2024 - 2026
Canada
Since 2014 Vancouver Art Gallery has been developing its Institute of Asian Art, a platform for profiling and enhancing the understanding of modern and contemporary Asian art. The Foundation is supporting a research collaboration with Chinese Canadian artist Karen Tam which will look at early 20th Century Chinese cultural practitioners who travelled to North America.
Enabling artistic research into the historic experience of Chinese people in Australia from the 1850s Gold Rush era
Creating a network across academic institutions to engage with art and the history of Chinese immigration
Producing a podcast series, ‘Voicing the Archive’, with artists exploring narratives of Chinese immigration to the UK