No Monument: In the Wake of the Japanese American IncarcerationMarch 16, 2022 – May 15, 2022.
The exhibition is organized to mark the eightieth anniversary of Executive Order 9066 (signed on February 19, 1942) which authorized the forced removal and mass incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans by the United States government during World War II. Including a selection of works by Japanese American artists, some of whom were incarcerated and others whose lives were shaped indirectly by the widespread impact of the Executive Order, the exhibition represents an array of photographic and sculptural experiments following an event marking the height of anti-Japanese sentiment in the twentieth century.
Toyo Miyatake, Untitled (Opening Image from Valediction), 1944. Gelatin silver print. 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. © Toyo Miyatake Studio Collection.
Toyo Miyatake, Row of Barracks, c. 1942–45. Gelatin silver print. 8 x 9 7/8 in. © Toyo Miyatake Studio Collection.
Toyo Miyatake, Untitled (Manzanar), c. 1942–45. Gelatin silver print. 7 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. © Toyo Miyatake Studio Collection.
Toyo Miyatake, Three boys looking through the prison camp's barbed-wire fence, with guard tower in background, 1944. Photograph by Toyo Miyatake. (Photo courtesy of Alan Miyatake, Toyo Miyatake Studio.)
