o v e r / e x p o s e d

a group show by the 2025 ARTogether Artists in Residence

What parts of ourselves do we keep safe from the hostility aimed at our communities? How do we share our art when we aren’t fully seen to begin with? How can we redirect the gaze to expose the oppressive systems themselves? When do we decide to reveal the true nature of our lives despite all this?

As immigrants, diasporic, queer, nonbinary, Black, mixed-race artists, femmes, parents, and healers, we are searching for a balance between what we choose to expose of ourselves and being overexposed to the greed and hatred around us. Our work takes up space and asks us to be vulnerable while we insist on the safety and dignity of our loved ones and neighbors.

Our works include mixed media, painting, sculpture, animation, installations, prints, and performance that move between disclosure and opacity. Some fragments are offered plainly, others remain guarded, resisting the demand to translate or explain. Here, exposure is not a spectacle, but a dialogue.

2025 Artists in Residence

Mame Marieme LO is a French-Senegalese visual artist and social worker based in the Bay Area. Her mixed-media work explores Blackness, lineage, and resilience through painting, animation, and digital art. Drawing from personal and collective histories, she creates polyform ancestors and reimagines erased narratives. Her practice began as a personal ritual and evolved into a tool for healing and connection. She has exhibited in France, Switzerland, and the U.S., and facilitates community workshops centered on art, care, and resistance. Her work blends traditional techniques with digital archives to transform cycles of trauma into spaces of reflection and strength. 

Fateme Mokhles is an Iranian, queer, interdisciplinary artist and an accomplished children’s book illustrator. She brings together visual art, dance, singing, and performance to tell layered, playful, and thought-provoking stories. Her illustrations are deeply inspired by her community and by the curiosity of children, while her dances draw from the richness of Persian culture and movement traditions. Through her work, Fateme aims to make her audience giggle—and perhaps feel just a little bit uncomfortable! Her illustration work includes Rostam’s Picture-Day Pusteen (Charlesbridge Publishing, 2024) and the forthcoming My America Blooms (Beaming Books, 2026).

Roger Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and musician whose work explores the relationships between diaspora, tradition, trauma, and belonging. Roger studied music and art at UC Berkeley, California Institute of the Arts, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and traditional Korean music with Ji Soonja in South Korea. He has received recognition and support from Vermont Studio Center, ICA San Francisco, Broken Pencil Magazine, YBCA New Frequencies Festival, CultureHub LA, and San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Roger publishes puri zine about Korean history, is the founder of Kkiri Kkiri Samulnori, and facilitates workshops with Hwa Records collective.

Mona Wang is a visual artist based in Oakland whose work re-imagines the tensions at the boundaries of cultures to create something new, especially around diasporic communities. She studies traditional Chinese and Arabic calligraphy, and previously led the design and construction of Loss in Translation, a large-scale multilingual sound-art installation housed in a large wooden hulu.

Kate Goka’s art practice includes sculpture, installation, video, and work on paper using found objects, hand papermaking, mixed media, and sometimes burning. Based in the San Francisco bay area for most of her life, her work is informed by traces of living histories and the objects we touch.

Jackie Romero (she/her) is a Palestinian and Mexican artist born and raised in Yelamu aka San Francisco, CA. Jackie is a community organizer and visual artist whose work reflects the relationship between people and land. She paints, makes prints and continues the centuries old practice of tatreez (Palestinian embroidery). Her practice is rooted in art’s historical role as a safeguard of cultural identity, political unity and revolutionary struggle.

Martin Rodriguez Serrano (b. 2001, Quito, Ecuador) is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, printmaking, and installation. Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, his work explores the complexities of identity, memory, and cultural hybridity through layers, color, and erasure. In 2020, he received an art certificate in Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture from the Accademia D’Arte Firenze in Florence, Italy, and in 2023, an AA in Studio Art and an AA in Art History from the College of Marin. Furthermore, he received his BA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley. Rodriguez Serrano has already been included in several group exhibitions, including “Pyramid Scheme 2” at Bass & Reiner Gallery in San Francisco, CA. Rodriguez Serrano currently lives and works in Berkeley, California.