32 Years Later: The Legacy of Chinese Intercountry Adoption

One of the 33 artists’ projects featured in the annual summer outdoor exhibition, Vision(ary). 32 Years Later: The Legacy of Chinese Intercountry Adoption is an ongoing series of portraits that focuses on themes of self-definition, growth, and resilience among Chinese transnational adoptees. Following the Chinese Government’s recent and sudden decision to end their foreign adoption policy, over 160,000 of adoptees worldwide are now left to reflect on its three decades of history and nonexistent future. This conversation is extremely complex and important within contemporary dialogue, intersecting with issues of immigration, citizenship, and cultural representation. 32 Years Later recognizes the individuals impacted by the personal and political legacy of this history, analyzes how adoptees collectively fit under this shared identity, and celebrates the ways they have grown beyond it. For the artist, it represents one of the community’s many efforts to connect and heal as a diaspora of displaced peoples.