Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo—Press
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JANM to Present the Traveling Exhibition devoted to Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo
October 31, 2023
Pictures of Belonging will travel to five US cities accompanied by catalog launching November 26
The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present the national tour of Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, traveling to four venues across the US before its final stop at JANM in late 2026.
JANM in the News
With Their Lives Upended, They Practiced the Art of Resilience
The New York Times
"That this exhibition exists at all is a small miracle....But what the curator, ShiPu Wang, has managed to assemble is a revelation."
Arouna D'Souza, The New York Times
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Discover the Remarkable Paintings of Three Japanese Americans Whose Life Stories Are Told Through Their Work
Smithsonian Magazine
"A new exhibition spotlights a trio who pushed the boundaries of American art and illustrated the experiences of World War II incarceration"
David A. Taylor, Smithsonian Magazine
Exhibitions reveal hidden stories of interned Japanese American artists
The Art Newspaper
"By establishing Hibi, Okubo and Hayakawa as important contributors to American Modernism before the war, Wang underlines the peculiar absence of their names from the last 80 years of American art texts and surveys"
Kealey Boyd, The Art Newspaper
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