AAAinA maintains a non-circulating Reading Room collection that is open to the public free of charge. This collection comprises over 5000 monographs, exhibition catalogues, reference books, periodicals, and audio-visual materials about contemporary art from and of Asia. The Reading Room also serves as an onsite access point to the over 55,000 digitized records of primary source material from AAA’s digital research collection, including photographs, letters, writing, ephemera, and video documentation.

The Reading Room is open to the public Tuesdays through Fridays, 10:00am-5:00pm and by appointment on Mondays. We are happy to receive walk-in readers and researchers; however, we recommend you reserve a time by emailing info@aaa-a.org to ensure that a staff member will be available to assist you. In your message, please include any specific books that you are interested in looking at, if any, as well as a general time frame for your visit.

Wi-Fi, a scanner, and a photocopier are available. Search through our Reading Room collection’s online catalog via keyword, author, or artist below:

Life is Elsewhere

The Coast

Lu Zhang 张璐 ≈ HuaiErDeMan (Wildman) Clab 怀尔德曼俱乐室

Kua Fu Chasing the Sun 夸父逐日

A Life of Fen and Fang 芬芳一生

Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo

Between the Unknown Straits: Art Now in Japan and Korea, 自己と他者の間：日韓現代美術展

Tatsuo Miyajima

Horizon Far and Away 1968-1977/ 遙かなる地平 1968-1977

Tetsumi Kudo : Garden of Metamorphosis

Còn Lại | Rời Rạc

Real Chinese Food

Contagious Cities

紅毛上岸 vol.2 今日有北風- 熱蘭遮城日誌選/ âng-mn̂g tsiūnn-huānn

Cartas a Mirtha

The Harappa Files

Serving Suggestion

Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism

Martha's Quarterly Issue 29, Fall 2023: Whereon by a thorn

Somewhere Downtown: Art in 1980s New York/ 下城往事: 1980年代的紐約藝術現場

Sin Wai Kin: Dreaming the End

Ming Fay: Journey into Nature 費明杰：步入自然

Freehold State

Tommy Kha: Half, Full, Quarter

Tiw-tiwong: An Uncyclopedia to Life, Living, and Art in Baguio, the Cordilleras, and Beyond

Only The Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s- 1970s

Bastard Cookbook: The Odious Smell of Truth by Antto Melasniemi

Beyond Pressure: Festival of Contemporary Art, Myanmar 2012 by Moe Satt

Changing Identity: Recent Works By Women From Vietnam

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art

Serve the People: The Asian American Movement in New York by Ryan Wong

Asia As Method: Towards Deimperialization

Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art

Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970

Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts

Decolonizing Culture

Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America

Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Arts Collectives

Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art

From Basement to Godzilla: Portfolio from Godzilla: Asian American Art Network

Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network

IMMIGRANT ACTS: On Asian American Cultural Politics

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now

Out of the Archive: Process and Progress

Poetics of Relation

Questions of Cultural Identity by Stuart Hall

The Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe

The Making of Asian America: A History

The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief

The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier

Unnamable: The Ends of Asian American Art

Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora

Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America

Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Objects/Histories) by Margo Machida

White Gaze

Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

Assembled in the Margins: An inexhaustible index of Asian Artist Collectives

NYC FISHING JOURNAL / 纽约钓鱼日志

Trois Pas - Neuf Traces

Martha’s Quarterly Issue 14 Winter 2019

One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now

The Wandering Lake

How to disappear

Terra Nullius: A Bibliography of Lava

T. Shanaathanan - The Incomplete Thombu

She never rode that trishaw again/她从此以后不再搭那辆三轮车了

Avatopology Volume I

What if

Lovely Daze Issue 7: Good Intentions Lead to Hell?

Saleem Ahmed: Rani Road by Saleem Ahmed

Tables | Factories

PLAY AS OBJECT Vol.7: MOM & SON

The South Park

Archive in the Cloud

Jobless

Century. Woman: Selected Works from the Exhibition / 世紀. 女性藝術展

Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art

Viva Video! The Art and Life of Shigeko Kubota

Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia

Bastard Cookbook: The Odious Smell of Truth

by Antto Melasniemi

Beyond Pressure: Festival of Contemporary Art, Myanmar 2012

by Moe Satt

Serve the People: The Asian American Movement in New York

by Ryan Wong

Questions of Cultural Identity

by Stuart Hall

The Intimacies of Four Continents

by Lisa Lowe

Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Objects/Histories)

by Margo Machida

Saleem Ahmed: Rani Road

by Saleem Ahmed

Drifting Objects of Dreams: The collection of Shuzo Takiguchi/瀧口修造夢の漂流物

Magnetic Writing / Marching Ideas, Works on Paper/磁性書寫—念念之間紙上作品專題展

Silence Is Gold: Contemporary Myanmar Art After Political Changes 2015-2019

by Aung Myat Htay

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

by James Quandt

Psychedelics and Technics

by Zheng Mahler

Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Objects/Histories)

by Margo Machida

The Intimacies of Four Continents

by Lisa Lowe

Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong

by Holmes Chan

The New Chinese Painting 1949-1986

by Joan Lebold Cohen

Life & Death: Art and the Body in Contemporary China

by Silvia FOK, 霍少霞