Building on the success of its inaugural year in 2024, the CHAT Contemporary Textile Art Prize is returning for Spring 2027. CHAT will exhibit the finalists’ works from 20 March to 13 June 2027, offering the public an opportunity to view a diverse range of exemplary textile artworks that respond to current social issues.

The art prize inspires and empowers artists to harness diverse textile materials, techniques and technologies, fostering the development of creative concepts and visionary ideas that speak to contemporary society. Embracing a global perspective with an Asian focus, the prize seeks to explore the boundless possibilities of textile art and open up new avenues of thinking.

Selected by a panel of globally renowned curators, the eight finalists of the CHAT Contemporary Textile Art Prize 2027 are (in alphabetical order): Majd Abdel Hamid (born in Damascus, based in Beirut and Paris), Aoki Ryoko and Ito Zon (born in Hyogo and Osaka, based in Kyoto), Gidree Bawlee (Thakurgaon), Mella Jaarsma (born in Noordoostelijke Polder, based in Yogyakarta), Lee Kang Seung (born in Seoul, based in Los Angeles and Seoul), Gulnur Mukazhanova (born in Semipalatinsk, based in Berlin), T. Vinoja (born and based in Kilinochchi), and Wang Yuyu (born in Shaanxi, based in Shanghai).