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…

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.

Coinciding with the anniversary of the “Art For Sale” exhibition, the haudenschildGarage held a Ten Year Reunion Celebration for artists, critics, and curators in Shanghai and Beijing organized by Laura Zhou and Lorenz Helbling.

Two works from the Haudenschild Collection by Yang Zhenzhong and Shi Yong were loaned to the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada for the exhibition Shanghai Kaleidoscope on view May 4 – November 2, 2008.

The haudenschildGarage supported Yishu Journal’s Zheng Shengtian’s research project which investigated the influence of Mexican art on the development of contemporary Chinese art in the 20th century.

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.