Situated in the liminal space of a doorway, Secret Asian Man (SAM) is a space within a space. The rotating, double-sided walls of SAM, conflate clear delineation between front/back, inside/outside, here/there, me/you, us/them, and Asian/Agent.

For the inaugural exhibition, SAM invites Amanda Ross-Ho and Anna Sew Hoy, who are frequently mistaken for one another, to simultaneously come together and apart.

Amanda Ross-Ho (b. 1975, Chicago; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from University of Southern California (2006) and a BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1998). Selected solo exhibitions have been held at Kunsthall Stavanger (2019); Bonner Kunstverein (2017); Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (2017); Praz-Delavallade, Paris (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2014); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2013); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2024); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2022); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2021); U-jazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2020); Yuz Museum Shanghai (2019); Qatar Museums, Doha (2019); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2017); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016), Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (2011); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008). Ross-Ho is a recipient of Marciano Art Foundation Artadia Award (2025), Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2023), California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2017), and Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and  Sculptors Grant (2013).

Ross-Ho’s work is in the collections of Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; Art Institute of Chicago; Birmingham Museum of Art; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Kadist Art Foundation; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Mohn Art Collective: Hammer, LACMA, MOCA (MAC3); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; and Zabludowicz Collection, London.

Anna Sew Hoy (b. 1976, Auckland; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from Bard College (2008) and a BFA from School of Visual Arts (1998). Sew Hoy is faculty at University of California, Los Angeles. Solo exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2025); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2023); Various Small Fires, Los Angeles (2019, 2015); Campbell Hall Gallery, Studio City (2018); Koenig & Clinton, New York (2016); Aspen Art Museum (2015); San Jose Museum of Art (2011); Sikkema, Jenkins & Co., New York (2010); Renwick Gallery, New York (2008); and LAXART (2008). Selected Group exhibitions have been held at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2024); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2024); Albertz Benda, Los Angeles (2023); Jason Jacques Gallery, New York (2023); American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2022); Galerie Marguo, Paris (2022); Moràn Moràn, Los Angeles (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2021); Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto (2021); Koenig & Clinton, New York (2019); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2016); and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014). Sew Hoy is a recipient of Fellows of Contemporary Art Grant (2023), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2022), Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2021), Creative Capital Grant for Visual Artists (2015), and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2013).

Sew Hoy’s work is in the collections of Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.