New York, NY — Asia Week New York is pleased to announce that its Autumn 2025 edition will take place from September 11–19, showcasing a captivating array of gallery exhibitions across New York and online, alongside sales at six major auction houses—Bonhams, Christie’s, Doyle, Heritage Auctions, Freeman’s|Hindman, and Sotheby’s.

Asia Week New York also welcomes Margaret (Margi) Gristina as its new Chairperson. “I’m honored to have been appointed Chairman of Asia Week New York and thrilled to be part of the organization once again, ” says Ms. Gristina, Senior Specialist, VP of Christie’s Ceramics and Works of Art. “It’s a privilege to follow in the footsteps of esteemed colleagues who have shaped this organization with such dedication and passion. I look forward to collaborating with such a talented group of colleagues as we continue to inspire and engage collectors, institutions, and scholars in the vibrant world of Asian art.

Asia Week New York is also pleased to be part of the vibrant lineup of art events in New York this fall. Our participating galleries and auction houses look forward to welcoming collectors and connoisseurs of Asian art to their thoughtfully curated exhibitions and sales. As we prepare for March 2026 and welcome back our returning group of distinguished members from around the globe, we will aim to showcase new additions in the realms of both traditional and contemporary Asian art.”

Currently, the Senior Specialist, VP of Christie’s Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Ms. Gristina, focuses on business development for auction and private sales, as well as working with a talented team to research works presented for sale. She joined Christie’s in 2012 and has since worked closely on such important sales as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17th-Century Chinese Porcelains from the Collection of Julia and John Curtis, The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes from the Daniel Shapiro Collection, and J. J. Lally & Co., amongst others. Prior to joining Christie’s, she served as the Director of The Chinese Porcelain Company in New York for over ten years. While there, she developed her expertise in Chinese porcelain and export art, ceramics, and works of art, with a focus on objects of the 17th and 18th centuries. In 2007, Ms. Gristina followed other pursuits as a private consultant and writer, including co-authoring four volumes on Chinese export porcelain entitled Portugal in Porcelain from China; 500 Years of Trade (2008-2011, Art Books Ltd., London). She served on the board of The National Antique and Art Dealers of America from 2001 to 2005 and the planning committee of Asia Week New York from 2014 to 2016.

Autumn 2025 offers just a glimpse of what awaits in March 2026, when Asia Week New York’s Spring edition will unveil an even more spectacular lineup of Asian art, events, and programs for collectors, scholars, and enthusiasts worldwide. The 2026 schedule will launch on March 19th, a long-sought-after shift in the calendar that avoids overlap with the New York Half Marathon, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and The European Fine Art Fair.

Heading into its 17th year, Asia Week New York stands as the leading global destination for Asian art. From ancient treasures to contemporary works, participating galleries, auction houses, museums, and institutions will showcase exceptional porcelain, textiles, paintings, ceramics, sculpture, bronzes, and prints across centuries.
Below is a round-up of highlights at New York galleries, organized by specialty:

Ancient and/or Contemporary Chinese Art

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. 120 East 65th Street

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. 16 East 52nd Street, 10th floor

On view at Fu Qiumeng Fine Art is Shufa Essentials: Revisiting the Core Principles, 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. 65 East 80th Street

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. 3 East 66th Street, 2nd floor

Ancient and/or Contemporary Japanese Art

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. 18 East 64th Street, Suite 1F

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. 35 N Moore Street

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. 17 East 76th Street, 3rd 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. 39 East 78th Street, 4th floor

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 talk event will be held on Saturday, September 13, featuring David Norman, former Sotheby’s specialist in the Impressionist field. 16 East 79th Street

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. 145 West 58th Street, Suite 6D

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. 525 West 26th 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. 8 East 67th Street

Ancient and Contemporary Korean Art

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. 49 East 78th Street, Suite 4B

Online Exhibitions & Exhibitions at Galleries Outside of New York

Four galleries outside of New York that are presenting online and in-person exhibitions include:

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. www.theartofjapan.com/show/the-art-of-japan-hot-summer-cool-imagery

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.  www.egenolfgallery.com

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. 1601 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM

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. www.h-yanagi.com/

About Asia Week New York

Asia Week New York has grown from a nine-day spring celebration into a year-round platform that keeps Asian art in the spotlight for a global audience. It brings together top-tier international Asian art galleries, the six major auction houses, and numerous museums and Asian cultural institutions, featuring simultaneous gallery open houses, auctions, museum exhibitions, lectures, and special events. Participants from Great Britain, China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the United States unveil an extraordinary array of museum-quality treasures from China, India, the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, Tibet, Nepal, Japan, and Korea. Asia Week New York Association, Inc. is a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade membership organization registered with the state of New York. 

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Ancient and/or Contemporary Chinese Art
Ming Fay
Leaf Heart, c. 1990s
Mixed media
16 x 12 x 7 in. (40.5 x 30.5 x 18 cm)
Credit: Alisan Fine Arts

Chinese Famille Verte Porcelain Cabinet Rouleau Vase
Kangxi period, AD 1662-1722
Height: 10 in. (25.5 cm)
Credit: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.

Wang Wenzhi (1730-1802)
Poem in Running Script
Ink on paper, hanging scroll
Credit: Fu Qiumeng Fine Art

Blue and White Monk’s Cap Ewer
Ming Dynasty, 15th c., China
Height: 14.5 cm, Width: 17 cm
Credit: Zetterquist Galleries

Ancient and/or Contemporary Japanese Art
Group of works by Koinuma Michio, Kawamoto Goro, Tsuboshima Dohei
Credit: Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd.

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 D: 30 cm)
Credit: Ippodo Gallery

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)
Credit: Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art

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.
Credit: Joan B Mirviss LTD

Hagino Noriko
Uchidashi Silver Water Jar, 2014
Silver
6 ¼ × 6 × 6 in. (16 × 15 × 15 cm)
Credit: Onishi Gallery

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)
Credit: Scholten Japanese Art

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
Credit: Seizan Gallery

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)
Credit: Thomsen Gallery

Utamaro
The Salt Maidens – Matzukase and Murasame on the Suma Shore, c. 1785
Woodblock print
9.25 x 5.75 in.
Credit: The Art of Japan

Hashiguchi Goyo (1880-1921)
Woman Applying Powder, 1918
53.3 x 38.3 cm
Credit: Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints

Suemura Shobun
Entwined, 1971
Black bamboo, rattan
8.5 x 19 x 19 in.
Credit: TAI Modern

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)
Credit: Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art

Korean Ancient and/or Contemporary Art
Cho Yong-Ik (1934-2023)
Work 68-117, 1968
Oil on canvas
39 x 31 1/2 in. (99 x 80 cm)
Credit: HK Art and Antiques LLC