Roots Unveiled is a research-driven exhibition project tracing early Chinese American history in Texas through archival materials, oral histories, and contemporary artistic interpretation.

Developed through long-term archival research and community-based oral history collection, the project brings together historical photographs, documents, family records, and newly created artworks to examine migration, labor, family life, and everyday resilience from the nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century.

Rather than presenting history as a fixed narrative, Roots Unveiled approaches the archive as a living field—one that is incomplete, layered, and continuously shaped by memory, storytelling, and reinterpretation. The exhibition situates historical materials alongside contemporary artistic responses, allowing past and present to speak to one another.