Karin Higa: Hidden in Plain Sight @ the Hammer Museum, LA, on November 21, 2022

Karin Higa: Hidden in Plain Sight was coorganized by AAPI Arts Network and Hammer Museum to highlight the legacy of the late curator, writer, and cultural activist Karin Higa. to explore the many legacies of the late curator, organizer, and art historian Karin Higa (1966–2013). Artists and curators Kelly Akashi, Anna Sew Hoy, Karen Ishizuka, Marci Kwon, Sonia Mak, and Mika Yoshitake discuss the reverberations of Higa’s work in the present.

This conversation coincided with the publication of “Hidden in Plain Sight: Selected Writings of Karin Higa,” a substantial illustrated volume surveying her curatorial and scholarly work released in October 2022 by Dancing Foxes Press.