Adrienne Pao

Adrienne Pao, a San Francisco Bay area based photographer, is interested in the confluence of fantasy and identity, and how this is visualized through photographic imagery. Her provocative collection of Dress Tents, installations and large-scale photographs, a collaboration with artist Robin Lasser, examine female stereotypes through wearable shelters paired with socially significant landscapes. Her personal photographic series created with ohana in Hawai’i explores her own identity and relationship to Hawaiian iconography and personal family storytelling. Pao’s work has appeared in museums, galleries, fashion and pop culture magazines, public campaigns, and art journals around the world. Recent exhibitions include the Asian Art Museum/Livable City (San Francisco); Smithsonian APAC Culture Lab (Honolulu); Center for Photographic Art (Carmel, California); Honolulu Biennial Prologue; Recoleta Cultural Center (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Caixa Cultural (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Metenkhov House Photo Museum (Yekaterinburg, Russia); and the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific Experience (Seattle). Pao received her MFA from San Jose State University and works in creative and photography production in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Programs:

• P L A C E: Reckonings by Asian American Artists