About the organisation
Asia Art Archive is an independent non-profit organisation co-founded by Claire Hsu and Johnson Chang in 2000 in response to the urgent need to document and make accessible the multiple recent histories of art in the region. With one of the most valuable growing collections of material on the recent history of art from Asia, freely available from our website and onsite library, AAA builds tools and communities to collectively expand knowledge through research, residency, and educational programmes. How We Do It We drive the composition of our collection with key areas of concern known as content priorities. These include examining sites where art history has been written in Asia through the lens of art writing, exhibitions, and pedagogy; looking at ideas that connect us beyond national borders (complex geographies); considering tradition and contemporary expression in parallel; investigating ephemeral practices such as performance art; and addressing gaps in art history and in our collection such as the imbalance of the representation of women. Our collection comprises a vast range of documentation, including the personal archives of significant artists, educators, and art professionals as well as key exhibitions and art spaces. We continually add to it through a research, acquisition, and digitisation process. Our library houses our physical collection, which encompasses reference books, monographs, exhibition catalogues, periodicals, and rare ephemeral materials. As part of our effort to build a community that enriches conversations around art, and be a leading resource and catalyst for scholarship in the field, we organise talks, workshops, conferences, symposia, and research grants for and with art professionals, educators, academics, artists, and the interested public. We activate and circulate the collection in multiple ways: by offering residencies and grants for art professionals to conduct research at AAA, creating teaching resources for educators, presenting regular programming and partnering with arts initiatives to critically enquire into the collection, partnering with educational institutions to use the collection to look at how art is taught, and by commissioning and publishing articles around the collection. These programmes and partnerships generate new ideas and connections that fuel future collections and projects
Mission
Art is knowledge. Asia Art Archive is a catalyst for new ideas that enrich our understanding of the world through the collection, creation, and sharing of knowledge around recent art in Asia.
Contact
- Phone
- 2844 1112
- info@aaa.org.hk
- Website
- aaa.org.hk
- Address
- 11F Hollywood Centre,233 Hollywood Road,Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Focus Areas
Categories
Target beneficiaries
Sustainable Development Goals
Organisation type
Governance & transparency
Directors
Amy Buckley BROWN, Anupam PODDA, Benjamin Yiu Chung CHA, Chi Kong CHENG, Christopher Keith HO, Eunei LEE, Hing Kay HO, Jane Boettger DE BEVOISE, Jennifer Chun En WOO, John Spence WADSWORTH Jr., Johnson Tsong Zung CHANG, Michelle Anne Quan Yê LEUNG SULGER, Robert Christopher HEADY, Ronald Joseph ARCULLI, Stephen KING, Wendy LEE, William Ooi Lee LIM
- Annual report on website
- No
- Financial audits on website
- No
- Board of directors on website
- No
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Other
- Subvented HK Charity
- No
- Charity number
- 91/6191
- BRN
- 31635349
- Effective date (charity status)
- 16/03/2001
- Incorporation date
- 18/12/2000
Disclaimer
Last updated: Mar 12, 2026
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