Alex Paik

Amanda Ross-Ho Finds Herself in Her Parents' Art The artist's current show is a moving reflection on the ways our identities are inexorably entangled with our relationships and surroundings.

My latest for Hyperallergic: a review of Amanda Ross-Ho’s fantastic show at Leroy’s!

hyperallergic.com/amanda-ross-...

Partial Right Triangle (Aqua Blue)
gouache, paper, pins
dimensions variable
2025

installed in studio, December 2025 (approx. 4 x 6.25 feet)
#alexpaik

Just got some physical copies of an essay I wrote this summer for “My Mother’s Tongue Ties Me Together,” featuring the work of #HungLe #NoelleChoy #MerrySun at Spencer Museum of Art.

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🎄 It’s listicle season! I contributed two short blurbs on @takako.yamaguchi at @moca and @ruthasawaofficial at @sfmoma to @hyperallergic ‘s “The Best Art Shows Around the World in 2025.”

Read the full article here:
hyperallergic.com/the-best-art...

New writing! A series of micro essays on Asian American identity formation.

www.abladeofgrass.pub/contribution...

My latest for @hyperallergic.com

Partial Octagon (Emerald Green)
gouache, paper, nails
dimensions variable
2024

installed in studio, August 2025 (approx. 4.5 x 8.5 feet)
#alexpaik

Thank you, Nick! 💖💖💖

Thank you!

Thanks!

This summer was filled with injury recovery, PT appointments, child care, and other things 😵‍💫 but I finally finished this new modular installation. #alexpaik

Partial Right Triangle (Aqua Blue)
gouache, paper, pins
dimensions variable
2025

installed in studio, August 2025 (approx. 4.5 x 6 feet)

#WillRawls at #ICALA

#TakakoYamaguchi at #MOCALA

#WillRawls at #ICALA

Who wants to give me a big wall so I can fill it with pattern? 😅

Partial Octagon (Emerald Green)
gouache, paper, nails
dimensions variable
2024
installed in studio, May 2025 (approx. 5 x 7.5 feet)
#alexpaik

Ruth Asawa Showed Us the Way to an Artistic Life Asawa gracefully wove together many sides — an innovative and singular artist, a tireless advocate for arts education, a community builder, and a loving wife and mother.

Ruth Asawa’s iconic looped wire sculptures are the star of her retrospective at SFMOMA. The seemingly infinite variations that she found within the limits of the medium are staggering — the best reductive abstractionists can spend a lifetime trying to achieve the same thing.

Ruth Asawa Showed Us the Way to an Artistic Life Asawa gracefully wove together many sides — an innovative and singular artist, a tireless advocate for arts education, a community builder, and a loving wife and mother.

My review of the #RuthAsawa retrospective at SFMoma on @hyperallergic.com

hyperallergic.com/1027751/ruth...

Tickets for our fundraiser are now live! Don’t miss out on early bird pricing!

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Improvisation #3 from Partial Hexagon (Cadmium Yellow Orange)
gouache on paper
6.25 x 6.25 x 1.25 inches
2025
#alexpaik

Thank you!

Partial Equilateral Triangle (Magenta)
gouache, paper, nails
dimensions variable
2024

installed in studio, May 2025 (approx. 5 x 6.5 feet)
#alexpaik

Improvisation #2 from Partial Hexagon (Cadmium Yellow Orange)
gouache on paper
7.75 x 7.75 x 0.5 inches
2025
#alexpaik

Asian Diasporic Artists Ask How We Create Our Self-Images A group exhibition focuses on the fragmented nature of identity and the circular loop of external and internal feedback involved in self-image creation.

Ten Asian diasporic artists explore how we create our self-images through technology, media, and cultural representation in “my hands are monsters who believe in magic” at Pasadena’s Armory Center for the Arts.

Asian Diasporic Artists Ask How We Create Our Self-Images A group exhibition focuses on the fragmented nature of identity and the circular loop of external and internal feedback involved in self-image creation.

My latest for Hyperallergic

hyperallergic.com/1015060/asia...

Improvisation #1 from Partial Hexagon (Cadmium Yellow Orange)
gouache on paper
7 x 7 x 0.5 inches
2025
#alexpaik

Some new drawings 👀
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A Polyphonic Identity | Seoul Festival Alex Paik (GYOPO) considers his relationship to his culture in the context of the LA Phil’s Seoul Festival, a celebration of Korean music and artistry at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

🎼 Some of you may know that classical music was my first artistic love, so it feels very special to have written this piece for LA Phil’s Seoul Festival and GYOPO Diasporic Refractions.

www.laphil.com/about/watch-...

#JeffreyGibson at #BroadMuseum

Some more new drawings. #alexpaik

Another formation 🐦

Partial Equilateral Triangle (Magenta)
gouache, paper, nails
dimensions variable
2024

installed in studio, April 2025 (approx. 4 x 6 feet)
#alexpaik