AAJA X BANK NY Present: AAPI Stories in Arts & Writing

How do you carry history, memory, and identity into the stories you tell—and the mediums you choose? Join AAJA New York at BANK NYC for an intimate panel exploring how AAPI artists, curators, and writers navigate personal and collective narratives through visual arts, photography, film, and cultural criticism. Set in the exquisite two-story gallery in the heart of SoHo, BANK NYC will bring together arts writers and visual storytellers who are reshaping how AAPI stories are archived, translated, and reimagined.

Whether you’re an arts and culture journalist, an emerging creative, or someone who simply finds joy in AAPI art, this panel invites you into a vibrant conversation— preceded by a private gallery tour of BANK’s current exhibition “To Save and to Destroy.”

🎤 Panelists:
Annette An-Jen Liu
Annette An-Jen Liu is a Taiwanese arts writer and emerging curator. Her writing has appeared in ArtAsiaPacific, Art Monthly Australasia, Art Basel Stories, MOLD Magazine, Magnum Photos, Voices of Photography, among others. She contributed research to the exhibition catalog and reader Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2022), and is a 2023 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer Grant. Liu has also translated catalog essays for contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang. She currently manages projects at Cai Studio in New York City, and has organized exhibitions in Taipei and Sydney.

Amiko Li
Amiko Li is an interdisciplinary artist who translates everyday stories and encounters into film, installation, and performance, to explore and contextualize the underlying complexities and themes, such as intimacy, waiting, and value. Li’s recent Exhibition and performance include Center for Art, Research, and Alliance, New York; The Shed, New York; Asia Art Archive in America, New York; Ulster Museum, Ireland; Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Switzerland; UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, China; Power Station of Art, China; and Flat Earth Film Festival, Iceland. Li’s work has been supported through fellowships and residencies at Delfina Foundation, London; Triangle Arts Association, New York; and Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany.

Qingyuan Deng
Qingyuan Deng is a curator and writer based between Shanghai and New York. Deng is fascinated by time, affect, and network culture. He is currently curating a benefit auction exhibition at YveYang Gallery to revive Art in General.

Moderator: Xintian Tina Wang
Xintian Tina Wang is an arts critic and journalist whose work has appeared in ARTNews, Brooklyn Rail, Art Asia Pacific, Design Observer, TIME, HuffPost, NBC News, ELLE, among others. Her reporting and documentaries have earned recognition from the Gracie Awards and the Boston Short Film Festival. She also serves as the President at the Asian American Journalist Association (AAJA) New York Chapter.

Agenda:
6:00-6:30 Registration & Private Gallery Tour
6:30-7:30 Panel + Q&A
7:30-8:00 Open Networking

📌 RSVP required. Space is limited! Please arrive on time or earlier to tour the gallery. The panel will start on time.