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Alex Paik

@alexpaik.bsky.social
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🌐 alexpaik.com 🤓 Artist 🐯 Director, #TigerStrikesAsteroid 🇰🇷 Steering Committee, GYOPO 👊 Martial Artist #JKD #FilipinoMartialArts

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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
My latest for Hyperallergic!
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
My latest for Hyperallergic: #TheresaHakKyungCha: Multiple Offerings at BAMPFA hyperallergic.com/theresa-hak-...
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Made Human Again
Learning about Cha was like a secret revelation handed down among Asian American artists and poets. This show helped me appreciate her more clearly.
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
My latest for Hyperallergic: a review of Amanda Ross-Ho’s fantastic show at Leroy’s! hyperallergic.com/amanda-ross-...
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Amanda Ross-Ho Finds Herself in Her Parents' Art
The artist's current show is a moving reflection on the ways our identities are inexorably entangled with our relationships and surroundings.
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Partial Right Triangle (Aqua Blue) gouache, paper, pins dimensions variable 2025 installed in studio, December 2025 (approx. 4 x 6.25 feet) #alexpaik
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Just got some physical copies of an essay I wrote this summer for “My Mother’s Tongue Ties Me Together,” featuring the work of #HungLe #NoelleChoy #MerrySun at Spencer Museum of Art. indd.adobe.com/view/63e132a...
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🎄 It’s listicle season! I contributed two short blurbs on @takako.yamaguchi at @moca and @ruthasawaofficial at @sfmoma to @hyperallergic ‘s “The Best Art Shows Around the World in 2025.” Read the full article here: hyperallergic.com/the-best-art...
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
New writing! A series of micro essays on Asian American identity formation. www.abladeofgrass.pub/contribution...
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On Bodies and Copies, Seeing and Being | Landscapes
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
My latest for @hyperallergic.com
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Partial Octagon (Emerald Green) gouache, paper, nails dimensions variable 2024 installed in studio, August 2025 (approx. 4.5 x 8.5 feet) #alexpaik
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This summer was filled with injury recovery, PT appointments, child care, and other things 😵‍💫 but I finally finished this new modular installation. #alexpaik Partial Right Triangle (Aqua Blue) gouache, paper, pins dimensions variable 2025 installed in studio, August 2025 (approx. 4.5 x 6 feet)
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
#WillRawls at #ICALA
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
#TakakoYamaguchi at #MOCALA
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
#WillRawls at #ICALA
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Who wants to give me a big wall so I can fill it with pattern? 😅 Partial Octagon (Emerald Green) gouache, paper, nails dimensions variable 2024 installed in studio, May 2025 (approx. 5 x 7.5 feet) #alexpaik
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 19/07/2025
Ruth Asawa’s iconic looped wire sculptures are the star of her retrospective at SFMOMA. The seemingly infinite variations that she found within the limits of the medium are staggering — the best reductive abstractionists can spend a lifetime trying to achieve the same thing.
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Ruth Asawa Showed Us the Way to an Artistic Life
Asawa gracefully wove together many sides — an innovative and singular artist, a tireless advocate for arts education, a community builder, and a loving wife and mother.
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
My review of the #RuthAsawa retrospective at SFMoma on @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1027751/ruth...
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Ruth Asawa Showed Us the Way to an Artistic Life
Asawa gracefully wove together many sides — an innovative and singular artist, a tireless advocate for arts education, a community builder, and a loving wife and mother.
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid @tsanetwork.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Tickets for our fundraiser are now live! Don’t miss out on early bird pricing! givebutter.com/tsabenefit25
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Improvisation #3 from Partial Hexagon (Cadmium Yellow Orange) gouache on paper 6.25 x 6.25 x 1.25 inches 2025 #alexpaik
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Partial Equilateral Triangle (Magenta) gouache, paper, nails dimensions variable 2024 installed in studio, May 2025 (approx. 5 x 6.5 feet) #alexpaik
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Improvisation #2 from Partial Hexagon (Cadmium Yellow Orange) gouache on paper 7.75 x 7.75 x 0.5 inches 2025 #alexpaik
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 05/06/2025
Ten Asian diasporic artists explore how we create our self-images through technology, media, and cultural representation in “my hands are monsters who believe in magic” at Pasadena’s Armory Center for the Arts.
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Asian Diasporic Artists Ask How We Create Our Self-Images
A group exhibition focuses on the fragmented nature of identity and the circular loop of external and internal feedback involved in self-image creation.
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My latest for Hyperallergic hyperallergic.com/1015060/asia...
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Asian Diasporic Artists Ask How We Create Our Self-Images
A group exhibition focuses on the fragmented nature of identity and the circular loop of external and internal feedback involved in self-image creation.
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Improvisation #1 from Partial Hexagon (Cadmium Yellow Orange) gouache on paper 7 x 7 x 0.5 inches 2025 #alexpaik
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Some new drawings 👀 #alexpaik
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🎼 Some of you may know that classical music was my first artistic love, so it feels very special to have written this piece for LA Phil’s Seoul Festival and GYOPO Diasporic Refractions. www.laphil.com/about/watch-...
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A Polyphonic Identity | Seoul Festival
Alex Paik (GYOPO) considers his relationship to his culture in the context of the LA Phil’s Seoul Festival, a celebration of Korean music and artistry at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
#JeffreyGibson at #BroadMuseum
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Some more new drawings. #alexpaik
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Another formation 🐦 Partial Equilateral Triangle (Magenta) gouache, paper, nails dimensions variable 2024 installed in studio, April 2025 (approx. 4 x 6 feet) #alexpaik
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
#YoshikazuTanaka at #ATLA
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Some recent drawings ✏️ #alexpaik
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
💫 A new formation 💫 Partial Equilateral Triangle (Magenta) gouache, paper, nails dimensions variable 2024 installed in studio, April 2025 (approx. 4.5 x 6.25 feet) #alexpaik
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Thank you #AhreeLee for the walkthrough of your show at #CraftContemporary for @gyopo.us ! Beautiful show using the links between computing and weaving to think about hybridity and the histories of gendering making.
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
These four little ones are currently on view #Ruschwoman in Chicago. Check out the show if you can! I’m Still Jenny from the Color Block RUSCHWOMAN March 16 — May 4, 2025 #alexpaik
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid @tsanetwork.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
It's the final day of our fundraiser and we still need 40 new patrons! Help us continue creating an art world we can all be proud of! Become a Patreon supporter today at patreon.com/tigerstrikesasteroid.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 28/03/2025
President Trump issued an executive order targeting so-called “race-centered ideology” in the Smithsonian Institution, conflating critical examinations of the nation’s oppression of women, people of color, and other groups with “anti-American” sentiment.
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Trump Whitewashes History in New Smithsonian Executive Order
Among other disturbing and demonstrably false distortions, the mandate suggests that race is a “biological reality” — a tenet of racist pseudoscientific beliefs.
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Beautiful space/time-collapsing work by #MaiaCruzPalileo at #DavidKordansky
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
What a poignant show by @claudiaparducci.bsky.social at #OchiGallery . Elegant work about loss and ephemerality packaged in a gorgeous, emphatically human abstract language.
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This piece is on view in NYC until the 29th alongside a stellar group of abstract artists. American Abstract Artists New Members Exhibition March 8–29, 2025 Opening Saturday, March 8, 3–6p Gallery MC 545 West 52nd St, New York, NY 10019 Gallery Hours: Fri–Sun 1–6p #alexpaik
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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Snaps from my curatorial debut with Cecile Chong. We are Broken China! See our show A SILENCE SO LOUD in Bushwick. On colonial silences, letter writing, and militarism. Open till April 13. @tsanetwork.bsky.social
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid @tsanetwork.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Currently on view at our Philadelphia location: Melissa Simpson: SATIN Feb 22 - Apr 5, 2025 #tigerstrikesasteroid #melissasimpson
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
#CasparDavidFriedrich at #MetMuseum
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 14/03/2025
In the aftermath of the LA fires, Kelly Akashi shows us the importance of what is perhaps the most basic function of art — the ability to imagine and create new possibilities, to see the potential futures in a seed.
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From the Fire’s Remains, Kelly Akashi Sculpts Possibility
In the aftermath of tragedy, Akashi shows us the importance of the ability to imagine and create new structures, to see the potential futures in a seed.
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
#ChristineSunKim at #WhitneyMuseum. So lucky to get a walkthrough from the artist herself! Our first GYOPO event in NY!
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My reflection on the #KellyAkashi show at #LissonGallery hyperallergic.com/995211/from-...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 06/03/2025
BREAKING: We're suing to block the Trump administration from requiring artists who apply to the National Endowment for the Arts for funding to have to attest they won't use any funds to "promote” what the government deems to be “gender ideology." This is a violation of the First Amendment.
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid @tsanetwork.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Happy 16th Birthday, #TigerStrikesAsteroid! Instead of relying on grants or wealthy board members, we believe that grassroots community support aligns most closely with our own values. Help us continue creating an art world we can all be proud of! Go to patreon.com/tigerstrikesasteroid to join!
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Excited to be a part of this exhibition, opening in NY this weekend! #alexpaik
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A few highlights from “Scientia Sexualis” at ICALA (caught it on the final day 😬) 1️⃣ #JesFan 2️⃣ #DeanErdmann 3️⃣ #YoungJoonKwak and #GalaPorrasKim
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Alex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Improvisation #5 from Partial Right Triangle (Aqua Blue) gouache on paper 6 x 6 x 0.75 inches 2025 #alexpaik
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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We have the shittiest fascism. No trains running on time, just more diseases.
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