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Gallery Reopens in July! See Wen-hao Tien: Home on Our Backs in person!


  • Pao Arts Center 99 Albany Street Boston, MA, 02111 United States (map)
Laundry Rock, 2020, Wen-hao Tien

Laundry Rock, 2020, Wen-hao Tien

2020 has been a year of resilience for all, including Pao Arts Center’s Artist-In-Residence Wen-hao Tien. Through five works, Tien explores concepts of nomad and home in-flux through the lens of past, present, and future. Do they exist all at once? Tien’s year-long research, community conversation, and reflection cumulates in a body of poetic work that will continue to evolve post residency. With this exhibition, inspired by our local Asian American history, Tien and Pao Arts Center welcome community conversations during this unprecedented time.

了解展覽《揹在我們背上的家》中文介紹，點擊這裡！

About the Artist

Photo credit: Jacyln Poeschl

Photo credit: Jacyln Poeschl

Wen-hao Tien is a Cambridge-based visual artist and educator. Wen-hao grew up in Taiwan, with family roots in Shandong Province, China. She moved to the United States in 1988 to pursue graduate studies and ultimately became a naturalized citizen.

Early in her career, Wen-hao exhibited contemporary Chinese calligraphy and multi-media paintings. In recent years, she finds herself leaving the studio and to forage for materials and stories on community streets—which brought her to Boston Chinatown. She feels an urgency to interpret the shifting Chinatown cultural landscape, which has changed radically since she first encountered it in the 1990s. 

Follow Wen-hao’s residency on her blog.

Explore our 2020 Artist-in-Residence: Wen-hao Tien at Pao Arts Center.

Earlier Event: January 23
Chinese Brush Painting for Adults: Four Seasons
Later Event: February 4
Wen-hao Tien: Home on Our Backs Virtual Opening