AAA in A 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 by appointment, Tuesday through Friday, 10:00am-5:00pm. Mask wearing and COVID-19 vaccination are no longer required to access the Reading Room, but are recommended. To make an appointment, please use this link. Wi-Fi, a scanner, and a photocopier are available. Search through our Reading Room collection’s online catalog via keyword, author, or artist below:

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

Ornamentalism

Out of the Archive: Process and Progress

Poetics of Relation

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art

Questions of Cultural Identity by Stuart Hall

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

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

Stars 79–80, 星星美展

Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision

Monumental Shadows: On Museums, Memory and the Making of History

Yee I-Lann: The Sun Will Rise in the East

T. Shanaathanan - The Incomplete Thombu

CP Open Biennale 2003: Interpellation

Of Fragments and Impressions

Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present Guidebook

The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity by Joan Kee

Oil Street to Cattle Depot (從油街到牛棚）

The Shifting Occupation of Hong Kong Artists

The Long Journey of Baking M+

Trois Pas - Neuf Traces

Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World)

Korean Art 1900 - 2020

Traditions Transformed

The Cute

Pop South Asia: Artistic Explorations in the Popular

Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion

Lightworks Illuminating New & Experimental Art: Gutai & A History of the Japanese Avant-Garde (Lightworks, Number 16, Winter 83/84)

Japanese Photography in 1930s/日本の写真 1930年代展

Reproduced Authentic/複製にして真正なり

Japan 87 Video Television Festival: Electrovisions

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

T.TORAO 1991

The 7th Exhibition of Contemporary Art by Young Artists on the occasion of "Silpa Bhirasri Day"

Crude

LAHORE BIENNALE 01 Reader

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Samson Young’s Art Journey

Water Diary in New York

Avatopology Volume I

Terra Nullius: A Bibliography of Lava

Archive in the Cloud

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

Yee I-Lann: Tabled

Pacita Abad: A Million Things To Say

Asia Society Triennial: 2020-2021, We Do Not Dream Alone

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

One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now

Storytellers of Art Histories: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life (Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series)

The A To Z Of Conflict

Abstract Speaking: Sharing Uncertainty and Collective Acts

Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art

Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art

Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space

Asia As Method: Towards Deimperialization

Cities on the Move

Tables | Factories

Lovely Daze Issue 7: Good Intentions Lead to Hell?

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

What if

Questions of Cultural Identity

by Stuart Hall

Serve the People: The Asian American Movement in New York

by Ryan Wong

The Intimacies of Four Continents

by Lisa Lowe

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

by Margo Machida

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

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