Contemporary art museums from around the world shall participate in a conference on the issues surrounding institutional collections of Asian contemporary art this September at ShContemporary 2010. Titled Collecting Asian Contemporary Art: What, When and How? the conference is being organized by Hou Hanru, the Chinese born curator and critic currently based inSan Francisco and Paris. Hou is Director of Exhibitions and Public Program, and Chair of Exhibition and Museum Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. His latest curated projects include the 10th Biennale de Lyon and the 10th Istanbul Biennial…
Contemporary Chinese Art
After the Market’s Boom: A Case Study of the Haudenschild Collection by Michelle McCoy
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.
hG Ten Year Reunion in China
January 18, 2009 Shanghai, China
January 20, 2009 Beijing, China
Ten Year Reunion
Artists, critics, and curators
works on loan: “Shanghai Kaleidoscope” Exhibition
May 4 – November 2, 2008
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Shanghai Kaleidoscope
Yang Zhenzhong and Shi Yong
supported program: Mexico/China Exchange in the 1950s
February 18 – 29, 2008
Mexico City and Guadalajara, Mexico
Research Project
works on loan: “Business as Usual” Exhibition
September 15, 2007 – December 1, 2009
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe; MassArt, Boston; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Business As Usual: New Video from China Cao Fei and Yang Fudong

