Curated by Jayne Cole Southard at Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College (CUNY)

On View: Feb 10 - May.14, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, Feb 10, 2026 | 6–8 PM


LEGENDS: Athleticism in Asian/American Art explores the intersection of art and sports through the work of contemporary Asian and Asian American artists. While often considered distinct fields, this exhibition highlights how sport and artistic expression serve as interconnected arenas. Featuring artists and collectives across a wide range of artistic media, LEGENDS examines how artists of Asian descent engage with the shared language of art and sport to reflect identity, nationalism, the body, and performance. 

The first exhibition to specifically focus on the relationship between art and sports within contemporary Asian and Asian American art, LEGENDS will debut works by The Chinatown Basketball Club, Kaarina Chu Mackenzie, and Astria Suparak. 

Programs hosted by the Godwin-Ternbach Museum in conjunction with the exhibition are open to the public. This exhibition was organized by Jayne Cole Southard, art historian and lecturer at The City College of New York. LEGENDS is a Queens College School of Arts Initiative funded by The Thomas Chen Family/Crystal Windows Endowment. 

Additional support is provided by Kupferberg Center for the Arts. Education programs and initiatives are supported by the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with New York City Council.

Curated by Jun Dong and Chihyang Hsu at Yang Collective

On View:
Feb. 12 - Mar. 22, 2026
Opening reception:
Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026 |
6 to 8 pm

Bringing together works by eleven artists, the exhibition centers on horses as seen through diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic languages, reflecting contemporary realities.

The Year of the Horse symbolizes strength, energy, and freedom. Horses have long been deeply embedded in human life, playing an essential role in shaping civilization since ancient times.

The exhibition explores horses in playful and thoughtful ways. The works depict their striking beauty, reveal their temperament and inner life, express strength and spirit, and transform the horse into a symbolic lens for engaging with social realities, cultural practices, and human experience.

Participating artists include Gian Galang, Helen Zhang, Jia Sung, Karol Hsueh, Soren Nellemann, Souya Handa, Xing Li, Yasmine Wei and Alice Yu, Yiming Tang, and Yuki He.

Curated by Frank WANG Yefeng at BELOW GRAND Gallery, featuring works by Li Zhenhua and Yuki He

On View: Jan 10 - Feb.14, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, Jan 10, 2026 | 5–7 PM


The Reality is Endlessly Postponed brings together Li Zhenhua and Yuki He—two artists whose practices unfold across moving images, photography, cinematography, and the unstable terrain between reality and its reconstruction. Though their career trajectories differ, both artists operate fluidly between roles—curator, producer, filmmaker, architect, designer—allowing their work to emerge from an acute awareness of how images circulate, how memories shift, and how meaning is continually produced in unstable realms.

The significance of community is a running thread connecting many of the works in the exhibit. Yuki He’s Chinatown Basketball Club is a digital reimagining of Columbus Park during the CBC Mini-Market Day. Chinatown Basketball Club is a weekly gathering of artists of Asian descent who host pick-up games, tournaments, and various creative projects; thus transforming the basketball court into a place of belonging and shared artistry.

- Colleen Dalusong

May 31, 2025

On a storage cabinet outside the barbershop, an interactive artwork lets visitors play a dreamed-up board game — “Flushing Polyphonous” — designed by Mamahuhu (Yuki He and Qianfan Gu) as a kind of Queens-centric version of Monopoly. Players roll dice and gain or lose money as they advance, according to cards they draw. Some instructions are biting and sly, pointing to the challenges residents face: “Tangram Mall celebrates its grand opening with exciting promotions, but unfortunately, your small business is suffering losses,” one card says, indicating a setback. Other cards refer to police crackdowns on street vendors, M.T.A. delays, and anti-gentrification protests that slow your progress.

- Aruna D’Souza

June 21, 2023

Evoking the way in which local residents identify local places by familiar landmarks and experiences instead of official names, most of the artworks on display aren’t labeled. In place of a numbered address, the exhibition’s location is a set of descriptive directions using community markers. For Home-O-Stasis, Yuki He and Qianfan Gu from the collective Mamahuhu created “Flushing Polyphonous” (2023), a humorous reinterpretation of Flushing’s map as a Monopoly-like board game. With magnetic pieces and a pair of die, the game takes players through the Queens neighborhood focusing on landmarks and shared hyperlocal experiences.

- Maya Pontone

July 18, 2023

Flushing Polyphonous, an interactive Monopoly send-up designed by the collective Mamahuhu (Yuki He and Qianfan Gu), takes on the rampant real estate speculation that has beset the neighbourhood in recent years. Fortunes in the game are painstakingly gained and lost: $20 earned from a job at Hong Kong Supermarket or half of one’s savings decimated by a cyberscam.

- Kolleen Ku

September 20, 2023