Waves of DuPage Beautiful Cities art Exhibition at Cleve Carney Museum of Art
In conjunction with the 2025 exhibition Hokusai and Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, The College of DuPage, McAninch Arts Center, and Cleve Carney Museum of Art have partnered with Naperville Artist Rich Lo to create ukiyo-e style images showcasing the many beautiful villages and cities that make up DuPage County. Collaborating with these DuPage communities, Lo will create original works that highlight distinctive locations in each area. Each artwork will be transformed into a large-scale mural and installed in the specific community it represents. These works will also be on display in the McAninch Arts Center during the Hokusai and Ukiyo-e exhibition from May 31-Sept 21, 2025.
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Collaborating with DuPage communities, Rich Lo created original works that distinctive locations in each area. The images join display are prints of all the artwork he created, offering undeniable proof the DuPage County is home to a wealth of beautiful cities.
Downers Grove Train Station Mural Unveiling. 1 of 22 unveilings of participating cities in DuPage County.
On Display
Curator Justin Witte used the original sketches as the backdrop.
Village of Lisle
One of the 30 prints on display at the museum.
Over 30,000 visited the museum in the summer of 2025.
Viewers love to identify their cities.
Gold Mountain Art Exhibition at the Chinese American Museum in Chicago
Artist and children's book author Rich Lo presents Land of Gold Mountain, a solo exhibition at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) that traces the history of Chinese immigration to America.
The exhibition takes its title from Jīnshān (金山), or "Gold Mountain," the name Chinese immigrants gave to America — and California in particular — during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the promise of the Gold Rush drew thousands across the Pacific in search of opportunity and a way out of poverty and turmoil at home.
For Lo, the series is both historical and deeply personal, a personal Lens on Chinese American History Through Art This series of work, categorized in 4 segments, digs into Lo’s immigrant experience and journey to success in America, interwoven with the rich and unique history of Chicago’s Chinatown. It is part history lesson, part tribute, and part personal reflection.
Land of Gold Mountain builds on Lo's ongoing Gold Mountain series, which has also been presented at Nichols Library in Naperville during AAPI Heritage Month, hosted by the Chinese American Women in Action (CAWA). See artwork
