Tag: asian art
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Cao Fei
Cao Fei is a Chinese multimedia artist. Her work is set in the aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Fei blends surrealism, social commentary, pop culture, and documentary in her films and installations. With this variety of techniques and subjects, she examines how rapid sociocultural transformation affected daily Chinese lives. One consequence of this transformation…
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Suchitra Mattai
Suchitra Mattai is a Guyanese-American artist of South Asian descent. Her multi-disciplinary work examines, and unravels, existing historical narratives. Mattai also embraces her distinct Indo-Caribbean heritage. Hoping that it strengthens her interaction with history, she specifically draws from her and her family’s experiences with colonization, migration, and gendered domesticity. What does this look like? Oftentimes,…
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Hwanmin Jin
Hwanmin Jin is a South Korean ceramic artist. Although ceramics are not new to the realm of Korean art, Jin sprinkles originality into his work by blending tradition and modernity. In particular, Jin uses traditional Korean pottery-making methods to craft the base of the ceramic. He then uses an innovative”soap bubble” technique. The soap bubble…
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Yoshitomo Nara
Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist known for his distinct style and “big-headed” artworks. What is Nara’s style? It’s difficult to say, but we know he has a distinct set of inspirations – manga, Western and Japanese pop culture, and the innocence of youth in the children he paints. However, each of Nara’s painted children…
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Kei Ito
Kei Ito is a Japanese installation artist, conceptual photographer, and sculptor. Ito’s work is deeply rooted in the bombing of Hiroshima, which his late grandfather survived. Despite the generations that passed, the event inflicted heavy trauma upon the remainder of his family. As a result, a deep sense of intergenerational loss underlies much of Ito’s…
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