2024 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards
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2024 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards
Asia Society
Thursday, May 16, 2024
6:00 PM | Champagne Reception
6:30 PM | Conversation with Honorees
7:30 PM | Seated Dinner
Dress Code | Cocktail Attire
This celebration is Asia Society’s biggest fundraiser for its Arts and Culture sector and for the Asia Society Museum’s exhibitions, and it is also a vital source of our programmatic funding. For more information, please contact Mariel Pezik Pajoow at [email protected].
Every year, at The Asia Arts Game Changer Awards, major art collectors, artists, gallerists, dignitaries from the art world, and Asia Society trustees and patrons gather to celebrate contemporary art in Asia and honor artists and arts professionals for their significant contributions to contemporary art.
For more than twenty years, Asia Society has been a pioneer in identifying and fostering the latest contemporary Asian artists, and engaging new audiences for their work.
Honorees
Woman artists and designers, including Rina Banerjee, Minouk Lim, Maya Lin, Toshiko Mori, and Anicka Yi.
Rina Banerjee
Rina Banerjee is a mid-career artist based in New York City. Originally from Kolkata, she creates multi-faceted sculptures, paintings and drawings, fusing boundaries between East and West. Banerjee’s choice of material and subject matter question the experiences of femininity, climate change, migration, commerce, and identity in a globalized world. Her sculptures place in conversation cultural objects, textiles, domestic items, mythologies, as well as the material residue of colonialism.
Banerjee has received considerable international recognition, recently a traveling retrospective (Frist Art Museum in Nashville, San Jose Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts), survey exhibition at Museé Guimet in Paris, participation in the 55th and 57th Venice Biennale. She has also been included in important group exhibitions, including Centre Pompidou, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.
Minouk Lim
Minouk Lim (b. 1968) is an artist of many forms, creating works that are beyond the boundary of different genres and media, and deepening the scope of questions while encompassing writing, music, video, installation and performance as her means of artistic expression. Lim’s work recalls historic losses, ruptures, and repressed traumas. Rooted in language, and specifically the politics of expression, of what has been said and what that, in turn, has silenced, her sculptures, videos, performances, and installations don’t replay past events, rather, they elevate the experiences, memories, and feelings of those sidelined by the political violence of the Korean war and its ensuing process of modernization.
Minouk participated in a number of group exhibitions and biennials including the Asian Art Society Triennial (2020), the Gwangju Biennial (2020 & 2014), the Setouchi Triennale (2016) Sydney and Taipei Biennial (2016), Paris Triennale (2012), Liverpool Biennial (2010), Political populism (Kunsthalle Wien 2015), The Time of Others (Museum of Tokyo, 2010) and Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea (LACMA, 2009-2010). Lim’s works are collected at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts, Korea; Gyeonggi Museum of Art; Seoul City Art Museum; Kandist Art Foundation, San Francisco; Walker Art Center; and ArtSonje Center, Korea.
Maya Lin
Maya Lin, in her book Boundaries, writes “I see myself existing between boundaries, a place where opposites meet; science and art, art and architecture, East and West. My work originates from a simple desire to make people aware of their surroundings.”
Maya Lin interprets the natural world through science, history, and culture, to create works that have a profound impact on how we view our history and how we relate to the natural world. From her very first work, the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, she has since gone on to a remarkable and highly acclaimed career in both art and architecture, whilst still being committed to memory works that focus on some of the critical historical issues of our time.
Lin has been recognized around the world for her distinct aesthetic vision with groundbreaking site-specific art installations such as the recent Madison Square Park installation, Ghost Forest, to award winning architectural projects such as the library for Smith College, the Novartis campus headquarters in Cambridge MA and the new performing arts lab space for Bard College and the new design for the Museum of Chinese in America for downtown Manhattan. She is deeply committed to sustainable and site sensitive design methods in all her projects.
Her work asks the viewer to reconsider nature and the environment at a time when it is crucial to do so. A committed environmentalist, she is at work on her final memorial, What is Missing?; a cross-platform, global memorial to the planet, calling attention to the crisis surrounding biodiversity and habitat loss.
Lin is a member of the Bloomberg Foundation, the What is Missing? Foundation, and she is a National Geographic Explorer-at-Large. Lin has been profiled in TIME, The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, amongst others. In 2009, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the nation’s highest honor for artistic excellence. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded Lin the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, praising her for a celebrated career in both art and architecture, and for creating a sacred place of healing in our nation’s capital.
Toshiko Mori
Toshiko Mori is the founder and principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture with tenure at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and was the Chair of the Department of Architecture from 2002 to 2008. Mori is a member the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Academy of Design. Awards include the Philip Hanson Hiss Award from the Sarasota Architecture Foundation in 2023, the Isamu Noguchi Award in 2021, the Louis Auchincloss Prize in 2020 from the Museum of the City of New York, the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education in 2019, Architectural Record’s Women in Design Leader Award, and the Tau Sigma Delta National Honor Society Gold Medal in 2016. The Thread Artists ’Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teachers ’Residences in Senegal have both recently won AIA Architecture Awards and the Brooklyn Public Library Central branch won the 2022 MASterworks award for best restoration from the Municipal Art Society of NYC. Architectural Digest has included Toshiko Mori Architect in their annual AD100 list since 2014.
In 2023, Domus Magazine invited her to serve as guest editor in partnership with Steven Holl. In 2022, she was featured in ArchDaily’s documentary film titled Women in Architecture.
Anicka Yi
Anicka Yi (b. 1971 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean-American conceptual artist known for her focus on olfaction and her use of unorthodox, living, and perishable materials,
Informed by scientific research, biology, and perfumers, Anicka Yi has produced a unique body of work over the past decade at the intersection of politics and macrobiotics. Her practice questions the increasingly hazy taxonomic distinctions between what is human, animal, plant and machine, and is the result of an alchemical process of experimentation that explores often incompatible materials. She collaborates with researchers to create media that are often inherently political, and delves into the cultural conditioning of sense and perception in a way she describes as a "biopolitics of the senses." Her diverse installations, which draw on scientific concepts and techniques to activate vivid fictional scenarios, ask incisive questions about human psychology and the workings of society.
Yi's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions around the world, including Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan; Tate Modern, London; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Kitchen, New York; and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. Group exhibition venue highlights include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France; Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, Massachusetts; New Museum, New York; Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France; the 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; the 12th Biennale de Lyon; Studiolo, Zurich; MoCA, North Miami; Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel; White Flag Projects, Saint Louis; SculptureCenter, New York and White Columns, New York, amongst others. In 2016, Yi was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize in recognition of the power and singularity of the experimental body of work she has produced over the past decade. Her work was featured in the 58th International Venice Biennale, titled May You Live In Interesting Times. Anicka Yi was awarded the 2020 Tate Turbine Hall Hyundai Commission.
Yi’s work is included in several public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Aïshti Foundation, Jal el Dib, Lebanon; the Dikeou Collection, Denver; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris; the Julia Stoscheck Collection, Düsseldorf; the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art; the Rubell Family Collection; and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Yi is represented by Gladstone Gallery and 47 Canal, and Esther Schipper.
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