Designed by Arata Isozaki and established by Shanghai Zendai Group in 2005, the Shanghai Himalayas Museum is a non-profit art institute focusing on art exhibition, education, collection, research and academic exchanges. Other than the main space, SHM also has one branch museum: Zendai Zhujiajiao Art Museum, located at Zhujiajiao town, a picturesque watertown in southeast of Shanghai suburb, it runs an artist-in-residence program and organizes a variety of public art programs targeting at local community. In recent three years, the Shanghai Himalayas Museum has presented a series of international art projects including Kenya Hara, Tony Cragg, John Moores Painting Prize (China), Sean Scully, Kengo Kuma and Michael Craig-Martin, etc.
Stephen Shore in January, 2022. Photograph by Richard Renaldi for The New Yorker
Stephen Shore's work has been widely published and exhibited over the past 50 years. His solo exhibitions include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Jeu de Paume. In 2017, the Museum of Modern Art opened a full career retrospective. His series of exhibitions at Light Gallery in NY in the early 1970s sparked new interest in color photography and in the use of the view camera for documentary work. With more than 30 books published, Stephen Shore’s work has had a pivotal influence on the language and practice of the medium. Shore currently serves as director of the Photography Program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, where he is the Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.