BOLOHO BOLOHO is a transdisciplinary artist collective based in Guangzhou. Rather than targeting exhibitions and art institutions, their work addresses the undervalued art of everyday practices, such as cooking, gardening, sewing, housework, and child-rearing. The name of the collective comes from a Cantonese romanisation of the Chinese word for ‘jackfruit core’. People often discard the core when eating jackfruit, even though it can be a delicacy in its own right. Founded in 2019 by BUBU (Liu Jiawen) and CAT (Huang […]
Kingsley Ng Kingsley Ng is a media artist and designer with a focus on conceptual and site-specific projects. He believes that art helps us to mediate our environment, whether as a viewer or participator. His past projects include Twenty-Five Minutes Older, a commission by Art Basel in 2017 which took the audience on a moving tram, and After the Deluge, presented in an underground stormwater tank the size of 40 Olympic-sized swimming pools in Hong Kong in 2018. Ng received […]
Won Ju Lim Won Ju Lim is a Korean American artist whose multimedia practice is grounded in the interactions of sculpture and architecture. It revolves around the play of real and fictional spaces, drawing upon both empirical and imaginary constructs that we rely on to move between multiple scales of interiority and exteriority. Her work has been exhibited worldwide in 40+ solo and 70+ group exhibitions including those at Elgiz Museum, Istanbul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Jose […]
Amy Yao Amy Yao is a contemporary visual artist and educator. She works in many different mediums informed by ideas of waste and consumption. In 1993, Yao was a founding member of Emily’s Sassy Lime, an all-Asian American teenage riot grrrl trio from Southern California. Yao received a BFA (1999) from Art Center College of Design in California and an MFA (2007) from Yale University in Connecticut. She currently teaches at Princeton University. Selected exhibitions include the Institute for Fine […]
Anna Sew Hoy Anna Sew Hoy has been at the forefront of a re-engagement with clay in contemporary art, and is identified with a critical rethinking of the relationship between art and craft. Solo presentations of her work have been mounted at the Aspen Art Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum; the San Jose Museum of Art; and the Orange County Museum of Art; as well as at SFMOMA. Sew Hoy received a Guggenheim Fellowship […]
Shirley Tse For more than three decades, Shirley Tse the artist, longtime CalArts faculty member, Guggenheim Fellow, and Hong Kong representative to the 58th Venice Biennale, has created sculptural interventions that interrogate notions of place, politics, and ecology. Defined by research and adaptation, Tse’s work responds to how our world changes, advocating for “world-making” as a poetics of survival versus “world-changing” as a force of inequality, dispossession, and a symptom of climate collapse.
Sara Tse Sara Tse, Suk Ting was born and lives in Hong Kong. She uses diverse media ranging from in situ installation, ceramic sculptures, archival materials to drawings and personal objects to create an immersive environment. Addressing subject matters of nature, personal memories, natural history, cartography, domesticity, migration and displacement, the artist invites the audience to consider how seemingly disparate daily fragments can come together to form a repository for reflection and ask what it means to be native in […]
Izumi Nakayama Izumi Nakayama is a historian of modern Japan and East Asia. Using the gendered body as a lens, she explores interpretations of physiological, neurological, and sensorial experiences in the fields of labour, science, technology, and medicine. Her other research interests include biohacking and bioethics, food studies, and visual cultures and archives.
Kenny X. Li Kenny X. Li is a Hong Kong-based photographer and founder of YeP YeP, an independently published magazine featuring works by the city’s emerging creative talents.
Song Dong Song Dong is a Beijing artist who emerged from the early Chinese avant-garde art movement and became an important artist with international influence in the subsequent development of Chinese contemporary art. His artistic practice spans multiple fields such as performance, video, installation, sculpture, photograph, and painting. He explores the concept of impermanence and explores the transient nature of the human condition and creates his art and lives his life with the idea of ‘no boundaries’. Song graduated from […]