Anna Sew Hoy Anna Sew Hoy has been at the forefront of a re-engagement with clay in contemporary art, and is identified with a critical rethinking of the relationship between art and craft. Solo presentations of her work have been mounted at the Aspen Art Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum; the San Jose Museum of Art; and the Orange County Museum of Art; as well as at SFMOMA. Sew Hoy received a Guggenheim Fellowship […]
Sara Tse Based in Hong Kong, Sara Tse uses diverse media – ranging from in situ installations, ceramic sculptures and archival materials to drawings and personal objects – to create an immersive environment. Addressing subject matters of nature, personal memories, natural history, cartography, domesticity, migration and displacement, her practice invites audiences to consider how seemingly disparate fragments of daily life can come together to form a repository for reflection, probing what it means to be native in our heart. Tse’s […]
Shirley Tse For more than three decades, Shirley Tse the artist, longtime CalArts faculty member, Guggenheim Fellow, and Hong Kong representative to the 58th Venice Biennale, has created sculptural interventions that interrogate notions of place, politics, and ecology. Defined by research and adaptation, Tse’s work responds to how our world changes, advocating for “world-making” as a poetics of survival versus “world-changing” as a force of inequality, dispossession, and a symptom of climate collapse.
Izumi Nakayama Izumi Nakayama is a historian of modern Japan and East Asia. Using the gendered body as a lens, she explores interpretations of physiological, neurological, and sensorial experiences in the fields of labour, science, technology, and medicine. Her other research interests include biohacking and bioethics, food studies, and visual cultures and archives.
Kenny X. Li Kenny X. Li is a Hong Kong-based photographer and founder of YeP YeP, an independently published magazine featuring works by the city’s emerging creative talents.
Song Dong Song Dong is a Beijing artist who emerged from the early Chinese avant-garde art movement and became an important artist with international influence in the subsequent development of Chinese contemporary art. His artistic practice spans multiple fields such as performance, video, installation, sculpture, photograph, and painting. He explores the concept of impermanence and explores the transient nature of the human condition and creates his art and lives his life with the idea of ‘no boundaries’. Song graduated from […]
Yin Xiuzhen Best known for creating with used clothes, Yin Xiuzhen addresses social issues of globalisation and homogenisation through art. She assembles recycled everyday materials into sculptural documents of memory, alluding to the lives of individuals who are often neglected in the drive towards excessive urbanisation, rapid modernisation and global economic growth. Yin began her career after earning a BA in oil painting from Capital Normal University, Beijing, in 1989. Her artworks have been displayed in many international exhibitions, including […]
Scarlett Yang Scarlett Yang is a London-based artist and designer known for her revolutionary approach to conscious design and artistic work. Yang explores the evolution cycles of ‘hybrid matter’, where the analogue and the digital intersect and emerge as a life cycle. As a pioneer in ecological innovations, biomateriality and virtual materials, she brings forward a unique, multidisciplinary lens on the development and supply chain of new materials. Cross-referencing design systems, digital mediums and tactile experiences, Yang questions common understandings […]
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SHAO Chun Based in Hangzhou, Shao Chun’s creative practice includes multimedia installations, e-textiles, post-internet art and design fiction. She explores the intimate relationship between the human body and digital interfaces (‘digital intimacy’) and our emotional longings for the latter. Her recent research and experimental works combine traditional handicrafts with computer programming, exploring the new aesthetics of interaction while reflecting on our digitalised life. Shao graduated from China Academy of Art in 2010, received an MFA in performance art from the […]
Kobayashi Yuki Kobayashi Yuki is a visual and performance artist born and based in Tokyo, Japan. Kobayashi uses his own body as a neutral object, mainly in action-based performances, to question gender, disability and racial stereotypes and examine human relations. He has participated in stage and video works as well as contemporary art exhibitions. In an ongoing project New Gender Bending Strawberry, Kobayashi performs as an unidentified creature in multimedia installations. In another ongoing project Life of Athletics, he explores […]