In 2020, when photographer Pao Houa Her's gallerist at the Bockley Gallery in Kenwood gave her a heads-up that the Whitney Museum in New York was interested in a studio visit, she was lying in bed with her husband, Ya Vang, at their home in Blaine. A couple months later, when she received word that she would be included in the career-making every-other-year 'you've-got-the-goods-kid' Whitney Biennial, they were sworn to secrecy, so they had a private champagne toast to each other in their kitchen.

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