Chinese American Arts Council | Gallery 456

𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙉 𝘾𝘼𝙇𝙇 2026 Gallery 456 and the Chinese American Arts Council invite contemporary artists of all mediums to submit proposals for exhibitions in 2026. We especially welcome work that reflects or engages with Chinese and/or Asian heritage. 📍 Location: Gallery 456, SoHo, NYC 📅 Exhibition period: Two-week shows throughout 2026 🔹 Each quarter, our curatorial committee will select one outstanding artist for a free exhibition opportunity at Gallery 456. 🌏 Eligibility: Artists 18+ of all backgrounds and nationalities are welcome to apply 💲 Submission Fee: $15. Please send the payment to Zelle: [email protected] or Paypal: [email protected] (fee waivers available, please email [email protected]) 📧 Apply by sending your materials (portfolio PDF, artist statement, CV, short bio, etc.) to [email protected]. More details & floor plan available at – 美華藝術協會 / Gallery 456 誠摯邀請各類當代藝術家提交 2026 年的展覽提案。我們特別歡迎與華人及亞洲文化傳承相關、或與之對話的藝術創作。 📍 地點：紐約 SoHo，Gallery 456 📅 展期：2026 年內的兩週展覽 🔹 每個季度，策展委員會將選出一位優秀藝術家，並提供一次 免費展覽機會。 🌏 申請資格：18 歲以上，任何背景與國籍的藝術家皆可申請 💲 報名費：15 美元，請發送至Zelle: [email protected]或 Paypal：[email protected]（如有經濟困難，請來信[email protected]說明，可申請減免） 📧 請將申請資料（作品集 PDF、藝術家陳述、履歷、簡短個人簡介等）寄至 [email protected] 更多申請細節與展場平面圖請見 期待在 2026 與你的作品相遇！ We look forward to seeing your work in 2026! #Gallery456 #CAAC #OpenCall2026 #AsianArt #ContemporaryArt #NYCExhibition

Thanks everyone for coming to the opening of “Luster of a Dream Unearthed”! Now on view until May 22. Joseph Ni: Luster of a Dream Unearthed May 8 - May 22, 2026 Chinese American Arts Council / Gallery 456 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003

Opening Tomorrow: 𝘓𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘜𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘥 Chinese American Arts Council/Gallery 456 is pleased to present Joseph Ni (@josephni.art )’s solo exhibition Luster of a Dream Unearthed, the exhibition is on view from May 8, 2026, through May 22, 2026. 𝘓𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘜𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘥, a new exhibition featuring 8 mixed-media works by Ni that reimagine Chinese aesthetic traditions through the lens of queer diaspora—where figures and cultural artifacts merge in surreal, dreamlike compositions to uncover hidden histories, inherited tensions, and the lost queer narratives embedded within culture and tradition. Opening Reception: 6-8PM, May 8, 2026 Chinese American Arts Council/ Gallery 456 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003 Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 1-5 PM. Chinese American Arts Council‘s Gallery 456 Visual Arts Exhibition Series is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Excited to announce “Luster of a Dream Unearthed”, Joseph Ni’s first solo exhibition, at the Chinese American Arts Council / Gallery 456 @caacarts , opening May 8th at 6PM. “Luster of a Dream Unearthed” presents a series of mixed-media drawings reimagining Chinese aesthetic traditions through the lens of queer diaspora.​​ In this illusory world, figures and artifacts respond to one another’s presence, merging in dreamlike ways. The figure’s concealed emotions are instead expressed through the space around them, revealing the complex tensions with their inherited history. Joseph Ni: Luster of a Dream Unearthed May 8 - May 22, 2026 Opening Reception: May 8, 6-8PM Chinese American Arts Council / Gallery 456 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003 Chinese American Arts Council’s Gallery 456 Visual Arts Exhibition Series is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

_ Last Days to visit To Elongate, To Entwine, a duo show featuring Sangmin Lee and Yixuan Wu, Curated by Fanfan Yuxuan Fan, on view through this Friday, May 1. . @sangminl @yiiixuanw @fanflus @caacarts . 1. 9. 11. Sangmin Lee, Untitled (Nostalgia without Memory), 2023-2026 5. Sangmin Lee, Etiolation (Nostalgia without Memory), 2022-2026 6. 8. Sangmin Lee, Untitled 2, 2025 10. Sangmin Lee, Moon Rabbit, 2025 . 13. Yixuan Wu, the revelation wanders off, 2026 14. Yixuan Wu, nearness, 2026 15. Yixuan Wu, improving hand eye coordination, precision, and motor skills while creating happiness and interactive moments, 2026 . 📍Gallery 456 / Chinese American Arts Council 456 Broadway 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013 ⏳Through May 1, 2026 . . . . . .

Late Blooming I used to find myself in Pai Hsien-yung’s novels, imagining what it might mean to live within a gay community. At the time, that world felt distant, almost fictional. Then my world expanded. James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” opened a window. “Paris Is Burning” entered my life, and it was explosive. After leaving Taiwan for the United States, I began to question where that early sense of loneliness came from. I couldn’t quite name what was missing, only that something was. Maybe others felt this too, moving through the world as quiet observers, taking it all in. Watching from the edges. Absorbing the radical energy of the Theatre of the Ridiculous, the worlds of Andy Warhol and David Wojnarowicz, and the ball room community, while still searching for where we belonged. That search is what drives me now: to create spaces where people like me no longer have to stand at the margins. Spaces where we feel seen, held, and connected. This play is one of them. Check the link in my bio for info & tickets. Photos by @diontraejackson Collage art by @bradhamers #comingout #asianamerican #queercommunity #indietheatre #queerstorytelling

Thank you everyone for coming to the opening of To Elongate, To Entwine, a two-person exhibition featuring works by Sangmin Lee and Yixuan Wu. @sangminl @yiiixuanw Now on view until April 24th, 2026. Elongate, To Entwine Curated by Fanfan Yuxuan Fan. @fanflus April 10 - 24, 2026 Chinese American Arts Council/ Gallery 456 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003 Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 1-5 PM. Photo credit: Weican Wang

_ Thanks for joining us last Friday. "To Elongate To Entwine." . Sangmin Lee’s practice begins where systems fall apart—along fraying edges, makeshift supports, and acts of repair. Working with peripheral materials, he cultivates forms that gradually depart their narratives: self-entangling, interdependent, teetering at the threshold between collapse and continuation. . Yixuan Wu approaches the same threshold through domestic care infrastructures. She reconstructs "questioned comforts" with deformed support structures functional in appearance, destabilized in effect. . What Sangmin and Yixuan share is a refusal of arrival. Instead, they sustain the presence of elongation and entwinement itself. For what nostalgia reaches toward is perhaps not the past itself, but the sensation of having once been nearer to it. Their work remains within that reach: suspended, persistent, pending, attuned to the ephemerality of memories, where proximity is felt but fails to be retained. . The duo exhibition is currently on view until May 1. . Artists: Sangmin Lee @sangminl Yixuan Wu @yiiixuanw . Curated by Fanfan Yuxuan FAN @fanflus @fanfan_noire . Photography: Weican Wang, Kon Zeng, farfar studio @farfar_studio_ . 📍Gallery 456 / Chinese American Arts Council 456 Broadway 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013 . . . . .

_ FanFlus and @caacarts (Chinese American Arts Council | Gallery 456) are pleased to present a duo exhibition featuring Sangmin Lee and Yixuan Wu. Their practices bring together a shared attunement: to gravitate toward what slips just behind. Their works hold and fail simultaneously, structures that coil and unsettle, materials that carry meaning that thins at the edges. Nostalgia haunts here: the stronger the longing, the emptier the memory it draws from; like the more Odysseus yearns, the more he forgets. These two artists’ works inhabit an interval between elongation and entwinement, depicting the stretch that remains held and entangled. . Artists: Sangmin Lee @sangminl Yixuan Wu @yiiixuanw . Curated by Fanfan Yuxuan FAN @fanfan_noire @fanflus . Poster Visual @yiiixuanw . ⏰ April 10, 6 - 9 PM 🕙 April 10 - 24, 2026 📍456 Broadway,3rd FL, New York, NY 10013 . . . . . . #caacarts #fanflus #nycexhibition

Thanks everyone for coming to the artist talk on Language of the Unseen, a three-person exhibition curated by Jun Dong, featuring works from Chenlin Cai, Minyu Chen, and Yiming Tang. @chenlin.cai @cuuizzzi @faceless_tom @junejuly1122 Chinese American Arts Council/ Gallery 456 @caacarts 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003 Chinese American Arts Council’s Gallery 456 Visual Arts Exhibition Series is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Image credit: Demi Chen @yuyuchen.photo

The exhibition Language of the Unseen will host a group artist talk this Wednesday, March 25, from 2:00–4:00 PM at the Chinese American Arts Council/ Gallery 456. The event is co-presented with Accent Sisters. @caacarts @accentsisters The three artists Chenlin Cai, Minyu Chen and Yiming Tang will be in conversation with the curator Jun Dong, sharing insights into their creative processes and the details behind their works. The program will also include an audience Q&A session, with refreshments served. @chenlin.cai @cuuizzzi @faceless_tom We warmly invite you to join us! RSVP at the link in bio. @junejuly1122 Language of the Unseen is on view through March 27, 2026. Chinese American Arts Council/ Gallery 456 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003 Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 1-5 PM. Saturday, 2-5 PM. Chinese American Arts Council’s Gallery 456 Visual Arts Exhibition Series is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Join us for a Group Artist Talk at Gallery 456. As part of Language of the Unseen, this conversation brings together artists Chenlin Cai, Minyu Chen, and Yiming Tang, along with curator Jun Dong, to share insights into their practices and the visual languages they have developed. @chenlin.cai @cuuizzzi @faceless_tom @junejuly1122 Group Artist Talk
March 25, 2026, 2–4 PM Chinese American Arts Council/ Gallery 456 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003 Language of the Unseen is on view through March 27, 2026. Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 1-5 PM. Saturday, 2-5 PM. We warmly invite you to join us for this special closing week program. #Gallery456 #ArtistTalk #ContemporaryArt #NYCArt #ChineseAmericanArtists