Located in the hills of La Jolla, a seaside resort community near San Diego, California, the residence of Chris and Eloisa Haudenschild is home to a major U.S. collection of contemporary Chinese video art and photography. The Haudenschilds began collecting contemporary Chinese video and photography in the late 1990s, when these mediums were beginning to become as widely used and important as they are today, and just before the beginning of the market’s current boom.

Videos from the Haudenschild Collection by Cao Fei and Yang Fudong were the inspiration for the Arizona State University Art Museum’s exhibition Business As Usual: New Video from China Cao Fei and Yang Fudong on view from September 15 – December 8, 2007.

On June 30, 2007 the haudenschildGarage collaborated with the OCMA to present a talk with Cao Fei at the museum. Moderators included Hou Hanru and Aimee Chang.

On June 11, 2006 the haudenschildGarage collaborated with the Visual Arts Department of UCSD, inSite and Casa Familiar to present the Political Equator I Conferences: Urbanities of Labor and Surveillance.

Cao Fei’s film Whose Utopia? had its world premiere at the haudenschildGarage on June 11 at the Political Equator I Conferences: Urbanities of Labor and Surveillance. Her film with Ou Ning, The San Yuan Yi Project, was also screened.

The Haudenschild Collection installation Shanghai Sky by Shi Yong was loaned to the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo for the exhibition Follow Me! Contemporary Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millennium curated by Mami Kataoka on view July 2 – September 4, 2005.