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MCASD Members: We are thrilled to welcome you to our next exhibition preview of Yan Pei-Ming: A Burial in Shanghai.
These monumental works are being shown for the first time in the United States. Join us at the Member-Exclusive Preview to be among the first to view this awe-inspiring work.
5PM: Exhibition preview opens with a hosted bar
6PM: Artist Talk with Yan Pei-Ming and Kathryn Kanjo, The David C. Copley Director & CEO
Chinese-born painter Yan Pei-Ming (b. 1960) is noted for his commanding portraits and compositions that imbue conventional forms of representation with contemporary resonance. The artist alludes to traditions of Western art history and his own biography in A Burial in Shanghai. Comprised of three outsized canvases, this monumental triptych echoes Gustave Courbet’s (1819-1877) celebrated composition from two-hundred years earlier, A Burial at Ornans (1849-1850). The project, which debuted at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay in 2019, is being presented in the United States for the first time at MCASD.
Top: Yan Pei-Ming, "Un enterrement à Shanghai (Montagne céleste, Ma mère, L ’ adieu) (A Burial in Shanghai ((Celestial Mountain, My Mother, The Farewell))" [detail], 2019. © Yan Pei-Ming, ADAGP, Paris, 2025. Photo: Clérin-Morin. Courtesy of the artist, Massimo de Carlo & Thaddaeus Ropac.
