First Look
October 18 2025 11:00am - 7:00pm
Experience the Katonah Museum of Art’s new exhibition, Shen Wei: STILL/MOVING before it opens to the public. Shen Wei: STILL/MOVING commemorates thirty years of Shen Wei’s visionary career as a dancer, choreographer, visual artist, and global cultural ambassador. This retrospective, an unprecedented joint presentation between the Katonah Museum of Art and The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, will illuminate the full scope of the artist’s practice, offering viewers rare access to his paintings, films, new choreographic works, and video highlights of the Shen Wei Dance Arts repertoire.
Join us for a special edition of Artists in Conversation between renowned artist and choreographer Shen Wei and the KMA’s Director and Chief Curator Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe for a discussion on the artist’s multifaceted artistic practice spanning nearly fifty years. The talk will be accompanied by a presentation of Connect Transfer performed by Shen Wei Dance Arts.
First Look Program
Saturday, October 18, 2025
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Public Viewing of the Exhibition at The Pocantico Center, Tarrytown, NY
(Pre-registration is required for entry
4:30 – 5:00 PM
Private Viewing of the Exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art (KMA)
5:00 – 6:00 PM
Live Performance of Connect Transfer and Artist Talk at the KMA
6:00 – 7:00 PM
Cocktail Reception at the KMA
Shen Wei: STILL/MOVING is also on view at The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in Tarrytown, starting October 18, from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. Admission is free, but registration is required at https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/pocantico-center/shen-wei-still-moving
For members of the KMA’s Curator’s Circle and above and special guests of the Museum. Contact our membership department at 914-767-2979 or membership@katonahmuseum.org to join or upgrade your membership today!
The exhibition at both the KMA and The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund will be on view to the public from October 19, 2025, through April 19, 2026.
EXHIBITION SUPPORT
Shen Wei: STILL/MOVING is made possible with generous funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Additional support has been provided courtesy of the Cai Foundation, the Friends of the Shanghai Museum, The Serica Initiative, Westech Solutions, LLC, The Shen Wei Exhibition Leadership Committee, the Katherine C. and David E. Moore Exhibition Fund, and The Director’s Circle of the Katonah Museum of Art: Paul Bird and Amy Parsons, Lisa Byala, Mike Davies, Isabelle Harnoncourt Feigen, Virginia L. Gold, Linda Nordberg, Yvonne S. Pollack, Rebecca Samberg, and Richard and Audrey Zinman. The performance Shen Wei: Connect Transfer is made possible with funds from Arts Alive, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governor, the New York State Legislature, and the New York State Council on the Arts. The Katonah Museum of Art is proud to be supported by ArtsWestchester and Westchester County Government and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Photo Credit: Shen Wei (b. 1968 in Hunan, China. Lives and works in New York, NY, U.S.A. and Paris, France). Movement #3 (Chinese Gu Qing in White), 2005-06. Oil on linen, 64 x 51 in. (163 x 129.5 cm). Collection of Amy and Bill Hsieh. Photo courtesy of the artist. © Shen Wei