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3 Shows Explore Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting

Wang Mansheng, detail of Without Us. (c) 2024 Wang Mansheng. Image courtesy of the artist. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
A trio of exhibitions exploring the contemporary legacy of Chinese ink painting will be on view this summer. Opening this Sunday at LACMA is "Zheng Chongbin: Golden State" (Mar. 23, 2025–Jan. 4, 2026), a survey of the Marin County-based artist who blends painterly tradition with performance and Light and Space. 

Also in the Resnick Pavilion will be the second showing of works from the Fondation INK Collection, a 400-piece holding promised to LACMA in 2018. "Line, Form, Qi: Calligraphic Art From the Fondation Ink Collection" runs Apr. 6–Oct. 19, 2025.

The upcoming exhibition at the Huntington's Studio for Lodging the Mind is "Wang Mansheng: Without Us" (May 17–Aug. 4, 2025). New York-based Wang, named 2025's Cheng Family Foundation Visiting Artist in the Chinese Garden, will display 22 ink-on-silk landscapes as hanging panels and polyptychs.

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Anonymous said…
Surprise, surprise, more contemporary art at LACMA, and again in the Resnick, not the Broad wing. But the artists at least have an international angle.

If not for the Getty, too many of the art museums in SoCal would have the whiff of a bigger version of the LA Art Show in February. Even the Henry and Arabella mansion in the Huntington has some contemporary art slotted in with old British works.

I'm guessing a lot of the works in the Lucas museum will date from the last 50-100 years, but their styles presumably won't be hipster for hipster's sake.
March 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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