Mina Cheon, Still from Lesson 6 Art, Lives Matter, and Social Justice, 2017. Art History Lesson videos sent to North Korea. Courtesy of the artist and Ethan Cohen Gallery. Image courtesy of Mina Cheon Studio

Mina Cheon, Still from Lesson 5 Feminism, Are We Equal?, 2017. Art History Lesson videos sent to North Korea. Courtesy of the artist and Ethan Cohen Gallery. Image courtesy of Mina Cheon Studio

Installation view of Asia Society Triennial: “We Do Not Dream Alone” at Asia Society Museum, New York, October 27, 2020–June 27, 2021. From left to right: Minouk Lim, L'homme à la caméra, 2015; It's a Name I Gave Myself, 2018; Parabolic Satellite, 2015; Hydra, 2015; Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photograph: Bruce M. White, 2020

Arpita Singh, The Eternal Repose, 1997. Oil on canvas. H. 59 1/2 x W. 66 in. (151.1 x 167.6 cm). Private Collection. Photograph courtesy of RL Fine Arts

Dinh Q. Lê, South China Sea Pishkun, 2009. Single-channel high-definition 3-D animation video with sound. Duration: 6 minutes, 30 seconds. Asia Society, New York: Purchased with funds donated by Alex, Carol, and David Appel, and Harold and Ruth Newman, with assistance from Shoshana Wayne Gallery, 2011.6. Courtesy of the artist and Shoshana Wayne Gallery © Dinh Q. Lê

Hamra Abbas, Every Color (detail), 2020. Ink and gouache on silk. Ten paintings, each H. 15 x W. 13 1/2 in. (38.1 x 34.3 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Photograph courtesy of the artist

Jordan Nassar, I Am Waiting For You, 2018. Hand embroidered cotton on cotton. H. 34 x W. 36 in. (86.4 x 91.4 cm). Collection of Giora Kaplan. Image courtesy the artist, Anat Ebgi, and James Cohan, New York

Boon Hui Tan photo by National Heritage Board; Michelle Yun photo by Edward Mapplethorpe

Nasim Nasr, 33 Beads (Unworried) #1, 2018. Single-channel digital high-definition video. Duration: 1 minutes, 47 seconds. Courtesy of the artist. Image courtesy of the artist