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News & Editorials brings together the latest developments shaping contemporary Asian art across Asia and its global diaspora.

From exhibitions and institutional announcements to public programs, awards, partnerships, acquisitions, and cultural initiatives, this section highlights the people, organizations, and events driving meaningful conversations throughout the field.

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Explore the latest developments from leading cultural centers where contemporary Asian art continues to evolve through exhibitions, institutional initiatives, public programs, and cross-cultural collaboration. Each region offers a unique perspective while contributing to an increasingly connected global arts community.

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Go beyond the headlines through editorial reviews examining exhibitions, artistic practices, curatorial approaches, and cultural developments shaping contemporary Asian art. These features offer thoughtful perspectives that encourage deeper engagement with the ideas influencing the field.

  • A Conversation with Phil Zheng Cai on Eli Klein Gallery’s Residency-Then-Exhibition Program Text by Webson Ji, Asian Art Contemporary™ Recent conversations around contemporary Asian art and the Asian diaspora led to an invitation to visit Eli Klein Gallery and its residency program. I was drawn to the program’s format: a months-long residency situated within a […]

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  • Text by Webson Ji, Asian Art Contemporary™ Migration continues to shape the practices of many Asian diaspora artists long after geographic movement itself. Changes in place, environment, material, and working conditions continually reshape how an artist observes and understands the world around them. Artistic practice moves through these conditions as well, carrying established languages and […]

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  • Text: Jianing Lu, Asian Art Contemporary™ Li Tang presents Third Space Is a Verb International Juried Exhibition from August 17 to October 30, 2026. The exhibition approaches the third space as an ongoing condition that is continually produced. Within this framework, identity becomes a shifting process shaped by memory, language, movement, cultural experience, and one’s […]

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  • Reflections on Home and Abroad (Alisan Fine Arts New York), How Asian Is It? (The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation), and recent conversations on contemporary Asian art in New York. Text by Webson Ji, Asian Art Contemporary™ Contemporary Asian art occupies a distinctive position within New York’s art ecosystem. It is often used to […]

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  • Contemporary Asian painting today resists easy legibility. Moving between memory, perception, and imagination, artists increasingly turn away from fixed narratives in favor of ambiguity, atmosphere, and psychological space. For Sao Tanaka, Ngai Wing Lam, Hsieh Mu-Chi, and Jiwon Cha, painting is not merely a medium of representation but a site for exploring identity and experience. […]

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  • “Once we dreamt that we were strangers.We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.” Rabindranath Tagore’s brief aphorism from Stray Birds opens onto the thought that dreams are never merely illusions, but thresholds through which the unconscious quietly touches reality. In the dim passage between sleep and awakening, what seems distant […]

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  • In today’s contemporary art landscape, the success of an exhibition can no longer be evaluated solely through the completion or quality of the artworks themselves. While the works remain the foundation, projects of real significance increasingly depend on another dimension: whether the artist has established a sufficiently coherent methodology, whether curatorial practice has translated that […]

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  • A delicate green mat drifts across a steel tank, a small, fast-replicating plant called duckweed spreading unchecked, its growth both mesmerizing and menacing. On Earth, it is often treated as a nuisance, clogging waterways and suffocating other life. Yet recent research envisions it as a tool for survival in outer space—fuel and sustenance for humans […]

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  • From March 4 to March 31, 2026, Time Lag, a group exhibition presented by Asian Art Contemporary and supported by the Asian Artists Center, is on view at the Sasse Museum of Art in California. Curated by Dr. Huixian Dong, the exhibition brings together works by five artists active in the contemporary art scene: Hannah Bang, […]

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  • In the slow unfolding of 2025, the contemporary art landscape revealed itself through a constellation of practices that pushed, pulled, and reimagined the boundaries of form, material, and lived experience. Within the evolving ecology of Asian contemporary art, this year unfolded as a site of negotiation between inherited histories and speculative futures, between localized knowledge […]

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  • From November 14 to 16, 2025, the Horizon International Art Fair (HIAF 2025) officially opened at the MGM Shanghai West Bund Hotel. As a major highlight of Shanghai’s annual art season, HIAF appeared alongside ART021 and West Bund Art & Design, bringing a cross-cultural, multimedia, and interdisciplinary contemporary art platform to the public during the […]

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  • From June 8–14, 2025 (New York) and June 18–22, 2025 (South Korea), City Gazes: Artistic Perspectives on Place—presented by Asian Art Contemporary in collaboration with Kyungsung University in Busan, South Korea and A Space Gallery in Brooklyn, New York—launched its dual-city exhibition. A city is more than a physical space; it is a mirror of […]

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  • What if leaving was more than the culmination of an experience, more than the goodbyes we say to one another? Perhaps each exit is actually a liminal space fueled by hope, liberation, and renewal. That is what the artists of Exit: Escape and Rebirth on view at A Space Gallery suggest in their multidisciplinary exploration of the […]

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  • In “of,”  Brooklyn-based artist Craig Jun Li assembles a world of shifting references where the image and its physical counterpart intermingle, unraveling familiar structures of recognition and meaning. This exhibition at RAINRAIN, on view from September 13–October 26, 2024, offers a speculative investigation into the fragility of understanding, realized through a play of misrecognition and tactile curiosity. […]

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  • Be it in the past or a speculative future, “Intermingling” walks us through the stories of a world teetering in its stability between the forces of nature and the detrimental presence of mankind. This solo exhibition by Minnesota-born, Hong Kong-raised, and Brooklyn-based oil painter Timon I, captures an unparalleled surreal omniscience as time, place, and perspective continually […]

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Gajah Gallery Singapore Returns to: Art Jakarta 2026

Gajah Gallery returns to Art Jakarta 2026 this October with an intergenerational presentation, bringing together artists from across Southeast Asia, with a focus on practices from Indonesia alongside artists from…

Pressure Cooker and Rehearsal Ground

A Conversation with Phil Zheng Cai on Eli Klein Gallery’s Residency-Then-Exhibition Program Text by Webson Ji, Asian Art Contemporary™ Recent conversations around contemporary Asian art and the Asian diaspora led…

Anomaly at Frieze Seoul 2026, Booth A35

Our presentation reconsiders the cross-generational development of abstraction in Japan by examining the works by 3 artists. Their practices – from inquiries into the structural foundations, to the visualization of…

BHAK at Frieze Seoul 2026, Booth C01

Post-war Korean abstraction can be understood as a study of space, not as emptiness, but as a field shaped by memory, material, and silence. This presentation brings together the distinct…

Eikowa Contemporary Presents Group Exhibition: Progressive Failure 

Eikowa Contemporary presents Progressive Failure that brings together contemporary artists from Delhi whose works trace the city’s shifting landscapethrough the entanglement of architecture, remembering, and lived experience. Contributed by Ganga Narayanan, Harman…

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