LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART: Opening Reception & Mother Artist Salon with pianist Eunbi Kim
Photo: a still from ‘Saturn Years’ video by new media artist Xuan
Please join us on July 21, 2025, from 7 – 9 pm for the Opening Reception for the exhibition LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART. At the reception, mother artist Eunbi Kim will give a solo piano performance and share musings on the transformative connections between motherhood, music, and identity. Kim and her husband just welcomed their second child.
The event will take place at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York. Admission is free and no RSVP is required. Families with children are welcome!
The event is the first of a series of Mother Artist Salons being held in conjunction with the exhibition LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART. Check the exhibition announcement or CRS calendar for details.
ABOUT THE ARTIST AND PROGRAM
Pianist Eunbi Kim explores childhood, family, and identity through multimedia programs that combine music, visual projections, and spoken text. She creates sonic memoirs that invite audiences to meditate on their past, present, and future selves and how they all coexist. In “it feels like a dream,” created shortly after becoming a new mother, she asks the audience, “What are the dreams we carry? What are the dreams we pass on?” Working in close collaboration with cutting-edge composers and artists of different mediums, she creates projects that offer audiences the opportunity to tap into their unconscious pool of memories, dreams, and desires.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART is an exhibition of five artists who are mothers of different generations — Daniela Kostova (Bulgaria), Aline Müller (Brazil), Quynh “Alex” Nguyễn (Vietnam), Katie Heller Saltoun (USA), and Satomi Shirai (Japan). Curated by CRS co-founder Christopher Pelham, the exhibition will be on view at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York from July 21 – 26, 2025.
“Being an artist is to experience a vigorous, experimental life of the mind and of the senses. Parenthood is another enriching experience: primal, haptic and life-affirming. Why are the two still seen as incompatible?” — Jeffrey Boloten and Juliet Hacking, Forward to How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents)
This exhibition highlights the inspiring works being created worldwide by mother artists and examines the multifaceted relationship between motherhood and art-making. Through their diverse photography and 2D works, we invite you to consider the challenges that working mother artists face and reflect on motherhood and child-rearing as fundamentally creative acts, inseparably intertwined with art-making, deserving of our loving attention, respect, and support. Learn more…
EXHIBITION HOURS
Monday, July 21 – July 26, 2025 (closed July 25)
Mon – Thu 12 – 6 pm, Sat 12 – 3 pm
TENRI GALLERY LOCATION
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, 43A W 13th St, New York, NY 10011
212.645.2800