Past Exhibitions

Inspired by Modern Indian Art: Works by New York City Students

21 May 2019 - 04 Aug 2019

The work of New York City students created in response to the great artistic traditions of Asia.

M.F. Husain: Art and the Nation

20 Mar 2019 - 04 Aug 2019

An exhibition focused on M.F. Husain's mural-sized painting Lightning, created for then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s Congress Party public rally in 1975.

Nonomura Ninsei (Japanese, active ca. 1646–77). Tea Leaf Jar. Edo period (1615–1868), 1670s. Japan, Kyoto Prefecture.

Masterpieces from the Asia Society Museum Collection

05 Mar 2019 - 04 Aug 2019

This exhibition features a selection of the finest artworks from the renowned Asia Society Museum Collection.

Action 132: Saigon, 5 August 1963 (detail)

Reza Aramesh: 12 noon, Monday 5 August, 1963

05 Mar 2019 - 04 Aug 2019

Reza Aramesh examines the power imbalance between captor and captive and the aestheticization of violence in media coverage of wartime atrocities.

In Focus: A Complete Map of the World—The Eighteenth-century Convergence of China and Europe

05 Feb 2019 - 05 May 2019

This exhibition takes Ma Junliang’s Complete Map of the World as a starting point to consider interactions between China and Europe during the eighteenth century.

The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India

14 Sep 2018 - 20 Jan 2019

A landmark exhibition of works by members of the Progressive Artists’ Group, formed in India following independence from the British Empire.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen. From Letters from Saigon to Saigon, 2008.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Letters from Saigon to Saigon

07 Sep 2018 - 06 Jan 2019

A series of newly acquired photographs from artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen, the works capture a correspondence between a young Vietnamese rapper and African American rapper Saigon.