Hidden in Plain Sight: Selected Writings of Karin Higa

Title: Hidden in Plain Sight: Selected Writings of Karin Higa

Author: Karin Higa

Publisher: Dancing Foxes Press

Publication Year: 2023

ISBN: 9781954947023

Edited by artist, curator, writer and editor Julie Ault, Hidden in Plain Sight brings together essential writings by the trailblazing art historian and curator Karin Higa (1966–2013). The selected essays, written between 1992 and 2011, focus on the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans in Western US states to specially constructed concentration camps, the artistic production and communities that took root within them and the individual and collective narratives of Asian American artists amid discriminatory policies, restricted political agency and racism. While exploring issues of identity and immigration, Higa recuperates significant artists and oeuvres from historical neglect and engages contemporary artists to examine how art acts as a source for and transmitter of cultural identity.