Liew Kwai Fei

Photo by Kenta Chai Liew Kwai Fei (b. 1979, Kuantan, Pahang) is recognised today as among the most exciting new generation of contemporary painters in Malaysia. Spanning over a decade, his practice explores the hybridity of the painting medium and its capacity to communicate ideas spanning class, race, and language to the humbling experience of […]

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Tan Zi Hao

Tan Zi Hao (Kuala Lumpur) is an artist, writer, and researcher. His idea has taken shape across a diverse range of works involving soil ecology, language politics, interpretive etymology, mythical chimeras, and organic assemblages from carrier shells (the Xenophoridae family) to household casebearers (Phereoeca spp). Most of his artworks are conceived with an ideological intention

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Nirmala Dutt

Portrait of NIRMALA DUTT SHANMUGHALINGAM, who passed away on December 5,2016. She was 75. Pictured here in front her mixed-media work, Africa II (1980). Courtesy OUR ArtProjects, Kuala Lumpur. Nirmala Dutt (1941–2016) was a pioneering figure in Malaysian contemporary art and one of the few female artists to have emerged in the local art scene during the 1970s.

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Yee I-Lann

Yee I-Lann (b. 1971, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia; lives and works in Kota Kinabalu) is a leading contemporary artist recognized for her predominantly photomedia-based practice. With acuity and wit, her digital photo collages delve into the evolving intersection of power, colonialism, and neo-colonialism in Southeast Asia, shedding light on the influence of historical memory in

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Nadiah Bamadhaj

Nadiah Bamadhaj (born 1968, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) resides permanently in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Trained as a sculptor in New Zealand at the Canterbury School of Fine Arts, she creates collaged drawings of a specific technique developed over many years. Her repertoire also includes sculpture, site-specific installation, digital video and print. She has lectured in Fine Arts

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