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This is a list of museums with major collections of Asian art.
Name | Country | City | Collection size | Notes | |
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Ackland Art Museum | United States | Chapel Hill, North Carolina | |||
American Museum of Natural History | United States | New York, New York | 60,000 [1] | ||
Art Gallery of New South Wales | Australia | Sydney, New South Wales | [2] | ||
Art Gallery of South Australia | Australia | Adelaide, South Australia | [3] | ||
Art Institute of Chicago | United States | Chicago, Illinois | 35,000 [4] | ||
Arthur M. Sackler Museum | United States | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 16,000 [5] | ||
Asia and Pacific Museum | Poland | Warsaw | |||
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco | United States | San Francisco, California | 18,000 [6] | ||
Asian Civilisations Museum | Singapore | ||||
Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art | United States | Memphis, Tennessee | 1,000 [7] | ||
Birmingham Museum of Art | United States | Birmingham, Alabama | 4,000 [8] | ||
British Museum | United Kingdom | London | 55,000 [9] | ||
Brooklyn Museum | United States | Brooklyn, New York | 20,000 [10] | ||
Chinese Museum (Fontainebleau) | France | Fontainebleau | |||
Cleveland Museum of Art | United States | Cleveland, Ohio | China, Japan, Korea | ||
Crow Museum of Asian Art | United States | Dallas, Texas | 4,000 [11] | ||
Field Museum of Natural History | United States | Chicago, Illinois | 50,000 [12] | ||
Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | United States | Washington, District of Columbia | 40,000 [13] | ||
Georges Labit Museum | France | Toulouse | |||
Honolulu Museum of Art | United States | Honolulu, Hawaii | 40,000 [14] | ||
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art | United States | New York, New York | |||
Linden Museum | Germany | Stuttgart | |||
Los Angeles County Museum of Art | United States | Los Angeles, California | |||
Metropolitan Museum of Art | United States | New York, New York | 60,000 [15] | ||
Minneapolis Institute of Art | United States | Minneapolis, Minnesota | |||
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | Canada | Montreal, Quebec | [16] | ||
Musée Cernuschi | France | Paris | |||
Musée d'Ennery | France | Paris | China, Japan | ||
Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac | France | Paris | 58,000 [17] | ||
Musée Guimet | France | Paris | 50,000 [18] | ||
Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art | Italy | Genoa | |||
Museo d'arte cinese ed etnografico | Italy | Parma | |||
Museo d'Arte Orientale Ca Pesaro | Italy | Venice | |||
Museum der Völker | Austria | Schwaz | |||
Museum Five Continents | Germany | Munich | |||
Museum für Asiatische Kunst | Germany | Berlin | 20,000 [19] | ||
Museum of Asian Art | Germany | Berlin | |||
Museum of East Asian Art (Cologne) | Germany | Cologne | |||
Museum of Ethnology, Vienna | Austria | Vienna | |||
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | United States | Boston, Massachusetts | 100,000 [20] | ||
Museum of Oriental Art (Turin) | Italy | Turin | |||
Museums of the Far East | Belgium | Brussels | |||
National Gallery of Australia | Australia | Canberra | [21] | ||
National Gallery of Canada | Canada | Ottawa, Ontario | India [22] | ||
National Museum of China | China | Beijing | 1,050,000 [23] | China | |
National Museum of Korea | South Korea | Seoul | 150,000 [24] | Korea | |
National Museum of Oriental Art | Italy | Rome | |||
National Palace Museum | Taiwan | Taipei | 700,000 [25] | China | |
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | United States | Kansas City, Missouri | 10,450 [26] | ||
Palace Museum | China | Beijing | 1,800,000 [27] | China | |
Peabody Essex Museum | United States | Salem, Massachusetts | |||
Penn Museum | United States | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | China, Japan | ||
Royal Ontario Museum | Canada | Toronto, Ontario | China, Japan, Korea [28] | ||
Rubin Museum of Art | United States | New York, New York | Himalayas | ||
Seattle Asian Art Museum | United States | Seattle, Washington | |||
Shanghai Museum | China | Shanghai | 120,000 [29] | China | |
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art | Israel | Haifa | |||
Tokyo National Museum | Japan | Tokyo | 120,000 [30] | Japan | |
Victoria & Albert Museum | United Kingdom | London | 130,000 [31] | ||
Vancouver Art Gallery | Canada | Vancouver, British Columbia | [32] |
Some collecting institutions combine their ethnographic, cultural, and artistic materials together in their total holdings. Such is the case of the British Museum, for example. It would be nearly impossible to distinguish between these types of objects (e.g. "fine arts") in developing a quantitative, as opposed to qualitative, ranking of this kind.
The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress. Andrew W. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction. The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, located in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on the city's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian art, the museum houses a diverse permanent collection of more than 61,000 works of art from around the world. The museum provides free general admission to the public. With a $755 million endowment, it is the fourth-wealthiest art museum in the United States. With about 770,000 visitors annually (2018), it is one of the most visited art museums in the world.
Kenneth Feingold is a contemporary American artist based in New York City. He has been exhibiting his work in video, drawing, film, sculpture, photography, and installations since 1974. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2004) and a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship (2003) and has taught at Princeton University and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, among others. His works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Liverpool, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
Matthew Wong was a Canadian artist. Self-taught as a painter, Wong received critical acclaim for his work before his death in 2019 at the age of 35. Roberta Smith, co-chief art critic at The New York Times, has praised Wong as "one of the most talented painters of his generation."
Audrey Flack is an American artist. Her work pioneered the art genre of photorealism and encompasses painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography.
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is a state and university art museum located in downtown Salt Lake City on the University of Utah campus. Housed in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building near Rice-Eccles Stadium, the museum holds a permanent collection of nearly 20,000 art objects. Works of art are displayed on a rotating basis.
The Mint Museum, also referred to as The Mint Museums, is a cultural institution comprising two museums, located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Mint Museum Randolph and Mint Museum Uptown, together these two locations have hundreds of collections showcasing art and design from around the globe.
Sara Shamma is a UK-based Syrian artist whose paintings are figurative in style. The importance of storytelling and narrative is paramount in her work. Shamma has a long-standing interest in the psychology associated with the suffering of individuals and has made work on the subject of war, modern slavery and human trafficking. Her works can be divided into series that reflect prolonged periods of research.
Jan Miense Molenaer, was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter whose style was a precursor to Jan Steen's work during Dutch Golden Age painting. He shared a studio with his wife, Judith Leyster, also a genre painter, as well as a portraitist and painter of still-life. Both Molenaer and Leyster may have been pupils of Frans Hals.
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu are Chinese conceptual artists whose work has a reputation for being confrontational and provocative. They have lived and worked collaboratively in Beijing since the late 1990s.
Tadashi Nakayama was a Japanese woodblock print artist, working in a style that combines influences from traditional Japanese ukiyo-e prints and Western painting.
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. Their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design.
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Deng Wei Hon FRPS was a Chinese portrait photographer who was a professor at Tsinghua University, China. He was known for his photographic projects such as the Chinese Cultural Celebrity Portrait project, and the World Celebrities project.
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is a British photographer. Her work has been exhibited at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Harvard Art Museums; Guangzhou Biennial of Photography, China; Tang Museum, New York; and The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Matthew is a professor of art (photography) in the University of Rhode Island's Department of Art and Art History.
Fu Wenjun is a contemporary artist who works on photography, digital art, installation art, sculpture, and oil painting. He graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Academy, and currently lives and works at Chongqing. He has developed his concept and practices of “Digital Pictorial Photography” art style, which involves oil painting, photography, and digital art.
Samson Young is a Hong Kong artist, working primarily in the mediums of sound performance and installations.
Chris Gustin is an American ceramicist. Gustin models his work on the human form, which is shown through the shape, color, and size of the pieces.
Hu Zhiying is a contemporary Chinese avant-garde artist and art educator. He works within the areas of painting, installation, video art, and conceptual art. His artworks are displayed worldwide, and he has taught painting and calligraphy at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and South China Normal University.