Situated in the liminal space of a doorway, Secret Asian Man (SAM) is a space within a space. The rotating, double-sided walls of SAM, conflate clear delineation between front/back, inside/outside, here/there, me/you, us/them, and Asian/Agent.
For the inaugural exhibition, SAM invites Amanda Ross-Ho and Anna Sew Hoy, who are frequently mistaken for one another, to simultaneously come together and apart.
Amanda Ross-Ho (b. 1975, Chicago; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from University of Southern California (2006) and a BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1998). Selected solo exhibitions have been held at Kunsthall Stavanger (2019); Bonner Kunstverein (2017); Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (2017); Praz-Delavallade, Paris (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2014); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2013); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2024); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2022); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2021); U-jazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2020); Yuz Museum Shanghai (2019); Qatar Museums, Doha (2019); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2017); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016), Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (2011); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008). Ross-Ho is a recipient of Marciano Art Foundation Artadia Award (2025), Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2023), California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2017), and Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2013).
Ross-Ho’s work is in the collections of Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; Art Institute of Chicago; Birmingham Museum of Art; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Kadist Art Foundation; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Mohn Art Collective: Hammer, LACMA, MOCA (MAC3); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; and Zabludowicz Collection, London.
Anna Sew Hoy (b. 1976, Auckland; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from Bard College (2008) and a BFA from School of Visual Arts (1998). Sew Hoy is faculty at University of California, Los Angeles. Solo exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2025); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2023); Various Small Fires, Los Angeles (2019, 2015); Campbell Hall Gallery, Studio City (2018); Koenig & Clinton, New York (2016); Aspen Art Museum (2015); San Jose Museum of Art (2011); Sikkema, Jenkins & Co., New York (2010); Renwick Gallery, New York (2008); and LAXART (2008). Selected Group exhibitions have been held at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2024); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2024); Albertz Benda, Los Angeles (2023); Jason Jacques Gallery, New York (2023); American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2022); Galerie Marguo, Paris (2022); Moràn Moràn, Los Angeles (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2021); Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto (2021); Koenig & Clinton, New York (2019); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2016); and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014). Sew Hoy is a recipient of Fellows of Contemporary Art Grant (2023), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2022), Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2021), Creative Capital Grant for Visual Artists (2015), and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2013).
