Kinship and the Camera

Aperture, in collaboration with the Cantor Arts Center’s Asian American Art Initiative at Stanford University, is pleased to present a virtual roundtable discussion between Aperture guest editor Stephanie Hueon Tung, professor Marci Kwon, and artists Leonard Suryajaya and Pao Houa Her, as they investigate themes of identity and familial presence within Aperture magazine’s most recent issue, “Being & Becoming: Asian in America.”

The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is dedicated to the collection, preservation, research, and public presentation of Asian American/diaspora artists and makers.

This virtual program is free and open to all. RSVP on Eventbrite to receive a Zoom link.

Live captioning provided by Zoom. If you need a disability-related accommodation, please contact cantor_education@stanford.edu. We ask that requests be made at least one week in advance of the event date.

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Stephanie Hueon Tung is the Byrne Family Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum. She leads the interpretation and presentation of the museum’s growing photography collection, which spans the 19th century through today. A specialist in the history of photography of China, her research focuses on transnational art exchanges, global modernism, translation studies, and notions of artistic labor. Her writing has been published in Aperture and the Trans-Asia Photography Review and she is a contributing author to The Chinese Photobook (Aperture, 2015) and Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World (2017). Her most recent book, Ai Weiwei: Beijing 1993–2003 (2019), was co-authored with Ai Weiwei and John Tancock.

Marci Kwon is Assistant Professor of Art History at Stanford University, and co-director of the Cantor Art Center’s Asian American Art Initiative. She is the author of Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism (Princeton, 2021), and co-editor of the online Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné. Kwon is presently working on a book-length project about artists in post-Earthquake San Francisco Chinatown.

Leonard Suryajaya (born in Chicago, 1988) is a Chinese-Indonesian artist exploring the boundaries of intimacy, community, and family. He received his BFA from California State University and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Suryajaya has exhibited work at the Art Institute of Chicago, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Aperture Gallery, Barney Savage Gallery, and other institutions around the world.

Pao Houa Her (born in Laos, 1982) is a Hmong American artist who works within multiple genres of photography. Her practice engages primarily with legacies and potentials of landscape, portraiture, and documentary photographic traditions and aesthetics, creating works that examine identity, longing, and belonging in Hmong diasporic communities. Her received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from Yale University.

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Image: Leonard Suryajaya, Mom and Everything She Bought in America, 2022. Courtesy the artist.