Asian Art at Vassar
Asian Art Collection at Loeb Museum
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Reception: Friday, October 23, 4:30-5:00pm
Art Exhibition by Asian and Asian Diaspora Artists
Strata of Relations: Tales Across Asia and Beyond
The James W. Palmer III Gallery, College Center 1F
Reception: Friday, October 23, 7-9 pm
Strata of Relations: Press Release
Co-sponsored by the Office of Campus Activities, the Chinese Student Community, the Vassar Student Association, and the ALANA Center
Curated by Yixuan Wang (Class ’26)
Participating Artists:
Beihua Guo, Hafsa Nouman, Huiqi He, Xinhao Cheng, Siyang Dai & Zijun Zhao, Christy Phimmasone, Xingyan Guo,
Pejvak (Felix Kalmenson & Rouzbeh Akhbari), and Chen Xiaoyi
This group exhibition approaches Asia not as a fixed geographic entity, but as an evolving constellation of relationships reshaped by colonial histories, infrastructure expansions, local communities, and natural processes. Bringing together artists based across Asia and its diasporas, the exhibition examines how landscapes are traversed, contested and remembered across shifting cultural and geographical boundaries.
Photo Exhibition
The Wild China: Selected Photos by Xi Zhinong
Co-sponsored by the Wild China Film, the Andrea Baldeck Endowment, and the Asian Studies Program at Vassar College
College Center 2F
Xi Zhinong is a pioneering Chinese wildlife photographer and conservationist renowned for using imagery to protect China’s endangered species. He is the founder of Wild China Film, an organization dedicated to nature conservation. He is among the few Chinese photographers to win numerous prestigious international awards, such as the Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Wildlife and the BBC’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year. He is the only Chinese national in the International League of Conservation Photographers and was named a National Geographic Wayfinder Award recipient in 2022. The photos on display are among his most well-known works over the past 40 years.
For more information, please visit: https://www.worldpressphoto.org/person/detail/37258/xi-zhinong