Claire Hsu is Co-founder and Executive Director of Asia Art Archive. She sits on the Board of The Foundation for Arts Initiatives, and the Museum and Acquisition Boards of M+ of the West Kowloon Cultural District. She serves on the Asia Advisory Board of Tate Research Centre. Claire is the recipient of the Asian Cultural Council Starr Foundation Fellowship (2003), selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (2013) and recently awarded the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award (2018). Hsu received a BA in Chinese and History, and an MA in History of Art from SOAS, University of London.

11.29 Generous Art Histories

For the last 18 years the Asia Art Archive has been dedicated to contributing to a more generous art history through the collection, creation and sharing of knowledge on the recent history of art from Asia. The three words in our name, "Asia", "Art" and "Archive" denote a vast field and set of disciplines. Through case studies from our research collections, this talk will consider how they open up and speak to some of the core lines of enquiries that shape what it is we do and why we do it with a particular focus on what we refer to at AAA as, Complex Geographies.