Lani Asunción
Neighborhood Luminary Salon
Lani Asunción (they/she) is a queer Filipinx interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator primarily working in public art and performance. Their work centers on environmental justice and community engagement through participatory rituals and transmedia storytelling. Exploring the intricacies of identity and belonging, their work is informed by archival research and navigates counternarratives that point toward collective liberation. They are a recipient of the NEFA Public Art for Spatial Justice Grant, Live Arts Boston Grant from the Boston Foundation, and MAP Fund Grant. Asunción was the curator of the Pao Arts Center (BCNC) 2024–2025 Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument: Transforming Boston initiative in partnership with the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, supported by the Mellow Foundation. They have attended residencies as a Future Frequencies Fellow at MASS MoCA Studios, Kala Fellowship at Kala Art Institute, and 2025–2026 Hidden Histories Artist-in-Residence with The Reckonings Project at Northeastern University. They have had public artwork commissioned by The Greenway Conservancy and have exhibited and performed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts; ICA Boston; New Bedford Art Museum; Real Art Ways; and Brookline Arts Center.
To know more, you can follow along at laniasuncion.com or on Instagram at @lani.asuncion.
Photo by Melissa Blackall
The Neighborhood Salon is supported in part by the Anne Hawley Fund for Programs, the Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. These programs are funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
