Each year, New York University hosts an acclaimed artist to hold residency with its Asian/Pacific/American Institute. Artists-in-Residence are invited to bring their notoriety, artistic work, and history of involvement with the Asian/Pacific American community to NYU. The Artist-in-Residence uses their time at A/P/A to create important new work, artistic retrospectives, forums, or conferences. Scholars, fellow artists, and community members familiar or new to the artist’s work gain a unique opportunity to engage with the Artist-in-Residence within a university setting.
Isabel Sandoval (2023-24)
US-based, Philippine-born Isabel Sandoval has emerged as “one of the most exciting and multitalented filmmakers on the indie scene with a bold approach to cinematic style,” according to The Criterion ...
E. Tammy Kim (2022-23)
E. Tammy Kim is a contributing writer at The New Yorker who covers labor and the workplace, arts and culture, and the Koreas. She is also a co-host of the ...
Khaty Xiong (Spring 2022)
Khaty Xiong was born to Hmong refugees from Laos. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Poor Anima (Apogee Press, 2015), and three chapbooks: Ode to the Far ...
Jess X. Snow (Fall 2021)
Jess X. Snow is a non-binary film director, public artist, poet, children’s book author, and community arts educator who creates speculative, queer Asian immigrant stories that transcend borders, binaries, and ...
Ocean Vuong (2019-20)
Ocean Vuong is the author of the novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press, 2019), forthcoming in sixteen languages worldwide. His critically acclaimed poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit ...
Thanushka Yakupitiyage / Ushka (2018-19)
Thanushka (Thanu) Yakupitiyage is a Sri Lankan-born, Thailand-raised, Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, cultural producer, activist, and DJ who performs under the name Ushka. Her professional, political, and artistic interests focus on ...
Zarina (2017-18)
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Zarina (July 16, 1937-April 25, 2020). Best known for her work as a printmaker, Zarina was an important figure in ...
Beatrice Glow (2016-17)
Beatrice Glow is an interdisciplinary artist whose work uncovers invisible, suppressed stories that lie in the geopolitical shadows of colonialism and migration. Her practice comprises of sculptural installations, trilingual publishing, ...
Jack Gray (2016)
Jack Gray (Ngati Porou, Ngapuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngati Kahungunu) is an acclaimed dancer, choreographer, and scholar. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Gray first connected to his cultural roots through traditional ...
Hari Kondabolu (2014-15)
“Hari Kondabolu is a brainy comedian who cuts through the polite talk around race and gender.” NPR “A young man reaching for the hand-scalding torch of confrontational comics like Lenny ...
Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani (2013-14)
Chitra Ganesh was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where she currently lives and works. Her drawing, installation, text-based work, and collaborations seek to excavate and circulate buried narratives ...
Roger Shimomura (2012-13)
Roger Shimomura’s paintings, prints, and theatre pieces address sociopolitical issues of ethnicity. He was born in Seattle, Washington and spent two years of his early childhood in Minidoka (Idaho), one ...
Larry Hama (2011-12)
Larry Hama is a cartoonist, illustrator, writer, actor, and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s. He is a third generation Japanese American ...
Suheir Hammad (2010-11)
Suheir Hammad is a Palestinian-American poet, author and political activist who was born on October 1973 in Amman, Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents and immigrated with her family to Brooklyn, ...
Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis (2009-10)
“Aaron and I started working in earnest on Stuck Elevator in 2007, when we had our first workshop presentation with one singer and one percussionist in Seattle…. This crucial residency ...
Susana Lei’ataua (2008-9)
YEAR TWO! Waka carry me. Take my bow guide this prow to the Island that waits between two rivers. Oceans of horizons Frigate birds signal land … I’m in the ...
Susana Lei’ataua (2007-8)
Susana Lei’ataua is an actor and a writer. Over the years she has also been a journalist, a radio newsreader, talk show host, television presenter, producer and editor. She was ...
DJ Rekha (2006-7)
DJ Rekha is a producer, activist and above all, cultural worker. Selected by The New York Times Magazine as “one of the ten women of downtown music” and named one of the ...
Regie Cabico (2005-6)
Regie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer having won top prizes in the 1993, 1994 and 1997 National Poetry Slams. His work appears in over 30 anthologies including Aloud: Voices ...
Helen Zia (2004-5)
Helen Zia is the author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2000), which was a finalist for the prestigious 2000 Kiriyama Pacific Rim ...
Fay Chiang (2003-4)
It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we learned of the passing of poet, visual artist, community leader, and dear friend Fay Chiang (December 7, 1952-October 20, 2017). During her ...
Corky Lee (2002-3)
It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of friend and legendary photographer Corky Lee (1947-2021). His passion for documenting the experiences of Asian America, and his commitment ...
Keng Sen Ong (2001-2)
The Artistic Director of TheatreWorks Singapore, Keng Sen Ong has engaged in intense cross-cultural work with fellow Asian artists for six years. He is known for his rejection of authenticity ...
David Henry Hwang (2000-2001)
DAVID HENRY HWANG is a playwright, screenwriter, and librettist, best known as the author of M. BUTTERFLY, which ran for two years on Broadway and won the 1988 Tony, Drama Desk, ...
Ping Chong (1999–2000)
PING CHONG is a theatre director, choreographer, video and installation artist. He was born in Toronto, Canada and raised in New York City’s Chinatown. He is the recipient of an ...
Jessica Hagedorn (1998-99)
by Jennifer Samson “Just get everybody stirred up. We’ve got a nation full of people going to school today and for what…they don’t know,” lamented Jessica Hagedorn, current Artist-in-Residence for ...
Annanya Bhattacharjee (1997-98)
Our Activist-in-Residence, Anannya Bhattacharjee, is a community organizer and writer in New York City. She is a founding member of SAMAR Magazine and Sakhi for South Asian Women, and is ...
Tomie Arai (1997-98)
The A/P/A Studies Institute is delighted to have Tomie Arai as our first artist-in-residence. She is one of the premiere American activists merging from the political ferment of the 1960s. ...