Fu Qiumeng Fine Art is pleased to share that works by gallery artists Arnold Chang, Michael Cherney, Fung Ming Chip, Brandon Sadler, and Zhang Xiaoli are currently on view in Reshaping Tradition: Contemporary Explorations in East Asian Art, a group exhibition presented at Trinity College.
On view from January 26 to April 3, 2026 (closed February 19–20 and March 16–20) at Widener Gallery, the exhibition brings together five artists whose practices reimagine traditional East Asian art through global, contemporary perspectives. Spanning painting, photography, calligraphy, ceramics, and graffiti—often synthesizing multiple media—the works explore questions of language, culture, identity, and diaspora while acknowledging the weight and continuity of tradition.
Each artist engages the artistic inheritance of East Asia through contemporary approaches. Working across ink, calligraphy, photography, and hybrid visual forms, the exhibition collectively reshapes traditional aesthetics through global and cross-cultural perspectives. These practices reinterpret language and image as evolving systems, reflecting the dynamic nature of tradition in an increasingly interconnected world.
Collectively, the artists deconstruct language and landscape, identity and experience, history and place—revising traditional East Asian artistic practices for the present moment. Their works reflect the dynamic nature of tradition itself: adaptive, evolving, and shaped by an increasingly interconnected world.
Reshaping Tradition is Widener Gallery’s first student-curated exhibition, developed as part of Associate Professor Michael J. Hatch’s course Art History 205: East Asian Art, Now to 1850. Conceived as an experiential learning project, the exhibition provided students with hands-on training in curatorial research, object selection, and interpretive writing.
Students Visited FQM © image courtesy of the FQM
In late fall 2025, students visited Fu Qiumeng Fine Art to study original works firsthand, engage directly with artists through interviews, and situate contemporary practices within broader historical and cultural frameworks. Through this collaborative process, students translated academic inquiry into a fully realized exhibition, gaining practical experience in exhibition planning, critical analysis, and public presentation. A full-color, student-produced catalogue accompanies the exhibition, further extending the project’s research and educational impact.
Fu Qiumeng Fine Art is pleased to support this meaningful educational initiative, which bridges classroom study and professional curatorial practice.
Sponsored by the Art History Program and the Studio Arts Program.
Admission: Free and open to the public.
Reception: Thursday, February 5, 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., and by appointment.
