Wonder Women: Art of the Asian Diaspora

The first book to highlight Asian diasporic women and nonbinary artists engaged with figurative painting, sculpture, and drawing.

Genny Lim’s poem “Wonder Woman” follows a narrator who observes the everyday lives of Asian women—across generations, countries, and socioeconomic backgrounds—wondering if their experiences reflect her own. The poem centers Asian women as its protagonists and asks what commonalities exist between them.

Often underrepresented in museum collections and important exhi...