Artist Talk with CFGNY: A Practice in Collaboration

 

Please join us for a roundtable discussion with CFGNY (Concept Foreign Garments New York) — an artist collective whose multidisciplinary practice combines image making, installation, performance and garment making — moderated by artist Vincent Chong ('26). The collective uses materials such as porcelain, stuffed animals, photography, drawing, and corrugated cardboard to investigate notions of mass production, and fetishistic desire. At the heart of these investigations, Asian identity fractures and fragments into what the collective refers to as, “vaguely Asian.” 

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CFGNY is an artist collective whose research-based practice takes the form of image making, installation, sculpture,garment making, and performance to expand ideas of racialization and subjectivity. Founded in 2016, the collective continually returns to the term “vaguely Asian”: an understanding of racial identity as a specific cultural experience that includes being perceived as other.

Recent and upcoming exhibitions, performances and projects include the 82nd Whitney Biennial, New York (2026); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2025); Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (2024); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2024); SculptureCenter, New York (2023); PIN-UP/Marséll, Milan (2023); Japan Society, New York (2022); X Museum, Beijing (2021); RISD Museum, Providence (2019);and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2018). In October 2024, CFGNY was named Frieze London’s Focus Stand Prize winner for its presentation with Hot Wheels,  Athens and London. CFGNY is currently composed of Daniel Chew, Ten Izu, and Tin Nguyen. 

Vincent Chong (莊志明) aka Crystal Monkey is a Queer mixed-race Chinese-American artist working in Chinese calligraphy, seal carving, painting, drawing, and performance. They hold an MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University as well as a BFA in fine art and a BA in mathematics from Cornell University. They are a student of Taipei-based calligrapher Wu Wensheng. Selected shows and performances include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seizan NYC, Ruth’s Table, and Skånes Konstförening. Residencies include ISCP, The Center for Book Arts, and Fire Island Artist Residency.