Events
Featured Events
Luminous Path
2026
No Place Like Home Exhibition
December 2025 - January 2026
Hotel Boutique
May 2025
A two-part celebratory event in collaboration with StillShop and Ace Hotel, including a multicultural pop-up market with local and emerging API brands and a vibrant celebration with a book launch and several artist guest speakers.
Night Market
July - August 2024
A multifaceted program shining a light on the rich culture of the API and POC communities woven into the framework of New York City, including a.charitable exhibition, a vendor market, a panel talk, and an exhibition walkthrough.
The fundraising auction realized a total of $233,272 with $177,200 of the proceeds supporting the participating artists, Civil Art, and Apex for Youth.
Past Events
Drawwing Inspiration
April 2025
Drawwing Inspiration was a fundraising event in collaboration with Drawwing Cabinet hosted by ELOREA, Los Angeles to support arts education for underserved API youth. The event offered a first glimpse of Civil Art X Christie’s Night Market: The Exchange of Dreams, a publication featuring trailblazing Asian Pacific Islander creatives.
bios, morphe
March - April 2024
bios, morphe was a fundraising group exhibition that explored how elements of historical Biomorphism manifest in contemporary artmaking, continuing to serve as a tool for making sense of oneself, one’s environment, and one’s position in the world. The artists in the exhibition present the familiar as unfamiliar, engage absurdity to critique social issues, juxtapose unexpected imagery, and make human and alive that which is not. This exhibition was co-presented by Civil Art and Loft121 and was held at Maison Mono.
Stars Upon Departure
May - August 2024
Stars Upon Departure was a fundraising exhibition in collaboration with ELOREA, NYC. The exhibition was Wanki Min’s first solo exhibition in New York. Wanki Min's photographs blend celestial and urban landscapes, exploring the interplay between light, space, and human existence. Through experimental photography, he juxtaposes the cosmos with everyday scenes, blurring boundaries of time, scale, and place.
Art and Voices
Summer 2023
As a demonstration of camaraderie and unity, Civil Art collaborated with The Here and There Collective (API community-based non-profit) to feature 19 prominent API artists at Harper's Gallery. The exhibition features works of API artists whose thought-provoking works break the fetishized and homogenized view of the API identities to introduce a nuanced exposition of the Asian diaspora.
Tea and Chocolate
November 2023
Civil Art hosted Tea and Chocolate, an intimate gathering of art and storytelling with corporate sponsors, art patrons, and artists at The Good Liver, a modern-day lifestyle store in Los Angeles. The event featured a store walkthrough, followed by a tea ceremony with Kettl’s West Coast representative and a chocolate-tasting presentation by andSons Chocolatiers.
Warmth of Tea
May 2023
For API month in May of 2023, Civil Art activated a cozy gathering of corporate sponsors and artists at Kettl, an authentic Japanese green tea house in Greenpoint, NY. The intimate event featured a Japanese ceramicist, Minami Mangan’s works on display and for sale, followed by a tea ceremony accompanied by a book reading by API author and illustrator, Haruka Aoki.
At the Table
June-July 2022
At the Table was a charitable program, built on the foundations of creativity, community, and education. With prominent API visual artists, culinary artists, scholars, and designers, their voices are featured in various forms of exhibitions, publications, and public events. This project was sponsored by East West Bank. Proceeds from the exhibition and the cookbook will benefit Heart of Dinner.
Korea Fest
September 2026
Civil Art joined Korea Fest at Twin Star Orchards to celebrate Korean culture, food, art, crafts, and community. The festival featured a vibrant marketplace, family-friendly activities, and live music.
Art Week Party
September 2026
For this year’s Art Week, Civil Art brought together artists, creatives, and New York’s cultural community for a special night of art, music, and connection. The event took place at reSOUND, beneath Rockefeller Center, in a collaboration with Character Media / Golden Media and reSOUND’s immersive world of light and sound.