The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is proud to present Living Here, an exhibition of artists from the East and Southeast Asian diasporas. Featuring artists whose ancestries lie in Cambodia, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines, Living Here looks at the way that our familiar touchstones—such as food, clothing, and movies—permeate diasporic movement with the sensuous materiality of touch, taste, sight, and sound.
The artists are inspired by personal experiences informed by historical events that have shaped their diasporic identities. Some of them call on their memories of home, remembering favorite activities such as karaoke, reassessing their childhood relationships with their parents from a position of adult maturity, or contemplating the future that awaits their own children. Others employ historical research, considering the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, or the Filipino Rough Riders who traveled with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in the late 1800s. The links between past, present, and future are manifested in everyday objects like balikbayan boxes, or in the frustration of English-language autocorrect technology replacing a person’s name with an anglicized alternative.
Living Here features painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation art, and more. Artists include Eliza O. Barrios, Ching Ching Cheng, Daieny Chin, Jisoo Chung, Emmanuel David and Yumi Janairo Roth, Maya Fuji, Sush Machida Gaikotsu, Jeannie Hua, Hue, Phung Huynh, Jeanne F. Jalandoni, Eri King, Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza, Quindo Miller, Jiha Moon, May Nguyen, Ian Racoma, Michael Rippens, Emmanuel David and Yumi Janairo Roth, Jennifer Seo, Stephanie Shih (史欣雲), Stephanie H. Shih, TT Takemoto, Sherwin Rivera Tibayan, Maria Villote, and Christine Wong Yap. The exhibition incorporates oral histories from Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project, a project by the Oral History Research Center at UNLV Libraries.
The exhibition will be on view in the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art’s East Gallery and WorkShop Gallery from June 20–Dec. 20, 2025. The opening reception will take place from 5-8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 5, 2025. The Marjorie Barrick Museum is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday–Saturday. Entry is always free. Living Here was created in consultation with Constancio Arnaldo, Ph.D., Jean Munson, and Mark Padoongpatt, Ph.D. The Museum would like to thank the Oral History Research Center at UNLV Libraries, Reflections Project Manager Stefani Evans, and Oral History Research Center Director Claytee White; as well as our research assistants Daniela Castañeda and Daniel Taylor.
