The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, is pleased to introduce Asian Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, which will open to the public during a reception on the evening of Friday, January 8, 2027. The exhibition will be on view January 9 through November 13, 2027. Curated by Haely Chang, the inaugural Jane and Raphael Bernstein Associate Curator of East Asian Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Asian Art at Dartmouth is the first major exhibition to showcase the breadth and quality of the museum’s Asian art collection. Spanning four galleries, it will showcase art from East, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as the Himalayas, primarily focusing on works created before 1950, though selected contemporary pieces will also appear.

Placing particular emphasis on the museum’s traditional strengths in Japanese painting and prints, the exhibition also provides an opportunity to display and research works in the collection that have not been extensively studied to date. Of the 191 objects in the exhibition, which will be presented across four rotations, 103 have never been on view before. The objects and corresponding research will also be available in an accompanying 288-page exhibition catalogue of the same title, designed by award-winning firm Studio[5]Eleven. The publication features three scholarly essays, 182 illustrated catalogue entries, and new academic analysis. Readers will learn about recent discoveries and updated research on the collection, including Chang’s recent collaboration with Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH. Chang worked with the Radiology Team at DHMC to conduct CT and X-ray scanning of the museum’s Fictitious Mermaid, which originated with the Japanese “animal-hoax” trend in entertainment and was later reproduced in the United States. The scans were used to examine the object’s internal structure and material components. The publication will be available in January 2027.

For more information please visit the Hood Museum website.

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