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Past Exhibitions

Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex – For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards

Visionary Legacies: A Tribute to Harold J. Newman

15 Jun 2022 - 30 Dec 2022
This exhibition celebrates the life of Harold (Hal) J. Newman and honors the Newman family for their generosity and support of Asia Society Museum’s ongoing efforts to remain at the forefront of collecting contemporary Asian art.
Tianzhuo Chen. Trance, 2019 (video still).

Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity

15 Jun 2022 - 30 Dec 2022
This exhibition presents 19 artworks by seven artists, born in mainland China in the 1980s, reflecting the dramatic economic, political, and cultural shifts the artists have experienced in China during their lifetimes.
Village and Elsewhere: Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Beheading Holofernes, Jeff Koons' Untitled, and Thai Villagers

Video Spotlight: Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

19 Jan 2022 - 08 May 2022
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook’s practice addresses the dichotomies of life and death, the search for autonomy within cultural constraints, and notions of identity and difference examined through class hierarchies and regional idiosyncrasies.
Rahraw Omarzadm, The Third One

Video Spotlight: Rahraw Omarzad

19 Jan 2022 - 08 May 2022
Rahraw Omarzad’s video depicts a woman sequestered in a windowless space. Her struggle with the restricting barriers of a black cloth and her chadri (or burqa) reflects the crippling effects a dictatorial regime has on the psyche.
Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Shiva Nataraja). India, Tamil Nadu. Chola period, about 970.

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon

08 Oct 2021 - 09 Jan 2022
Ackland Art Museum
Presenting nearly seventy of the finest examples of Asian art in the United States, the exhibition showcases the extraordinary range of artworks thoughtfully assembled by John D. Rockefeller 3rd and his wife Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller.
Lotus, Shiva Ahmadi

Video Spotlight: Shiva Ahmadi

10 Sep 2021 - 16 Jan 2022
Shiva Ahmadi's “Lotus” is a single-channel video installation inspired by two Buddha sculptures from the Asia Society Museum Collection.
A still from a video set in Ho Chi Minh City that follows twenty-eight scooter riders literally connected by their brightly colored ponchos and identical face masks.

Video Spotlight: UuDam Tran Nguyen

10 Sep 2021 - 16 Jan 2022
UuDam Tran Nguyen’s video “Waltz of the Machine Equestrians” is a witty examination of the social and environmental effects of the rapid urbanization occurring throughout Vietnam.
An image of an abstract oil painting on linen. It is dominated by azure blues, with gestural strokes of white, yellow, pink, orange, and black filling the bottom two-thirds of the composition.

Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection

10 Sep 2021 - 08 May 2022
Drawn from the Mohammed Afkhami collection, “Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians” presents works by more than twenty artists from Iran and its diaspora.
Storage Jar. Vietnam, possibly Champa. 15th–16th century.

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon

27 Jun 2021 - 05 Sep 2021
Kimbell Art Museum
Presenting nearly seventy of the finest examples of Asian art in the United States, the exhibition showcases the extraordinary range of artworks thoughtfully assembled by John D. Rockefeller 3rd and his wife Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller.
Head of Buddha. Pakistan, Gandhara area. Kushan period, late 2nd–early 3rd century.

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon

06 Mar 2021 - 30 May 2021
New Orleans Museum of Art
Presenting nearly seventy of the finest examples of Asian art in the United States, the exhibition showcases the extraordinary range of artworks thoughtfully assembled by John D. Rockefeller 3rd and his wife Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller.