The Denver Art Museum (DAM) will proudly present Perfectly Imperfect: Korean Buncheong Ceramics, co-organized with the National Museum of Korea (NMK), from Dec. 3, 2023, to Dec. 7, 2025. Perfectly Imperfect will be on view in the museum’s William Sharpless Jackson Jr. Gallery and the Korea Gallery on level 5 of the Martin Building and will be included in general admission.

Drawn from the M+ Collections, this exhibition explores the complex connections between landscape and humanity in our post-industrial and increasingly virtual world. Rotating displays will periodically renew the dialogues among the works and with the natural and urban environments beyond the museum itself.

Contemporary Japanese metalworking breathes life into traditional methods that have been passed down and practiced over generations. The artists featured in Striking Objects create masterpieces that combine tradition with creativity and innovation. 

Sightlines highlights the imprint of Asian Americans on the physical and cultural terrain of Washington, D.C.

“Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: The Alice S. Kandell Collection” includes more than two hundred gilt-bronze sculptures, paintings, silk hangings, and carpets that were created in Tibet between the 1300s and early 1900s.

Coinciding with The Noguchi Museum’s 40th anniversary in 2025, works from the Museum’s original second floor installation will return to those galleries for the first time since 2009. Against Time is curated by Matthew Kirsch, Noguchi Museum Curator and Director of Research.

An icon of contemporary art by Yang Jiechang. After a months-long conservation effort, the monumental ink work is on public display for the first time since 1990.

Making It Matters mostly draws upon the diverse works of the M+ Collections. The artists, designers, and architects featured include John Cage, Harold Cohen, Julie & Jesse, John Maeda, Raffaella della Olga, Anna Ridler, Ki Saigon, Fujimori Terunobu, Jay Sae Jung Oh, Stanley Wong, and Võ Trọng Nghĩa Architects. 

The exhibition features nearly 190 military artefacts from the Qing court in The Palace Museum’s collection, featuring a wide range of objects such as helmets, archery sets, sabres and swords, equestrian equipment, paintings, textiles, books, albums, and scientific instruments.

Body Transformed: Contemporary South Asian Photographs and Prints presents a selection of works that center on the human figure. For the artists in this exhibition, the human form and the expressive power of photography and print media offer ways to examine the place of the individual in contemporary society.

Chinese bronzes made from the 12th to the 19th century are an important but often overlooked category of Chinese art. In ancient China, bronze vessels were emblems of ritual and power. A millennium later, in the period from 1100 to 1900, such vessels were rediscovered as embodiments of a long-lost golden age that was worthy of study and emulation.

A Passion for Jade: The Bishop Collection is now on view at the Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 222 from March 1st 2025 to January 4th 2026.

‘Transcendent Clay: The Kondō Family’s Path of Porcelain Innovations’ is currently on show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art from March 1st to September 7th, 2025. This exhibition is free admission and can be found in galleries 251, 252, 253.

“Everything is art. Everything is politics.” Globally renowned artist Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. 1957) is celebrated as a disruptor of artistic canons and a champion of free expression. In his work—ranging across performance, photography, sculpture, video, and installation—he deploys humor and provocation, calling upon his viewers to examine history, society, and culture.

Imagine a god who appears to you as a mischievous child—you dance together in meadows, play with him, and gift him fruits and flowers. This may give you an idea of how the Hindu Pushtimarg community engages with the divine.

Over the course of three months, Jette Bang and ethnographer Klaus Ferdinand followed two Bedouin tribes in Qatar’s desert landscape. The outcome was over 1,200 photographs, both black and white and in colour, as well as footage for the documentary film Bedouins (1962).

Over the past four decades, Shanghai-born, Marin County–based artist Zheng Chongbin (b. 1961) has cultivated a unique practice that engages with the driving concepts and aesthetics of the Light and Space movement and East Asia’s tradition of ink painting.

National Gallery Singapore presents City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s-1940s, the first major comparative exhibition dedicated to Asian artists in the French capital city during this dynamic period in modern art history.

Hallyu! The Korean Wave showcases South Korea’s vibrant and diverse popular culture. Since the late 1990s, this cultural phenomenon has made waves around the world.

An examination of the innovations in calligraphic art, Line, Form, Qi: Calligraphic Art from the Fondation INK Collection highlights experimental works of modern and contemporary calligraphic art made by artists including Fung Ming Chip, Gu Wenda, Inoue Yūichi, Lee In, Henri Michaux, Nguyễn Quang Thắng, Qiu Zhijie, Tong Yangtze, Wang Dongling, Wei Ligang, and Xu Bing.

Storytelling is a vital part of many Asian cultures. The works in this gallery were created by Japanese, Chinese, Burmese, Indian, Persian, and Armenian artists from the 1200s to 1800s. Drawing inspiration from Asian literature, religion, and history, these artists enliven stories with their dynamic visual narratives.

The Farjam Foundation is proud to present Shifting Gazes: Women Through Middle Eastern Eyes, an exhibition exploring how women have been represented—and have represented themselves—across the evolving visual landscape of the Middle East.

The exhibition highlights one of the central figures of the Japanese avant-garde, little known in France: the multidisciplinary artist Tarō Okamoto.

Hung Hsien: Between Worlds is a solo exhibition of the pioneering modern ink artist Hung Hsien (洪嫻, Margaret Chang, b. 1933). It celebrates the life and artistic legacy of one of the most important yet underrepresented contributors to the development of modern ink painting.

Worldwide, only around 160 Buddhist paintings from the Goryeo period (918–1392) have survived – one of which is part of the Korea collection in the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Asian Art Museum).

The Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) presents Anila Quayyum Agha: Geometry of Light from August 27, 2025 through April 19, 2026. In her Pacific Northwest debut, renowned contemporary artist Anila Quayyum Agha will mesmerize visitors with her ornate light and shadow installations inspired by Islamic and world art and architecture, inviting contemplation of identity and cultural belonging.

This exhibition explores, for the very first time, the role of the king, who commissioned major bronze castings from the Angkorian period to modern day, and reveals how art and power have remained consistently intertwined. 

Join Hiroshige on a lyrical journey through Edo Japan, exploring the natural beauty of the landscape and the pleasures of urban life. A remarkable new exhibition at the British Museum will celebrate the life, work, and legacy of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), one of Japan's most popular and prolific artists.

Marking the 160th anniversary of Qi’s birth, this exhibition features nearly 40 works from the artist—almost all on loan from the Beijing Fine Art Academy—and offers a rare opportunity to examine the breadth of his artistic vision and inspiration.

Rajput paintings evoke many moods and senses. They tell stories about the beliefs, desires, myths, poetry, and power that shaped the royal Rajput courts of northern India during the 16th to 19th centuries.

The Department of Decorative Arts holds more than 600 Chinese works, most of which come from the collections of Adolphe Thiers and Adèle de Rothschild and from the royal collections.

Just over a thousand years ago, the scholar Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Iṣṭakhrī wrote an important book, all about the world he knew. Today the book is known by two titles, Kitāb al-Masālik wa al-Mamālik (The Book of Routes and Realms) and Kitāb Ṣuwar al-Aqālīm (The Book of the Forms of World Regions).

Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) proudly announces A Seat at the Table: Food & Feasting in the Islamic World, a large-scale exhibition exploring the cultural role of food across the Islamic world and within Muslim traditions. The compelling exhibition is organised by MIA in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and will be on view from 22 May till 8 November 2025.

Reaching back more than 2,000 years, this new exhibition explores the origins of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist sacred art in the ancient and powerful nature spirits of India, and the spread of this art beyond the subcontinent.

2024 marked the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the first terracotta army pit in the 1970s, a find that reshaped global understanding of ancient China. Both Bowers Museum’s 2008 exhibition Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor and 2011 exhibition Warriors, Tombs, and Temples: China’s Enduring Legacy captivated audiences with these awe-inspiring relics.

From the museum that brought you the U.S. premiere of China's Terracotta Warriors in 2008, Bowers proudly presents new groundbreaking discoveries with World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century! Explore China’s captivating early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province, learning why it is hailed as a cradle of ancient Chinese civilization. Traverse millennia, from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to pivotal sites of the Shang and Zhou eras, culminating in the iconic terracotta warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE.

Some twenty-five sculptures and ceremics and over thirty light sculptures by the American-Japanese artist Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) will be on view in and around the Rijksmuseum this summer.

‘Kimono’ at the National Gallery of Victoria explores the history and cultural prominence of the Kimono through textiles, prints, photography, etc. ‘Kimono’ is on display from June 4 till October 5, 2025 at the NGV on the ground floor.

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs presents the exhibition Bamboo: From Pattern to Work, through its Japanese and Chinese collections for the 8^th edition of Asia Week. After focusing on a form in the exhibition Du Bol (About the Bowl) and on materials and know-how in Luxury Objects in China, the museum invites you to discover a recurring motif in Asian art: bamboo.

Epic and intricate, monumental and meticulous—the paintings of Kashmir-raised, London-based artist Raqib Shaw offer fantastical meditations on identity, transformation, and the redemptive power of beauty.

This exhibition covers 200 years of art and culture from the portion of the Joseon Dynasty spanning from its founding in 1392 to the Japanese Invasions of Korea in 1592.

Geographical location and historical background combined to turn Hong Kong into a hub for paintings, calligraphies and other artefacts in mid-20th century.

As the Sun Appears from Beyond celebrates over 20 years of contemporary Islamic art, illuminating its enduring legacy, creativity, and spiritual resonance. Making its North American debut after opening at the 18th Al Burda Award ceremony, which took place at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the exhibition is presented in collaboration with the UAE Ministry of Culture.

As the first major Islamic art exhibition held in Hong Kong, “Wonders of Imperial Carpets: Masterpieces from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha” features carpets from Iran, Türkiye, and India, along with ceramics, metalwork, manuscripts, and jades from the 10th to 19th centuries.

A selection of paintings and graphic artworks from Japan depicting people and spanning the 15th century to the present day are at the heart of this exhibition of items from the museum’s collection.

Cut + Paste showcases seventeen Japanese artists who pushed the limits of printmaking and photography. By combining techniques, these artists created multilayered images that challenge distinctions between mediums, art-making traditions, and notions of fine art and commercial design.

The sixth artist to develop an exhibition of works based on The Newark Museum of Art’s collection, Risham Syed addresses colonialism, capitalism, and climate change.

The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, is honoured to present Bamboo Baskets: Chinese Origins, Japanese Innovations, a major exhibition offering an overview of the finest achievements of bamboo art in East Asia.

Inner Structures – Outer Rhythms offers a glimpse into the dynamic graphic design scene of Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA), showcasing how innovative Arabic and Persian typography contribute to global visual culture. On display in the Rasheed Dhuka and Nooruddin Khawja Family Gallery, Atrium, and external façade of the Museum, the artworks bridge tradition and innovation, demonstrating the continuity of historic Islamic art in contemporary design.

Canton Modern presents twentieth-century Cantonese art and visual culture in its full complexity as an important chapter in global modernism. United in a shared linguistic and cultural identity, the southern port cities of Guangzhou (Canton) and Hong Kong were historically marginal in China.

Blue and white porcelain, which originated in the Tang Dynasty and matured during the Yuan Dynasty, rapidly rose to prominence in the Ming Dynasty replacing traditional celadon and white porcelain as the dominant ceramic ware.

‘The Spiraling Glory: Treasures from Guyuan, Ningxia’ is on display at the Shanghai Museum from July 9th till 17th November, 2025. The exhibition can be found in Shanghai Museum East, China Eastern Airlines Exhibition Gallery 2 (2F).

At the heart of The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower stands capsule A1305, a fully restored unit from the Tower’s top floor. The exhibition also brings together original drawings and models with ephemera, photographs, and films to explore how this unconventional structure became a hive of creativity, debate, and community.

After almost 250 years of near-total isolation, Japan opened to international trade in 1859. ‘The Dawn of Modernity: Japanese Prints, 1850–1900’ is currently on at the Art Institute of Chicago from July 15th to October 13th 2025.  

Sun Museum presents "Variegated Memories: The Art of Leung Shek Yuen", showcasing Leung Shek Yuen's artistic journey through three themes: Huangshan Landscapes, Hong Kong Scenes, and Bird-and-Flower paintings. Influenced by Huangshan's grandeur and Hong Kong's intimacy, his mastery shines in bold ink-wash, splashed-color, freehand brushwork, and detailed gongbi-style techniques across 52 works.

Colourful Korea: The Lea R. Sneider Collection is now on view at the Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 23 from July 26, 2025 to February 15th 2026.

The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) presents a new special exhibition “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Treasures of the Mughal Court from the Victoria and Albert Museum” (“Treasures of the Mughal Court”), which will be open to the public from 6 August 2025 to 23 February 2026.

The exhibition reimagines Peking Opera through contemporary wearable art, showcasing over 30 works by Dr. Fu Shaoxiong that blend traditional craftsmanship such as metal cloisonné and gemstone inlay with modern technology like 3D printing.

On the occasion of The Textile Museum’s centennial, Enduring Traditions explores the cultural significance of treasures from the collection. From festival robes to palace carpets, these exceptional textiles reveal the traditions and values of communities across continents. 

This exhibition celebrates the accomplishments of Onchi Koshirō (1891–1955), the leader of the sōsaku hanga (Creative Prints) movement and Japan’s first abstract artist. 

Prism of the Real examines the practices of more than 50 artists from Japan and abroad. It explores both the art that emerged in Japan and how Japanese culture inspired the world between 1989, when the Shōwa era (1926–1989) ended and the Heisei era (1989–2019) began, and 2010.

In the second half of 2025, we will hold a large-scale survey exhibition, “Lee Bul Solo Exhibition,” that will examine the world of Lee Bul’s work, which explores the relationship between humans and technology, utopian modernity, and humanity’s progressive aspirations and failures. This exhibition, jointly planned by Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art and M+ Museum in Hong Kong, will begin at Leeum in September 2025, continue at M+ in March 2026, and then tour to major overseas institutions.

Bukhara Biennial is a transformative and evolving platform for contemporary art and culture launching in September 2025 in the city of Bukhara, a UNESCO Creative City of Craft & Folk Art.

Incorporating playable interactives, outdoor installations and more, Let’s Play! explores the rich history of games across Asia and the role they have played in shaping culture, identity, and community. Featuring works of extraordinary beauty and craftsmanship, the exhibition invites visitors to discover how the act of play continues to inspire, evolve, and connect people across time and place. 

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the National Asian Culture Center (ACC), Manifesto of Spring is an exhibition co-produced by M+, Hong Kong, and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, open to the public from Friday, 5 September 2025 to Sunday, 22 February 2026 at ACC.

Metamorphosis: Chinese Imagination and Transformation, on view at China Institute Gallery from September 10, 2025 to January 11, 2026, features contemporary work by 28 artists of Chinese descent—many making their U.S. debut—and explores themes of personal, cultural, environmental, and historical transformation through painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and video spanning the years 1974 to 2025.

Tokyo Gendai is an international art fair that brings together the best in contemporary art from Japan and around the world.

This year, the third edition will be held at PACIFICO Yokohama from 12 – 14 September 2025 (VIP Preview and Vernissage on 11 September).

Taking place in one of the most dynamic cities in the world and accompanied by extensive programs centred on art awareness and education, Tokyo Gendai is a platform for commercial, artistic and intellectual exchange, and a nexus of cross-cultural discovery.

Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by 2007-2036 Biennial Sponsor Koç Holding, the 18th Istanbul Biennial will be curated by Christine Tohmé.

The 18th Istanbul Biennial will unfold in three distinct legs, each building on the previous one and carrying forward lines of inquiry and research from 2025 to 2027. 

M+ presents Special Exhibition 'Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s–Now' in September, inviting audiences to experience art through the mind and the body.

Japan de luxe – The Art of the Surimono prints examines a particular highlight of Japanese printing. "Surimono" literally means "printed things".

Fine Art Asia 2025 will feature exquisite antiques, art and design, as well as Japanese and Chinese crafts, ink art and photography. The fair has earned a worldwide reputation for quality and elegance.

ART TAIPEI is one of the longest-standing art fairs in Asia, established in 1992, has just announced its theme and exhibitors list. This year features 127 galleries, including 71 from Taiwan and 52 from five other countries and regions in Asia. Renowned international galleries such as DE SARTHE, Gana Art, Gallery Baton, Hanart TZ Gallery, Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, Perrotin, and SCAI THE BATHHOUSE will be participating.

Mongolia is fascinating—yet our ideas of the country’s culture remain defined by images of lonely herdsmen and the "hordes" of Genghis Khan. The exhibition Mongolia – A Journey Through Time offers a surprising new take.

Every autumn Asian Art in London brings together leading international dealers and auction houses from the UK, Europe, USA and Asia. They specialise in a wide variety of ancient to modern Asian art, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Islamic and Middle Eastern, Himalayan and Central Asian, Southeast Asian.

A Dialogue Between Two Distinguished Private Collections, Marking the Debut of Jade Masterpieces from the K Collection.

We are thrilled to announce that the 13th edition of ART021 will take place at Shanghai Exhibition Center from November 13th to 16th, 2025.  With a global vision based on local roots, ART021 commits to present outstanding art practice from leading galleries and institutions, providing an open and professional platform for galleries, artists, collectors and art lovers all over the world.

Abu Dhabi Art Fair is returning for a sixth year, on 19 to 23 November, 2025 at the Manarat Al Saadiyat gallery in Abu Dhabi.

Discover how a once-coveted cloth reshaped global trade, inspired revolutions, and changed the course of history in Global Threads: India’s Textile Revolution, opening at Bowers Museum on December 13, 2025. This groundbreaking exhibition reveals the story of Indian chintz—painted and printed cottons that revolutionized the way the world dressed and drove the development of modern industry.

Save the date for the fourth edition of ART SG, presented by Founding and Lead Partner UBS. Southeast Asia’s leading international art fair will return to Singapore from 23 to 25 January 2026 (VIP Preview and Vernissage on 22 January), at Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands.

India Art Fair is returning for its 17th edition to the NSIC Grounds in New Delhi from 5—8 FEB, 2026. Continuing our legacy of showcasing the very best of modern and contemporary art in South Asia, we’re calling on the most cutting-edge and visionary arts organisations to join us!