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 AAAinA Reading Room is open to the public Tuesdays through Fridays, 10:00am-5:00pm and by appointment on Mondays. While walk-ins are accepted, we recommend making an appointment by emailing info@aaa-a.org to ensure that a staff member will be available to assist you. Wi-Fi, a scanner, and a photocopier are available onsite.

Search through our Reading Room collection’s online catalog via keyword, author, or artist name below:


Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970

Seed Pods of Democracy

Life is Elsewhere

The Agritopianists: Thinking and practice in rural Japan

Pao Houa Her: My grandfather turned into a tiger … and other illusions

Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists

The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property

Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot

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

Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism

Kua Fu Chasing the Sun 夸父逐日

A Life of Fen and Fang 芬芳一生

The Coast

Hotam#7: Haircut 100


An Archive of Annotations

Queens Things #1: Little Bowl / 皇后区大事小情 #1: 小碗

Dayanita Singh: Sent a Letter

What if

cover of Martha’s Quarterly Issue 14 Winter 2019

Martha’s Quarterly Issue 14 Winter 2019

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

Jobless

OH! Open House: Kampong Gelam Walk

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

Hotam#5: Hot Asian Men

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

Trois Pas - Neuf Traces

Archive in the Cloud

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

Avatopology Volume I

Lovely Daze Issue 7: Good Intentions Lead to Hell?

cover of Saleem Ahmed: Rani Road

Saleem Ahmed: Rani Road

by Saleem Ahmed

 

Tables | Factories

PLAY AS OBJECT Vol.7: MOM & SON

NYC FISHING JOURNAL / 纽约钓鱼日志

The South Park


Pao Houa Her: My grandfather turned into a tiger … and other illusions

Heidi Lau: Apparition, 劉慧德:現形記

Vivan Sundaram: History Project

The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi

Sculptor’s Notebook

Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-Chia & Friends

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

Bloodlines: The Zhang Xiaogang Story

Abstract Speaking: Sharing Uncertainty and Collective Acts

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

Trois Pas - Neuf Traces

Of Fragments and Impressions

T.TORAO 1991

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

Water Diary in New York

Amar Kanwar: Evidence

New Forest: A History of Cows

Pacita Abad: A Million Things To Say

Wang Jinsong Solo Exhibition Scene Record/王勁松個展 現場跟踪

Aki Sasamoto: Delicate Cycle

Minouk Lim: Mamour


Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists

How To Be Happy Together? 快樂的方式不只一種

Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines

Chine, une nouvelle génération d'artistes/ China, a new generation of artists

Portrait of a Nation II

Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2014: The Return of Ghosts, 2014 台灣國際錄像藝術展: 鬼魂的迴返

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

Japan 87 Video Television Festival: Electrovisions

Reproduced Authentic/複製にして真正なり

Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present Guidebook

Signal Z

Activating Korea: Tides of Collective Action

The Sahmat Collective, Art and Activism in India since 1989

cover of After Darkness: Southeast Asian Art in the Wake of History

After Darkness: Southeast Asian Art in the Wake of History

Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World)

Traditions Transformed

Of Fragments and Impressions

CP Open Biennale 2003: Interpellation

Pop South Asia: Artistic Explorations in the Popular

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

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

One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now


Korean Art since 1945: Challenges and Changes

The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property

The Conformed Body: Contemporary Art in China

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

The Cute

Little Did They Know: The Guest Programme of the 39th EVA International, Limerick, Ireland

cover of Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art

Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art

LAHORE BIENNALE 01 Reader

Asia As Method: Towards Deimperialization

Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion

Remembering LB City Vol.2: "Practice Practice Practice"

cover of A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman

A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman

Vol 6: Carrier Bag Fiction

Decolonizing Culture

Unnamable: The Ends of Asian American Art

cover of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

by James Quandt

The Agritopianists: Thinking and practice in rural Japan


Just Between Us: From The Archives of Arlan Huang

Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

White Gaze

Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts

cover of Beyond Pressure: Festival of Contemporary Art, Myanmar 2012

Beyond Pressure: Festival of Contemporary Art, Myanmar 2012

by Moe Satt

cover of Changing Identity: Recent Works By Women From Vietnam

Changing Identity: Recent Works By Women From Vietnam

Kei Ito: Staring at the Face of the Sun

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art

cover of Serve the People: The Asian American Movement in New York

Serve the People: The Asian American Movement in New York

by Ryan Wong

Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network

Asia As Method: Towards Deimperialization

Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art

image of Asian American art: a history, 1850-1970

Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970

Decolonizing Culture

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

Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Arts Collectives

cover of Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art

Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art

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

cover of Bastard Cookbook: The Odious Smell of Truth

Bastard Cookbook: The Odious Smell of Truth

by Antto Melasniemi

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

cover of Questions of Cultural Identity

Questions of Cultural Identity

by Stuart Hall

cover of The Intimacies of Four Continents

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

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

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

by Margo Machida

Browse the Collections