We’re open today from 11 AM—5 PM
April 17, 2025 at 11:00 am
Free
Join us on Free Third Thursday, April 17 for the free public opening of Yan Pei-Ming: A Burial in Shanghai. Witness these monumental works are being shown for the first time in the United States and meet the artist Yan Pei-Ming in Strauss Galleries throughout the day!
5PM: Join us for an in-gallery discussion with artist Yan Pei-Ming and UC San Diego Art History Professor Dr. Kuiyi Shen about A Burial in Shanghai.
Limited capacity. Ticket required.
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).
Lecture on the Move: Yan Pei-Ming & Dr. Kuiyi Shen
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.
