Cindy Hwang
The Forgotten Suffragette series highlights four women activists of color who made invaluable contributions to their communities, yet have been largely overshadowed by their white contemporaries. One of them, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, was barred from voting even after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment due to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which excluded Chinese immigrants from eligibility for United States citizenship. The series resurfaces newspaper clippings about the four women but obscures their portraits — a visual indication of our collective, racially inflected forgetting.
Cindy Hwang (b. 1993, Phoenix, Arizona) lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. In her personal practice, she explores the intersection between politics and aesthetics, using language and vernacular forms to complicate assumptions and call attention to everyday violence. As a professional graphic designer, she has worked for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and The New York Times, and assisted activist groups such as Indivisible Nation. Recent group exhibitions include the First- and Second-Year MFA Shows at the Yale School of Art.
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