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East Asia has a rich history of honoring specific locations through representing, symbolizing, inscribing, or reconstructing relevant elements in art. However, little research has considered those articulations as a form of remembrance through which members of a society employed to commemorate or reshape certain realities. This panel invites scholars to explore the relationship between depicting and remembering specific locales in art across Chinese, Japanese and Korean communities, from the early modern through the contemporary periods. Specifically, it investigates how artistic portrayal of different subjects—landscape, cityscape, monument, or portrait—evokes in viewers memories of specific locations, and how the evoked memories were consumed for utilitarian purposes. In other words, this panel examines the interconnection between art and memory beyond paradigms of storage or retrieval. Instead, it explores their dialectic relationship and instrumentality as they intersect with the question of place-making and remembering.