Jarod Lew

  • Jarod Lew is a Chinese American artist and photographer who explores themes of identity, community, and displacement. The artist’s work extends Asian American histories and narratives through a complex photographic practice that explores familial relationships, domestic space, historical and personal memory, and official histories. One of Lew’s notable projects, Please Take off Your Shoes (2021), addresses the contradictions inherent to constructions of Asian American identity and examines images of Asian subjects and objects within America’s suburban landscape. The series was inspired by the shocking discovery that his mother was the fiancé of Vincent Chin who was murdered by two auto workers in Highland Park, Michigan. The community’s response to Chin’s death sparked the 1982 Asian American movement in the United States.

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Jarod Lew is a Chinese American artist and photographer who explores themes of identity, community, and displacement. The artist’s work extends Asian American histories and narratives through a complex photographic practice that explores familial relationships, domestic space, historical and personal memory, and official histories. One of Lew’s notable projects, Please Take off Your Shoes (2021), addresses the contradictions inherent to constructions of Asian American identity and examines images of Asian subjects and objects within America’s suburban landscape. The series was inspired by the shocking discovery that his mother was the fiancé of Vincent Chin who was murdered by two auto workers in Highland Park, Michigan. The community’s response to Chin’s death sparked the 1982 Asian American movement in the United States.