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22.04.1910–19.10.1993
Fua Haripitak
The Thai painter Fua Haripitak (1910–1993) studied under Silpa Bhirasri, spent six years in India, was interned there during the war and painted a tempera that a Tokyo museum called one of the earliest examples of Asian cubism. He taught at Silpakorn University and from 1969 to 1982 took part in restoring the Tripitaka library at Wat Rakhang. He received the Magsaysay Award in 1983 and was named a National Artist of Thailand in 1985.07.10.1957–?
Vasan Sitthiket
Vasan Sitthiket (born 1957) studied at the College of Fine Arts in Bangkok and since the 1970s has made sharply political work: drawings, woodcuts, ceramics, installations and performances. At the 2003 Venice Biennale he showed portraits of world leaders printed with rubber stamps. He also writes poetry and books, and in 2007 received the Silpathorn Award.1911–1988
Lê Thị Lựu
In 1927, at sixteen, Lê Thị Lựu became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine in Hanoi, and in 1932 she became the first woman to graduate from it with distinction. She taught in Hanoi and Saigon and left for France in 1940. There, after a break, she returned to painting and began to paint women and children on silk.1900–1969
Trần Quang Trân
Trần Quang Trân (1900–1969) studied in Hanoi at the Indochina College of Fine Arts, graduated in 1932 and became one of the first Vietnamese artists to take up lacquer. He is credited with the technique of placing gold powder between layers of lacquer. His lacquer works have not survived; what remains are oils, watercolours and drawings.02.08.1907–12.12.2001
Lê Phổ
Lê Phổ (1907–2001) was born in Hà Đông, near Hanoi, graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine, and from 1937 lived in Paris. His first solo exhibition took place in Paris in 1938. He painted Vietnamese women, flowers and family scenes, first on silk and later in oil.1978–present
Christodoulos Panayiotou
The Cypriot artist Christodoulos Panayiotou (born 1978) began as a dancer and turned to the visual arts only in 2003. He works with found materials and archives: slide projections drawn from the Limassol carnival archive, mosaics made of ancient tesserae, paper made from shredded banknotes. In 2015 he represented Cyprus at the 56th Venice Biennale.?–?
Kaloki Nyamai
Kaloki Nyamai was born in 1985 in Kitui and works in Nairobi. His suspended installations are made of sisal rope, stitched yarn, acrylic and photo transfers, and their titles are in the Kikamba language. He showed work in the Kenyan Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale and on commission for the Sharjah Biennial, and in 2023 opened the Kamene residency in Kenya.1979–present
Miriam Syowia Kyambi
Syowia Kyambi (born 1979) works with clay, sisal, paint, photography and performance, and draws the material for her installations from museum archives in Nairobi. In 2011 she first showed the performance “Fracture I” in Kouvola, Finland, and in 2014 she staged “Between Us” with dancers at the GoDown Arts Centre in Nairobi.1996–present
Theresia Kyalo
Theresia Kyalo, a Kenyan artist and jewellery designer, studied law in Nairobi but works in art: she began in 2016, while still a student, with line drawings and moved on to textile, paper, film and metal. Her jewellery is made mainly of brass so that it stays affordable to the general public. In July 2020 her name was added to Beyoncé’s directory of Black Owned Businesses.1955–14.05.2026
Noel Galea Bason
Noel Galea Bason (1955–2026) was the sole coin designer at the Malta mint from 1977 to 1991. He designed three reverse sides of the Maltese euro coins, a series of 28 medals with portraits of the Grand Masters of the Order of Malta, and the monument to Dom Mintoff in Valletta, unveiled in 2018.12.1933–2008
Anton Agius
Anton Agius studied in Valletta, Rome and London, taught in Maltese schools and at the university, and became known for monuments placed all over Malta. Wood was reportedly his favourite material; in 2003 his statue for Cardiff City Hall commemorated the protesters at Greenham Common. Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, a former president of Malta, called him “the national sculptor”.1927–1993
Anthea Alley
Anthea Alley (1927–1993) was born in Seremban, Malaya, arrived in London at seventeen and studied painting at three schools there. She began with abstract pictures made from everyday materials, from 1957 worked mainly in welded sculpture, and in 1961 won a John Moores Painting Prize. Her work is in the Tate Gallery and Birmingham Art Gallery.13.03.1936–19.02.2009
Ibrahim Hussein
The Malaysian artist Ibrahim Hussein (1936–2009) grew up in a village in Kedah, studied in Singapore and London, and lived for a time in Italy and France. He worked mainly in acrylic, and gave the name “printage” to his own technique of combining printing and collage. In the 1990s he founded a museum and cultural foundation on the island of Langkawi, and from 1987 he organised meetings of Asian artists.1973–present
Poh Ling Yeow
Yeow was born in Malaysia, moved to Adelaide at nine and trained as a designer, becoming a professional artist in 2002. She paints in acrylic on canvas: goldfish, lotus flowers, ponds and a recurring character she calls “The Girl”. The wider public knows her as the runner-up on the first season of MasterChef Australia (2009) and as a presenter of cooking programmes.01.04.1911–01.06.2004
Liu Kang
Liu Kang was born in Fujian, grew up in Malaya, studied in Shanghai and Paris, and in 1952 travelled to Bali with three fellow artists. That trip gave rise to the Nanyang Style, which joined Western painting to the Chinese line. In 2003 he donated more than a thousand of his works to the Singapore Art Museum.12.07.1934–04.11.2001
Ng Eng Teng
Ng Eng Teng (1934–2001) began with clay and ceramic wares and became a sculptor only after returning to Singapore from England and Ireland. His first solo exhibition was held in September 1970, and in 1981 he received the Cultural Medallion. His bronze “Mother and Child” stands on Orchard Road, and “The Explorer” in front of the Singapore Art Museum; he gave about a thousand works to the university.26.05.1959–?
Andrej Grabrovec
Andrej Grabrovec (pseudonym Gaberi) trained as a civil engineer in Maribor and has worked as an independent sculptor since 1990. His bronze compositions stand in front of universities in Prague, Kraków and Budapest, and his main subject is the image of woman in the shared European public space. He has exhibited in Maribor, Zagreb, Graz, Vienna and Paris.25.08.1931–09.07.2013
Marsi Paribatra
Princess Marsi Paribatra was born in Bangkok, spent her childhood in Java and England, and finished her education in France, Switzerland and Spain. She earned two doctorates, in Paris and Madrid, taught, and at about thirty became a self-taught painter. From 1964 to 1972 she exhibited at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, and from 1970 she lived in Annot, in the south of France.08.02.1944–?
Ong-ard Satrabhandhu
A Thai architect who studied under Colin Rowe at Cornell and took a master's degree at Yale. He began with concrete buildings under the influence of Le Corbusier, then turned to northern Thai tradition: the Rachamankha hotel and Tamarind Village in Chiang Mai. National Artist of Thailand (2009) and winner of the 2020 Driehaus Prize.02.04.1877–16.11.1953
Boworadet
Prince Boworadet, a grandson of King Mongkut, trained as a soldier in England, served as ambassador in Paris, headed the army staff and from 1928 to 1931 was Siam's minister of defence. In October 1933 he led royalist troops from the north-eastern provinces against Bangkok, was defeated and fled abroad. He returned to Thailand in 1948.23.01.1930–20.08.2011
Vũ Giáng Hương
A Vietnamese painter who worked in silk painting: she studied under Tô Ngọc Vân and Trần Văn Cẩn, then from 1962 taught at the Hanoi fine arts institute and rose to deputy rector. Later she led the Vietnam Fine Arts Association, and from 2004 to 2010 headed the country’s national umbrella body of arts and literature associations. She received the State Prize in 2001.20.03.1923–21.01.2018
Phan Kế An
In November 1948 Phan Kế An spent three weeks beside Hồ Chí Minh in the Việt Bắc mountains and made about twenty portraits of him, some in charcoal and some with the burnt end of a cigarette butt. He drew cartoons for the newspaper Sự Thật under the pseudonym Phan Kích, and in the winter of 1950 painted the lacquer picture “Remembering the Northwest”. He died in Hanoi.01.01.1974–27.03.2024