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Special Collections

AAA’s Special Collections comprise groups of material gathered from donated personal collections and focused research projects with a particular focus on primary source material and rare documents. In most cases, AAA keeps only a digital copy, which it makes available from the Collection Online or through computers on-site at AAA. Rare tangible material is housed in a fireproof room with temperature and humidity control and can be easily accessed by making a request to library staff.
Another Life: The Digitised Personal Archive of Geeta Kapur and Vivan Sundaram The Chabet Archive: Covering Fifty Years of the Artist’s Materials Nigel Cameron Archive — Nigel Cameron’s Writings on Art Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990 Mao Xuhui Archive | Materials of the Future Zhang Peili Archive | Materials of the Future Zhang Xiaogang Archive | Materials of the Future Chinese-art.com Archive

  • Another Life: The Digitised Personal Archive of Geeta Kapur and Vivan Sundaram

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    The first art archive in India to be digitised by AAA, the project brings to the public the broad range of material collected by Kapur and Sundaram since the late 1960s. Originally established as a personal archive, the collection not only documents the artwork and writings produced and published thus far during Kapur and Sundaram's prolific careers, but also documents events in India's art community over the last 50 years, and includes exhibition catalogues, newspaper clippings, and artists' slides, some of which are entering the public domain for the first time... ... More

  • The Chabet Archive: Covering Fifty Years of the Artist’s Materials

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    Initiated in 2008, this project compiled and digitised primary materials on the renowned Filipino artist, teacher, and curator Roberto Chabet (b. 1937), as one of multiple entry points into the complicated discourse of modernity and contemporaneity in the Philippines. The project was launched in July 2009...
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  • Nigel Cameron Archive — Nigel Cameron’s Writings on Art

    Nigel Cameron is a historian, curator and art critic based in Hong Kong. As a contributor to the South China Morning Post and Orientations magazine, Cameron wrote extensively on Asian art and culture from the 1970s to the 1990s. In 2005, Cameron donated his personal collection of 1655 typescripts and clippings, dating from 1972 to 1994... ... More

  • Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990

    In 2006, Asia Art Archive began a focused archiving project called 'Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990'. This project aimed at developing a comprehensive collection of primary research materials including books, periodicals, newspapers, exhibition brochures, invitations, video recordings, correspondence, and other relevant documents... ... More

  • Mao Xuhui Archive | Materials of the Future

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    Kunming-based painter Mao Xuhui is regarded as a leader of the avant-garde art community in southwest China. Since 2004, AAA has been working with Mao to scan and catalogue his comprehensive personal archive documenting his artistic career and activities over past three decades. A selection of these documents, dating from 1985 to 1987 is presented here... ... More

  • Zhang Peili Archive | Materials of the Future

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    Zhang Peili is a pioneer of video and new media art in China. His work 30x30 from 1988 is generally considered to be the first video work in the history of contemporary Chinese art, and his experiments with text-based conceptual art were some of the most radical made in China during the 1980s... ... More

  • Zhang Xiaogang Archive | Materials of the Future

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    In 2007, the Archive worked with Chinese artist Zhang Xiaogang, best known for his ‘Bloodline: Big Family’ series of paintings, to digitise his personal archive. As part of the in-depth research project ‘Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990’, AAA collaborated with Zhang’s studio in Beijing to digitise and catalogue his personal archive which dates from the 1970s to today... ... More

  • Chinese-art.com Archive

    Chinese-art.com was launched in 1997 as a non-profit web magazine ‘designed to provide collectors, historians, curators, dealers and critics outside China with an in-depth look at some of the art making history in China today’... ... More