Jarod Lew is a Chinese American artist working in photography. His work explores themes of identity, community and displacement. One of his projects, "Please Take Off Your Shoes" was shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize in 2021, and was in a group exhibition at SFMOMA titled Kinship: Photography and Connection. His other project titled "In Between You and Your Shadow" examines his relationship with his mother, who was the fiancé of Vincent Chin--the subject of a hate-crime that brought national attention to matters of Asian American civil rights. His works are in the permanent collections of the Cantor Arts Center, Detroit Institute of Arts, Harvard Art Museum, Kadist, San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Lew’s work has been written about in Aperture, Artforum, Elephant Magazine, and Aesthetica Magazine.