Zhang Huan: Altered States
This exhibition is the first-ever museum retrospective of Zhang Huan that encompasses major works produced over the past 15 years in Beijing, New York, and Shanghai.

Condensation: Five Video Works by Chen Chieh-jen
The first major solo exhibition of leading Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-jen in the United States. In recent years, he has received significant attention for his video works, which resemble short films.

Collectors' Choice
For Collectors' Choice, Asia Society has invited 13 of New York’s most renowned collectors of Asian art to present to the public some of their favorite works alongside selected objects from Asia Society’s Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection. This exhibition features approximately 50 extraordinary works of sculpture, ceramic, and painting from South, Southeast, and East Asia, and the Himalayas, ranging in date from the second through the eighteenth century.

Free Fish: The Art of Yuken Teruya
Artist Yuken Teruya unveiled a new work at Asia Society, inspired by a Ming-dynasty Chinese porcelain jar that he selected from Asia Society’s Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection. He developed the new work through his imaginary and intimate dialogue with the collection piece in a manner that reflects the essence of his art—extreme sensitivity to and respect for material, craft, and the environment.

Glass, Gilding, and Grand Design: Art of Sasanian Iran (224–642)
Glass, Gilding, and Grand Design: Art of Sasanian Iran (224-642) presents masterpieces illustrating the splendor of the court arts of the Sasanian dynasty, which ruled the ancient Near East from the third through seventh centuries.

Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China's Liao Empire (907-1125)
Over 200 recently excavated objects from Inner Mongolia that reveal the complex cultural and religious legacy of the Khitan and their reign over China during the Liao Dynasty (907–1125).

One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now
Asia Society's first major group show devoted to contemporary Asian American art in more than 12 years. A uniquely conceived exhibition of important works by 17 Asian American artists, One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now focuses almost exclusively on artists born in the U.S.—most of them born after 1970.

Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India
Asia Society and the Queens Museum of Art co-present the first-ever major exhibition of contemporary Indian art in the United States. Co-organized by the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India includes 80 cutting-edge works of sculpture, painting, drawing, installation, video, and interactive media dating from 1993 to 2005.

Imperial Elegance: Chinese Ceramics from the Asia Society’s Rockefeller Collection
Featuring the Asia Society’s world-renowned permanent collection, the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of Asian Art, the exhibition focuses on a selection of approximately 40 exquisite works of Chinese ceramics created for use and display. Elegant in form and decoration, the ceramics range from subtle, creamy white, late 11th-century Ding ware with underglaze-incised patterns to bold, early 18th-century porcelains with colorful overglaze enamel designs. Curated by Adriana Proser, Curator of Traditional Asian Art, Asia Society.

Asian Games: The Art of Contest
Using both the paraphernalia of games and paintings, prints, and decorative arts that depict people playing games, Asian Games: The Art of Contest is the first major exhibition to explore the role of games as social activity and as indices of cultural values in the diverse societies of pre-modern Asia, highlighting the paramount importance of Asia as a source of many games—chess, backgammon, Parcheesi, Ludo, Snakes and Ladders, playing cards, polo, and field hockey—now played worldwide.

In the Realm of Gods and Kings: Arts of India Selections from the Polsky Collections and The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Part of Asia Society’s special 2004-2005 initiative presenting topics on the past, present, and future of India, this exhibition is intended to create a broad understanding of the country’s religions and courtly traditions, with more than 75 works of art—among them a spectacular collection of paintings from the Mughal and Rajput courts and unusual architectural reliefs depicting scenes from nature.

When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Collection of Susan L. Beningson
Ornamental forms in India are echoed from the walls of temples to the jewelry that drapes bodies to the surface of the jewelry itself. Drawing on a private New York collection, this exhibition presents close to 100 pieces of Indian jewelry, most of it gold and much of it jeweled. The focus of the collection is jewelry from the south of India, particularly women’s jewelry and jewelry meant for the gods.

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China
Photography and video have developed as contemporary art forms relatively recently in mainland China. This major traveling exhibition is the first of its kind to explore contemporary photography and photo-based work from China produced over the last decade.

Wrathful Deities in Buddhist Art
An installation to celebrate the opening of the Rubin Museum of Art
The concept of the wrathful deity is one of the most misunderstood aspects of the Buddhist religious tradition. Often mistakenly referred to as demons, these wrathful deities are positive forces, often in the guise of warriors, which help the faithful combat both external and internal obstacles to enlightenment. This installation focuses on the deity known in India as Achala and as Fudo Myo-o or “Immovable One” in Japan.

Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens from New York Collections
Asia Society presents an exhibition of exquisite Japanese folding screens from six New York City private collections, along with one pair of screens from the Asia Society’s Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of Asian Art. Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens from New York Collections is comprised of 11 pairs and two single screens, along with seven decorative objects dating from the late Muromachi to the early Edo period, spanning the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Inspired by Persia: Creations by New York City Students
Inspired by the exhibition Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Iran, 1501–1576 recently on view at the Asia Society and Museum, this exhibition of art works by students from four New York City schools is an imaginative and delightful interpretation of the arts of the Persian court.

Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific
The first major New York exhibition examining contemporary art from New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, Paradise Now? challenges the popular perception of the Pacific as only a leisure paradise. Working in video, installation, sculpture, painting and photography, artists from New Caledonia to Hawaii show us the Pacific Islands from an insider’s perspective.