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All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. Registration is essential.
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An Evening in SoHo & Chelsea

  • 6-9 pm Receptions

  • An evening with acclaimed Indian artist Jogen Chowdhury.
    Bose Pacia Modern
    508 West 26th Street, 11th floor
    (between 10th & 11th Avenues)
    www.bosepaciamodern.com

  • Paresh Maity: Odyssey of Light - An exhibition featuring recent oils
    and watercolors that celebrates both light and space.
    Gallery Arts India
    206 Fifth Avenue
    (between 25th & 26th Streets)
    www.artsindia.com

  • An evening with Chinese artist Wei Dong.
    Deja vu - Recent Works by Wei Dong
    Plum Blossoms Gallery
    555 West 25th Street
    (between 10th & 11th Avenues)
    www.plumblossoms.com

  • Landscape - An exhibition featuring work by Jungjin Lee, Yukio Oyama, Stuart Rome.
    Sepia International Inc.
    The Alkazi Collection of Photography
    148 West 24th Street, 11th floor
    (between 6th & 7th Avenues)
    www.sepia.org












    An Evening Uptown & Beyond

  • 5:30-6:30 pm Lecture & Tour
    Curator at the Rubin Museum speaks on Himalayan Art and Iconography.
    Rubin Museum of Art
    115 Fifth Avenue, 7th floor
    (between 18th & 19th Streets)

  • 6-9 pm Receptions

  • Age of Innocence: Exhibition of Paintings by the Guo Brothers
    Goedhuis Contemporary
    42 East 76th Street
    (between Park & Madison Avenues)
    www.goedhuiscontemporary.com







  • Past/Present/Future
    Kaikodo
    164 East 64th Street
    (between Lexington & Third Avenues)
    www.kaikodo.com






  • Functional Clay: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
    Suzanne Mitchell Asian Fine Arts
    17 East 71st Street
    (between Madison & Fifth Avenues)




    An Evening in Tribeca & Beyond

  • 6-7:30 pm Artist Talk
    $10 / $8 Japan Society members and seniors / $5 students
    Inside the Studio: Yasumasa Morimura
    A talk by acclaimed Japanese contemporary artist Yasumasa Morimura.
    Japan Society
    333 East 47th Street (between 2nd and 1st Avenues)
    For information and tickets: www.JapanSociety.org or 212.752.3015.

  • 6-8 pm Receptions

  • Making it Home: Three Contemporary Asian Artists
    An exhibition of works by Michael Lin, Hisayasu Takashio, and C.J. Yeh.
    Curated by Miwako Tezuka and Shin-Yi Yang.
    Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery
    555 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 (between Prince and Spring Streets)
    For more information: www.makingithome.org or 212-925-1649

  • With(in) - Group exhibition of artists from New York and Thailand.
    Curated by Naomi Urabe.
    Art in General
    79 Walker Street (between Broadway & Lafayette)
    www.artingeneral.org

  • Chopsticks: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen
    An exhibition exploring the themes of eat, drink, play, and happiness.
    Chambers Fine Art
    210 Eleventh Avenue, 2nd floor (at 25th Street)
    www.chambersfineart.com

  • 7:30-10 pm Reception & Performance

  • Zhao Bandi - Exhibition reception
    Video installation "art cart" of new animation films by Gu Dexin, experimental
    videos by Qiu Zhijie and Song Dong, a live performance by Pan Xing Lei.
    Ethan Cohen Fine Arts
    37 Walker Street (between Broadway & Church Streets)
    http://www.artnet.com/ecohen.html




    Asia Society and Museum

  • 6:30-8 pm Symposium
    $65 /$50 Asia Society members

    Looking Ahead: Dialogues in Asian Contemporary Art
    A symposium devoted to discussion of Asian contemporary art by curators,
    artists, critics, and collectors. Keynote session: Okwui Enwezor and
    Apinan Poshyananda in conversation with Vishakha N. Desai.

  • 8-9 pm Reception

  • China Refigured: The Art of Ah Xian
    An exhibition of works by Chinese contemporary artist Ah Xian.
    Curated by Melissa Chiu.
    Asia Society and Museum
    725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
    For information and tickets: www.AsiaSociety.org or 212.517.ASIA




    Symposium and Other Events

    9:30-10 AM Registration

  • 10 am-6:30 pm Symposium

  • Looking Ahead: Dialogues in Asian Contemporary Art
    Asia Society
    725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)

  • 7-8 pm Performance & Lecture
    Making It Home: Three Contemporary Asian Artists
    Performance by Hisatasu Takashio and a talk by
    C.J. Yeh. Curated by Miwako Tezuka and Shin-Yi Yang.
    Ise Cultural Foundation
    555 Broadway (between Prince & Spring Streets)




    Artist Studio Visits

    Studio visits are free and open to the public, but registration is essential. Contact acac@asiasoc.org or 212-327-9286.

    1-4 pm Open Studios


  • Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    Rina Banerjee
    Mixed media artist (b. Calcutta, India) living/working in NYC. Banerjee has
    exhibited in numerous shows including the 2000 Whitney Biennial.

    Toru Hayashi
    Painter transforming city landscape into abstract images on canvas and on paper.
    Lives/works in Brooklyn.

    Grant Huang
    Raised in Houston, TX, now lives/works in Brooklyn creating "cuddly, weepy,
    bonny, shivery, and/or kindly" paintings.

    Deanna C. Lee
    This American-born Chinese artist interprets images from mass culture in multiple hand-painted objects to explore contradiction and ambiguity in consumption and desire.

    Oscar Oiwa
    (b. Sao Paolo, Brazil) Oiwa has exhibited internationally. With several
    commissioned art projects in Japan, he has had recent solo shows
    in Paris and Tokyo.

    Athena Robles
    Robles is an installation artist whose delicate works frequently employ
    paper making techniques. She was previously involved with the
    Asian American art group called Godzilla.

  • Dumbo, Brooklyn

    Jean Shin
    Shin is a Korean-American artist based in Brooklyn. Her sculptures and
    installations use society's cast-offs to explore her relationship to the body, nature, and architecture.

  • Long Island, Queens

    Katsuhiro Saiki
    Born in Tokyo, Saiki is a photographer in residence at P.S.1.

  • Upper East Side

    Nina Kuo
    Based in NYC, Kua works in a variety of media juxtaposing East and West,
    past and future.

  • And more-
    Sari Dalena
    An independent Philipino filmmaker, Dalena lives/works in NYC. Her work
    focuses on experimental and historical subjects.

    Zarina Hashmi
    An exemplary Asian American artist.

    Nobuho Nagasawa
    An international installation artist.

    Don KH Kwan
    Born in Hong Kong, Kwan seeks to convey the majesty of nature through his paintings.

    1-4 pm Open Studios


    Cheng-Tsai Chen, Taiwan
    Taka Hito, Japan
    Yoshiaki Kaihatsu, Japan
    Ai Ran Kang, Korea
    Shin Ichiro Kitaura, Japan
    Hideki Nakazawa, Japan
    Shiro Masuyama, Japan
    Satoshi Watanabe, Japan

    International Studio & Curatorial Program
    323 West 39th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues)

    2-4 pm
    Video presentations of works by Atsushi Nishijima and Xu Tan.
    Location One 26 Greene Street (between Grand & Canal Streets)






    Additional Events/Exhibitions

    Art Projects International
    429 Greenwich Street, Suite 5B
    New York, NY 10013
    212-343-2599
    Email: api@artproject.com
    www.artprojects.com
    Gallery Hours: By appointment

    Routes of Influence: International Artists from Asia
    An exhibition featuring work by Pouran Jinchi, In-Hyung Kim, Yeong Gill Kim,
    Il Lee, Hilda Shen, Jian-Jun Zhang

    Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute
    New York University
    269 Mercer Street, Suite 609
    New York, NY 10003
    Tel. 212.998.3700
    Fax. 212.995.4705 Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM
    www.apa.nyu.edu

    A Photographic Journey with Corky Lee is an exhibition of rarely seen images
    of the Asian American movement from the 1970s.

    Grey Art Gallery
    New York University
    100 Washington Square East
    Tel. 212.998.6780
    Gallery hours: Tuesday - Friday, 11AM to 6PM
    Wednesday, 11AM to 8PM ¥ Saturday, 11AM to 5PM

    Between Word and Image: Modern Iranian Visual Culture - Iranian art, posters,
    and photographs from the 1960s and 1970s.

    Queens Museum of Art
    New York City Building
    Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368
    Tel. 718-592-9700
    Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am to 5pm
    Saturday-Sunday, 12 to 5pm
    www.queensmuse.org

    Queens International featuring work by Jaishri Abichandani, Augusto Arbizo,
    Chien-Chi Chang, Dorothy Deon, Marietta J. Ganapin, Jena H. Kim, C.J. Lee, Corky Lee,
    Rie Oishi, Gilberto Triplitt, Xing Danwen, and Zhang Hongtu.

    Empire of the Signs: Semiotics in Contemporary Asian Performance and Video Art
    screening of single channel video work by Masayuki Kawai. Curator: Cristine Wang

    12:00 - 5:00 pm Exhibition Viewing & Video Projection
    "About a Theological Situation in the Society of the Spectacle":
    Masayuki Kawai guest curated by Cristine Wang

    6:00 - 8:00 pm Closing Party
    Clay
    202 Mott Street, corner of Spring St., NYC