Asia


Samdani Art Foundation
$50,000
Dhaka, Bangladesh
2024

To support Open Forms at the Dhaka Art Summit 2026. Inspired by non-Western forms of gathering and sharing knowledge, Open Forms invites artists and thinkers from the U.S., Bangladesh, and other parts of the world to develop creative interventions as convenings. Open Forms engages its diverse and global audiences to consider new ways of creating togetherness and to imagine more inclusive futures. Inspired by “Tondra,” the theme of the 2026 Dhaka Art Summit that, in Bangla, refers to a state of being where reality and dreams collide, the summit’s panel discussions, workshops, group activities on various scales, communal meals, and karaoke sessions open up new forms of collaboration.

Sharjah Art Foundation
$25,000
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2022

To support the participation of U.S.based artists in the 2023 edition of the March Meeting of the Sharjah Biennial (UAE). Entitled Thinking Historically in the Present, the convening explores the multiplicity of interpretations of time and place that exist outside of Euro-American-centric perspectives. The March Meeting’s video-recorded sessions and papers are accessible online for free on the organization’s website. 

The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
$225,000
Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan
2021

To support Viva Video!: The Art and Life of Shigeko Kubota at each co-organizing institution: The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. The exhibition is the first major survey of Shigeko Kubota in Japan in nearly three decades. A bilingual catalogue in Japanese and English accompanies the exhibition.

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
$100,000
Tokyo, Japan
2018

To support A Retrospective of Gordon Matta-Clark, the first Asian retrospective of Gordon Matta-Clark, an American conceptual artist who opened new horizons in sculpture and photography. The exhibition re-evaluates the artist’s pioneering examples of site-specific and installation works from a contemporary standpoint. A catalogue will be published by the museum in both Japanese and English.

National Gallery Singapore
$200,000
Singapore
2018

To support Minimalism: Space, Light, Object, an exhibition that aims to introduce local audiences to Minimalism, an influential postwar movement most strongly associated with the US, and to consider the international practice and manifestations that continue to shape contemporary art and culture today. A catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Doshisha University
$474,630
Kyoto, Japan
2017

To establish a visiting professorship in Japan to be shared by Doshisha University and Kobe University. Throughout this program, three American art historians will reside in Kyoto for one year each, offering four courses annually in American art history before 1980.

Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865-1945
$24,510
Shanghai, China
2016

To support the development of Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945 in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and the Shanghai Museum. The exhibition is currently proposed to be shown at the Shanghai Museum in fall 2018.

NHK Promotions, Inc.
$300,000
Tokyo, Japan
2016

To support Mary Cassatt Retrospective, an exhibition held at the Yokohama Museum of Art and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. The accompanying English- and Japanese-language catalogue is published by NHK Promotions, Inc. (Tokyo).

Bunkamura Museum of Art
$150,000
Tokyo, Japan
2009

To support the catalogue and 2010–2011 exhibition Monet and the American Painters of Giverny, co-organized by the Bunkamura Museum of Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art, and traveling to three venues in Japan. The exhibition introduces Japanese audiences to numerous American artists who lived and worked in the Normandy village of Giverny, where Claude Monet made his home.

Kobe University
$20,200
Kobe, Japan
2013

To support “Multi-Locale Pops in the 1960s,” a symposium that brings together seven prominent postwar art specialists to promote scholarship of American art from a global perspective through discussion of the international development of Pop Art in Latin America, Asia, New York, and California.

NHK Promotions Inc.
$250,000
Tokyo, Japan
2013

To support a retrospective of the work of James McNeill Whistler, which visits the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the Yokohama Museum of Art. The first of its kind since 1987, this exhibition introduces the artist’s work to the Japanese public, paying special attention to the influence of Japanese art on the development of his style. A catalogue accompanies the project.

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
$90,000
Tokyo, Japan
2014

To support the exhibition Cy Twombly—Fifty Years of Works on Paper, which is the first exhibition of Twombly’s work to be held in Japan. The exhibition takes place at the Hara Museum of Contemporary At, Tokyo, and the Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, and is accompanied by educational programing and a small introductory catalogue in both Japanese and English.