Diasporas in Modern and Contemporary Korean Art
<p><strong>This year, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, the museum recognizes the array of diversity within the myriad AAPI identities and cultures. The recently opened Korean art rotation </strong><a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/creating-urgency-modern-and-contemporary-korean-art" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong><em>Creating Urgency: Modern and Contemporary Korean Art</em></strong></a><strong><em> </em>offers artworks surrounding a piece of Korean history, the diaspora, an experience shared by many others in the AAPI communities.</strong></p>
<p>Triggered by a series of natural disasters, the massive Korean migration to Chinese and Russian border areas from the 1860s to 1910 is noted as the first generation of modern-period Korean diasporas. Another important group in the Korean diaspora is the<em> zainichi</em>, the permanent, ethnic Korean residents in Japan. Min Jin Lee’s 2017 bestseller <a href="https://www.minjinlee.com/book/pachinko/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Pachinko</em></a> embedded the issue of systematic discrimination against zainichi as a major structural part of the story.</p>
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