About me
Lani Asunción has a working studio at Midway Artist Studios in the Fort Point Arts Neighborhood in Boston. They were the Curator & Public Art Manager of the 2024-2025 Un-monument initiative for Pao Arts Center (Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center) in partnership with the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, supported by the Mellon Foundation. They are a 2026 Neighborhood Salon Luminary at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2025 WBUR Maker, and a 2025-2026 Hidden Histories Artist-in-Resident in collaboration with Joanna Tam supported by The Reckonings Project focusing on Chinatown histories at Northeastern University Special Collections Archives. Asunción is a recipient of the MAP Fund Grant (2024), Kala Fellowship Award (2023), Future Frequencies Fellowship from MASS MoCA Studios (2022), NEFA Public Art for Spatial Justice Grant (2021), and Live Arts Boston Grant (2020). Asunción has exhibited and performed their work at Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, MFA Boston, Real Art Ways, Brookline Arts Center, and Ogden Contemporary Arts Center. Their work is part of the online collection at the Peabody Museum of Archeology & Ethnology at Harvard University, and has published work in the Boston Art Review, and The Journal of the Pacific Arts Association at UC Santa Cruz. Asunción is a alumna of the 2022-2025 Studio Artist Residency at Boston Center for the Arts, and is the founding member of the queer multimedia collective Digital Soup and member of Mobius Artists Group.
