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 | Tokyo-Based Artist Hidetaka Suzuki
Hidetaka Suzuki was born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1986 and completed the Master of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Course at Musashino Art University in 2014. He is currently based in Tokyo. Selected solo exhibitions include Flourishing In Quietude, Hunsand Space (Hangzhou, 2025); Stereoscope, AISHO (Hong Kong, 2024); Two values, pokettales (Seoul, 2024); Solaris, PTT Space… Read more: Interview | Tokyo-Based Artist Hidetaka Suzuki - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Minhee Jung
Minhee Jung (b.1985) explores the sensations and emotions discovered within urban parks and city forests through painting. Her work reflects the anxiety and tension experienced within a contemporary society driven by productivity and efficiency, while simultaneously depicting moments of temporarily suspended calm through abstract landscapes. Fragments of nature encountered within the city — branches, leaves, shifting light,… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Minhee Jung - Interview | Bangkok-Based Artist Naraphat Sakarthornsap
Naraphat Sakarthornsap (b. 1991, Bangkok, Thailand). Lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand (he/him). Working across photography and installation, Bangkok-based artist Naraphat Sakarthornsap (b. 1991, Bangkok, Thailand) utilises extensive research of flora, devising a symbolic visual language to address societal issues of inequality. His work spans topics from gender biases to class, economic, and political power struggles… Read more: Interview | Bangkok-Based Artist Naraphat Sakarthornsap - Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Wang Hao
Born in Beijing in 1984, Wang Hao received his undergraduate degree from the Sculpture Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. Currently lives and works in Beijing. Recent Research Direction: Primarily working with installation art. The design of my works requires meticulous planning and calculation, using the reflective variations of light and shadow in dialogue with… Read more: Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Wang Hao - Interview | Beijing and London-based Artist Luka Yuanyuan Yang
Luka Yuanyuan Yang (b. 1989, Beijing) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Beijing and London, working across documentary film, video art, photography and performance. Through weaving documentary and archival materials, she explores themes of identity, migration, and memory, challenging conventional historical narratives and amplifying overlooked voices. She has held solo exhibitions at High Line… Read more: Interview | Beijing and London-based Artist Luka Yuanyuan Yang - Interview | São Paulo-based Artist Fran Chang
Fran Chang (1990, Poços de Caldas, Brazil) builds land- scapes through painting in which the atmospheric expanse of the horizon contrasts with the dimensions of the canvas. The art- ist’s works are inspired by inhospitable places, devoid of human figures and vegetation, and depict ethereal and lunar scenarios where steam, water and ice predominate. The… Read more: Interview | São Paulo-based Artist Fran Chang - Interview | Tokyo-Based Artist Shota Yamauchi
Shota Yamauchi was born in Gifu, Japan, in 1992, and lives and works in Tokyo. He received his undergraduate degree in sculpture from Kanazawa College of Art in 2014 and completed a master’s degree in video and media art at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, in 2016. His… Read more: Interview | Tokyo-Based Artist Shota Yamauchi - Interview | Toronto-Based Artist Brubey Hu
Brubey Hu is an artist, graphic designer, and educator based in Toronto, Canada. Her work is a mediation on memory, migration, the mundane and domesticity as shaped through a transcultural feminist lens. Working across painting, installation, sculpture, and text, she employs strategies of subtraction and estrangement to capture fleeting moments that shape personal and collective… Read more: Interview | Toronto-Based Artist Brubey Hu - Interview | Rotterdam-Based Artist Skyler Chen
Skyler Chen was born in 1982 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and lives and works in Rotterdam. Chen’s paintings blend classicism and modernity, creating intimate and quietly provocative scenes that move between traditional Taiwanese iconography and American commercial imagery. His compositions are populated by enigmatic figures in familiar settings – surrounded by erotic magazines, dumplings, fresh fruit,… Read more: Interview | Rotterdam-Based Artist Skyler Chen - Interview | Chengdu-Based Artist He Bo
Born in 1989 in Sichuan Province, China, He Bo is a practitioner of photographic image-based art, writer, educator and curator. Now live and work in Chengdu, China. He Bo’s past artistic practice is mainly concerned with the re-creation of ready-made images and its theories, the narrative relationship between images and texts, the barriers to communication in the context of… Read more: Interview | Chengdu-Based Artist He Bo - Interview | London-Based Artist Freya Fang Wang
Freya Fang Wang (b.Beijing) is a London-based Chinese artist. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2023), and a BA in Mural Painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (2010). Wang was a finalist for the Luxembourg Art Prize (2024), a runner-up in the STUDIO WEST NOW… Read more: Interview | London-Based Artist Freya Fang Wang - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist KANG Cheolgyu
KANG Cheolgyu has developed a body of work that transforms lived reality into an imagined painterly realm, drawing from personal experience and psychological sensations rooted in the inner self. Rather than depicting specific events, he focuses on the moment when emotions and memories crystallize into images, constructing psychological scenes in which anxiety, tension, and unfamiliar… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist KANG Cheolgyu - Interview | Hangzhou-Based Artist Zhou Xinyu
Zhou Xinyu, Born in 1997 in Lanxi, Zhejiang, now living and working in Hangzhou. Graduated from the Animation Department of China Academy of Art with a bachelor’s degree in 2019. She is currently studying a master’s degree in the third studio of the Printmaking Department of the Chinese Academy of Arts. Zhou Xinyu’s early art… Read more: Interview | Hangzhou-Based Artist Zhou Xinyu - Interview | Shanghai-Based Artist Peishan Huang
Peishan Huang received her BA from Communication University of China in 2018 and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2022. Her recent solo exhibitions include Crack in the Curtain at Fotografiska Shanghai; Imagine a Returning Arrow at Inna Art Space, Hangzhou; The Six Mysteries of Fountains at 743 ART Lab, Shanghai;… Read more: Interview | Shanghai-Based Artist Peishan Huang - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Moon Kyuhwa
Moon Kyuhwa (b. 1990, Seoul) is a Seoul-based artist who translates personal narratives and lived experiences into a unique visual language of landscapes and interior spaces. She earned her B.F.A. from Gachon University and her M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts at Korea National University of Arts. Moon’s practice captures the subtle intersections between daily… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Moon Kyuhwa - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Bigo
Bigo traces the relationships that emerge between the body, objects, and images. She constructs moments in which the audience’s body comes into contact with objects or images, creating situations where perception shifts subtly through touch. As the body overlaps with the image, she explores whether the boundary between self and other can begin to blur.… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Bigo - Interview | Bangkok-Based Artist Sutiphong Sudsang
Sutiphong Sudsang or Khet (1999, Thailand) is a contemporary artist who grew up in a Khmer ethnic family in Sisaket Province, Thailand. He currently lives and works in Bangkok. His practice is interdisciplinary, with a strong interest in experimenting with diverse artistic techniques and media, including sound, image, installation, and interactive media. Through these forms,… Read more: Interview | Bangkok-Based Artist Sutiphong Sudsang - Interview | Kyoto-Based Artist Fumika Tsuchitori
Fumika Tsuchitori was born in Hyogo in 1995 and currently lives and works in Kyoto. Graduated from the department of art and craft at Kyoto University of Art and Design (currently Kyoto University of the Arts) in 2020. Through her two series of works, “I and You,” which depicts two people, and “a scene,” where… Read more: Interview | Kyoto-Based Artist Fumika Tsuchitori - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Hyewon Min
Hyewon Min (b. 1983) received her BFA in Korean Painting from Dongguk University and is based in Seoul, South Korea. Her work begins from fleeting emotional states—those that remain after a moment has passed, quietly settling beyond language. Using nature not as a subject but as a passage, she constructs inner landscapes shaped by memory, sensation,… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Hyewon Min - Interview | Saitama-Based Artist Kiyo Hasegawa
Kiyo Hasegawa (b. 1984) is a contemporary Japanese painter whose practice is rooted in traditional Japanese painting (Nihonga), employing mineral pigments, metal leaf, and handmade paper within an abstract visual language. Working with these materials, she reduces visual elements to their essence, allowing marks and layers to emerge as traces of perception. Her work evokes… Read more: Interview | Saitama-Based Artist Kiyo Hasegawa - Interview | Yamanashi-Based Artist Sakuho Ito
Sakuho Ito (b. 1989, Hamada, Shimane, Japan) is a Japanese artist whose practice is rooted in faith, materiality, and the perception of the unseen. Working with washi, mineral pigments, soil, metal, and water, she creates abstract works that function not only as representations, but also as spaces of presence and prayer. Drawing from Shinto thought and… Read more: Interview | Yamanashi-Based Artist Sakuho Ito - Interview | Kanagawa-Based Artist Jun Homma
Jun Homma (b. 1967, Tokyo) is an artist based in Kanagawa, Japan. He graduated from the Department of Three-Dimensional Design at Tama Art University in 1990. In 2019, he was a recipient of the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists and was based in Berlin. Since the 1990s, his practice has focused on sculpture… Read more: Interview | Kanagawa-Based Artist Jun Homma - Interview | London-Based Artist Ziyao Lin
Ziyao Lin (b. 1999) is an artist and researcher working across installation, moving image, and AI-based artistic practice. Her work explores how technological systems can both alleviate and intensify the scarcities of contemporary life. Combining autoethnography with media experimentation, she is interested in what is missing, neglected, or emotionally impoverished in a world shaped by… Read more: Interview | London-Based Artist Ziyao Lin - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Yang Seungwon
Yang Seungwon (b.1984) utilizes digital images to produce pseudo-images that blur the boundaries between realities and fabrications and explores the possibility of expanding our epistemology as well as the domain of photography. He is working on fracturing the process of perception that we have faced of a certain situation or a landscape which is taken… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Yang Seungwon - Interview | Taichung-Based Artist HuiHsuan Hsu
HuiHsuan Hsu was born in Kaohsiung and is currently based in Taichung. In 2015, she earned her practice-led PhD from the University of Leeds (UK), specializing in video art and photography. Her early practice focused on the act of “seeing,” examining how digital apparatuses, materiality, and time intersect within the rhythms of everyday life. After… Read more: Interview | Taichung-Based Artist HuiHsuan Hsu - Interview | New York-based Artist Xingzi Gu
Xingzi Gu is an artist based in Brooklyn who primarily engages with the language of painting, and its tradition while bending it towards innovation and experimentation. Delineating melancholic, fragmented scenes that undo fixed identities and linear narratives, the works often stage coming-of-age experiences as fluid forms shaped by desire, disassembly, and displacement. Gu spent their… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Xingzi Gu - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Lee Eunsil
Working with techniques rooted in traditional Korean painting, LEE Eunsil (b. 1983) visually articulates situations that that arise at the point where personal desire collides with social norms. Her practice attends to instinctual drives and impulses that are suppressed or obscured within contemporary society, translating the psychological conflicts that emerge from them into a metaphorical… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Lee Eunsil - Interview | London-Based Artist Feng Chao
Feng Chao (b. 2000), a native of Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in 2023, and a Master’s degree in Painting from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London in 2025. He currently works and lives in London. Feng Chao’s artistic… Read more: Interview | London-Based Artist Feng Chao - Interview | New York-based Journalist Xuezhu Jenny Wang
Xuezhu Jenny Wang is a New York-based journalist focusing on contemporary visual culture, current affairs, and media theory. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of IMPULSE Magazine, and she contributes to publications such as Vogue Scandinavia, Cultbytes, Art Spiel, COPY, Artslooker, and Odalisque. Wang serves on the board of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. Can you… Read more: Interview | New York-based Journalist Xuezhu Jenny Wang - Interview | Los Angeles-based Artist Shuai Xu
Shuai Xu (b. 1995, China; lives and works in California) examines the conditions of visibility, spatial arrangement, and scale through the construction of site-responsive situations. Utilizing structures as spatial devices, Xu’s work resists immediate consumption by cultivating unstable perception and partial presence. His investigations move beyond narrative, engaging the viewer in a slower form of… Read more: Interview | Los Angeles-based Artist Shuai Xu - Interview | Lushan-Based Artist Enxi Liu
Enxi Liu (b. 2001) holds a Master of Research degree from the Royal College of Art in the UK and graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the Experimental Art Department of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in China. She often poetically explores the various possibilities of sensory time combined with the body through performance, photography,… Read more: Interview | Lushan-Based Artist Enxi Liu - Interview | Tokyo-Based Artist Mariko Enomoto
Mariko Enomoto was born in 1982 in Saitama, Japan. She currently lives and works in Tokyo. After studying fashion, Enomoto began painting independently. She has created cover illustrations for major literary works including Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (Cho Nam-joo) and the Yomiuri Shimbun serial novel SISTERS IN YELLOW (Mieko Kawakami), as well as visual work… Read more: Interview | Tokyo-Based Artist Mariko Enomoto - Interview | New York-based Artist Seojeong Nam
Seojeong Nam is a Korean artist based in New York whose practice explores movement, repetition, and resonance as visual structures. Trained in painting in Korea and currently studying Fine Arts in New York, she expands painting through collage, sculptural materials, and print-based processes. For Nam, art is a form of “research through sensation.” Her work… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Seojeong Nam - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Yeonhong Kim
Yeonhong Kim (b. 1994) is a painter based in Seoul. Virtually envisioned seasons and the either tangible or intangible seasonal traces are put together on her canvas. In the effort of disrupting the boundaries between shapes, she inadvertently lets the colors seep and spread–showing the different facets of the image with her own technique. At… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Yeonhong Kim - Interview | Taipei-Based Artist Cheng Nung-Hsuan
Cheng Nung-Hsuan (b. 1983, Taipei) graduated with a BFA from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2006 and currently lives and works in Taipei. Cheng primarily works in painting, a medium valued for its ancient and primal nature as a form of expression, which the artist believes more closely approaches his exploration of spirituality.… Read more: Interview | Taipei-Based Artist Cheng Nung-Hsuan - Interview | Yongin-Based Artist Park Wunggyu
Park Wunggyu has consistently explored the boundaries between the sacred and the abject, order and chaos, and the internal and external, centering his painterly practice on the human body. In the series Dummy(2015–2023), he utilizes the motif of ‘dummy’ to navigate the tension between exterior and interior, and the sacred and the polluted. Through this,… Read more: Interview | Yongin-Based Artist Park Wunggyu - Interview | New York-based Artist Yezi Lou
Yezi Lou (b. 1997, Wenzhou, China; lives and works in New York City) examines material culture, social phenomena, and syncretic spiritual practices within the East Asian diaspora through the reinterpretation of common objects and everyday contemplation. Working across painting, drawing, and ceramics, Lou’s work maintains a strong sense of material presence while deliberately cultivating distance… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Yezi Lou - Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Zheng Fenglin
Zheng Fenglin’s (b.1998) painting is rooted in a sustained attention to the easily overlooked details of everyday life and the hidden connections between things. Through imagination, she reconstructs and explores a mysterious and multifaceted world, translating her desires and inner perceptions in to pictorial form. Executed with exquisitely delicate brushwork and technical precision, she depicts objects imbued with personal… Read more: Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Zheng Fenglin - Interview | Tokyo-Based Artist Minoru Nomata
Minoru Nomata (B. 1955) lives and works in Tokyo. He studied Design at the Tokyo University of the Arts. After graduating in 1979, Nomata worked at an advertising agency as an art director. At the end of 1984, he left the company to focus on his own creative work. He held his first solo exhibition… Read more: Interview | Tokyo-Based Artist Minoru Nomata - Interview | Changhua-Based Artist Lin Ying Chieh
Based in Changhua City in Taiwan, Lin Ying-Chieh is a visual artist working with site-responsive installation, public infrastructure, and commemorative spatial practices. Her practice originates from site-based explorations of mobility and habitation within everyday environments, informed by observational approaches associated with modern urban studies. In recent years, she has expanded her work through sculpture, video,… Read more: Interview | Changhua-Based Artist Lin Ying Chieh - Interview | London-Based Artist Eunjo Lee
Eunjo Lee is an artist and filmmaker based in London and Seoul. In building complex worlds using gaming-graphics software, her practice explores the interconnectedness of various entities, ranging from humans and nature to objects and concepts. Lee is represented by Niru Ratnam gallery, London. She graduated from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford in… Read more: Interview | London-Based Artist Eunjo Lee - Interview | Nantou-Based Artist Peng I I
Peng I I (b.1983) has long been using rammed earth techniques in his creations, and focuses on sculpts that respond to the substantial weight of rammed earth with light postures, particularly that piece of brass seeming floating in the air, which has become an indispensable part of his works. Drawing from memories of his childhood… Read more: Interview | Nantou-Based Artist Peng I I - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Lee Ji-woo
Lee Ji-woo (born 1995) is a painter based in Seoul. She creates quiet landscapes inspired by scenes she encounters by chance in everyday life and fleeting moments of memory. Starting from personal experiences and recollections, her work explores the emotions and atmosphere embedded in daily life through familiar spaces and objects, creating scenes in which… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Lee Ji-woo - Interview | Chicago-Based Artist Xiaohan Jiang
Xiaohan Jiang is a painter and poet based in Chicago. Born in Hebei, China, she moved to Suzhou at the age of nine. Her work investigates the intersection of painting and poetry, drawing from the pastoral landscapes of her childhood in Northern China. Through allegorical imagery, she constructs a spiritual realm where poetry becomes a… Read more: Interview | Chicago-Based Artist Xiaohan Jiang - Interview | Bangkok-Based Artist Pang Torsuwan
Pang Torsuwan (b. 1981) is a self-taught painter based in Bangkok, Thailand. She began her professional career in advertising and marketing and later ran her own fashion brand before fully dedicating herself to painting in 2017. Working primarily in oil, her practice is strongly influenced by Cubism. Through fragmented forms and layered compositions, her paintings… Read more: Interview | Bangkok-Based Artist Pang Torsuwan - Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Ga Ram Kim
Ga Ram Kim (b. Seoul, South Korea, 1984) Kim’s work focuses on social and cultural issues through playful participatory experiments. She mainly uses installation, media, and performance to induce audience participation and empathy. She carefully observes various social phenomena around her and attempts to capture an idea of the changing contemporary moment within her artistic… Read more: Interview | Seoul-Based Artist Ga Ram Kim - Interview | Agadir and Beijing-based Artist Wu Shuang
Born in Chongqing, China, Wu Shuang (b. 1986) is a contemporary artist active on the international stage. She studied at Kassel University in Germany in 2007, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2009, and attained her master’s degree from the Department of Printmaking at the Central Academy of… Read more: Interview | Agadir and Beijing-based Artist Wu Shuang - Interview | Jakarta-Based Artist Fiametta Gabriela
Fiametta Gabriela (b.1988) is a visual artist, artistic director, performer, and arts project manager based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her work often explores psychological, performative, and everyday life themes through interdisciplinary approaches, combining mediums such as painting, drawing, video, performance, and installation. She holds a Diploma in Visual Communication Design with a major in Illustration from… Read more: Interview | Jakarta-Based Artist Fiametta Gabriela - Interview | New York and Connecticut-based Artist Miya Ando
Miya Ando is a New York-based artist whose practice encompasses painting, sculpture, installation, and artist books. Her work constructs visual systems that translate temporal natural phenomena into material form, often marking impermanence through elemental processes. She engages materials such as indigo, silver, anodized aluminum, and washi, each chosen for its capacity to register durational change.… Read more: Interview | New York and Connecticut-based Artist Miya Ando - Interview | Ho Chi Minh City-based Artist Nguyen Khoi
Khoi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Nguyen Khoi graduated from high school with a major in the sciences department. He earned a bachelor’s degree in multimedia arts from the Ho Chi Minh University of Fine Arts in Ho Chi Minh City and a master’s degree in fine arts at… Read more: Interview | Ho Chi Minh City-based Artist Nguyen Khoi - Interview | Hangzhou-Based Artist Liu Yi
Liu Yi, born in 1990 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, graduated from the China Academy of Art in 2016 with a master’s degree. She currently lives and works in Hangzhou. Working primarily with ink animation, she integrates video installation, music, and theatrical elements to explore how the language of ink can be transformed within contemporary visual technologies… Read more: Interview | Hangzhou-Based Artist Liu Yi - Interview | Seoul and Edinburgh-based Artist Dakyo Oh
Dakyo Oh is an artist based in Seoul and Edinburgh who explores the relationship between nature and human existence through the primordial medium of soil. Her practice began with an interest in the cosmic depth and energy she perceived in the soil of a small flowerpot while tending to plants. For Oh, soil is more… Read more: Interview | Seoul and Edinburgh-based Artist Dakyo Oh - Interview | New York-based Artist Mitchell Poon
Mitchell Poon (b. Brooklyn, New York) is an artist working primarily with drawing, printmaking, and bookbinding. His work is inspired by his experience growing up a third generation Chinese American, a personal mythology, Chinese symbolism and numerology, and his family’s archive. His compositions reference symbolism and numerology to add additional layers of meaning to his… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Mitchell Poon - Interview | New York-based Artist Jasphy Zheng
Jasphy Zheng is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the invisible structures shaping everyday life: beliefs, rituals, and unspoken rules that quietly govern how we relate to one another. Through participatory frameworks involving both objects and non-objects, she creates situations where meaning emerges through collective presence and negotiated interaction. Her projects often begin with a… Read more: Interview | New York-based Artist Jasphy Zheng - Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Wu Yumo
Wu Yumo (武雨墨), born in 1995 in Inner Mongolia, China, currently resides and works in Beijing, China. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design (2021, with Honors) and a Master of Arts in Photography from the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) in Switzerland (2023, with… Read more: Interview | Beijing-Based Artist Wu Yumo - Interview | Hong Kong and Chiba-based Artist Law Yuk-mui
Law Yuk-mui is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator who lives and works between Chiba, Japan, and Hong Kong. Working primarily through expanded cinema, she adopts methodologies of field research to intervene in everyday urban spaces. Her practice attends to the physical traces of history, bodily memory, the marks of time, and the operations of… Read more: Interview | Hong Kong and Chiba-based Artist Law Yuk-mui - Interview | Chicago-Based Artist Fengzee Yang
Fengzee Yang is a Chicago-based artist who makes body-vessels that encapsulate suspended identity and echo nonlinear time, where memory, absence, and longing coexist. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her works have been exhibited at spaces including Comfort Station, The Plan, Slow Dance Space, Tala, ARC Gallery, Artruss,… Read more: Interview | Chicago-Based Artist Fengzee Yang - 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 WongAilsa 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, Sooyeon 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