UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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MessageLiving Here
- June 20, 2025 - December 20, 2025
- Exhibition
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- Artwork
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- Artists
- Ian Racoma
- Bowl, 2025
- Oil on canvas
- Framed: 31.56 x 31.56 x 1.5 in
- Signature: Signed "RACOMA '25" on lower right corner.
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Ian Racoma
Bowl, 2025
Oil on canvas
Courtesy of the artist
This work is on loan for the exhibition, Living Here, at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, June 20 - December 20, 2025.
As a child, Ian Racoma moved between the United States and his grandparents’ home in the Philippines. Coming to adulthood in Las Vegas enabled him to maintain strong ties to Filipino culture “since there is such a large demographic of Filipinos here,” he explains. “This allowed for our families and friends to maintain certain traditions and religious holidays with big groups. A lot of the challenge growing up was navigating these two worlds and learning where and when to use a certain cultural language. These paintings touch a little on that navigation.”
Commenting on Bowl, he remembers that “90% of Asian kids had” bowl haircuts while he was a child, “including girls.” Girls were, however, excluded from his friend group of other boys from Asian and South Pacific backgrounds.