Selected Curated Exhibitions
Love Island: Japanese Weddings of the Edo Period
This presentation explores the exquisite artistry and craftsmanship of some of the important elements of an Edo period bridal trousseau and touches on the strategic alliances that were created between Edo Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate and daimyo (provincial feudal lords) through matrimony. Featuring a selection of elegant and luxurious bridal objects on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this installation includes a toilette set that once belonged to a member of the Tokugawa ruling clan, an incense guessing game set, and a lavish wedding kimono.
Rare Earth: The Art and Science of Chinese Stones
This exhibition explores the different ways that Chinese and Western cultures have celebrated the beauty found in, and created from, natural stones. Reflecting the educational mission of The University of Texas at Dallas to unite scientific and artistic thinking, this exhibition pairs works of Chinese art from the Crow Museum of Asian Art’s permanent collection with connoisseur-level samples of raw minerals from China.
JooYoung Choi: Songs of Resilience from the Tapestry of Faith
Through painting, video, sculpture, animation, music and installation art, multidisciplinary world builder JooYoung Choi documents the interconnecting narratives of a highly-structured, expansive, fictional land she has created and titled the Cosmic Womb. In her work, she explores issues of identity, belonging, trauma and resilience through the sci-fi/fantasy genre, inspired by the media of her childhood and her ongoing research on identity and the media representation of girls, women, intersex, transgender and non-binary people of color.
Ho Tzu Nyen: The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia
The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia by internationally acclaimed artist Ho Tzu Nyen is part of an ongoing project that grows, generates and provides critical insight into the pluralistic definitions of the territories under the term “Southeast Asia.” Born out of recognition for how sweeping the term “Southeast Asia” is, it considers what makes up an area not unified by language, religion or political power.
Divine Spark: Kana Harada
Tokyo-born, Dallas-based artist Kana Harada has forged her own path with artworks that blend messages of hope and positivity with visual innovations that create an imaginative universe of awe, wonder, and intimacy.
Born of Fire: Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists
Pioneering new forms and technical and aesthetic innovations in the medium, these remarkable artists are breaking barriers and forging new ways of creating and thinking about ceramics that reflect changes occurring in contemporary Japanese art and society.
Vishnu: Across Time and Space
This exhibition focuses on Vishnu, one of the most powerful and popular gods in the Hindu pantheon. Vishnu’s followers celebrate him as the Preserver and for his ability to restore the cosmic balance of the universe.
Beili Liu: One and Another
Through her practice, Liu subjects commonplace materials to unorthodox processes, extrapolating complex cultural narratives around the trauma associated with migration and diaspora.
Future Retrospective: Master Shen-Long
Influenced by his deep understanding of Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian philosophies, Master Shen-Long’s bold and experimental work challenges traditional assumptions about Chinese painting, and raises important concepts regarding mankind’s relationship with the universe.
Hands and Earth: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Featuring an in-depth selection of important works by master Japanese ceramic artists of the last eighty years, this exhibition offered a rare opportunity to see significant examples of avant-garde approaches to clay.
Jacob Hashimoto: Clouds and Chaos
This exhibition’s central site-specific work, Nuvole (2006-2018) — which literally means clouds — looks at how clouds can function as divisions of space while still serving as the apotheosis of ethereal formlessness.
Our Asian Art Museum
This exhibition displays twenty masterworks from across the Crow Museum of Asian Art’s permanent collections to commemorate the museum’s founding and twenty years of operation.
Immortal Landscapes
Drawn from the Crow Museum’s outstanding collection of later-period Chinese jade objects, this exhibition focuses on carved jade representations of mountain landscapes and forms from nature.
The Art of Lacquer
This exhibition introduces lacquerware objects from the Crow Museum’s collections to showcase one of the most enduring and distinctive forms of craftsmanship in the world.
Avatars and Incarnations
In Hinduism and Buddhism, the concept of an avatar refers to the incarnation or physical manifestation of a deity, spirit, or abstract quality in human or animal form.
Earthly Splendor
This exhibition pairs outstanding examples of contemporary Korean ceramics with historical Korean ceramics from the museum’s permanent collection to highlight the material, aesthetic, stylistic, and technical developments of Korean ceramics throughout history.
Hidden Nature: Sopheap Pich
This exhibition was a solo presentation of the work of Sopheap Pich, recognized today as Cambodia’s most internationally prominent contemporary artist. This exhibition featured his large-scale sculpture, Rang Phnom Flower (2015), his most ambitious single-form sculpture to date.
Invisible Cities
An exhibition and screening series showcasing more than 20 contemporary video works by renowned and emerging artists from China, Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam.
Landscape Relativities
The collaborative works of painter Arnold Chang (Zhang Hong) and photographer Michael Cherney (Qiu Mai) stretch and play with the relationship between the two media of painting and photography and the history and principles of Chinese ink painting.
Abhidnya Ghuge:
Flight of the Canyon
Abhidnya Ghuge’s Flight of the Canyon is a site-responsive installation created with thousands of woodblock-printed paper plates inspired by organic patterns found in nature.
The Divine Feminine in Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism
This exhibition featured a selection of Tibetan sculptures on loan and from the Crow Museum’s permanent collection that suggest the variety of manifestations of the feminine divine in Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism, ranging from well-known forms such as benevolent bodhisattvas, fierce guardians, and forest goddesses.
WORK WERQ
This group exhibition presented contemporary Chicago-based Asian American artists who explore a range of topics including migration, globalization, gender, queer politics and identity.