A new exhibition Hapa.me — 25 Years of The Hapa Project opens Sept. 25 at the Museum of the Chinese in America in New York, showcasing artist Kip Fulbeck’s decades-long look of what identity means for mixed-race Asian Americans.
The museum writes: “Derived from the Hawaiian word for ‘half,’ the word ‘hapa’ has been embraced as a term of pride by many whose mixed-race heritage includes Asian or Pacific Islander ancestry. The exhibition comes at a time of increasing awareness and identification with being mixed race. … In Hapa.me, Fulbeck presents a nuanced portrait of change and growth within this broad identity by focusing on individual faces and voices.”
Fulbeck, a professor at UCSB, began his project in 2001 — traveling the country to photograph multiracial individuals from all walks of life. For the new exhibition, he revisited many of the same people to consider how their views on identity have changed over time, the museum said.
The MOCA presentation runs through March 29, 2026, and will feature portraits and responses as well as a hand-painted mural. It originated at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
(Click here for AsAmNews’s interview with Fulbeck from 2023.)
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