Devon Avenue Sampler (2009)
Devon Avenue Sampler is a portrait of a diasporic South Asian/Jewish community in Chicago, IL. This textile series, which uses indigo dye and khadi fabric, was hand embroidered by artisans from a fair trade women’s organization in Mumbai, India.

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Aloha Dreams (2007)
In this mixed media painting series and installation, Kina examines her Orientalist impulse for heritage tourism. Looking nostalgically at her family’s history as Okinawan sugar cane plantation workers on the Big Island of Hawaii, she ultimately finds herself through mediated pop images of paradise and in the very real space of a Midwestern Vietnamese nail salon.

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Loving (2006)
Inspired by the 1967 Supreme Court Case, Loving v. Virginia, that overturned this nation’s last anti-miscegenation law, Kina examines issues of color in black and white. Kina drew life-size charcoal portraits of ten “Bi-Racial Baby Boomers” as representative of the larger mixed race community and movement in the United States.

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Hapa Soap Opera (2003)
There’s romance in the air in these love triangles featuring an all hapa cast. Drawing inspiration from Bollywood movie posters, Kina painted large-scale portraits of mixed Asian Americans from across the United States.

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