Himalayan Pilgrimage: Liberation Through Sight, June 8 - Nov 25, 2012

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The journey of Himalayan Pilgrimage continues with Liberation Through Sight, a reinstallation that focuses on artworks created as vehicles to enlightenment. New art in the recently reinstalled gallery includes an exceptionally rare set of seven paintings depicting the lineage of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama, painted around 1815 upon the death of the ninth Dalai Lama, as well as images of compassionate and wrathful deities of the Tibetan pantheon.

Crossing Borders, May 16 - July 30, 2012

Oakland Asian Cultural Center

OACC's Official APA Heritage Month Exhibit represents Crossing Border. Asians in America come upon many boundaries, some for a crossing and some remain untouched. The artists gathered here have taken position, crossing/touching various borders and giving us new ways to examine the political and/or the personal.

Adrian Wong: Orange Peel, Harbor Seal, Hyperreal, May 12-July 21, 2012

Chinese Culture Center

Inspired by these parallel visual identities, Wong has created six new sculptural works for
Orange Peel, Harbor Seal, Hyperreal whose shapes and forms all hark back to this era in Hong Kong and its replication here in San Francisco and draw from everyday observances in both places.

Lin Yilin: May 3 – July 28, 2012

Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute

A versatile and internationally significant artist whose work has been marked strongly by his urban interventions, Lin Yilin researched the city of San Francisco in Fall 2011 and came up with site specific performances. This exhibition presents his interaction with the city and the art community exploring the various aspects of historical processes of urban society including the history of migration, immigration and their political implications. The show also presents a selection of his early works to gain understanding of the evolution of his complex body of creation.