The Cotsen Collections have become well known through gifts, exhibitions and publications. Current holdings comprise close to 7,000 objects and textiles assembled over the last 40 years. Several previously assembled collections have been donated to major US museums.

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Museum of International Folk Art: Neutrogena Wing
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Racine Art Museum
Racine, Wisconsin

Current Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions

Ancient Chinese Bronze Mirrors from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
San Marino, California

Textile from the Islamic World: The Lloyd Cotsen Textile Traces Collection
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
University of Oxford, England

Bamboo Masterworks: Japanese Baskets from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection
Asia Society Museum
New York, New York

Masters of Bamboo: Japanese Baskets and Sculpture from the Cotsen Collection
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Landscapes of Myth
Getty Center, The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, California

Hin: The Quiet Beauty of Japanese Bamboo Art
The Faulconer Gallery at Grinnell College
Grinnell, Iowa

Intertwined: Bamboo and Stem
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles, California

Traditional Japanese Design: Five Tastes
Japan Society
New York, New York

New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters
Japan Society
New York, New York

The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, California

Designing the Modern Utopia: Soviet Textiles from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, Massachussetts

Beyond Basketry: Japanese Bamboo Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, Massachussetts

Bamboo Masterworks: Japanese Baskets from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection
Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, California

Basketworks: The Cotsen Contemporary American Basket Collection
Racine Art Museum
Racine, Wisconsin

New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters
The Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture
Hanford, California

The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York

The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York

Textiles of Klimt's Vienna
The Textile Museum
Washington, D.C.

Hin: The Quiet Beauty of Japanese Bamboo Art
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago, Illinois

Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Arts
Hand Workshop Art Center (Visual Arts Center of Richmond)
Richmond, Virginia

Engaging Nature: Contemporary Baskets from the Collection of Lloyd and Margit Cotsen
Long Beach Museum of Art
Long Beach, California

Into the Woods
Long Beach Museum of Art
Long Beach, California

Best Bamboo Baskets: the Cotsen Collection
LongHouse Reserve
East Hampton, New York

LA Artists / LA Collectors: Contemporary Baskets
Los Angeles World Airports Arts Exhibition Program
Tom Bradley Terminal of Los Angeles International Airport and Terminal 2 of Ontario Airport
Los Angeles and Ontario, California

Constructing the Cosmos in the Religious Arts of Asia
Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, California

Elaine Reichek
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles
Brussels, Belgium

Nature Rebound: Contemporary Baskets
Palo Alto Art Center
Palo Alto, California

Recarving China's Past: The Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the Wu Family Shrines
Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton, New Jersey

In Celebration: Works of Art from the Collections of Princeton Alumni and Friends of the Art Museum
Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton, New Jersey

Continuum: Figurative Art by a Thread
Textile Museum of Canada
Toronto, Canada

Weaving Cultures: Featuring Contemporary, International and Native American Basketry
The Lancaster Museum / Art Gallery
Lancaster, California

Echoes of an Island Culture: The Art and Culture of Lampung, Indonesia
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Art Gallery
Honolulu, Hawai'i

Weaving the World: Contemporary Art of Linear Construction
Yokohama Museum of Art
Kanagawa, Japan

Aspen Art Museum
Aspen, Colorado

Chicago Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago, Illinois

Honolulu Academy of Art
Honolulu, HI   

Hosomi Museum
Kyoto, Japan

Hiroshima Prefectural Museum   
Hiroshima City, Japan

Matsuzakaya Art Museum  
Nagoya, Japan

Middlebury College Museum of Art
Middlebury, Vermont

Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Gallery
Tokyo, Japan

Niigata City Art Museum   
Niigata, Japan

Oita City Museum of Art   
Oita, Japan