Spirit House is a significant exhibition related to the museum’s Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI) that investigates how contemporary artists of Asian descent challenge the boundary between life and death through art. A thematic exploration of the work of thirty-three Asian American and Asian diasporic artists, Spirit House asks the question, what does it mean to speak to ghosts, inhabit haunted spaces, be reincarnated, or enter different dimensions? Inspired by spirit houses, small devotional structures found throughout Thailand that provide shelter for the supernatural, this exhibition considers how art can bridge the gap between this world and the next.

Here, contemporary artists reckon with the spiritual and spectral in our visual culture and question the many forms that ghosts can take. In foregrounding intuitive and inherited forms of knowledge, these artists challenge

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Image: Korakrit Arunanondchai, Shore of Security, 2022. Repurposed wooden doll house made by the artist's mother, wood, house paint, polyurethane, fabric sculpture, ceramics, snake skeleton, LED lights. 60 in. x 29 ¼ in. x 29 ¼ in. (152.4 cm x 74.3 cm x 74.3 cm). Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G, New York / Brussels / Los Angeles. Photo: JSP Art Photography, (detail) 1998. Two uniforms with embroidery, installation dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist, Ortuzar Projects, New York and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul. Photo © Jörg von Bruchhausen