Asia Week San Francisco Bay Area has announced the program schedule for the second annual edition of the West Coast’s first, major region wide event celebrating Asian art - taking place September 30 - October 8, 2016. Thirty-three participants and partners comprised of private and non-profit venues including galleries, museums, arts organizations, universities and auction houses throughout the Bay Area will offer a week of public programming. 

The week’s planned events will engage dealers, artists, scholars, collectors and enthusiasts of Asian art, while also creating opportunities for the general public to discover new artworks and culturally distinct points of view within their communities. 
 

For the up-to-date events calendar and a complete list of participants and partners, please visit: www.asiaweeksf.com

ONGOING EVENTS

Exhibition: Mother-of-Pearl Lacquerware from Korea | April 29 – October 23
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Exhibition: Buddhist Art from the Roof of the World | July 27 – November 27
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704

Exhibition: Contemporati | September 29 – December 31
Contemporati Studios
Pacific Heritage Museum, 608 Commercial St, San Francisco, CA 94111

Exhibition: Gallery Route One “Far From Home” presents: Cynthia Tom | Stories to Tell: Discards & Variances | September 23 – October 30
Gallery Route One
11101 Highway One, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956

Exhibition: Art of Resilience and Identity, Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration | August 28 – October 30
Peninsula Museum of Art
1777 California Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010

Exhibition: Exquisite Art Under Adverse Conditions: From the Japanese - American Incarceration Camps: 1942/1945 | September 30 – October 8
Japanese American Museum of San Jose
535 North Fifth Street, San Jose, CA 95112

Exhibition: Animal Expressions: Homage to our Greatest Companions | September 30 – October 31
International Art Gallery
1581 Webster Street, Suite #202, San Francisco, CA 94115

Exhibition: Selected Treasures from the Longshantang Collection | September 1 – October 30
S. Bernstein & Co., Jade & Oriental Art
950 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94108

Exhibition: From Print to Plate: Views of the East on Transferware | April 4 – October 25
SFO Museum
SFO, International Terminal (A2), San Francisco, CA 94110

SEPTEMBER 30

Symposium: Thunder from the Steppes: New Perspectives on the Mongol Empire | 9 AM - 6 PM
Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Charles Franklin Doe Memorial Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720

Chinatown Art Walk | 10 AM - 11 AM
Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94501

Lecture: Artisans to Artists: Colonial & Post-Independent Art Education in Vietnam & Cambodia | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Society for Asian Art
200 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Asia Week San Francisco Bay Area Annual Symposium: Issues in Connoisseurship for Collectors of Asian Art | 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
NanHai Art / Christie’s / Asia Society Northern California
NanHai Auditorium, 510 Broadway, Suite 302, Millbrae, CA 94030

Opening Reception: Literati Gathering: New Work by Wang Tiande | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
NanHai Art
NanHai Gallery, 520 Broadway, Millbrae, CA 94030

Opening Reception: APAture 2016: Here | 6 PM - 10 PM
Kearny Street Workshop
1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

OCTOBER 1

Lecture: Jade Collecting in the Glorious Ming Dynasty | 10 AM - 3PM
S. Bernstein & Co., Jade & Oriental Art
950 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94108

Chinatown Art Walk | 10 AM - 11 AM
Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94501

Lecture: Material Culture in “The Dream of the Red Chamber” | 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Society for Asian Art
200 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Hands On Activity: Making Small Coaster with Hanji | 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Korean Center
1362 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94109

Artist Panel Discussion: Mind Flows with Brush - Zhong Yueying’s Transcultural Practices in Art | 2 PM - 3 PM
Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94501

Opening Reception: Contemporati | 2 PM - 4 PM
Contemporati Studios
Pacific Heritage Museum, 608 Commercial St, San Francisco, CA 94111

OCTOBER 2

Performance: Dance Culture and Regalia of Central Asia | 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Afsaneh Art & Culture Society - Ballet Afsane
2525 8th Street, Suite #16, Berkeley, CA 94710

OCTOBER 4

Lecture: Mongolian Calligraphy and Scripts | 3 PM - 6 PM
Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
The Mongolia Foundation
208 Library Ct (180 Doe Library), Berkeley, CA 94720

OCTOBER 5

Asian Art Appraisal Event | 10 AM - 1 PM
Michaan’s Auctions
2751 Todd Street, Alameda, CA 94501

OCTOBER 6

Lecture: Beethoven in China | 12 PM - 1:30 PM
Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University
518 Memorial Way, Room 224, Stanford, CA 94305

Opening Reception: ArtLaunch Party & SF Open Studios | 6:30 PM - 9 PM
ArtSpan
934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Opening Reception: Beauty - Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial | 7 PM - 8 PM
San Jose Museum of Art
110 South Market St, San Jose, CA 95113

OCTOBER 7

Lecture: Warhol & Mid-Century Modernisms: Art is Anything You Can Get Away With | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Society for Asian Art
200 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Opening Reception: “First Fridays” at OACC Celebrates Filipino American Heritage Month | 6 PM - 9 PM
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 Ninth Street, Suite 290, Oakland, CA 94607

Artist Talk: Subterranean Ghosts: India’s Vanishing Stepwells | 7 PM - 9 PM
Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India
Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303

OCTOBER 8

Auction: Asian Works of Art Auction | 10 AM - 5 PM
Michaan’s Auctions
2751 Todd Street, Alameda, CA 94501

Chinatown Art Walk | 10 AM - 11 PM
Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94501

Lecture: The Beautiful Art of Arabic Calligraphy | 11 AM - 4 PM
Islamic Art Exhibit
Martin Luther King Jr. Library, 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose, CA 94539

Opening Reception: Liquid Stories | 2 PM - 4 PM
Inner Eye Arts
Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery, 12501 Alcosta Blvd, San Ramon, CA 94583

About Asia Week San Francisco Bay Area
Asia Week San Francisco Bay Area brings together Asian art dealers, auction houses, museums, cultural institutions, and the academia, for a week of festivities celebrating Asian art and culture every October. Asia Week San Francisco Bay Area is committed to the mission of establishing a broad platform to showcase and promote Asian art, further fostering appreciation for cultural diversity.