Misread Me Correctly
November 14–December 19, 2026
Curated by Jin Kim
Hyeon O, Volcanic Ash, 2025. Acrylic on Korean paper mounted on wood panel, 23 7/8 × 19 3/4 in.
Misread Me Correctly
Curated by Jin Kim
November 14–December 19, 2026
Participating artists
Rin Heo, Takashi Horisaki, Joolee Kang, Sammy Seungmin Lee, Dane Nakama, Hyeon O, Stephanie Shih, Diana Briones Williams
Location
AMPHI, 49 W. Del Mar Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91105
Gallery Hours
Tue–Wed · By appointment
Thu–Sat · 12:30–5:30 pm
Contact
1(626)831-9988
Amphi Gallery presents Misread Me Correctly, a group exhibition of eight Asian and diasporic Asian artists whose practices resist prevailing cultural frameworks.
Curated by Jin Kim, the exhibition treats misreading not as a failure of interpretation but as a structural condition: meaning is shaped through projection, expectation, and a cultural recognition that seeks to fix identity within globally circulating images.
Work by Asian artists is often approached with expectations of transparency, recognizable difference, or authentic representation. Many works in Misread Me Correctly refuse these terms. What appears legible is often strategic, and what appears transparent is often a negotiation. The exhibition asks what happens when works move through systems that demand recognizable forms of difference.
Mutation enters as a second condition. Visual languages become distorted, coded, or opaque as they cross institutional, cultural, and economic boundaries, and identity, symbolism, and material form all carry traces of that adaptation. Mutation is the consequence, misreading is the structure.
The exhibition does not propose a unified "Asian identity." It focuses instead on the ongoing negotiation between artists and the contexts in which their work is interpreted. Images remain unresolved, moving between translation and opacity, recognition and misunderstanding, adaptation and resistance.
Participating artists: Rin Heo, Takashi Horisaki, Joolee Kang, Sammy Seungmin Lee, Dane Nakama, Hyeon O, Stephanie Shih, Diana Briones Williams
About the Artists
Heo Rin
Heo Rin's practice begins with the autobiographical experience of being an identical twin, exploring generative structures that link the physical body, datafied images, architecture, and character. Combining 3D modeling with painting, Heo builds bodies and spaces that share the same principles of point, line, and plane, presenting subjects as liminal states in continual generation and transformation. Recent exhibitions in Seoul include the solo exhibitions The Third Body: Mutable Rendering (Gbulue Gallery, 2026) and UTC_00 : UNRELIABLE (SPACE TUM, 2026).
Takashi Horisaki
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Takashi Horisaki (b. 1974, Tokyo) is a sculptor and community-based artist and a resident artist at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. Best known for his Social Dress series of latex imprints of architectural surfaces, he draws on architecture, urban planning, and material culture to examine how the built environment shapes communities. His work has been shown at Prospect.1 New Orleans, the Incheon Women Artists Biennale, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. He holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis.
Joolee Kang
JooLee Kang (b. 1982, Suwon, Korea) is an artist working in drawing and mixed-media installations in both Korea and the United States. Her intricate, decorative drawings depict mutated plants and animals, considering ecological change, evolution, and the entangled relationship between humans and nature. She earned her BFA at Duksung Women's University in Korea and her MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, and received the Grand Prix at UNKNOWN ASIA 2020.
Sammy Seungmin Lee
Sammy Seung-min Lee (b. 1975, Seoul) is a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and artist's books. Using Hanji, Korean mulberry paper, she transforms traditional craft into sculptural forms that examine migration, bicultural identity, and belonging. A 2025 Joan Mitchell Fellow and 2023–24 Fulbright U.S. Scholar, she presented the solo exhibition Becoming Motherland at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver in 2026. She holds her MFA in fine art and media art at UCLA.
Dane Nakama
Dane Hiʻipoi Nakama is a fourth-generation Japanese Uchinanchu ceramicist, painter, and educator, raised on Oʻahu and now based on Tongva land in Los Angeles. Their interdisciplinary practice addresses settler colonialism, ancestral memory, cultural hybridity, and island identity through a visual lexicon of seashells, li hing mui, sand, and clay. Nakama holds a BFA from CalArts and a MFA from UCLA, co-founded fishschool Hawaiʻi, and presented the solo exhibition Dear Uncle Tani, at Grand Central Art Center in 2026.
Hyeon O
Hyeon O (b. 1996, Ansan, Korea) lives and works in Seoul and holds a BFA in Painting from Sejong University. Working in acrylic paint and ink on Jangji, the artist records moments in which individuals postpone, suppress, or resist their desires, caught in the tension between the path society expects and the path they truly want. Recent solo exhibitions include Summer Stopover (Woomarine Gallery, Busan, 2026), A Bird Lingering at Dawn (INGAHEE, Seoul, 2026), and Expired Malfunctions (OVOgallery, Taipei, 2025).
Stephanie Shih
Stephanie Shih (史欣雲) is a Los Angeles–based s artist working in photography and multimedia installation, and an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. A second-generation Taiwanese-Chinese American, she draws on her background in semiotics to recode the symbologies of the still life canon, exploring diasporic cultural dynamics through food. Her work has been exhibited at LACMA, USC Pacific Asia Museum and Hashimoto Contemporary.
Diane Briones Williams
Diane Briones Williams is a Philippine-born interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Through repeated acts of weaving, stitching, and dyeing, she pieces fragmented histories into tactile forms, treating textiles as archives of Filipino memory and building counter-narratives from her diasporic position. She earned her MFA from USC (2021) and BFA from CSULB (2013). Recent solo exhibitions include What the Threads Carry at Official Welcome, Los Angeles (2026) and (De)Valued Existence at Oxnard College (2023).
About the Curator
Portrait of Jin Kim