𝕱𝖑𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖍, on view at Los Angeles Center of Photography

Solo show: 欣欣向荣 𝕱𝖑𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖍

15 December 2024–8 February 2025
Website: https://lacphoto.org/exhibition/flourish-the-aline-smithson-next-generation-award/
Los Angeles Center of Photography

“LACP is thrilled to announce a solo exhibition by Stephanie Shih, the first winner of the Aline Smithson Next Generation Award.

FLOURISH explores Shih’s work in the last five years, seeking to articulate central themes and approaches. The exhibition offers a cacophonous celebration of the complexities of Asian-American and immigrant experiences. Shih’s exhibition space refuses the surgically-clean white cube, by (re)introducing color, beauty, emotion, imperfection, and the narratives of culturally othered communities. So often the cultural and personal traumas of these communities are diminished in institutional spaces. Shih responds instead–often with collaborators from the AAPI community–with an unbridled maximalism dedicated to Asian diasporic presence and excellence, understanding at the same time that joy goes hand in hand with the messy multiplicities of human narratives.”