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.

January 18, 2009 Shanghai, China

January 20, 2009 Beijing, China

Ten Year Reunion

Artists, critics, and curators

May 4 – November 2, 2008

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

Shanghai Kaleidoscope

Yang Zhenzhong and Shi Yong

February 18 – 29, 2008

Mexico City and Guadalajara, Mexico

Research Project

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