2024 was the year of the book! Pubbed in April by Clarkson Potter/Penguin Random House, CORKY LEE’S ASIAN AMERICA took Asian/America by storm.
Reviews and author interviews: NY Times, New Yorker, PBS News Hour, SF Chronicle, Bomb magazine, Center for Asian American Media, Asian American News, DocumentedNY, WNYC Radio, Northwest Asian Weekly, Joy Sauce, LitHub, Next Shark, The Medium, Hyperallergic, They Call Us Bruce, Political Junkie.
National Book tour: Duke Univ.; Chinese American Museum-DC; Asia Society-NY; Japanese American National Museum-LA; Vroman’s (Pasadena); Wing Luke Museum (Seattle), Educational Alliance (NY Chinatown), MLK Library (Washington DC), Pao Arts Center (Boston); Asian Arts Alliance (Philadelphia); Edge on the Square (SF); Oakland Asian Cultural Center; Chinese American Librarians Assoc.; Montclair (NJ) Art Museum; SF Public Library; OCA Westchester; Asian American Journalists Assoc convention (Austin); Chinese American Museum (Portland OR); Queens College CUNY; Hunter College; Columbia Univ.; U-Mass Boston; Harvard & MIT; Vassar College.
Awards and Exhibits: TAAF Summit (NYC), International Center for Photography (NYC), NYU 8WSE Gallery; KKR (NYC); NYS Martin Luther King, Jr. tribute to Resilient NYers; honored by Asian American for Equality 50 anniversary gala.
Book deal: Julie Leung, “Seen: The Story of Corky Lee and his Photography of Asian America,” a children’s picture book. Illustrated by Julia Kuo. Dial Press (Spr 2027)
IN PROGRESS FOR 2025
The Estate has licensed use of photos by Corky for the following projects:
Exhibit, Kai Ming Head Start 50 anniv. SF, February
Murals, Amplify Asians, Austin Texas Feb. and with OCA Houston, April/ May
Exhibit, Expomus, Sao Paolo, Brazil, February
Exhibit, Flushing Public Library (May)
Mosaic, AAPI textbook for high school students (Gibbs Smith, pub)
Film, Making Waves, John Osaki
Exhibit, AAPI history museum, Rhode Island
Exhibit, Korematsu Institute, Los Angeles
Exhibit on AAPI activism, Tufts University, summer
Gallery on AAPI activism, HBO
stay tuned for more!
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