First Row (L-R): Courtesy Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.; Zetterquist Galleries; Scholten Japanese Art; Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art; Fu Qiumeng Fine Art. Second Row (L-R): The Art of Japan; Thomsen Gallery; TAI Modern; HK Art and Antiques LLC. Third Row (L-R): Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art; Joan B Mirviss LTD; Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints; Ippodo Gallery; Last Row (L-R): Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd.; Alisan Fine Arts; Seizan Gallery; Onishi Gallery
Autumn 2025
September 11—19, 2025
We’re excited to share that Asia Week New York Autumn 2025 will take place from September 11–19! This season brings together extraordinary sales at six leading auction houses—Bonhams, Christie’s, Doyle, Freeman’s | Hindman, Heritage, and Sotheby’s—along with a vibrant lineup of exhibitions from seventeen Asian art galleries.
Fourteen galleries will open their doors to welcome visitors in person, while three will showcase their exhibitions online. To make it easy to explore, we’ve gathered highlights from each gallery below, organized by category. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating this spectacular fall season of Asian art—mark your calendars and start planning your visits!
Ancient and/or Contemporary Chinese Art
Zhang Yirong 張藝蓉 (b. 1979), Gorgeous Epiphyllums, 2023, Chinese ink on rice paper, 28 x 23⅞ in. (71 x 60.5 cm), 39 x 32¼ x 1⅛ in. (framed) (99.00 x 82.00 x 3.00 cm (framed)) Courtesy Alisan Fine Arts
Alisan Fine Arts
Asia Week Autumn 2025: Ink Painters
September 16 – 20, 2025
120 East 65th Street
Alisan Fine Arts presents a selection of artworks from Chao Chung-Hsiang, Wucius Wong, Lee Chun-yi, Zhang Yirong, and Lui Shoukwan during this fall season of Asia Week New York. Encompassing abstract and figurative, gongbi and highly gestural line work, their presentation showcases the broad variation of styles across two generations of ink painters.
Chinese Famille Verte Porcelain Cabinet Rouleau Vase, Kangxi period, AD 1662-1722. height: 10 in. (25.5 cm), Courtesy Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.
Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art
September 11–30, 2025
16 East 52nd Street, 10th floor
This year marks a milestone for Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc., as it celebrates its 115th anniversary. Founded in 1910 by Ralph M. Chait, the gallery is now proudly in its fourth generation. To honor this legacy, the autumn presentation offers a distinguished selection of Chinese porcelains and works of art, including exceptional pieces once part of major European and American collections. Many works on view also passed through the gallery decades ago, reflecting how its history continues to shape the present. The gallery invites visitors to explore the exhibition, discover highlights online, and join them during Asia Week New York Autumn 2025 and throughout the year.
Wang Wenzhi (1730-1802), Poem in Running Script, ink on paper, hanging scroll,Courtesy Fu Qiumeng Fine Art
Fu Qiumeng Fine Art
Shufa Essentials
September 11–October 25, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 5-8pm
Artist Talk & Demonstration: Saturday, September 13, 3:30-5:30pm
65 East 80th Street
On view at Fu Qiumeng Fine Art is Shufa Essentials, an exhibition dedicated to the art of Shufa—commonly translated as Chinese calligraphy. Presented from the perspective of a practitioner, the exhibition offers audiences an accessible entry point into the art’s aesthetic foundations, seen through the eyes and hands of one who practices it. Rather than approaching Shufa solely as a visual artifact, the show reveals the art from within, exploring how the process, movement, and tactile sensation of writing shape the beauty that emerges on paper. It is an insider’s view into an art form where the rhythm of breath, the weight of the brush, and the flow of ink are inseparable from the finished work.
Blue and White Monk’s Cap Ewer, Ming Dynasty, 15th c., China, height: 14.5 cm, Width: 17 cm, Courtesy Zetterquist Galleries
Zetterquist Galleries
Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean Ceramics from American Collections
September 12–19, 2025
3 East 66th Street, 2nd floor
Zetterquist Galleries showcases recent acquisitions of exceptional Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean ceramics. The centerpiece is a group of Chinese and Vietnamese works from a private Boston collection, including a rare 15th-century Jingdezhen blue-and-white “Monk’s Cap Ewer” with its original lid, three Tang Dynasty treasures, among them a 7th-century flask with relief dancing boys from JJ Lally & Co., and a graceful “Sancai” circular box. Vietnamese highlights include two celadon ewers and two large plates, one featuring a leaping deer in cobalt blue, the other a vivid island scene in underglaze blue with overglaze green, red, and gold. From the estate of a New York collector comes a refined group of Chinese Song Dynasty wares, while Korean artistry shines in Goryeo celadons of exquisite form and luminous glaze, sourced from American and Japanese collections.
Ancient and/or Contemporary Japanese Art
Utamaro, The Salt Maidens – Matzukase and Murasame on the Suma Shore, c. 1785, woodblock print, 9.25 x 5.75 in., Courtesy The Art of Japan
The Art of Japan
Hot Summer, Cool Imagery
September 11–19, 2025
Online only
The Art of Japan’s online exhibition brings together works that celebrate the spirit of summertime life in Japan, from the Edo period through Taishō and Shōwa eras. Summer in Japan, as captured in the popular imagery of ukiyo-e, unfolds in lush garden scenes, elegant women in airy fabrics, leisurely strolls in the evening breeze, boat rides, and firework displays along the Sumidagawa and, come nightfall, a ghost story to send shivers before bed.
Group of works by Koinuma Michio, Kawamoto Goro, Tsuboshima Dohei, Courtesy Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd.
Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd.
Mavericks: Three Masters of Modern Japanese Ceramics
Private View & Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 3-7pm
September 11–19, 2025
18 East 64th Street, Suite 1F
Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd. features Mavericks: Three Masters of Modern Japanese Ceramics, a three-person show of works by Kawamoto Goro, Koinuma Michio, and Tsuboshima Dohei. The three artists emerged during a time when the idea of a ceramicist was being challenged: by identifying themselves as individualistic artists, these three figures were part of a generation that elevated the vessel form into high art in Japan, expanding the ceramic category in the latter half of the 20th century. United by a spirit of innovation and avant-garde vision rooted in tradition, their work reflects a deep sensitivity to material and form, shaped by historical precedent and masterful craftsmanship.
Hashiguchi Goyo (1880-1921), Woman Applying Powder, 1918, 53.3 x 38.3 cm, Courtesy Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints
Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints
Modern Masters: 20th Century Japanese Prints
September 11–19, 2025
Online only
Modern Masters: 20th Century Japanese Prints at Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints features select works by Kawase Hasui, Oda Kazuma, Kasamatsu Shiro, Ohara Koson, Takahashi Hiroaki, and other modern masters. A highlight of this online exhibition is what scholars consider to be the very first print that ushered in the fresh genre of shin hanga, (“new prints,” at the time called Shinsaku hanga). This print is Hachiguchi Goyo’s elegant masterpiece of a woman applying powder from 1918. Also featured is Night on the Bank of the Sumida River, published by the 22-year-old Watanabe Shôzaburo by the artist Takahashi Hiroaki in 1907.
Koichiro Isezaki (1974-present), Yō 孕, 2025, ceramic, h: 14 5/8 x w: 11 3/4 x d: 11 3/4 in. (h: 37 x w: 30 x e: 30 cm), Courtesy Ippodo Gallery
Ippodo Gallery
Koichiro Isezaki: Clay in Flow
Artist Talk & Opening Reception with Artist: Thursday, September 11, 4–8pm
September 11–October 11, 2025
35 N Moore Street
Ippodo Gallery presents Koichiro Isezaki: Clay in Flow, the acclaimed Bizen ceramicist’s second New York solo exhibition. Featuring 50 sculptures—including his iconic Yō (‘conception’) series, chawan (tea bowls), mizusashi (water jars), and hanaire (flower vases)—the show reflects a lineage of master artisans from Okayama who have safeguarded precious regional clay for generations. Isezaki channels this heritage into a contemporary visual language entirely his own, allowing tradition to flow seamlessly into the present.
A Serving Dish (Shakuzara) with the Attributes of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune (Takaramono), Edo period (1615−1868), ca. 1680, Japan, Hizen ware, Nabeshima type: porcelain with underglaze blue and celadon, diameter: 12⅞ in. (32.8 cm), Courtesy Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art
Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art
Japanese Porcelain
September 15–20, 2025
17 East 76th Street, 3rd Floor
On view at Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art, Japanese Porcelain showcases exceptional Japanese ceramics created for the country’s own elite during the Edo period (1615–1867), wares of bold design, technical mastery, and refined beauty. Made for kaiseki cuisine, tea ceremony, and conspicuous display, these pieces reflect a flourishing era of peace, prosperity, and cultural innovation under Tokugawa rule. Highlights include early Kokutani wares with lush enamels, Kakiemon porcelains renowned for their milky-white glaze and vivid overglaze decoration, and rare Nabeshima pieces once reserved exclusively for the Tokugawa shogunate and samurai elite. Together, they offer a vivid glimpse into the artistry, sophistication, and competitive spirit of Japan’s domestic porcelain tradition, little known in the West yet central to the history of Japanese design.
Fujino Sachiko (b. 1950), Imagery ’24-4, 2024, stoneware sculpture with white matte airbrushed glaze and accents of light and dark gray in interior, 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in., Courtesy Joan B Mirviss LTD
Joan B Mirviss LTD
Collapse / Rebirth II
September 11–October 2025
39 East 78th Street, 4th floor
Collapse / Rebirth II at Joan B Mirviss LTD is the second conjoint solo exhibition by renowned female ceramists, Fujino Sachiko (b. 1950) and Futamura Yoshimi (b. 1959). While each artist creates works that balance organic spontaneity with deliberate control, their approaches could not be more distinct. In Fujino’s body of work, delicately ruffled, petal-like forms emerge from calculated and geometrical foundations. Futamura treats the surfaces of textured and crevassed biomorphic sculptures with porcelain slip, which she carefully manipulates into crackled striations that evoke an array of natural imagery. Both artists have achieved international renown with their works held in museum collections worldwide. Nearly a decade after the 2016 exhibition that first placed these artists in conversation, Collapse / Rebirth II provides an opportunity to experience these artists’ evolving approaches to clay as a medium of expression.
Hagino Noriko, Uchidashi Silver Water Jar, 2014, silver, 6 ¼ × 6 × 6 in. (16 × 15 × 15 cm), Courtesy Onishi Gallery
Onishi Gallery
KOGEI + Market
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 6–8pm
Special Talk: Saturday, September 13, 3pm
September 11–30, 2025
16 East 79th Street
This autumn, Onishi Gallery showcases KOGEI + Market, an exhibition exploring the place of KOGEI, Japan’s tradition of elevated craft, within the international art market today and in the future. The exhibition considers how KOGEI relates to modern and contemporary art, as well as to other artistic fields, positioning it within a broader global context. The theme will be further developed through a series of talks accompanying future exhibitions. To launch the conversation, a special panel discussion will be held on Saturday, September 13, featuring David Norman, Jill Newhouse, and gallery owner Nana Onishi.
Shunkosai Hokushu (active ca. 1802-1832), Actor Ichikawa Ebijuro I as Hayakawa Matabei, 1822, woodblock print, 14 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. (37.4 x 25.2 cm), Courtesy Scholten Japanese Art
Scholten Japanese Art
DRAMA QUEENS & KABUKI KINGS: Stars of Edo and Osaka
September 11–October 31, 2025
145 West 58th Street, Suite 6D
Celebrating their 25th year and taking center stage at Scholten Japanese Art is DRAMA QUEENS & KABUKI KINGS: Stars of Edo and Osaka, an exhibition of approximately fifty 19th-century woodblock prints and drawings. The exhibition will focus on portraits of stars and superstars of the kabuki world, including several who expanded their preeminence on the stage by going on tour—traveling back and forth to Edo and Osaka. These kabuki luminaries enjoyed the adoration of their loyal audience, who formed fan clubs (hiiki-renchu, or renju) that frequently and strategically fanned the flames of professional rivalries between actors and their clans, with occasional overzealous fandom that resulted in fiery confrontations. In contrast with the prolific output of the professional print artists in Edo, Osaka artists were typically talented amateur artists who were fans of the kabuki, and the prints were produced in far smaller quantities, featuring lavish details such as metallic printing and embossing.
Asako Tabata, The Ferry Approaches, 2024, oil on canvas, 38.2 x 51.3 x 1 in. (97 x 130.3 x 2.5 cm), photo by Kennichi Hashimoto, Courtesy Seizan Gallery
Seizan Gallery
ASAKO TABATA: WAITING FOR BONES
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 4, 6–8pm
September 4–October 18, 2025
525 West 26th Street
On view at Seizan Gallery is ASAKO TABATA: WAITING FOR BONES, Japanese artist Asako Tabata’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Featuring nearly 40 new works, including oil paintings and papier-mâché sculptures created over the past two years, the show blends abstraction with representational motifs. Tabata’s imagery turns inward, depicting women and children with expressionless faces, often confined within enclosed rooms. Many of these new works are deeply marked by the passing of her mother last year. The artist notes that the recurring figures embody her mother, while the scenes reflect her contemplation of mortality and her own eventual death.
Suemura Shobun, Entwined, 1971, black bamboo, rattan, 8.5 x 19 x 19 in., Courtesy TAI Modern
TAI Modern
Suemura Shobun
Opening Reception: Friday, August 29, 5–7pm
August 29–October 4, 2025
1601 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM
Suemura Shobun at TAI Modern is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the celebrated bamboo artist’s work. Spanning over five decades, from 1941 to 1996, this once-in-a-lifetime presentation unites masterpieces from across Suemura’s prolific career, shown together in the gallery for the first time. Renowned for his groundbreaking use of whole culms of black bamboo, Suemura transformed this material into dynamic compositions that swoop, roll, curve, and coil with striking vitality. A stunning highlight is Haze (1962), a signature work that exemplifies his unique style and creative brilliance. While black bamboo remains his signature, the exhibition also showcases works in susutake, madake, and hobichiku bamboo, revealing the extraordinary breadth of his technical skill and creative vision.
Fukami Sueharu (b. 1947), Ki no toki (Resolute Spirit), 2002, porcelain with seihakuji glaze, on a walnut base, height including base: 68 in. (173 cm), Courtesy Thomsen Gallery
Thomsen Gallery
Porcelain Sculptures by Fukami Sueharu
September 12–October 25, 2025
8 East 67th Street
Thomsen Gallery presents Porcelain Sculptures by Fukami Sueharu, its fourth solo exhibition of the artist, featuring 20 works spanning the 1970s to today. Widely regarded as one of Japan’s greatest living ceramic artists, Fukami is celebrated for his soaring vertical and horizontal sculptures. Born into a family of potters in Kyoto, Fukami mastered the medium of clay from a young age and strove to go beyond traditional pottery, moving on to cultivate, as his work and techniques testify, his own signature style. Making innovative use of a technique involving injecting liquid porcelain into a plaster mold at high pressure, Fukami creates sublime sculptures with lustrous surfaces and soaring forms. Finished using a bluish-white glaze, also known as seihakuji, originating from 11th c. China, the resulting pieces have an ethereal quality, which this show serves to illuminate.
A Pair of Eight-Panel Folding Screens, Edo period, 19th c., color on gold-leafed paper, h: 84.8 x w: 272.8 cm (each), Courtesy Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art
Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art
Coolness
August 22–September 30, 2025
Online only
Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art presents Coolness, a special online exhibition celebrating the refreshing qualities of clarity and calm. This thoughtfully curated selection showcases works that embody the visual and emotional essence of coolness, inviting audiences to pause, reflect, and find renewal through the simple act of looking. Highlighting the enduring power of art to inspire serenity, Coolness offers a timely exploration of tranquility and contemplation in the heart of the season.
Ancient and Contemporary Korean Art
Cho Yong-Ik (1934-2023), Work 68-117, 1968, oil on canvas, 39 x 31 1/2 in. (99 x 80 cm), Courtesy HK Art and Antiques LLC
HK Arts & Antiques LLC
Spanning a Lifetime: Early and Late Works by Cho Yong-IK
September 19–October 3, 2025
49 East 78th Street, Suite 4B
HK Art and Antiques LLC presents a solo exhibition of the late Cho Yong-Ik (1934–2023), a master of Korean abstract art and a seminal figure in the Dansaekhwa movement. Spanning a Lifetime: Early and Late Works by Cho Yong-Ik offers U.S. audiences a rare opportunity to experience the enduring legacy of this pioneering artist. Emerging in the aftermath of the Korean War, Cho sought to redefine Korean identity through abstraction. His vision drew deeply from his lifelong passion for ancient Korean ceramics and artifacts, which he avidly collected. This reverence for tradition, combined with his drive to reshape Korea’s cultural landscape, produced a body of work that bridges history and innovation with profound resonance.
