As to the "Boat People" association with your Vietnamese name, it's kind of ridiculous too, given that it happened almost 40 years ago.  Your picture is tiny, but were you even born then? Do you feel the need for "lessons"* now regarding what your elders did or did not do?? 

FWIW, except for Native Americans (my left leg and some internal organs, I figure) everyone else here is originally from some kind of damn boat. And the earliest Native population came by boat down the west coast from Asian land bridges.  I digress. Does this historical information make any dent in the disrespect/categorization that comes across in using the term "Boat People"?  Of course it does not. It sucks and it feels slimy.  It puts up walls.  So where does the 'lesson go'? In the crapper.

Lumping people together by race/nationality is obsolete. Period. Your own subtitle 
"Curators of the show use gallery admission as a lesson in privilege and race" shows their failed 'logic'.

I still hope to see the art!