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- West Bund Art & Design Shanghai 2026Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to announce its participation in the 2026 edition of West Bund Art & Design Shanghai, taking place November 10 to 15, at the West Bund Art Center.
- 'Beyond the Endgame' curated by Martina Köppel-YangStaged in the heart of Silicon Valley, Beyond the Endgame brings together nine Paris-based artists of Chinese descent spanning three generations. In a region dominated by technological acceleration, artificial intelligence,...
- Younhee Paik: ReachingNow in her eighth decade, artist Younhee Paik has developed a practice rooted in both Eastern and Western artistic traditions, shaped by early training in Seoul and formative years at...
- The Periodic Table and Integrated CircuitsRe-presented in 2026, The Periodic Table and Integrated Circuits pairs Wen Zhongyan s memorials to old Beijing with Vernon Fisher s narrative-rich paintings of charts, codes, and diagrams. Newly prescient...
- Hung Liu: Mixed MediationsDuring the Cultural Revolution in China, Hung Liu worked from 1968 to 1972 as a peasant farmer in the countryside northeast of Beijing. As an artist, she sketched whenever possible,...
- Xu Hongming: Color and Ten Thousand ThingsChinese contemporary artist Xu Hongming's third solo exhibition with the gallery, Color and Ten Thousand Things presents new and recent abstract works that examine the spiritual, philosophical, and material elements that ground the traditional art form. Through atmospheric and brightly pigmented color field paintings on silk, Xu Hongming explores space...
- Wang Tiande: Not Yet DefinedInternationally recognized for redefining the possibilities of ink painting and calligraphy, Wang Tiande has established a practice that bridges traditional Chinese aesthetics and contemporary conceptual art. Wang is best known for his burned landscapes on layered paper specially commissioned by a traditional papermaking workshop in an ancient village along the...
- Cathy Lu & Yulia Pinkusevich: EmergenceThe title for Emergence takes its inspiration from the interplay between the words emergence and emergency, referencing environmental and spiritual themes through disparate practices that unite around the concept of transformation and the symbology of ritual smoke and cleansing flame. In their two-person exhibition, Cathy Lu and Yulia Pinkusevich propose...
- Stella Zhang: Tidal TracesIn Tidal Traces, Stella Zhang approaches the tide not as a representative subject but as an embodied condition. The ebb and flow of oceanic systems function as a conceptual framework through which the artist reflects on memory, emotion, and the body s negotiation with external forces. Rather than representing the...
- Guillermo Galindo: TortoiseTortoise is a solo exhibition of new work by Mexican-American composer, visual artist, and experimental musician Guillermo Galindo. The exhibition continues Galindo s exploration of borders metaphysical, geographic, political, philosophical, ecological, and beyond. His broad conceptual focus employs an expansive interpretation of what constitutes a border, whether it be a...
- Pan Hsinhua: Phenomena of QiTaiwanese artist Pan Hsinhua s second solo exhibition at the gallery will feature a series of surreal paintings that fuse traditional aspects of Taiwanese culture, medicine, and philosophy with contemporary society and the environment. Pan collapses paradoxical and opposing elements on the picture plane, setting the scene for open-ended narratives unfettered...
- David Frazer: MirageMirage is the gallery s third solo exhibition by abstract, improvisational painter David Frazer. This exhibition presents fourteen new oil paintings that continue Frazer s decades-long inquiry into painting as a self-sufficient language. Where much of contemporary art leans toward narrative, politics, or figuration, Frazer remains a purist: his canvases are fields...
- At Ease With Hand and MindThroughout Chinese history, literati calligraphy has been considered an elite art form. Its practitioners were poets, writers, scholars, and statesmen with deep cultural cultivation, not merely skilled artisans. The selected works represent a continuation of the tradition s interdisciplinarity, as many of the exhibitors move freely among literature, calligraphy, contemporary art,...
- Reframing the MarginsEvery 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...
- Zhang Yu: Ink ReconstructedZhang 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...
- A Living RoomAn 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),...
- Nick Dong: AuspiciousNick 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...
- Victoria Yau: Mountain CloudVictoria 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...
- Our Bodies Through Our EyesOur 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...
- Younhee Paik: Listening for a Thousand BellsAlmost 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...
- Lyu Peng: Beautiful PicturesThe 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...
- All Together NowThis 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...
- Yang Jiechang: Beneath the Golden AntlersAs 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...
- Clive McCarthy: The Continuation of Painting by Other MeansA 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...
- Meng Huang: Landscape and Shan Shui 风景和山水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...
- Tommy Fitzpatrick: HomescapesDuring 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...
- Xu Hongming: The Form of the Formless 大道之形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...
- Lasting Impression: Works on PaperIn 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...
- Chu Chu and Gail Skudera: The Edge of DaysBoth 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....
- Nathan Randall Green: Three DirectionsQualia 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...
- Wen Zhongyan: Wandering the City, Waking from a DreamWen 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...
- Tai Xiangzhou: Kunlun MountainQualia 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...
- Pan Hsinhua: Garden of MindQualia 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...
- Wang Tiande: Further AlongQualia 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....
- Neil Griess: Inland CurrentQualia 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...
- Lyric Abstraction: Hami and HomeQualia 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...
- Stella Zhang and Paul DeMarinis: WunderblockQualia 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...
- Venerable Shi De and Joe Ferriso: SolaceQualia 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...
- Fifth Ward / DelrayQualia 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...
- Garden of Hundreds of Plants (百草园)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...
- Guillermo Galindo: TransonicBay 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...
- Gregory Rick: CollisionQualia 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,...
- Beyond InkThe 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...
- Here to ThereA 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...
- Things Far Held NearDrawing 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...
- Illusive FieldsPainter 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...
- Like GravityEmily 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...
- Hear the StarsNathan 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...
- Improvisation - Beyond RealityThis 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...
- HydrophillicJohn 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...
- InterlacedInterlaced , 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,...
- ResonanceResonance 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...
- SiteSite , 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....
- Lyu Peng: The Youth, the Magical WorldThe 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...
- Stella Zhang: Internal LandscapeStella 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...
- Yulia Pinkusevich: Rupture of the Mundane PlaneRupture 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...
- Cate White: Here to ReturnityQualia 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,...
- Sean Howe: InhabitantsInhabitants 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...
- Catastrophic Beauty: Art in the Age of the AnthropoceneXiaoze 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...
- West Bund Art & Design Shanghai 2026Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to announce its participation in the 2026 edition of West Bund Art & Design Shanghai , taking place November 10 to 15 , at the...
- Expo Chicago 2026For our inaugural presentation at EXPO Chicago, Qualia Contemporary Art presents a group of eight contemporary Chinese artists working with ink, calligraphy, and portraiture. The booth will include work by...
- Art Central Hong Kong 2026Qualia Contemporary Art makes our Art Central Hong Kong debut at Booth A1 with a duo presentation of new paintings by Lyu Peng and Xu Hongming . This exhibition traces...
- Victoria Yau: Near the Edge of Your SoulA young lad asked, 'How do I view the art works while living so far away?' The elderly person answered, 'Close your eyes, pretend you are blind.' The young lad...
- Guillermo Galindo: Piercing KissesDrawing from his personal experiences as an auto-exiled individual with complex origins in a conservative family in Mexico City, Guillermo Galindo explores the concept of being a true immigrant in...
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Qualia Contemporary Art
229 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA
Palo Alto, CA 94301
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- tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- friday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- saturday
- 11:00 – 19:00
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