DALLAS, TX.- From ceramic works and contemporary performance art to a graffiti artist-led experience and summer of soccer-inspired tasting experience, the Crow Museum of Asian Art unveils a season of exhibitions and community events at its Dallas Arts District location this spring.
Key exhibitions include Du Chau (April 4–Sept. 27, 2026), part of the museum’s Texas Ties series featuring a Dallas-based ceramist whose interactive porcelain works explore memory, heritage and the poetic possibilities of clay, and The Rainbow My Mother Shows Me: Echo Morgan (May 16–Oct. 11, 2026) showcasing a boundary-pushing performance artist whose multifaceted practice channels personal and cultural memory through immersive, body-based works of art.
NEW! Du Chau: Tracing the Threads of Memory
April 4–Sept. 27, 2026
In this solo exhibition, Du Chau captures the ephemeral nature of memory with the delicate mediums of piano wire and porcelain. Each work reflects Chau’s childhood in Vietnam and enduring tenets of his adult life, anchored by themes of food, family, plants and seeds that trace resilience, growth and joy throughout his migration from Vietnam to Texas. A central work, Seeds of Memory, combines new and preexisting components in an additive process that speaks to cycles of growth and labor while marking a turning point in Chau’s oeuvre in monumentality and scale. Materiality plays a vital role in Chau’s practice, with porcelain’s translucency and music wire’s structural support serving as visual metaphors for lived experience and remembrance. Recognizable natural forms – from blossoming tendrils to willow branches and bitter gourd – invite viewers to trace their own personal memories through relationships with food, plants and familial bonds. Chau is the third artist featured in the Crow Museum’s Texas Ties series, dedicated to presenting artists with significant roots in Texas.
NEW! The Rainbow My Mother Shows Me: Echo Morgan
May 16–Oct. 11, 2026
Echoing the sentiment of a 1990s song by Hong Kong singer Faye Wong, multidisciplinary artist Xie Rong, also known as Echo Morgan, presents a multi-sensory exhibition rooted in her 2024 site-specific performance You Don’t Always See a Rainbow After Rain, first created at the Crow Museum. The work reflects the idea that not every sorrow can be surmounted – a rainbow may or may not appear after a traumatic event. During her performance over a six-day period, Xie created a large-scale, evolving work using her hair as a brush, painting onto a scroll-like canvas laid across the floor and moved throughout the museum’s indoor and outdoor spaces. She layered a new color during daily one-hour performances, with each hue tied to personal memories of her parents. Through spoken word, song and body painting, the artist transformed her personal history into an abstract tapestry, shaped by fragility, loss and resilience.
This exhibition expands on that original performative painting through photography, video, painting and ephemeral materials, juxtaposing these elements to create an immersive, multi-sensory experience.
Additional exhibitions on view include Fire and Earth: Early Chinese Pottery from the MacLean Collection (through Sept. 27, 2026), a presentation of 45 early Chinese pottery vessels drawn from one of the most significant private collections in the United States. Paper Knife: Objects of Beauty in Early Modern Japan (through Aug. 29, 2027) explores the artistry and craftsmanship of small-scale decorative objects from early modern Japan.
