2018 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards Hong Kong

Asia Arts Game Changer Awards Hong Kong is a signature gala celebration honoring the Asia Arts Game Changers during the week of Art Basel in Hong Kong. Major art collectors, artists, gallerists, dignitaries from the art world, and Asia Society trustees and patrons will gather to celebrate the contemporary arts in Asia, and honor artists and arts professionals for their significant contributions.

For more than twenty years, Asia Society has been a pioneer in identifying and fostering the latest contemporary Asian artists, and engaging new audiences for their work.

Past honorees include: Cai Guo-Qiang, Hon Chi Fun, Bharti Kher, Lee Ufan, Liu Guosong, Nalini Malani, Nyoman Masriadi, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Rashid Rana, Shahzia Sikander, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Do Ho Suh, Wucius Wong, Xu Bing, Zeng Fanzhi, and Zhang Xiaogang.

Asia Arts Game Changer Awards Hong Kong
March 29, 2018
JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong

6:00 pm Cocktail Reception and Auction Artwork Viewing
8:00 pm Award Ceremony, Dinner, and Auction

All proceeds from Asia Arts Game Changer Awards Hong Kong support Asia Society Arts and Culture initiatives worldwide. Asia Society’s Asia Arts Game Changer Awards Hong Kong is co-organized by Asia Society Museum, New York, and Asia Society Hong Kong Center.

To sponsor a table or purchase tickets please download the RSVP form. Please contact AsiaArtsAwards@AsiaSociety.org for more information.

Benefit Auction

To see artworks offered in the benefit auction at Asia Arts Game Changer Awards, please visit Artling or download the auction artwork information. To place an absentee bid, please download the absentee bid form, and contact MShiba@AsiaSociety.org.

Honorees

Subodh Gupta

Subodh Gupta draws from a diverse range of media including painting, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, and video in his practice. Gupta is best known for his use of the mass-produced stainless steel and brass cooking vessels ubiquitous throughout India, which he transforms into monumental sculptural installations that explore migration, globalization, and the social repercussions of economic development. Gupta has held solo exhibitions at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. (2017); and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2015). He has participated in Performa 13, New York (2013); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi (2012); and the 51st Venice Biennale (2005). In 2018, Monnaie de Paris will present a retrospective exhibition of the artist.

Shirazeh Houshiary

Shirazeh Houshiary, a member of the New British Sculpture movement in the 1980s, employs painting, sculpture, and video installations, often incorporating elements of Islamic texts and imagery, including Sufi poetry, as a means to ruminate on the intangible nature of spirituality and our common humanity. Her work was included in the groundbreaking exhibition “Magiciens de la Terre” at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (1989). She has had solo exhibitions at Tate Liverpool (2003) and the British Museum (1997). Her work has been featured in the 57th Venice Biennale (2017); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006); Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (2004); and São Paulo Biennial (1996). Houshiary was shortlisted for the Tate Modern’s prestigious Turner Prize in 1994.

Ju Ming

Ju Ming has been lauded as one of the most celebrated sculptors from Taiwan for his minimal yet fluid aesthetic. His signature reductive style is best illustrated in his acclaimed Taichi Series and Living World Series, created in a diverse range of mediums including wood, iron, bronze, and stainless steel. Ju has been the recipient of solo exhibitions at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (2014); the National Art Museum of China (2010); the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (2006); and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire (1991). A permanent museum dedicated to the artist was founded in 1999 in Chinshan, Taiwan.

Park Seo-Bo

Park Seo-Bo is a seminal figure in Korean contemporary art and a founding member of the Dansaekhwa movement in the 1960s, which defined postwar Korean abstract painting. Park is best known for his ongoing Ecriture series which he began in 1967. His minimalist paintings have evolved with time to feature meticulously inscribed surfaces that he builds up with acrylic and Korean hanji paper, emphasizing the materiality of the painting while evoking a Taoist sense of pure emptiness. He work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Daegu Art Museum (2012) and Tate Liverpool (1992), and group exhibitions at the Carlo Bilotti Museum, Rome (2013); and the 43rd Venice Biennale (1988).

Leadership

LUMINARY

Kukje Gallery

VISIONARIES

Barbara and Ronnie C. Chan
Christie’s
Betsy and Ed Cohen
Hauser & Wirth/Nature Morte
Lutron Electronics
Denise and Andrew Saul
Mrs. Purviz R. Shroff and the late Mr. Rusy M. Shroff, BBS, MBE
Lulu and Anthony Wang