HOTEL BOUTIQUE
May 2025 | New York
In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Civil Art hosted Hotel Boutique, a two part celebratory event, in collaboration with StillShop and Ace Hotel. Hotel Boutique launched with a multicultural pop-up market featuring local and emerging API brands, which gradually transitioned into a vibrant celebration in the evening.
Highlights
Afterparty
The Hotel Boutique afterparty brought together communities of artists, chefs, designers, scholars, patrons, and leaders of New York’s creative industry. Guests enjoyed complimentary drinks from Brooklyn Cider House and Ten to One Rum.
Daytime Market
The Daytime Market hosted a diverse lineup of local and emerging API vendors including Delfino, Helena Wang, Raum, Maison Mono, DAWANG, Shy Binu, LOUPN, COVRY, The Coming, YRGD, HERHERLIN, Softserve, 1ER, Seree, Hyalos Arts, Scented Stranger, and Civil Art.
Guest Speakers
Civil Art invited NY-based artist Sagarika Sundaram, chef and co-founder of Nudibranch Jeffrey Kim, and DJ and co-founder of 929 Haoran Chen to share their motivations and creative philosophies.
Guest Speakers
Sagarika Sundaram
Jeffrey Kim is the chef and co-founder of Nudibranch, an innovative restaurant blending Korean and Spanish cuisines to reflect the diversity of New York City.
Haoran Chen
Sagarika Sundaram is a New York-based artist whose bold, tactile abstractions investigate the relationship between materiality and the human psyche.
Jeffrey Kim
Haoran Chen is a DJ and co-founder of 929, a Canto and Mando-pop-inspired cocktail bar channeling Chinese diasporic nostalgia in New York.
Book Launch
Hotel Boutique is one of two events that hosted the highly anticipated book launch of Civil Art x Christie’s publication Night Market: The Exchange of Dreams, featuring trailblazing Asian Pacific Islander creatives.
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