Neither Here Nor There
Organized by OCADU International Student Support Office (ISSO) in Summer 2025
Art Director: Minjeong Ju
Curators: Andrin Jian, Freya Parekh, Liam Ethan, Sarvin Sadeghian, Timothy Soriano
“Who am I? And where am I?” This question often lingers in our minds. As international students, we don’t fully belong to this society. We are immigrants, foreigners, aliens.
In everyday moments, we’re caught off guard—unsure how to respond, feeling out of sync with what’s happening around us. We wonder quietly, Is it because I’m a foreigner? Moments like these remind us that we are not entirely part of this country.
Yet, when we return home after years abroad, things have changed. So have we. Our hometowns feel unfamiliar. The people we once felt closest to now seem distant. We’ve missed pieces of their lives, and they’ve missed pieces of ours. Conversations grow shorter. Sometimes, they stop altogether.
We begin to float between cultures, between languages, between identities. We carry stories from different places, shaped by perspectives that don’t fully align with any one nation. Our identity becomes a shifting space, not fixed but fluid.
This exhibition explores the in-between; the ambiguity, the disconnection, and the quiet resilience of international students navigating life across borders. Through art, we seek to give shape to this experience: the feeling of being everywhere and nowhere at once.