INTERVIEW
In our Interviews, we delve into the minds of contemporary Asian artists, curators, and thought leaders shaping the global art scene. Through engaging discussions, we explore their creative journeys, inspirations, and the cultural contexts that influence their work. Each interview offers a unique perspective on the challenges and triumphs of navigating the art world, providing readers with an intimate look at the people behind the art. Join us as we uncover the stories, ideas, and visions driving the evolution of Asian art today.
- Interview | Los Angeles and London-based Artist Matthew Chung
Matthew Chung (b.1996) is a Korean American multidisciplinary artist working across image-making, printmaking, and sculpture. Born and raised in Los Angeles and currently based between the USA and the UK, his practice engages with both traditional and emergent technologies to explore new material and conceptual outcomes. Rooted in a spirit of experimentation, Chung treats his… Read more: Interview | Los Angeles and London-based Artist Matthew Chung - Interview | New York-based Artist Audrey Chou
Yi-Han (Audrey) Chou is a New Media Artist & Choreographic Researcher working across time-based and embodied mediums. Her multidisciplinary research spans interactive & real-time system design, experimental filmmaking, site-specific performances, durational performances, audio- visual, sound design, and immersive production. Through cross-disciplinary frameworks, she explores themes of dysphoria, displacement, and sonic landscapes— centering embodied storytelling as… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Audrey Chou - Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Ailsa Wong
Ailsa Wong (b. 1997)’s practice spans across paintings, videos, image-making, games, and installations. Wong explores ways to connect consciousness with primitive emotions to fill the vacuum of belief. Wong’s means of communication draw inspiration from fractured life experiences, wherein meaning is repeatedly dissolved and re-established. Wong’s solo exhibitions include “1” at DE SARTHE (Hong Kong,… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Ailsa Wong - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Sooyeon Hong
Born in Seoul, Sooyeoon Hong earned both her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the Department of Painting at Hongik University, and later pursued further graduate studies at Pratt Institute in New York. After establishing her career in New York, she relocated to Seoul in the aftermath of September 11 and has since maintained a prolific practice… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Sooyeon Hong - Interview | Hong Kong and London-based Artist Yvonne Feng
Yvonne Feng (b.1989) lives and works between Hong Kong and London. She completed her MA at the Royal College of Art in 2014 and her practice-led PhD, Tracing the Unspeakable: Painting as Embodied Seeing, at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, in 2020. She is an Associate Lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL,… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong and London-based Artist Yvonne Feng - Interview | Beijing and Shanghai-based Artist Dongbay (Yübo Xü)
Dongbay (Yübo Xü) is an artist and eco-warrior based between Beijing and Shanghai. Born in the Northeast of China and shaped by a nomadic upbringing, his practice explores humanity’s fading connection to nature amid accelerating industrial and digital transformation. Through installations, films, and writing, he combines organic materials with urban detritus, developing concepts such as… Read more: Interview | Beijing and Shanghai-based Artist Dongbay (Yübo Xü) - Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Xie Chengxuan
Xie Chengxuan, born in Guangzhou in 1997, graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2020 and completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2023. He works primarily in acrylic and mixed media on canvases and papers. His practice is grounded in deconstruction:… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Xie Chengxuan - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Moon Mean
Moon Mean (b.1999) is a Seoul-based painter, whose works reconstruct large and small events that happen to him and his surroundings using materials of his own making. He prepares solid and light atypical blanks by layering macerated Hanji and paints on them with turbid pigments he calls metallic tempera. Like the moon hanging over a… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Moon Mean - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Yaerin Pyun
Yaerin Pyun is a ceramic artist working between Seoul and London. Her education at the Royal College of Art (UK, 2023) expanded the scope of her creative inquiry, building on earlier studies in ceramics during her BFA at Seoul National University of Science and Technology (South Korea, 2019). In recent years, Pyun has been recognized… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Yaerin Pyun - Interview | Singapore-Based Artist Lai Yu Tong
Lai Yu Tong is an artist from Singapore who works across drawing, image-making, sculpture and sound. His practice is interested in creating adequate media to articulate the present, believing in the intrinsic need for humans to make images and tell stories. Recent works of his consider how art can evoke empathy in a world so… Read more: Interview | Singapore-Based Artist Lai Yu Tong - Interview | Seoul and London-based Artist Sooin Huh
Sooin Huh is an artist based in Seoul and London. She received her BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, and her MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art. She observes objects through their contexts, relationships, and the narratives accumulated within them. Each object exists where multiple layers of meaning such… Read more: Interview | Seoul and London-based Artist Sooin Huh - Interview | Berlin and Bangkok-based Artist Montika Kham-on
Montika Kham-on is a video artist and filmmaker based in Berlin and Bangkok whose practice explores collective fear, speculative futures, and embodied resistance through moving image and performance. Her recent work, Afterlives (2025), imagines a post-tropical future and was commissioned by GHOST:2568. Beyond her video practice, she founded Phimailongweek, a site-specific art festival supporting emerging… Read more: Interview | Berlin and Bangkok-based Artist Montika Kham-on - Interview | Singapore-Based Artist Chok Si Xuan
Chok Si Xuan (b. 1998, Singapore) is driven by a deep fascination for the complex relations that enmesh technology in the everyday blurring the lines between the human, the organic, motors and machines. Exploring cybernetics, the feminine, and the ways in which technology and industrial materials shape contemporary subjectivities and corporealities, her growing body of… Read more: Interview | Singapore-Based Artist Chok Si Xuan - Interview | Hsinchu-Based Artist Ni Hao
Ni Hao’s practice investigates the hidden architectures that shape contemporary life. Working with the residue of modern systems such as filters mottled with dust, warped credit cards, resin-sealed garments, and dormant mechanical fragments, he creates sculptural environments that seem to breathe, tremble, or quietly malfunction. His installations reveal the emotional and infrastructural currents of the… Read more: Interview | Hsinchu-Based Artist Ni Hao - Interview | Paju-Based Artist Wonmi Seo
Wonmi Seo is a painter based in Paju, South Korea. Her work moves fluidly between language and image, drawing from personal memory, Korean history, and the subtle sensations found in everyday life. Early bodies of work such as the Facing and Black Curtain series explored the fragility of the human body and the unresolved wounds… Read more: Interview | Paju-Based Artist Wonmi Seo - Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Ticko Liu
Ticko Liu (b.1996) is a visual artist who has long focused on the intricate and delicate structures of the world. He excels at using surrealist painting to explore imagined nightscapes as well as the subtle poetry and fleeting beauty found in everyday experiences. His creative inspiration comes from a keen observation of nature, daily noise,… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Ticko Liu - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Bo Kim
Bo Kim is a Seoul-based painter shaped by both Korean and American cultures. She was trained in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she completed both her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2017 and her Master of Arts in Teaching in 2018. Her work has been the focus of a series of… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Bo Kim - Interview | Singapore-Based Artist Ng Hui Hsien
Ng Hui Hsien works as an artist, educator, and curator. Through her artworks, she seeks to evoke stillness and wonder, especially towards our inner landscapes and the more-than-human world. Her work is informed by phenomenology, one that sees our bodies as sites of knowledge and one curious about our relations with the living earth. Hui… Read more: Interview | Singapore-Based Artist Ng Hui Hsien - Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Lau Kam Hung
Lau Kam Hung graduated with an MAFA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and RMIT University, specializing in painting. His artworks embody an intimate dialogue with nature, rooted in his contemplation of natural cycles—the blossoming and falling of leaves—which has offered him profound spiritual and emotional insights into the truths of life. In September… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Lau Kam Hung - Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Duo Chow and Lin
Chow and Lin are an artist duo working on scale across geography and time, connecting complex systems to daily lived experience. The crux of their practice lies in their methodology of statistical, mathematical and research techniques. Their projects are driven by the discursive backgrounds in economics, public policy, media, and these are augmented by exchanges… Read more: Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Duo Chow and Lin - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Ha Haengeun
Ha Haengeun is a Seoul-based contemporary artist whose work explores the boundaries between the visible and the unseen. Through painting and ceramics, she investigates the essence of human existence, relationships, and the fundamental meaning of life. Her practice begins at the threshold where perception meets imagination—where emotion, memory, vitality, and the traces of time interlace… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Ha Haengeun - Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Carroll CW Tsang
Carroll CW Tsang (b.1965, Hong Kong) holds the Visual Art Intelligence Professional Certificate (DALA Decoupage South Africa), the Deco Clay Craft Academy Deco Clay Instructor Certificate from Japan, and the Certificate as Zentangle Teacher awarded by the Chinese Zentangle Association CZA. Member of the Hong Kong Artists Association and the Steering Committee of BIEAF (Busan… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Carroll CW Tsang - Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Tang Guozhi
Tang Guozhi was born in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China, and currently lives and works in Beijing. His practice spans easel painting, installation, and video, focusing on the discovery and reconfiguration of everyday objects. He emphasizes the relationship between people, objects, and the world to achieve coexistence in content and balance in expression. His work delves… Read more: Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Tang Guozhi - Interview | Bandung-Based Artist Mira Rizki
Mira Rizki (b.1994, Bandung, Indonesia) is a multidisciplinary artist working with sound and interactive components based in Bandung, Indonesia. Sensitive to the shape and perception of sound, she explores how different backgrounds, environments, and memories shape our auditory experiences. Her work highlights how each person perceives sound uniquely, often experimenting with aural memory and soundscapes… Read more: Interview | Bandung-Based Artist Mira Rizki - Interview | Tianjin-Based Artist Fan Huaxiao
Fan Huaxiao was born in Hebei Province in 1999 and graduated from Shandong University with a bachelor’s degree in 2021.Graduated with a master’s degree from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2024, currently working and studying in Tianjin. Fan’s exhibitions include the solo exhibition “A haven of tenderness” at BLANK gallery, Shanghai (2025), and the group… Read more: Interview | Tianjin-Based Artist Fan Huaxiao - Interview | London-Based Artist Vanessa Liem
Vanessa Liem (b. 2002, Singapore) is currently based in London. She received a BA from the University of the Arts London in 2025. Liem’s work has been exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition, For The Time Being, at Cuturi Gallery and group exhibitions such as Art SG at Sands and Expo Convention Centre in Singapore… Read more: Interview | London-Based Artist Vanessa Liem - Interview | Changwon-Based Artist Chaeeun Mun
Chaeeun Mun is a South Korean artist who holds a master’s degree in Oil Painting from the China Academy of Art (CAA). Her work explores human relationships and inner emotions, transforming heavy and negative feelings into light, expressive forms through the motif of wind. Through her paintings, she visualizes inner emotions and negative psychological states,… Read more: Interview | Changwon-Based Artist Chaeeun Mun - Interview | Ho Chi Minh City and Chicago-based Artist Le Hien Minh
Le Hien Minh is a Vietnamese artist whose work is deeply shaped by her experiences growing up in post-war Vietnam. Coming of age during the 1980s and 1990s—a period of nation-building marked by utopian dreams, political upheaval, and the harsh realities of a war-torn country—formed the foundation of her artistic vision. This grounding continues to… Read more: Interview | Ho Chi Minh City and Chicago-based Artist Le Hien Minh - Interview | Berlin-Based Artist Min-Jia
Min-Jia (b. 2001, Ürümqi, China) is an artist and writer living in Berlin, Germany. They destabilize the myths of origin and identity through narratives of transformation. Their work samples and remixes folk and ornamental arts and their global transformations—from Orientalist kitsch to Art Nouveau to manga—to re-examine fantasies of the Other across canonical and outsider… Read more: Interview | Berlin-Based Artist Min-Jia - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Jeongeun Han
Jeongeun Han, born and currently based in Seoul, graduated with a BFA in Painting from Sejong University and received her MFA in Korean Painting from the same institution. Han captures the emotional resonances and residue arising from the disappearance and loss of existence, explores their meaning, and expresses them in her own unique painterly language.… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Jeongeun Han - Interview | New York-based Artist Avani Patel
Born in Mumbai, India in 1976, Avani Patel immigrated with her family to Pennsylvania at the age of eleven. She holds a BA from Pennsylvania State University and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Patel’s paintings have been exhibited widely across the United States and internationally, including New York, Providence,… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Avani Patel - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Yeonsu Ju
Yeonsu Ju is a Korean painter based between Europe and Seoul. She has BA in sociology and painting (First Class), MFA in Painting (Distinction). Her work explores memory, presence, and absence through restrained forms, line, and color, often incorporating materials such as Hanji to add texture and depth. Ju has held solo exhibitions in London,… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Yeonsu Ju - Interview | New York-based Artist Jieun Cheon
Jieun Cheon (b. 1995) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York, exploring perception, memory, and the limits of understanding. Through installations that combine sculpture, painting, and drawing, she investigates paradoxes—order and chaos, visibility and absence. Her ongoing project, Uncanished Workld, creates immersive environments reflecting the tension between structure and instability. Cheon holds BFA and… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Jieun Cheon - Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Mariah Solikin
Indonesia born, Singapore raised, Mariah has lived in Hong Kong for 25 years. Covid lockdown has rekindled her passion in painting. She is a self taught artist who uses acrylic and water colour to express her different styles, thoughts and emotions. Her current subject interests include word art, geometric shapes, lines, abstractions, Chinese characters and… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Mariah Solikin - Interview | Los Angeles and Hong Kong-based Artist Li Shuo Phoebe
Li Shuo Phoebe (b. 2004) is an artist based between Los Angeles and Hong Kong. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree with a minor in Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Through installations, sculpture, and performance, her practice explores how societal frameworks mold and deform the body, treating… Read more: Interview | Los Angeles and Hong Kong-based Artist Li Shuo Phoebe - Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Un Cheng
Un Cheng’s (b. 1995, Hong Kong) paintings invite viewers into intimate encounters with her psychological landscapes and personal reflections on urban life. Drawing inspiration from careful observations of quotidian life, fleeting exchanges with strangers, and quiet internal dialogues with her surroundings, her works function as a visual diary of her unique perspective on the city… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Un Cheng - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Ayana Hanbich Lee
Ayana Hanbich Lee is a contemporary abstract painter whose practice investigates the non-linear structure of time through the material behaviors of paper, wood, paint and other chemical. Having lived and created artworks between South Korea and the United States. Her work reached a wider public when several of her paintings were featured in a Netflix-broadcast… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Ayana Hanbich Lee - Interview | New York and Gurugram-based Artist Devishi Seth
Born in New Delhi, India, Devishi Seth reflects on the intersection of the contemporary world and her ancestral past. Devoted to female divinity as her name signifies, she explores her feminine, cultural and historical heritage through clay, bronze, and painting, aiming to reconstruct lost practices and knowledge systems. Devishi completed her BFA at the School… Read more: Interview | New York and Gurugram-based Artist Devishi Seth - Interview | New York-based Artist Camille Li
Peiyang (Camille) Li is a Shenzhen and NYC based fashion designer and textile artist. Her areas of interest and practice include macrame braiding, ruching, machine knitting, hand knitting, and crochet. Growing up in three cities allowed her to encounter people from all different cultural backgrounds and disciplines. Most of her collections are inspired by the… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Camille Li - Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Mizuki Nishiyama
Mizuki Nishiyama is a mixed-Japanese artist based in Hong Kong whose practice bridges Eastern and Western traditions to explore identity, ancestry, and the fragile human condition through the lens of the female experience. Drawing from her Japanese, Hong Kong, and Italian heritage, she creates a hybrid visual language that transcends cultural boundaries while remaining grounded… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Mizuki Nishiyama - Interview | New York-based Artists Nina Kuo and Lorin Roser
Nina Kuo and Lorin Roser are a New York-based artist duo known for their innovative multimedia collaborations that merge digital animation, architecture, photography and contemporary art. Their work explores themes of cultural identity, history, and futurism, often incorporating elements of Asian heritage with cutting-edge technology. Blending Kuo’s expertise in painting, photography, and sculpture with Roser’s architectural and… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artists Nina Kuo and Lorin Roser - Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Ashlee Ip
Ashlee Ip (b. 1988) is a Hong Kong-based painter whose works explore the interplay between constraint and growth. In her ongoing artistic exploration, she draws from both personal experience and broader psychological states to create works that navigate the delicate space between emotion and form, instinct and structure. Her paintings combine figurative and abstract elements,… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Ashlee Ip - Interview | Munich-Based Artist Wang Xuan
Wang Xuan (b. 1979, Guangxi) graduated from the Guangxi Art Institute in 2002. In 2011 he graduated from the National Academy of Plastic Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany, where he studied under Prof Erwin Gross, and received his Master’s degree. He currently lives and works in Munich, Germany. Wang combines classic images from European and Chinese… Read more: Interview | Munich-Based Artist Wang Xuan - Interview | Eindhoven-Based Artist Dae Uk Kim
Dae Uk Kim is an object maker and storyteller. Dae graduated in 2020 from the Design Academy Eindhoven with a MA in Contextual Design. Using his personal experiences, as well as biological and social stories of diversity, he creates objects and visual pieces who become the carriers of restricted and silenced voices. Through them, his… Read more: Interview | Eindhoven-Based Artist Dae Uk Kim - Interview | London-Based Artist Jiwon Cha
Jiwon Cha lives and works in London. She earned her BFA in Painting from RISD and her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. She has recently had a solo presentation at The Armory Show in New York with Baert Gallery (2025) and her recent exhibition includes Birth of the Between: The Infinite… Read more: Interview | London-Based Artist Jiwon Cha - Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Wu Wei
Wu Wei graduated from the Experimental Art Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master’s degree. He won the 6th Anniversary Award for the New Artists Space Award (2015) and the 3rd New Star Art Festival Art Award (2012). He participated in the International Art Residence in Vienna, Austria and Berlin, Germany.… Read more: Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Wu Wei - Interview | Shanghai-Based Artist Annan Shao
Annan Shao (b.1998) is a new media artist based in Shanghai. Her works explore the evolution of individual motivation by combining the mediums of new media animation and mixed media installations. Through the creation of virtual ecology and mixed media field narratives, she maps reality with allegorical hypothetical spatial and temporal events. She graduated from… Read more: Interview | Shanghai-Based Artist Annan Shao - Interview | New York and Beijing-based Artist Jingyi Wang
Jingyi Wang (Chinese, b. 1989) is a New York based visual artist specializes in oil painting. She received her BFA degree from China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2013, received her MFA degree from New York Academy of Art in 2016. Her works had been widely exhibited at Spring Break Art Fair, Art Miami,… Read more: Interview | New York and Beijing-based Artist Jingyi Wang - Interview | Singapore-Based Artist Quan Lim
Quan Lim (b. 1996, Singapore) is a contemporary painter whose practice examines identity, displacement, and the instability of narrative through a wide range of motifs drawn from art history, mythology, film, and everyday life. His works interlace fictional and historical threads to stage scenes that are at once surreal and immediate. Shifting between figuration and… Read more: Interview | Singapore-Based Artist Quan Lim - Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Chan Oi Ying
Chan Oi Ying is graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, majoring in Chinese Calligraphy. Currently a calligraphy artist and tutor, she advocates for the coexistence of tradition and innovation. In recent years, she has focused on creating avant-garde calligraphy. Her works emphasize the power of brush and… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Chan Oi Ying - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Sungju Ham
Sungju Ham (b. 1990) is a Seoul-Based painter whose work explores the relationship between screen images and painting. Beginning from digital archives such as phone albums, Ham repeatedly transfers these images onto canvas, transforming printed or screen-based visuals into tactile, painterly surfaces. His practice examines the coexistence of reality and virtuality, drawing attention to the… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Sungju Ham - Interview | Düsseldorf and Beijing-based Artist Luan Xiaochen
Luan Xiaochen explores the intersections of art history, colonial history, and human history, working with diverse sources such as images, architecture, postcards, and archival documents. His practice reflects on the connections shaped by his own movement and artistic environments, translating research on traditional motifs and new imagery into fragmented, dreamlike expressions. Engaging with the historical… Read more: Interview | Düsseldorf and Beijing-based Artist Luan Xiaochen - Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Keith Lam
Keith Lam is a media artist, and the co-founder and artistic director of the arts and technology studio, Dimension Plus. His works have received awards at international art festivals, including the Prix Ars Electronica and the Japan Media Arts Festival. His art has been exhibited globally at museums and festivals such as the Hong Kong… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Keith Lam - Interview | Philadelphia and Pittsburgh-based Artist sāgar kāmath
sāgar kāmath is an interdisciplinary artist working between mediums of painting, sculpture, installation, sound, video, collage, public art, and dance. His practice investigates the multiplicities of his identities as an Indian-born American through narrative building, materiality, line, space, and movement. His research-based methodology simultaneously interrogates his body, the surrounding landscape, and colonial histories through the… Read more: Interview | Philadelphia and Pittsburgh-based Artist sāgar kāmath - Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist TSANG Kin-Wah
TSANG Kin-Wah (b. 1976, Shantou, China) is a contemporary artist known for his multimedia installations that explore themes of language, morality, identity and human nature. His work often combines text, pattern, video, and sound to create environments that challenge viewers to reflect on the complex relationship between appearance and meaning, good and evil, and text… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist TSANG Kin-Wah - Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Hao Shen
Hao Shen (b. 1981, Inner Mongolia, China) is an artist living and working in Beijing, China. He obtained his BFA in printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (2005) and his MFA Fine Art at School of Visual Arts in New York, NY (2025). Shen explores his subjects via painting, printmaking, and… Read more: Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Hao Shen - Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Giraffe Leung Lok Hei
Born in 1993 in Hong Kong, Giraffe Leung Lok Hei obtained his M.A in Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021. Leung renders his artistic language a sensitive and thought-provoking channel in the re-imagination of our daily, local encounter. Anchoring on a myriad of mediums and materials, together with his personal… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Giraffe Leung Lok Hei - Interview | Hualien-Based Artist Chiu Chen-Hung
Chiu Chen-Hung (b. 1983, Hualien, Taiwan) received his MFA in Plastic Arts from the National Taiwan University of Arts in 2008. He currently lives and works in Hualien, Taiwan. His practice, primarily in installation and sculpture, unfolds like an archaeological expedition. Through his work, he excavates traces and presences once embedded in lived time and space,… Read more: Interview | Hualien-Based Artist Chiu Chen-Hung - Interview | New York-based Artist Ami Park
Ami Park, originally from South Korea, is a New York–based artist working primarily in textiles and installation. Her practice explores self-awareness, identity, and perception, emphasizing the interconnectedness of the human mind, emotions, and objects. She approaches them as resonant forces, each emitting vibrations that ripple into one another. These vibrations become both material and metaphor,… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Ami Park - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Lee Koz
Lee Koz (b.1997) explores the accumulation of memories through the unconscious and the act of recording them, delving into the imaginative narratives that emerge as personal records are transformed into images. Her J-D series began as a dream journal documenting recurring dreams, rooted in the dissonance she experiences when specific memories underlying a dream diverge from how… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Lee Koz - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist GWON Osang
GWON Osang (b. 1974) is a sculptor who has constantly questioned the identity of sculpture and tried to converge new experimental media into new form structure. His varied approach for exploring the existence of sculptures is composed of five series, Deodorant Type, The Sculpture, The Flat, New Structure, and Relief. Deodorant Type was shaped in ‘ISO-pink(hardened Styrofoam)’ to break… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist GWON Osang - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Seeun Yu
Seeun Yu (b. 1999) is a Seoul-based painter whose practice explores the gaps, tensions, and possibilities that emerge when images encounter one another. Drawing fragments from both urban landscapes and digital environments, she reassembles them into compositions that resist fixed meaning. Her works often originate from overlooked details—cracks in façades, stains on walls, or digital… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Seeun Yu - Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Ding Hongdan
Ding Hongdan’s (b.1995) paintings explore the real lives and psychological states of her peers in contemporary contexts, presenting multiple reflections on daily life and social dynamics from a female perspective. Building on her strong academic background, she merges realism with a distinctive personal lens to explore the diverse experiences and emotions of contemporary women, revealing… Read more: Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Ding Hongdan - Interview | Busan and Gwangju-based Artist Kam Min Kyung
Through drawing and painting, Kam Min Kyung captures traces of life and inner memories within changing environments. She metaphorically visualizes the relationships between fragmented bodies, narratives, and embedded memories, exploring their connections through experiments of juxtaposition and layering. By allowing different perspectives to intersect, she invites viewers to experience unfamiliar worlds and leaves space for… Read more: Interview | Busan and Gwangju-based Artist Kam Min Kyung - Interview | Shanghai and Brooklyn-based Artist Wen Liu
Wen Liu is a visual artist born in Shanghai, China, and based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work investigates the emotional architecture of migration, memory, and belonging – using sculpture, installation, and mixed media to explore the tension between permanence and impermanence. Drawing from personal and cultural experiences as an immigrant, she reflects on what… Read more: Interview | Shanghai and Brooklyn-based Artist Wen Liu - Interview | Hong Kong and Xi’an-based Artist YAO Cong
Working across diverse mediums, including moving image, photography, performance, and installation, YAO Cong (b. 1992) investigates the intricacies and contradictions of contemporary existence. His artistic practice confronts the dual crises of ecology and identity, creating a compelling body of work that engages with these urgent challenges. His works depict human figures in states of vulnerability,… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong and Xi’an-based Artist YAO Cong - Interview | Munich-Based Artist Youjin Yi
Youjin Yi (b. 1980, Gangneung, ROK) is a Munich-based painter whose work explores the concept of “background” (Hintergrund) as both a physical and psychological space. Her artistic path led her from initial studies at Sejong University in Seoul to Germany, where she attended the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. During this formative period, she studied… Read more: Interview | Munich-Based Artist Youjin Yi - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Eunsi Jo
Eunsi Jo (b. 1999) is a Seoul-based painter whose works unfold like meticulously constructed codes and riddles. Through the use of symbols, signs, and diagrammatic forms, she visualizes complex narratives about the relationships between individuals and collectives, parts and wholes. The artist focuses on the “irresistible structures” of the world—such as family, the food chain, and… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Eunsi Jo - Interview | Osaka-Based Artist Takuma Uematsu
Takuma Uematsu was born in 1977 in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. After graduating from Kansai University in 2000 and working in publishing, he began presenting sculptures, paintings, and installations in museums and galleries in Japan and abroad from 2001 onward. With a background interest in natural sciences and philosophy, his practice explores boundaries and relationships, as… Read more: Interview | Osaka-Based Artist Takuma Uematsu - Interview | Busan-Based Artist Jinwoo Moon
Jinwoo Moon is a Busan-based documentary photographer whose work serves as a visual bridge between history and modernity. With an attentive and contemplative lens, he uncovers the layered narratives embedded within urban landscapes. His photography immortalizes the intimate rhythms of daily life and ephemeral urban moments, transforming them into timeless visual archives. More than mere… Read more: Interview | Busan-Based Artist Jinwoo Moon - Interview | Busan-Based Artists PTPC
PTPC (Public Transportation Photographer Crew) is a collective founded by Dongjin Lee and Junghyuk Lee, now comprising 26 members dedicated to capturing Busan’s iconic bus culture. Their lens celebrates the distinctive character of the city’s public transit – from vibrantly decorated buses navigating steep coastal hills to those traversing bustling harbor routes. More than mere… Read more: Interview | Busan-Based Artists PTPC - Interview | Hangzhou-Based Artist Cao Shu
Cao Shu‘s works incorporate a diverse range of media, including writing, photography, 3D digital imagery, mixed-media sculpture, and video game installations. His recent interests explore topics such as nuclear energy as a ghostly medium, socialist historical science fiction, ant colony algorithms and superindividual life forms, Lovecraftian literature and the collective unconscious, and the relationship between… Read more: Interview | Hangzhou-Based Artist Cao Shu - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist VAGYOOMOO
Vagyoomoo focuses on beings in motion—those who share the fundamental drive for survival. She observes these beings within their environments, drawn to the mechanisms each employs to survive and the intersections where diverse lives converge. Vagyoomoo is particularly interested in these points of intersection and perceives their lives as closely intertwined with her own. She… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist VAGYOOMOO - Interview | Busan-Based Artist Hyunju Lee
Hyunju Lee is a chronicler of Busan’s living history. More than just documenting the city’s multilayered culture accumulated through time, her work actively bridges these recorded moments with contemporary audiences. The exhibition features her research report Jwacheon-dong Furniture Street and Mother-of-pearl Alley along with accompanying photographs – a poignant visual archive preserving both the vanishing… Read more: Interview | Busan-Based Artist Hyunju Lee - Interview | Busan-Based Artist Hee Jeong An
Hee Jeong An is a Korean artist based in Busan. Her work captures the contrasting faces of Busan by portraying migratory birds and marine life, highlighting nature’s beauty against the city’s urban backdrop. Her art serves as a poignant reminder of nature’s fragility and invites viewers to reflect on harmonious coexistence between humans and the… Read more: Interview | Busan-Based Artist Hee Jeong An - Interview | Busan-Based Artist Jun Ho Kim
Jun Ho Kim investigates the stories behind Busan’s place names, transforming urban history into accessible knowledge. His Juno Tour project documents and interprets local historical sites, while Naengjanggo (meaning “refrigerator” in Korean) serves as a handy repository of city lore – keeping civic memory fresh and available. As an aspiring neighborhood guide, Kim bridges the… Read more: Interview | Busan-Based Artist Jun Ho Kim - Interview | Busan-Based Artist Minjung Kim
Minjung Kim is a painter dedicated to documenting the urban landscapes of Busan. Based primarily in the city, she captures its ever-changing architecture and neighborhoods in her work. Witnessing the demolition of buildings inspired her to preserve vanishing elements of the city through art, beginning with her depictions of Maechukji Village. Her artistic practice extends… Read more: Interview | Busan-Based Artist Minjung Kim - Interview | Tokyo-Based Artist AKI INOMATA
AKI INOMATA graduated with an MFA in Inter-media Art from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2008. Focusing on how the act of “making” is not exclusive to mankind, AKI INOMATA develops the process of collaboration with living creatures into artworks. She presents what is born out of her interactions with living creatures, as well… Read more: Interview | Tokyo-Based Artist AKI INOMATA - Interview | Berlin and Hong Kong-based Artist Isaac Chong Wai
Isaac Chong Wai (b. 1990) is an artist using glass etching, drawing, photography, video and performance as mediators to investigate contemporary global phenomena. His work transforms the emotions, tensions, and memories from human interactions into performative materiality and immersive experiences. Treading the line between the individual and the collective, he examines the vulnerability of the… Read more: Interview | Berlin and Hong Kong-based Artist Isaac Chong Wai - Interview | New York-based Artist Kim Tateo
Kim Tateo is a painter whose work explores interconnectedness, impermanence, and the unseen. Her dreamlike landscapes are rich with color, marks, and layers, inviting viewers to look closer and discover hidden layers of meaning and wonder. Her deep relationship with nature shapes her practice, informed by her work as a shepherd and her studies of… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Kim Tateo - Interview | London and Beijing-based Artist Lisa Chang Lee
Lisa Chang Lee is a Chinese artist, researcher, and educator based between London and Beijing. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the entanglements of ecology, sound, language, and technology, often drawing from indigenous knowledge systems and spiritual traditions. Working across sound installation, image-making, and AI-generated publishing, her projects investigate listening as a political and poetic act. She… Read more: Interview | London and Beijing-based Artist Lisa Chang Lee - Interview | Ningxia-Based Artist Rick Li
Rick Li (b. October 2001) is a Chinese artist who graduated with a Fine Arts degree from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2025. He began his artistic journey at age 14 with two years of professional painting training, subsequently developing his skills in oil painting and digital media (Photoshop, Procreate) through self-directed study.… Read more: Interview | Ningxia-Based Artist Rick Li - Interview | Beijing and New York-based Artist Xiangni Song
Xiangni Song is an artist based in both Beijing and New York, whose work draws from daily observations and personal experiences. Initially trained in illustration at the School of Visual Arts in 2016, she later transitioned to fine art, pursuing an MFA in Fine Arts at Pratt Institute in 2020. Over the past two years,… Read more: Interview | Beijing and New York-based Artist Xiangni Song - Interview | Osaka-Based Artist Nobuhiro Nakanishi
Nobuhiro Nakanishi, sculptor, born in Fukuoka in 1976. B.A., Fine Arts (Sculpture), Tokyo Zokei University in 1999. M.A., Fine Arts (Sculpture), Kyoto City University of Arts in 2002. Currently lives and works in Osaka, Japan. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Saturation’, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan (2006), ‘Transparent view’, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan (2011).… Read more: Interview | Osaka-Based Artist Nobuhiro Nakanishi - Interview | Busan-Based Artist Mok Ji Soo
Mok Ji Soo blends city branding with creative documentation. His recent work focuses on preserving the vanishing culture of public bathhouses through publishing, pop-ups, and community-based projects. He is the founder of Jip-ap Mokyoktang, a magazine archiving bathhouse culture and stories. Can you tell us about your background and how you started your artistic journey?… Read more: Interview | Busan-Based Artist Mok Ji Soo - Interview | New York-based Artist Sao Tanaka
Sao Tanaka (b. Tokyo, Japan) is based New York City. She hold a BFA in Japanese painting from Tama Art University, an MA in sociology and cultural anthropology from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo Japan, and studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York in New York. Her works have been internationally exhibited including… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Sao Tanaka - Interview | Hangzhou-based Artist Feng Chen
Feng Chen (b. 1986, Wuhan, China) is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Hangzhou. Working across video, sound, mechanical structures, programming, and light-based installations, his practice examines how perception and time can be constructed, disrupted, and reoriented by invisible systems. Central to his work are concepts such as dislocation, delay, synchronization, and noise—elements that challenge the… Read more: Interview | Hangzhou-based Artist Feng Chen - Interview | Taipei-Based Artist Hsieh Mu-Chi
Hsieh Mu-Chi, born in 1981 in Taipei, Taiwan, graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, TNUA. In recent years, his work has shifted its focus back to painting, and that his art can connect more deeply with the local environment and cultural context of Taiwan. For Hsieh, painting is not just a form of… Read more: Interview | Taipei-Based Artist Hsieh Mu-Chi - Interview | Incheon-Based Artist Lara Kim
Lara Kim is a contemporary artist born in South Korea, actively working today. She is recognized both domestically and internationally for her innovative approach to art and unique expression. In 2021, she won the prestigious A’ Design Award in Italy in the Arts, Crafts and Ready-Made Design category, and was also named a Lifetime Honorific… Read more: Interview | Incheon-Based Artist Lara Kim - Interview | New York-based Artist Paul Mok
Treating reality as the first medium, New York-based architect, designer, and visual artist Paul Mok (b. Hong Kong) situates his practice in the “in-betweens” – in between architecture and art, the technical and the abstract, the mundane and the wondrous. Mok holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Hong Kong and a… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Paul Mok - Interview | New York-based Artist Rosie Ding
Rosie Ding (b. 2005) is a Chinese-American mixed-media artist whose work explores identity, self-perception, and the psyche through a deeply introspective and often corporeal lens. Bridging contemporary ceramics, sculpture, and performance, she investigates themes of fragmentation, cultural displacement, and rupture—frequently using the body as both subject and medium. Emotionally raw yet conceptually rigorous, her practice… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Rosie Ding - Interview | Switzerland-Based Artist Mingjun Luo
Born in China, Mingjun Luo studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of the Hunan Normal University between 1979 and 1983. As an assistant teacher of drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts, she was awarded the Hunan Province Prize in 1984. In 1985, she founded the “0 Art Group”, a collective of avant-garde artists,… Read more: Interview | Switzerland-Based Artist Mingjun Luo - Interview | Taipei-based Artist Yin-chen Li
Born in 1995 in Taichung, Yin-chen Li is currently based in Taipei. Her practice blends ceramic and painterly expressions to explore the fluid relationships between perception, psyche, and material. With a foundation in academic art training, she later studied at Taipei National University of the Arts and Kyoto City University of Arts, where she developed… Read more: Interview | Taipei-based Artist Yin-chen Li - Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Ngai Wing Lam
Ngai Wing Lam, born in 1986, Hong Kong. Ngai Wing Lam graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. Ngai Wing-Lam, also known as Ant, is a Hong Kong-based artist celebrated for her surreal and introspective paintings. Ngai’s work prominently features koi fish-headed characters, inspired by her dreams and childhood experiences… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong-based Artist Ngai Wing Lam - Interview | London-Based Artist Lexiong Ying
Lexiong Ying, born in Shanghai and based in London, is an interdisciplinary artist working across various visual media. She holds a Master of Arts in Data Visualisation from the University of the Arts London and a bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design with Marketing. Her work has been exhibited internationally in cities including London, Düsseldorf, Paris,… Read more: Interview | London-Based Artist Lexiong Ying - Interview | Beijing-based Artist Sun Yitian
Sun Yitian (b.1991, Zhejiang, China) graduated from the Painting Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) in 2015 and earned her Master Degree in 2018. She is now completing her doctorate of Literature at the School of Humanities at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Her practice, which spans painting, installation, performance, and fashion, employs… Read more: Interview | Beijing-based Artist Sun Yitian - Interview | New York and Seoul-based Artist Doi Kim
Doi Kim (b. Seoul, South Korea) is a visual artist based in New York and Seoul. She holds an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts (New York, NY, USA) and a B.A. from the Korea National University of Arts (Seoul, South Korea). In 2017, she studied printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in… Read more: Interview | New York and Seoul-based Artist Doi Kim - Interview | New York-based Artist Carol Paik
Carol Paik grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and now divides her time between New York City and Pound Ridge, New York. She began her professional life as a lawyer, quit her job in order to be a full-time parent, earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction once her younger child started school, and discovered her true… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Carol Paik - Interview | New Taipei City-based Artist Hou, Guan-Ting
Hou, Guan-Ting（侯冠廷） transforms unsettling themes like roadkill and decay into intricate textile works. Using embroidery and patchwork, he reinterprets materials often seen as ugly, encouraging viewers to confront death and violence through layered textures and meditative detail. His practice slows down time, creating space for reflection in a world dominated by distraction. Can you tell us about your background and how you started your artistic journey?… Read more: Interview | New Taipei City-based Artist Hou, Guan-Ting - Interview | Yogyakarta-Based Artist Heri Dono
Heri Dono was born in Jakarta, on June 12, 1960. He was the first Indonesian artist to break into the global art scene during the early 1990s. Starting his career in the 80s, Heri Dono is well-known for contemporary installation works, many of which were inspired by the Javanese shadow puppets (wayang). He tried to… Read more: Interview | Yogyakarta-Based Artist Heri Dono