Asian Art Museum Foundation Of San Francisco

PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF ART OBJECTS

THE MUSEUM IS ONE OF SAN FRANCISCO'S PREMIER ARTS INSTITUTIONS AND HOME TO A WORLD-RENOWNED COLLECTION OF MORE THAN 18,000 ASIAN ART TREASURES SPANNING 6,000 YEARS OF HISTORY AND REPRESENTING COUNTRIES AND CULTURES THROUGHOUT ASIA. THE COLLECTION'S SCOPE AND BREADTH ENABLE THE MUSEUM TO INTRODUCE ALL THE MAJOR TRADITIONS OF ASIAN ART AND CULTURE. MORE THAN 2,500 ARTWORKS FROM THE COLLECTION ARE GENERALLY ON VIEW IN THE MUSEUM'S THIRTY-THREE COLLECTION GALLERIES, WITH ANOTHER 500 OBJECTS REMOVED AND REFRESHED WITH WORKS FROM STORAGE EACH YEAR. DUE TO COVID-19, THE MUSEUM WAS CLOSED FOR 6 MONTHS. MOST VISITORS WERE FROM THE LOCAL BAY AREA IN FY21.

THE MUSEUM PROVIDES A BROAD RANGE OF PROGRAM THAT EXPLORE ALL THE CULTURES PRESENTED IN THE MUSEUM'S COLLECTION AND EXHIBITIONS, AND ARE DESIGNED TO REACH ALL LEVELS OF EDUCATION (K-12, COLLEGE, AND ADULT) AND AWARENESS OF ART (NOVICE THROUGH EXPERT), FREE DOCENT LED TOURS OF THE COLLECTION GALLERIES AND SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS ARE CONDUCTED THROUGHOUT THE DAY. THE MUSEUM'S STORYTELLING CORPS OFFER ENTERTAINING AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS RELATING TO ARTWORKS ON VIEW. SCHOOL PROGRAMS INCLUDE A VARIETY OF INDUSTRY-BASED ACTIVITIES: ALL CLASS TOURS ARE INTERACTIVE AND EMPHASIZE OBSERVATION SKILLS, CRITICAL THINKING, GROUP WORK, AND PEER PRESENTATIONS.

CHANG DAI-CHIEN: PAINTING FROM HEART TO HANDNOV 26, 2019 NOV 15, 2020CHANG DAI-CHIEN IS ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED CHINESE ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. TO MARK THE 120TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH AND 47 YEARS SINCE HIS PREVIOUS SOLO SHOW AT THE MUSEUM, WE ARE INAUGURATING THE NEWLY RENOVATED CHINESE PAINTING GALLERY WITH CHANG DAI-CHIEN: PAINTING FROM HEART TO HAND. COMPRISING WORKS DONATED TO THE MUSEUM BY THE ARTIST, AS WELL AS LOANS FROM HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY, THE EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHTS CHANG'S GROUNDBREAKING MODERNIZATION OF INK PAINTING.THE BOLD BRUSH OF AU HO-NIEN PRESENTS 22 VERTICAL SCROLL PAINTINGS THAT DISPLAY THE ARTIST'S MODERN SENSIBILITY. IN HIS PAINTINGS OF FIGURES, LANDSCAPES AND WILDLIFE, AU'S BOLD AND VARIED BRUSHWORK EMPHASIZES EXPRESSION OVER PRECISE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION TO CONVEY THE POETRY OF HIS SUBJECTS. NOW IN HIS EIGHTIES, AU IS A LEADING FIGURE OF THE LINGNAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING, WHICH SEEKS TO INVIGORATE INK-WASH PAINTING BY FUSING CHINESE AND WESTERN TRADITIONS.LOST AT SEA: ART RECOVERED FROM SHIPWRECKSNOV 26, 2019 - JUL 12, 2021LOST AT SEA: ART RECOVERED FROM SHIPWRECKS TRACES THE PATHWAYS OF 12TH-CENTURY STONE RELIEFS AND 15TH-CENTURY CERAMICS, FROM VIETNAM TO THE OCEAN FLOOR TO SAN FRANCISCO.AWAKEN: A TIBETAN JOURNEY TOWARD ENLIGHTENMENTJAN 17, 2020 NOV 30, 2020 AWAKEN: A TIBETAN BUDDHIST JOURNEY TOWARD ENLIGHTENMENT BRINGS TOGETHER BUDDHIST ARTWORKS FROM THE VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS AND THE ASIAN ART MUSEUM, HOME TO TWO OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST SIGNIFICANT COLLECTIONS OF HIMALAYAN ART. SCULPTURES, PAINTINGS, TEXTILES AND BOOK ARTS MADE BETWEEN 800 AND 2016 CHART A TRANSFORMATIVE JOURNEY FROM THE ORDINARY WORLD TO AWAKENING.TEAMLAB: SKETCH AQUARIUMFEB 4, 2020 - CURRENTIN TEAMLAB: SKETCH AQUARIUM, DRAWING COMES TO LIFE. ART COLLECTIVE TEAMLAB, FOUNDED IN TOKYO IN 2001, IS A GROUP OF ANIMATORS, ARCHITECTS, ARTISTS, ENGINEERS, MATHEMATICIANS, AND PROGRAMMERS WHO SEEK TO NAVIGATE THE CONFLUENCE OF ART, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, DESIGN, AND THE NATURAL WORLD.JEAN SHIN: PAUSEFEB 6, 2020 - NOV 30, 2020USING DISCARDED CELL PHONES AND COMPUTER CABLES AS THE MATERIAL AND ROUGH-HEWN ROCKS FROM CHINESE ART AS THE FORM, JEAN SHIN'S SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATION JEAN SHIN: PAUSE, ASKS HOW TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION CONTRIBUTES TO CLIMATE CHANGE. JENIFER K WOFFORD: PATTERN RECOGNITIONOCT 14, 2020 NOV 2022 TBDJENIFER K WOFFORD'S VIBRANT PATTERN RECOGNITION SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. INSTEAD OF POW! BANG! OR WHAM!, COMIC-BOOK SPEECH BUBBLES EXCLAIM RUTH ASAWA! BERNICE BING! CARLOS VILLA! AND THE NAMES OF OTHER ASIAN AMERICAN ARTISTS WHO LIVED AND WORKED IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. THESE FAMILIAR CARTOON GRAPHICS GIVE VOICE TO WOFFORD'S MURAL, WHICH EMBEDS RECOGNIZABLE ASIAN DECORATIVE PATTERNS WITHIN A FESTIVE 1980S DESIGN VOCABULARY TO CELEBRATE ASIAN AMERICAN IMMIGRANT HISTORIES AND CULTURES.ZHENG CHONGBIN: I LOOK FOR THE SKYNOV 20, 2020 JAN 2023 TBDIN DIALOGUE WITH THE MUSEUM'S TRANSFORMATION PROJECT, I LOOK FOR THE SKY EXPLORES HOW THE MANIPULATION OF LIGHT CAN PROFOUNDLY CHANGE OUR PERCEPTION OF ARCHITECTURAL SPACE.AS AN ARTIST TRAINED IN CLASSICAL CHINESE FIGURATIVE PAINTING AT THE CHINA ACADEMY OF ART WHO WENT ON TO STUDY PERFORMANCE, INSTALLATION, AND CONCEPTUAL ART AT THE SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, ZHENG BRINGS A SINGULAR APPROACH TO CONTEMPORARY ART.MEMENTO: JAYASHREE CHAKRAVARTY AND LAM TUNG PANGFEB 12, 2021 JUN 6, 2022THE INAUGURAL HAMBRECHT CONTEMPORARY GALLERY INSTALLATION, MEMENTO, INCLUDES TWO WORKS THAT SPEAK TO CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ISSUES OF URBANIZATION AND POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY.AFTER HOPE: VIDEOS OF RESISTANCEFEB 12, 2021 MAY 2, 2022HOPE IS AN EMOTION THAT DRIVES US TO IMAGINE, REPRESENT, AND CREATE NEW WORLDS. DESIGNED AS A SET OF THREE INTERRELATED PROGRAMS AN IN-GALLERY PRESENTATION OF MORE THAN 50 SHORT VIDEOS FROM ACROSS ASIA AND THE ASIAN DIASPORA (VIDEOS OF RESISTANCE); A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS, ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS, AND CONVENINGS (INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP); AND AN ONLINE PLATFORM (AFTERHOPE.COM) AFTER HOPE EXPLORES THE ROLE OF HOPE IN CONTEMPORARY ART AND ACTIVISM. THIS IS THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF PROGRAMS PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH OUTSIDE CURATORS AND INSTITUTIONS THAT AIMS TO FOSTER ARTISTIC POLLINATION ACROSS COMMUNITIES, PRACTICES, AND PERSPECTIVES. AFTER HOPE IS CO-ORGANIZED WITH PADMA D. MAITLAND, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY AND THEORY AT CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBISPO.ZHENG CHONGBIN: I LOOK FOR THE SKYFEB 19, 2021 OCT 18, 2021IN HIS INSTALLATION IN OSHER GALLERY, STATE OF OSCILLATION COMPRISING INK PAINTINGS, VIDEOS, AND A CHAMBER MADE OF TRANSLUCENT MATERIAL HEIGHTENS OUR AWARENESS OF OUR BODIES MOVING THROUGH SPACE. NAVIGATING THROUGH AN EPHEMERAL CHAMBER SUFFUSED WITH OVERLAPPING PROJECTED VIDEO IMAGERY, WE CATCH GLIMPSES OF ZHENG'S PAINTINGS AND OTHER WORKS MOUNTED ON THE PERIMETER WALL. STATE OF OSCILLATION MANIPULATES OUR PERCEPTIONS OF PRESENCE AND ABSENCE, SOLID AND VOID, IMMERSION AND CIRCULATION.