robin Ha

Heart & Seoul (novel)

Jen Frederick


Friend: A Novel from North Korea (novel)

Nam-nyong Paek

My Brilliant Life (novel)
Ae-ran Kim

Your Recommendations

Do you have any recommendations? Feel free to share in the comments.

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