# Asian Art Museum Museum in Civic Center, San Francisco, one of On View's top museums there. - Address: 200 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 - Website: https://asianart.org - Instagram: [@asianartmuseum](https://www.instagram.com/asianartmuseum/) - Directions: - On the map: https://onview.so/sf/map/asian-art-museum ## Exhibitions ### Ha Chong-Hyun: *Retrospective* Sep 25, 2026 – Jan 25, 2027 · on view · Yang Yamazaki Pavilion More than fifty paintings from six decades, in the Korean abstract painter’s first museum exhibition in North America. The survey runs from early-1960s canvases built up with thick paint, embedded thread and scorch marks to the Conjunction series, begun in 1974, in which Ha forces oil paint from the back of coarse burlap through to the front. The newest works, two finished in 2025, mix ash and charred material with bright color. The guest curator is Sunjung Kim of Art Sonje Center in Seoul. Full details: [exhibitions.asianart.org](https://exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/ha-chong-hyun-retrospective/) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/asian-art-museum/retrospective ### *Garuda in Bali* Sep 18, 2026 – Jan 4, 2027 · on view · Hambrecht Contemporary Gallery Balinese sculptures and paintings telling the story of the bird-warrior Garuda. Wooden sculptures and traditional paintings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries follow Garuda from his birth to his service as the mount of the Hindu god Vishnu. He is also the national symbol of Indonesia. Full details: [exhibitions.asianart.org](https://exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/garuda-in-bali/) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/asian-art-museum/garuda-in-bali ### Sopheap Pich and Leang Seckon: *Art from Contemporary Cambodia* Aug 27, 2026 – Jan 25, 2027 · on view · Tateuchi Gallery Mixed-media work by Sopheap Pich and Leang Seckon. Both artists were born in the 1970s, lived through the Khmer Rouge years and became central to Cambodia’s artistic revival in the 2000s. Seckon builds collages from photographs, paint and recycled textiles; Pich makes abstract sculptures from natural materials and discarded objects. Full details: [exhibitions.asianart.org](https://exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/art-from-contemporary-cambodia/) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/asian-art-museum/art-from-contemporary-cambodia ### *Mountains of the Mind: A Chinese Landscape Journey* Dec 13, 2025 – Oct 26, 2026 · on view · 2nd Floor, Chinese Galleries Landscapes by Chinese ink painters, historical and contemporary. The selection draws on the tradition of mountain worship and on Daoist thought, in which peaks, water and cloud are imagined as a living body. It includes Wang Jian’s Thousand Trees on Azure Peaks in the Style of Dong Yuan, painted in 1668. Full details: [exhibitions.asianart.org](https://exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/mountains-of-the-mind-a-chinese-landscape-journey-2026/) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/asian-art-museum/mountains-of-the-mind-a-chinese-landscape-journey ### Kim Minwook: *On Carving, Bending, and Binding Wood* Jul 30, 2026 – Mar 29, 2027 · on view · Koret Korean Galleries Carved, bent and bound wood sculpture by a self-taught Korean woodturner, in his first solo museum exhibition. Kim (born 1978) took up woodturning in 2013 and works with timber already marked by weather and age, following its grain and tension and letting cracks, knots and scars shape each piece. He won the 2019 Lexus Creative Masters Award in Seoul and was shortlisted for the 2022 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize. Full details: [exhibitions.asianart.org](https://exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/kim-minwook-on-carving-bending-and-binding-wood/) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/asian-art-museum/on-carving-bending-and-binding-wood ### *2026 Next Generation Bamboo Art Prize Winners* Group exhibition · Oct 1, 2026 – Jan 4, 2027 · on view · Tateuchi Japanese Galleries New Japanese bamboo art by the winners of this year’s Next Generation Bamboo Art Prizes, led by grand prize winner Ōki Toshie. All three main prizes went to women this year: Ōki Toshie (born 1976), who won the Coffland Grand Prize, Aoyagi Keiko and Hasegawa Kei; six of the seven finalists were women. Their works join the museum’s gallery of Japanese bamboo art, a collection built largely on gifts from the collector Lloyd Cotsen. Full details: [exhibitions.asianart.org](https://exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/2026-next-generation-bamboo-art-prize-winners/) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/asian-art-museum/2026-next-generation-bamboo-art-prize-winners ### Al-An deSouza: *Table Settings* Apr 9 – Nov 2, 2026 · on view · South Asian Galleries A watercolor installation on tea-stained grounds, mixing details from the museum’s galleries with the cracks and markings of city sidewalks. Over months at a living-room table, deSouza began each painting session with a pot of tea, whose leftovers formed the ground for that day’s work. Textures from the museum’s permanent galleries mix with the cracks, stains, signs and bumps the artist photographs on walks through the streets. The artist, born in 1958, chose watercolor partly because it is so often looked down on, as an amateur’s or a woman’s medium. Full details: [exhibitions.asianart.org](https://exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/al-an-desouza-table-settings/) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/asian-art-museum/table-settings ### *Vishnu’s Cosmic Ocean* Oct 23, 2026 – Jan 25, 2027 · coming up · Osher Foundation Gallery The largest ancient bronze found in Southeast Asia, a colossal reclining Vishnu from Angkor, on the final stop of its international tour. Nearly twenty feet long when complete, the Vishnu lay in an eleventh-century temple built on an island in a vast reservoir at Angkor. Rediscovered in 1936 and recently conserved, it is on loan from the National Museum of Cambodia; research shows it was once gilded. Maps, videos and a film by praCh Ly about life around the reservoir today trace the link between water and power in the Khmer kingdom. Full details: [exhibitions.asianart.org](https://exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/vishnus-cosmic-ocean/) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/asian-art-museum/vishnus-cosmic-ocean --- On View's listing, as of Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Every gallery and museum in San Francisco: https://onview.so/sf.md. All of On View: https://onview.so/llms.txt