Past
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Reframing the Margins
Contemporary Works by AAPI Artists 3 May - 7 Jun 2025 Every May, Qualia Contemporary Art aims to build bridges of understanding within the local Bay Area community and foster a deeper appreciation and awareness of AAPI identities nationwide by celebrating the contributions of AAPI artists to contemporary art in America. The exhibition features the work of five exceptional Asian-American women... Read more -
Zhang Yu: Ink Reconstructed
3 May - 19 Jul 2025 Zhang Yu is known for pushing the boundaries of ink, experimenting with the medium in ways that blend abstraction, durational performance, and embodied practice. Moving beyond traditional ink painting, he has pursued a new form of conceptual ink art over his fifty-year career, establishing himself as a revolutionary and disruptor... Read more -
A Living Room
8 Mar - 26 Apr 2025 An ambitious group show conceived and curated by gallery artist Joe Ferriso: A Living Room assembles over twenty artists working at the intersection of aesthetics, functionality, domesticity, and craft. Featured artists include Jonathan Anzalone (Portland, OR), Kim Bennett (Oakland, CA), Takming Chuang (San Francisco, CA), Mark Dutcher (Sea Ranch, CA),... Read more -
Nick Dong: Auspicious
11 Jan - 1 Mar 2025 Nick Dong’s technologically engaged work reflects his Taiwanese-American identity and Tibetan Buddhist upbringing, referencing spirituality and heritage through a distinctly contemporary lens. At the exhibition's core are the first 11 works of an ongoing series of 88 works entitled “Auspicious 88”, which is set to be completed by 2028. Two... Read more
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Victoria Yau: Mountain Cloud
11 Jan - 1 Mar 2025 Victoria Yau: Mountain Cloud is a solo exhibition curated by Dr. Ellen Huang, Ph.D, former visiting scholar at Stanford’s Center for East Asian Studies and associate professor of art history and material culture at Art Center College of Design. Shanghai-born artist Victoria Yau (1939-2023) was one of the earliest Asian-American... Read more -
Our Bodies Through Our Eyes
9 Nov 2024 - 4 Jan 2025 Our Bodies Through Our Eyes brings together the work of these seven women artists, many from the Bay Area, to exemplify how the female body and its representation can be used as a vehicle of resistance, reclamation, and healing. Our Bodies Through Our Eyes presents the unique perspectives of multiple... Read more -
Younhee Paik: Listening for a Thousand Bells
14 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Almost 30 years since Paik’s inclusion in the inaugural Korean pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1995, her work has been selected for the American pavilion’s exhibition at the 2024 Gwangju Biennial, making this a moment ripe for reviewing this seminal Korean-American artist’s oeuvre. The artist’s surreal, often abstract paintings... Read more -
Lyu Peng: Beautiful Pictures
13 Jul - 7 Sep 2024 The exhibition will highlight a new body of elusive work entitled “Beautiful Pictures”, the exhibition’s namesake, that includes the artist’s first representations of animals, in addition to a previous series focused on the Little Red Book, “Reading Times”. Lyu demonstrates a masterful command of Chinese mineral pigments and the technique... Read more
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All Together Now
Celebrating AAPI Voices in Contemporary Art 18 May - 28 Jun 2024 This exhibition features fourteen exceptional Asian-American artists working in a diverse array of media and exploring a variety of themes, including Michael Arcega, Arnold Chang, Hai-Hsin Huang, Yun-Fei Ji, Hung Liu, Masako Miki, Younhee Paik, Ren Light Pan, TT Takemoto, Rupy C. Tut, Kelly Wang, Xiaoze Xie, Stella Zhang, and... Read more -
Yang Jiechang: Beneath the Golden Antlers
18 May - 28 Jun 2024 As part of the gallery’s ongoing programmatic focus on contemporary artists from the Asian diaspora, Qualia is proud to welcome Yang back to the Bay Area following his inclusion in the 2022 group exhibition Beyond Ink , curated by Xiaoze Xie. The exhibition will highlight a recent body of work... Read more -
Clive McCarthy: The Continuation of Painting by Other Means
10 Apr - 14 May 2024 A selection of seven works, presented on screens, will highlight McCarthy’s generative, moving image pieces, created from custom software specifically developed by the artist himself. The curation of McCarthy’s works emphasizes the artist’s interest in the human figure in motion, as revealed by an endless accumulation of computer-coded brushstrokes. Progressively... Read more -
Meng Huang: Landscape and Shan Shui 风景和山水
10 Apr - 14 May 2024 Having shown extensively throughout Asia and Western Europe, Landscape and Shanshui is the established artist’s first-ever solo exhibition in the United States. As part of the gallery’s ongoing programmatic focus on contemporary artists from the Asian diaspora, Qualia is proud to introduce national and local Bay Area audiences alike to... Read more
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Tommy Fitzpatrick: Homescapes
17 Feb - 26 Mar 2024 During his three-decade career, Tommy Fitzpatrick has continually studied and reinterpreted modernist architecture through his paintings. Paying close attention to the industrial materials and structured grid of buildings, he explores unique tools and processes for making paintings. He uses common industrial tools, such as trowels and spatulas, to allow for... Read more -
Xu Hongming: The Form of the Formless 大道之形
17 Feb - 26 Mar 2024 In philosophy, approach, and practice, Xu Hongming has been breaking the barriers of conventional Chinese art for more than four decades. He infuses pure abstraction of the Western tradition with Daoist philosophy, straddling a dynamic tension between the traditional and the modern. Layering mineral powder on canvas, Xu creates luminous... Read more -
Lasting Impression: Works on Paper
7 Jan - 14 Feb 2024 In the depths of winter, looking toward the spring, our selection will shed light on works on paper by ten established and mid-career artists: Julie Bozzi, Enrique Chagoya, Bruce Conner, Vernon Fisher, Sam Francis, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Hung Liu, Kiki Smith, and Xiaoze Xie. Ranging from as early as... Read more -
The Edge of Days
7 Nov - 12 Dec 2023 Both Chu Chu and Gail Skudera reimagine and recontextualize the medium of photography to explore themes of memory, history, and elements of their own lives. Chu combines natural imagery with calligraphic ink painting to create abstract, multimedia works that depict objects and places that have personal significance to the artist.... Read more
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Nathan Randall Green: Three Directions
13 Sep - 20 Oct 2023 Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to present Three Directions , a solo show of paintings by Nathan Randall Green. The exhibition continues Green’s visual exploration of the cosmos and its extraordinary immensity. The vibrant, geometric paintings are created on organic shapes full of surface texture, and they speak to Green’s... Read more -
Wen Zhongyan: Wandering the City, Waking from a Dream
13 Sep - 20 Oct 2023 Wen Zhongyan's first solo exhibition in North America will feature a series of seven works on paper and two paintings that depict the city of Beijing through what was lost, what remains, and what has changed. WEN combines multiple layers of imagery in an intuitive screen printing process that evokes... Read more -
Tai Xiangzhou: Kunlun Mountain
19 Jul - 8 Sep 2023 Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to present Kunlun Mountain , an exhibition of works by Chinese artist TAI Xiangzhou. The artist’s first solo exhibition on the West Coast will feature a new body of work that manifests, in ink on silk and paper, his lifestyle as a contemporary scholar-artist and... Read more -
Pan Hsinhua: Garden of Mind
24 May - 14 Jul 2023 Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to present Garden of Mind (借景造園), a solo exhibition of paintings by Taiwanese artist PAN Hsinhua. The artist’s first exhibition at the gallery will feature a series of surreal landscape paintings that fuse traditional aspects of Chinese culture and philosophy with contemporary Taiwanese society and... Read more
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Wang Tiande: Further Along
24 May - 14 Jul 2023 Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to present Further Along (越走越遠), an exhibition of works on paper by Chinese artist WANG Tiande. The artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery will feature a new body of work that engages with Chinese poetry, history, and the tradition of brush and ink painting.... Read more -
Inland Current
5 Apr - 19 May 2023 Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to present Inland Current , a solo exhibition by realist landscape painter Neil Griess. The show features acrylic, gouache, and pastel paintings derived from Griess’s home state of Nebraska, with an emphasis on the interaction between the natural world and the built environment. His pieces... Read more -
Lyric Abstraction: Hami and Home
5 Apr - 19 May 2023 Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to present Lyric Abstraction: Hami and Home , a solo exhibition of paintings by David Frazer. The artist’s second show at the gallery will feature abstract oil paintings, including a distinct body of work inspired by the desert town of Hami in the Xinjiang Uyghur... Read more -
Wunderblock
15 Feb - 31 Mar 2023 Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Wunderblock , a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Bay Area artists, Stella Zhang and Paul DeMarinis. The exhibition focuses on memory, with each artist’s interpretations and reflections upon the concept exemplified in the curated selection of works, encompassing 16 new and recent... Read more
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Solace
14 Dec 2022 - 10 Feb 2023 Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Solace , a group exhibition of new works by the Venerable Shi De and artist Joe Ferriso. The show explores the practice of art making as it relates to the artist’s journey toward personal and spiritual contentment. Artists are often depicted as solitary... Read more -
Fifth Ward / Delray
19 Oct - 9 Dec 2022 Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Fifth Ward/Delray , an exhibition curated by Alexander Nemerov. Featuring the art of two Black artists, painter Gregory Edwards and photographer Jen Everett, the show explores the persistence of our earliest memories – of the places where we grew up – in all... Read more -
Garden of Hundreds of Plants (百草园)
7 Sep - 14 Oct 2022 Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to announce “Garden of Hundreds of Plants,” a group exhibition featuring the work of three contemporary Chinese artists: Zhenchen Liu, Lyu Peng, and Ruijun Shen. Each artist employs traditional media to explore the enduring capacity of nature to heal and to empower. The natural world... Read more -
Transonic
20 Jul - 2 Sep 2022 Bay Area artist and composer Guillermo Galindo’s work engages with the practice of sonic healing, rooted in his post-Mexican heritage and his ongoing study of pre-Columbian traditions. Combining his experimental compositions with observations and objects from the Mexican-American borderlands, Galindo brings his multidisciplinary creations to the public at Qualia this... Read more
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Collision
2 Jul - 2 Sep 2022 Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Collision , a solo exhibition of mixed media works by Oakland-based artist Gregory Rick. Recently honored as the winner of SFMoMA’s 2022 SECA Award and as a winner of the San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award for 2022, Rick employs techniques from printmaking,... Read more -
Beyond Ink
28 May - 17 Jul 2022 The performative application of ink, the time-based process of meditative mark-making, and the sculptural dimension of the material are revealed in each artist’s work, and in the dialogues between them. Works by artists Yang Jiechang, Zhang Yu, Zheng Chongbin, and Wang Tiande will present a wide and varied scope of... Read more -
Here to There
24 Mar - 6 May 2022 A solo exhibition by South Korean-born, Oakland-based painter, Younhee Paik: the artist’s surreal, often abstract paintings combine symbolism, celestial imagery, and strong feminist undertones. Paik’s work tells the story of her life, touching on themes of immigration, motherhood, and the artist’s connection to nature. The exhibition features a selection of... Read more -
Things Far Held Near
24 Mar - 6 May 2022 Drawing from her professional background as a naturalist for Parks Canada and avid outdoorsperson, and inspired in part by traditional Chinese painting, Ilana Manolson's richly expressive artworks aim to make visible the connections and interdependencies between all elements in nature. In doing so, she hopes her work offers an occasion... Read more
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Illusive Fields
8 Feb - 18 Mar 2022 Painter Xu Hongming’s first solo exhibition in the United States: in philosophy, approach, and practice, Xu has been breaking the barriers of conventional Chinese art for more than four decades with his investigative practice in pure abstraction. The exhibition will showcase a group of works created between 2018 and 2021... Read more -
Like Gravity
8 Feb - 18 Mar 2022 Emily Cheng’s enigmatic and vibrant paintings chart the movement of an indefinable yet familiar energy. Through symmetrical geometric “templates for the body,” Cheng explores different ways of existing within one's own human form and its relation to the universe. Her vivacious and mystical style evokes the work of renowned artist... Read more -
Hear the Stars
9 Dec 2021 - 28 Jan 2022 Nathan Randall Green's richly colored abstract artwork is inspired by — and in turn aims to inspire — deep moments of contemplation on the grandeur and scale of the universe. Hear the Stars extends Green’s meditation on these themes with new works that embrace a looser, more intuitive approach. His... Read more -
Improvisation - Beyond Reality
9 Dec 2021 - 28 Jan 2022 This show continues David Frazer's decades-long practice of improvisational painting, encouraging accidents and making sense of the unknown as he goes. The complex and dense paintings embody his signature style, utilizing familiar motifs in an abstracted and evocative manner. Frazer’s working process is inspired by a broad range of historical... Read more
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Hydrophillic
7 Oct - 3 Dec 2021 John Sabraw’s art has garnered awe and awareness for addressing ever-more-pressing environmental concerns through innovative collaborations with scientists working on sustainable solutions. In this new exhibition, Sabraw explores these partnerships through painting, sculpture, and installation, aiming to spur catalytic change by bringing the distinct spheres of art, science, and entrepreneurship... Read more -
Interlaced
5 Aug - 1 Oct 2021 Interlaced , an exhibition of seven artists adapting the ancient medium of tapestries and textiles, honors the rich — and often overlooked — legacy of craftwork, and highlights the medium’s growing presence in contemporary art, featuring art by Josh Faught, Terri Friedman, Robert Kushner, Hung Liu, Kiki Smith, William Wiley,... Read more -
Resonance
3 Jun - 30 Jul 2021 Resonance is a group exhibition curated by Xiaoze Xie, featuring works by Terry Berlier, Paul DeMarinis, Guillermo Galindo, and Hu Xiangcheng, whose work explores the transformative relationship between vision and sound and blurs the boundaries between visual art and experimental music. The exhibition comprises a provocative array of works spanning... Read more -
Site
10 Apr - 28 May 2021 Site , a solo exhibition by painter Tommy Fitzpatrick, features new works in his 25-year exploration of structural space and color. The artist takes architecture as his inspiration, constructing painted forms that straddle sculpture, still life, and abstraction. His work demonstrates how our perception of the built environment can evolve.... Read more
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The Youth, the Magical World
10 Apr - 28 May 2021 The Youth, the Magical World is a solo exhibition by Chinese painter Lyu Peng, featuring five large-format paintings that view past and present Chinese culture through a surrealist lens. The works in the exhibition are masterfully painted on delicate rice paper using traditional Chinese inks and pigments. The series centers... Read more -
Internal Landscape
11 Feb - 2 Apr 2021 Stella Zhang continues her ten-year exploration of the body with new works that act as a meditation on her acute awareness of the internal and external body and how it not only carries consciousness, but also intuition. The exhibiting works in Internal Landscape were created while the artist was quarantined... Read more -
Rupture of the Mundane Plane
11 Feb - 2 Apr 2021 Rupture of the Mundane Plane showcases two recent bodies of work on paper from two series by Yulia Pinkusevich: Isorithm Maps and a new body of work entitled the Q-Series. In her evolving practice, Pinkusevich has created a bold, visual language that engages interconnection, musicality, space, and materiality to explore... Read more -
Here to Returnity
3 Dec 2020 - 15 Jan 2021 Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Cate White, Here to Returnity , a series of mixed media on canvas works that depict the repetitive patterns and contemporary experiences of systemic power structures within an art historical context. White’s exhibition utilizes her personal history and experiences,... Read more
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Inhabitants
3 Dec 2020 - 15 Jan 2021 Inhabitants is a solo exhibition of a stunning survey of Sean Howe’s bold anamorphic works that capture the beautiful and overwhelming complexities and relationships that exist within nature. Shapes and characters interact and play off one another. Howe says, “As I jig-saw colors and shapes into environments, characters begin to... Read more -
Catastrophic Beauty: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene
10 Oct - 20 Nov 2020 Xiaoze Xie, the Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art at Stanford University, has guest curated this exhibition featuring seven exceptional artists — Michael Arcega (b. 1973), Robyn O’Neil (b. 1977), QIU Anxiong (b. 1972), John Sabraw (b. 1968), Shang Yang (b. 1942), Jean Shin (b. 1971), and Yi... Read more
