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Aisha Khalid,Ishq, 2023, pins on canvas, 40 x 80 in (101.6 x 203.2 cm), variation one. Image courtesy the artist and Aicon, New York.

Exhibitions

“At the Circle’s Center”: Aisha Khalid at Aicon, New York

Bani Abidi, And They Died Laughing, 2016, watercolour on paper, 8.5 x 11 in. © Bani Abidi. Image courtesy the artist & Experimenter, Kolkata.

Exhibitions

“They Died Laughing”: Bani Abidi at Gropius Bau

The Pakistani artist highlights the absurdity of everyday life.

Ahmed Javed, Imran Qureshi Studio, Gouache and gold leaf on Wasli, 110 x 150 x 5 cm. Image courtesy the artist.

Art Awards and Prizes

Ahmed Javed wins Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2019

The Pakistani artist was awarded the 15th edition of the prize for his work 'Imran Qureshi Studio'.

Deborah Kass, Seven Ghost Yentls (My Elvis), 1997, silkscreen and acrylic on canvas, 198.1 x 294.6 x 3.8 cm. Image courtesy the artist and Kavi Gupta.

Art Fairs

Art Basel OVR: Pioneers 2021

Art Basel presents an exclusive Online Viewing Room dedicated to pioneering artists of the 20th and 21st century.

Pannaphan Yodmanee, Thailand b. 1988, In the aftermath (installation view), 2018, mixed media, concrete and paint. Courtesy the artist and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. Proposed for the QAGOMA Collection. Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA.

Triennales

Asia Pacific Triennial 9

ASIA looks at some of the new and commissioned works for the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at QAGOMA.

Biennales

Asia-Pacific at the 58th Venice Biennale

National pavilions and collateral events representing Asia-Pacific countries at the Venice Biennale in 2019.

ASIA | Art Spectacle International Asia is an independent online magazine covering contemporary art from Asia-Pacific to the Middle East.

Founder and Editor C. A. Xuân Mai Ardia is a Vietnamese-Italian from Padova, Italy. She currently resides near Venice, Italy, but she has lived around the world for more than 20 years. London was her home throughout university and her first forays in the art world and gallery work, until she moved to Shanghai in 2006 where she worked for Pearl Lam Galleries (then Contrasts Gallery) until 2009. She has lived between Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Padova, Italy in 2009-2016, where she worked at Galerie Qyunh, Craig Thomas Gallery and contributed to Art Radar.

Mai holds a BA in Chinese | History of Art and Archaeology and an MA in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK, as well as an MSc in Development Studies | Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the School of Development, Innovation and Change (SDIC), University of Bologna, Italy. She has worked in the conservation of world cultural heritage in Rome and in contemporary art galleries in London, Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh City. Her articles have been published in Art Review Asia, Art Radar, The Culture Trip and CoBo Social.

Mai joined the Art Radar team as Copy Editor in May 2013, and became Staff Writer in November of the same year. Continuing to contribute her writing to Art Radar, she took up the role of Managing Editor from November 2015 to December 2018, when Art Radar ceased publication.

To continue on and contribute to the dissemination of contemporary art ideas and practices from Asia, Mai founded ASIA in Spring 2019.

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