-
At Ease With Hand and Mind: Calligraphy, Literature, and Contemporary Art
27 July - 27 September 2025Image of At Ease With Hand and Mind, Calligraphy, Literature, and Contemporary Art -
-
About Qualia Contemporary Art
Located in downtown Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley, Qualia Contemporary Art is dedicated to supporting outstanding established and emerging artists working in a variety of media – including painting, sculpture, and photography, as well as experimental practices with mixed media and technology. The gallery is committed to building lasting relationships with artists, collectors, curators, and scholars and providing a vital platform for dialogues on contemporary art and culture in the Bay Area and beyond.
Since opening in Fall 2020, the gallery has mounted over 30 exhibitions, executing a range of ambitious installations and showcasing new curatorial concepts. Highlights from these presentations include the U.S. debuts of Pan Hsinhua, Wen Zhongyan, and Xu Hongming, beloved local artists like Gregory Edwards, Younhee Paik, Joe Ferriso, and Stella Zhang, internationally-recognized artists such as Paul DeMarinis, Guillermo Galindo, Yang Jiechang, and Wang Tiande, and collaborations with notable scholars and curators Alexander Nemerov, Richard Vinograd, and Xiaoze Xie.
-
-
-
-
Our Bodies Through Our Eyes
9 November 2024 - 4 January 2025Our Bodies Through Our Eyes brings together the work of these seven women artists, many from the Bay Area, to exemplify how the female body and its representation can be... -
Nick Dong: Auspicious
11 January - 1 March 2025Nick Dong’s technologically engaged work reflects his Taiwanese-American identity and Tibetan Buddhist upbringing, referencing spirituality and heritage through a distinctly contemporary lens. At the exhibition's core are the first 11... -
Victoria Yau: Mountain Cloud
11 January - 1 March 2025Victoria Yau: Mountain Cloud is a solo exhibition curated by Dr. Ellen Huang, Ph.D, former visiting scholar at Stanford’s Center for East Asian Studies and associate professor of art history... -
Younhee Paik: Listening for a Thousand Bells
14 September - 19 October 2024Almost 30 years since Paik’s inclusion in the inaugural Korean pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1995, her work has been selected for the American pavilion’s exhibition at the 2024... -
Lyu Peng: Beautiful Pictures
13 July - 7 September 2024The exhibition will highlight a new body of elusive work entitled “Beautiful Pictures”, the exhibition’s namesake, that includes the artist’s first representations of animals, in addition to a previous series... -
All Together Now
Celebrating AAPI Voices in Contemporary Art 18 May - 28 June 2024This exhibition features fourteen exceptional Asian-American artists working in a diverse array of media and exploring a variety of themes, including Michael Arcega, Arnold Chang, Hai-Hsin Huang, Yun-Fei Ji, Hung... -
Yang Jiechang: Beneath the Golden Antlers
18 May - 28 June 2024As part of the gallery’s ongoing programmatic focus on contemporary artists from the Asian diaspora, Qualia is proud to welcome Yang back to the Bay Area following his inclusion in... -
Meng Huang: Landscape and Shan Shui 风景和山水
10 April - 14 May 2024Having shown extensively throughout Asia and Western Europe, Landscape and Shanshui is the established artist’s first-ever solo exhibition in the United States. As part of the gallery’s ongoing programmatic focus... -
Tommy Fitzpatrick: Homescapes
17 February - 26 March 2024During his three-decade career, Tommy Fitzpatrick has continually studied and reinterpreted modernist architecture through his paintings. Paying close attention to the industrial materials and structured grid of buildings, he explores... -
Xu Hongming: The Form of the Formless 大道之形
17 February - 26 March 2024In philosophy, approach, and practice, Xu Hongming has been breaking the barriers of conventional Chinese art for more than four decades. He infuses pure abstraction of the Western tradition with... -
Tai Xiangzhou: Kunlun Mountain
19 July - 8 September 2023Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to present Kunlun Mountain , an exhibition of works by Chinese artist TAI Xiangzhou. The artist’s first solo exhibition on the West Coast will feature... -
Pan Hsinhua: Garden of Mind
24 May - 14 July 2023Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to present Garden of Mind (借景造園), a solo exhibition of paintings by Taiwanese artist PAN Hsinhua. The artist’s first exhibition at the gallery will feature... -
Wang Tiande: Further Along
24 May - 14 July 2023Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to present Further Along (越走越遠), an exhibition of works on paper by Chinese artist WANG Tiande. The artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery will... -
Garden of Hundreds of Plants (百草园)
7 September - 14 October 2022Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to announce “Garden of Hundreds of Plants,” a group exhibition featuring the work of three contemporary Chinese artists: Zhenchen Liu, Lyu Peng, and Ruijun Shen.... -
Transonic
20 July - 2 September 2022Bay Area artist and composer Guillermo Galindo’s work engages with the practice of sonic healing, rooted in his post-Mexican heritage and his ongoing study of pre-Columbian traditions. Combining his experimental... -
Beyond Ink
28 May - 17 July 2022The performative application of ink, the time-based process of meditative mark-making, and the sculptural dimension of the material are revealed in each artist’s work, and in the dialogues between them.... -
Illusive Fields
8 February - 18 March 2022Painter Xu Hongming’s first solo exhibition in the United States: in philosophy, approach, and practice, Xu has been breaking the barriers of conventional Chinese art for more than four decades...
-
