Asian Art Contemporary™ invites submissions for the virtual exhibition What Remains?, a showcase exploring what persists after moments, places, relationships, and ways of life have changed or disappeared. The exhibition considers how traces of experience continue to exist through memory, material, gesture, and form, and how artists engage with what is preserved, inherited, transformed, or left behind. Across traditional and digital media, artworks can become sites where presence and absence intersect, revealing how the past continues to shape our understanding of the present.

Artists Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Kazuhito Kawai, and Yeonsu Ju, together with Ben Hsiao, Founder and Director of Artemin Gallery, have been invited as jurors for this open call. Bringing perspectives across artistic and institutional practices, their selections will reflect the exhibition’s interest in diverse approaches to memory, transformation, and the traces that endure over time. What Remains seeks works that consider remnants not simply as evidence of what has been lost, but as active forms through which experiences can be revisited, reinterpreted, and given new meaning.

Exhibition Theme
What Remains?

Exhibition Type
Online / Virtual Exhibition

Jury

• Jennifer Ling Datchuk | Artist, Associate Professor at Arizona State University
  https://jenniferlingdatchuk.com/
• Ben Hsiao | Co-Founder and Director of Artemin Gallery
  https://www.artemingallery.com/
• Kazuhito Kawai | Ceramic Artist
  https://www.kazuhitokawai.com/
• Yeonsu Ju | Artist, represented by HdM Gallery
  https://hdmgallery.com/artists/83-yeonsu-ju/overview/

Who Can Apply

• Open to Asian artists working worldwide.
• Artists at any stage of their careers are encouraged to apply.
• Submissions across traditional and digital media, including painting, sculpture, photography, video, mixed media, and other forms, are welcome.
• Artwork must be original. Artists are responsible for copyright compliance.

Selected Artist Benefits

• Virtual Exhibition: Selected artists will have their work showcased in a curated virtual exhibition.
• Artist Interviews: Selected artists will be invited to participate in complimentary artist interviews highlighting their creative practices and stories.
• Social Media Promotion: All selected artists will be promoted on our Instagram account.

Submission Guidelines

• Up to 3 images and/or 1 video link.
• Brief artist bio
• CV (if applicable)
• Portfolio website (if applicable)
• Social media handles (if applicable)

Submitted images should be renamed as follows:

Firstname_Lastname_Title_Year_Medium_Dimensions.jpeg

JPEG files should not exceed 1MB. Selected artists will be contacted for high-resolution images. For time-based, kinetic, or video works, video submissions should be provided via link and should not exceed 2 minutes. For security reasons, we cannot access password-protected links or download files from external websites.

Fees

Submission Fee: $35
Submission fees are non-refundable.

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: November 20, 2026, 11:59 PM EST
• Notification of Selected Artists: December 1, 2026
• Opening of Exhibition: December 21, 2026
• End of Exhibition: March 12, 2027

How to Submit

Incomplete submissions, failure to pay the submission fee, or submissions that don’t follow the guidelines will result in disqualification.

Guest Jury

Jennifer Ling Datchuk is an artist born in Warren, Ohio and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is an exploration of her layered identity – as a woman, a Chinese woman, as an “American,” as a third culture kid. Trained in ceramics, Datchuk works with porcelain, textiles, hair, and mixed media to explore labor, care, intersectionality, identity, and personal history. Her practice considers domestic and feminine spaces, Western beauty standards, and the ways non-white bodies and women’s labor are represented and commodified.

Datchuk holds an MFA in Artisanry from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a BFA in Crafts from Kent State University. She has received grants and research support from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, Artpace, and the Linda Lighton International Artist Exchange Program, and has participated in residencies in Berlin, Jingdezhen, the Netherlands, and across the United States. She received the Emerging Voices award from the American Craft Council in 2017 and was named a United States Artist Fellow in Craft in 2020. Her work is held in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Blanton Museum of Art, and San Antonio Museum of Art.

She is an Associate Professor of Ceramics at Arizona State University and lives and maintains a studio practice in Phoenix, Arizona.

Ben Hsiao is the Co-Founder and Director of Artemin Gallery, a Taipei-based contemporary art gallery established in 2020. His practice centers on discovering emerging artistic voices and developing connections between contemporary art, everyday life, and collectors. Under his direction, Artemin has expanded from its origins as an online art platform into a gallery working with artists from Taiwan and across Asia, presenting exhibitions and participating in international art fairs.

Artemin Gallery was founded in 2020, and its name was inspired by the gene, reflecting its aim to have a keen and rapid perception of art, similar to the transmission of nerves. The gallery is committed to discovering the connection between art and everyday life, searching for potential artists, and exploring the infinite possibilities of contemporary art.

Artemin Gallery is a participating organization in the Asian Art Contemporary™ Network Program.

Kazuhito Kawai (b. 1984, Ibaraki, Japan) is an artist primarily working with ceramics. He received his BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, and graduated from Kasama College of Ceramic Art. His sculptural practice explores desire, fiction, and fluctuating identity, drawing on influences including 1990s Harajuku culture, street fashion, and mass media. Kawai has presented solo exhibitions at KOTARO NUKAGA in Tokyo and Steve Turner Gallery in Los Angeles. His work is held in public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Crafts Museum, the Spencer Museum of Art, the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, and the LOEWE COLLECTION.

Yeonsu Ju, born in 1995, South Korea. She lives and works in London.

Yeonsu Ju lives among the spirits. As she herself explains: I take inspiration from ‘Gijesa’, a spiritual ritual practiced in Korea as a way for Koreans mourn for the deceased. It is a Confucian memorial rite held to honour the ancestors at the earliest hour on the anniversary of their death with food offerings prepared the day before.

By representing herself as the host of these imaginary dinners, Yeonsu Ju does much more than simply honor her loved ones: she creates a portrait of them through her own image, projecting their existences and energies onto her own face.

Yeonsu Ju is part of the Nixon Collection as well as other important private collections in Australia, China, France, South Korea, Taiwan and United Kingdom. She is a winner of the RGI New Graduate Award 2021. Her work is shortlisted for RBA Rome scholarship awards 2022, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021 and others.

Yeonsu Ju is represented by HdM Gallery. Photo courtesy of HdM Gallery and Yeonsu Ju.

Notes

• Only selected artists will be contacted due to the high volume of submissions.
• This exhibition is presented to support and promote the work and practices of the selected artists.
• Asian Art Contemporary does not facilitate artwork sales or handle sales inquiries related to works presented in the exhibition.
• One entry per artist. In the case of duplicate submissions, only the first submission will be considered.
• We do not accept submissions via email.

Additional Information

Asian Art Contemporary™ is dedicated to supporting and presenting the work of Asian artists worldwide. We look forward to seeing how artists interpret What Remains through their individual practices and perspectives.

For any inquiries regarding the submission process, please contact us at info@asianartcontemporary.com.