Current Group Exhibitions | Asia Society

Current Exhibitions

In this detail, five figures stand abreast in the lower half of the painting, while vertical columns set behind them take up the upper half. The figures and the columns are colored in deep oranges, browns, and creams.

Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala

17 Sep 2024 - 05 Jan 2025
Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala features masterpieces of ochre painting on eucalyptus bark, many of which have never been on view outside of Australia.
This view of the jar shows painted images in light and dark blues against grayish white background. around the largest central section of the jar and at the bottom. In the center is a crane who appears to have jumped from the tree branches towards flowers and plants at the bottom of the jar. The full moon sits above and in between the leafy tree branches.

Luminous Stars from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection

17 Sep 2024 - 05 Jan 2025
The objects in this focused exhibition demonstrate the preeminent Asian art objects collected by Asia Society's founder.
An amorph0ous group of white interconnected shapes highlighted with red outlines fills the center two-thirds of the horizontal rectangular canvas. The background is solid black with a few dotted white and red lines emerging from the right and bottom edges of the canvas..

Approaching Abstraction: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Across Australia

18 Sep 2024 - 05 Jan 2025
This exhibition presents the work of five Aboriginal artists of multiple generations from across Australia.