NYAB Venue - Asian American Arts Centre

Asian American Arts Centre

Cultural Center in The Lower East Side area

The Arts Centre was founded in 1974, one of the early Asian American community organizations initiated to affirm, document and create an Asian American cultural presence on the East Coast. It has gathered a Permanent Collection of over 400 contemporary Asian American art works and about 200 Chinese folk art pieces. Its storehouse of records includes documentation extending back to the beginnings of Basement Workshop in 1970, the seminal Asian American East Coast organization. The coherence of Asian American culture and its history in the United States is substantiated and can be traced through programs presenting dance theatre, folk artists, oral histories (primarily Chinese), young artists and senior artists. Other materials include video documentation and interviews of artists (unpublished), audio materials, a library of catalogues and books, and original art works. National advocacy for diversity in the arts is documented through materials on The Association of American Cultures (TAAC) in which the Arts Centre played a key role for several years.

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Permanent Artists/Collection

Chen Zhen, Mel Chin/Buong Trung, Leon Golub, Ik Joong Kang, Seong Moy, and Martin Wong. Other artists are: Diyan Achjadi, Hu Bing, Dino Blanche, Santiago Bose, Juan Boza, Luism Camnitzer, "Elmhurst Chaldio", Bivas Chaudhuri, Debbie Ray Chaudhuri, Fay Chiang, Jeannie Chiang, Emily Cheng, Susan Choi, Theresa Chong, Julia Nee Chu, John Dempsey, Agnes Denes, Lotus Do, Ming Fay, Fung Ming Chip, Byron Goto, Joseph Goto, Zarina Hashmi, Matsusaburo Hibi, Nancy Hom, Bob Hsiang, Arlan Huang, William Jung, Rocky Kagoshima, Mike Kanemitsu, Hei Han Khiang, Heejung Kim, Hugo Kobayashi, Akiko Kotani, Toshinori Kuga, Nina Kuo, Jerry Kwan, Kwok Man Ho, Sue Kwak, Dinh Le, Lanie Lee, Colin Lee, Corky Lee, Liao Shiao Ping, Donald Lipski, Amy Loewan, Mikiya Matsuda, Leah Melnick, Chee Wang Ng, Tetsu Okuhara, Eung Ho Park, Linda Peer, Ed Pien, Lillian Porter, Frank Russell, Tara Sabharwal, James Schmidt, Jinnie Seo, Ela Shah, Shi Chong, Jean Shin, Kyungmi Shin, Sui Ying Hung, Kunie Sugiura, Tam Van Tran, Osami Tanaka, Tseng Kwong Chi, Rumiko Tsuda/Dan Georges, Kaori Ukaji, Dolly Unithan, Sokhi Wagner, Jill Waterman, Paul Wong, Carrie Yamaoka, Mike Quon, Cheung Yee, Junko Yoda, Danny NT Yung, Zhang Hongtu, Zheng Lianjie