What Will It Take / For Us To Awake? Opening Celebration and Artist Talk

Ashwini Bhat’s What Will It Take / For Us To Awake? was recently commissioned by the Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India (SACHI) to commemorate their founding and 25 years of fruitful partnership with the Asian Art Museum. Don’t miss this singular opportunity to hear from the artist and learn about the process of realizing this long-term installation, now on view outside the museum’s third-floor South Asian galleries. Register today to secure your spot!

Included with General Admission. 

About the Artist

After 35 years in Southern India, Ashwini Bhat now lives and works in the foothills of Sonoma Mountain, California. Her practice — comprising sculpture, ceramics, installation, and video — is informed by a background in literature and classical Indian dance. Exploring the intersections between body and nature, self and other, Bhat’s work emphasizes non-Western metaphysical concepts of empathy for the non-human, as well as the transformative aspects of place.

Bhat is a 2023 United States Artists fellow and a recipient of the Howard Foundation Award for Sculpture, and the McKnight Foundation Residency Fellowship. Her work features in collections including the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Newport Art Museum, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Japan, FuLe International Ceramic Art Museum in China. She is represented by Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles and Project 88, Mumbai, India.

Top image: What Will It Take / For Us To Awake?, 2024, by Ashwini Bhat, detail with artist. Bronze and patinated steel. Commissioned for the Asian Art Museum by the Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India (SACHI) in appreciation of a valued partnership on the occasion of its 25th anniversary (1997–2022), 2024.86a-c.