2022 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards

The Asia Arts Game Changer Awards, celebrating its 10th anniversary, is a signature event honoring important figures across the arts who have made a significant impact on our society. This signature event for Asia Society Museum brings together artists, curators, filmmakers, playwrights, musicians, choreographers, international collectors, arts professionals, and Asia Society trustees and patrons to celebrate excellence in the arts from across Asia and the diaspora.

For this milestone year, Asia Society will be honoring David Henry Hwang, Y.Z. Kami, Min Jin Lee, and Sarah Sze—trailblazing Asian Americans across the arts—in conjunction with Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month. The cocktail reception will feature a special performance featuring excerpts from The Rift, a new opera by David Henry Hwang and Huang Ruo about Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial. The dinner menu will be conceived by Michelin-star chef, Vikas Khanna, who will be attending as a guest of honor.

For more than 30 years, Asia Society has been a pioneer in identifying and fostering the latest contemporary Asian and Asian American artists, and engaging new audiences for their work.

Past honorees include Cai Guo-Qiang, Hon Chi-fun, Abir Karmakar, Krishen Khanna, Bharti Kher, Kimsooja, Lee Ufan, Liu Guosong, Nalini Malani, Nyoman Masriadi, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Rashid Rana, Shahzia Sikander, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Do Ho Suh, teamLab, Wucius Wong, Xu Bing, Zeng Fanzhi, Zhang Xiaogang, Dr. Uli Sigg, Parviz Tanavoli, Zarina, and Zhang Huan.

Please join Asia Society as it honors its 2022 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards recipients:

David Henry Hwang, playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor
Y.Z. Kami, artist
Min Jin Lee, author and journalist
Sarah Sze, artist

Thursday, May 19, 2022
Asia Society Museum
725 Park Avenue, New York City

6pm (ET): Cocktail reception, sponsored by Rémy Martin
7pm (ET): Performance by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang
8pm (ET): Awards ceremony and dinner conceived by Vikas Khanna

Purchase tickets online or complete the RSVP form and email it to AsiaArtsAwards [​at​] AsiaSociety.org. Alternatively, you may mail the form to Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Awards, Asia Society Museum, Attn: Mirza Burgos, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021.

All proceeds from the Asia Arts Game Changer Awards support Asia Society initiatives. Asia Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and non-partisan organization.