Exhibition Details

En Diaspora 在僑民中 by Vida Kuang and Fernando Martí is a two-person exhibit of paintings and prints reflecting on immigrant diasporic life in the heart of empire.

En Diaspora 在僑民中 Vida Kuang y Fernando Martí. Una exhibición doble de pinturas y grabados reflejando la vida inmigrante y de diáspora en el corazón del imperio.

《在僑民中》: 鄺楚瑩和 Fernando Marti 兩人用圖畫和影印展覽,反映移民在帝國中心的散居生活。

Artist Biographies

Vida Kuang 鄺楚瑩 (she/her)
Vida Kuang was raised by a Toisan matriarchy and Chinatown. She is a muralist based in San Francisco, unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land. As a visual storyteller, her work centers her communities' movements led by working class women of color for racial, gender, and economic justice. She uses public spaces, audio, illustration, and mixed media as tools for storytelling. Her work has been featured in the SF Public Library, API Culture Center, Mission Cultural Center, KQED, SF MUNI, SF Anti-Displacement Coalition, 41 Ross, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Coalition on Homelessness, and more.

Fernando Martí (he/him/el)
Fernando Marti is a printmaker, writer, community architect, and housing activist based in San Francisco, unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land. His work reflects his training in urbanism, his roots in rural Ecuador, and his experience of migration and residence in the heart of Empire. His poetry, prints, murals, altar ofrendas and public constructions inhabit the space between Latinx ancestral traditions and a liberatory futurism. The subjects of his artwork often grow from a process of working with communities reclaiming and remaking of space. His artistic home is the political arts collective justseeds.org.