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Moving from the Wynwood Art District back to its original location in Midtown Miami, the fair will be held from December 1-5 witha vernissage on November 30.

ART ASIA was created in 2008 as the first fair in Miami dedicated to Asian contemporary art. Focusing on education programs, ART ASIA brought speakers such as Jerome Sans,Alexandra Munroe, Alexandra Wang, Wu Hung, Melissa Chiu, and Vishakha Desai to the fair. In 2009, the fair returned with Leeza Ahmady, independent curator and director of Asian Contemporary Art Week. With Ahmady, ART ASIA launched the exhibition TRULY TRUTHFUL, which showcased internationally recognized artists whose work contested categorical presentations of truth and reality in the world. In addition, ART ASIA presented a film from Yi Zhou entitled THE EAR, featuring Pharrell Williams. In continuation with last year鈥檚 special programming, this year鈥檚 ART ASIA is showcasing a new and exciting series of special projects titled ART ASIA Presents, comprised of projects selected exclusively for ART ASIA 2010.

Co-founder of ART ASIA Jeffrey Lawson says, 鈥淲e are proud and excited to produce our third edition of ART ASIA Miami. The Miami community as well as the international community has been tremendously supportive and enabled our fair to continue to grow over the past three years鈥� Lawson adds, 鈥淭his year鈥檚 fair has a very strong line-up, with a focus on the complete Diaspora of Asian contemporary art.鈥�

With galleries participating from Asia, North America, Europe, and the Middle East, this year鈥檚 ART ASIA Fair is continuing in the tradition of exploring the innovative dimensions of Asian contemporary art. In two exciting exhibitions of contemporary art from the Middle East鈥擲taging Identity: Performance and Irony in Contemporary Iranian Photography and The Contemporary Arabesque鈥擥alerie Kashya Hildebrand will be showcasing artists such as Gohar Dashti, Asad Faulwell, and Ahmad Moualla in this year鈥檚 fair. ART ASIA is dedicated to widening the scope of Asian art and is particularly excited to provide a platform for this unique regional dialogue.