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1952–present
Dao Droste
Dao Droste was born in 1952 in Saigon, moved to Germany in 1971 and first trained as a chemist, earning a doctorate. She works as a sculptor, painter and installation artist and opened her own studio in 1987. She is known for an installation of five hundred terracotta faces and for the statuette made for the One World Award.1908–1993
Nguyễn Gia Trí
Nguyễn Gia Trí (1908–1993) began as a cartoonist for the Hanoi magazines Phong Hóa and Ngày Nay and became famous for his lacquer painting: eggshell inlay, gold and silver, scenes of girls in blossoming nature. He studied at the Indochina School of Fine Arts and after 1954 lived in the south of the country. His works are held in museums in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.1973–present
Azza bint Sultan Al-Qasimi
Sheikha Azza bint Sultan Al-Qasimi (born 1973), daughter of the ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah, studied in Dubai and at St Anthony’s College, Oxford. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions in the Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, China and the United Kingdom, and her first solo exhibition was held at the University of Oxford. She is known for watercolours, pastels, prints and painted ceramics.11.11.1920–23.01.2011
Kallinikos Stavrovouniotis
Kallinikos Stavrovouniotis (born Kostas Mammous) entered the Stavrovouni Monastery in Cyprus as a novice in June 1941 and stayed there for the rest of his life. He learned icon painting from the monastery's painters, on Mount Athos and from Photis Kontoglou, moved from Renaissance methods to the Byzantine technique and painted the monastery's katholikon. In 1996 he published a manual, “The Technique of Hagiography”.28.01.1928–23.11.1988
Marios Loizides
Marios Loizides (1928–1988) was a Greek Cypriot artist born on January 28, 1928, and died on November 23, 1988. His work reflects the cultural and national heritage of British Cyprus and Cyprus, contributing significantly to the region’s art.17.03.1933–04.03.2014
Stass Paraskos
Stass Paraskos (1933–2014) was born in a Cypriot village into a peasant family, went to England at twenty and began there with work in a tea room and a restaurant. In 1966 police closed his exhibition “Lovers and Romances” in Leeds, and he was fined for obscenity. He later founded an art school in Cyprus that grew into the Cyprus College of Art.1961–present
Chelenge Van Rampelberg
Chelenge Van Rampelberg (born 1961) grew up in Kericho, in the Rift Valley, and knew wood from childhood through gathering firewood in the nearby forests. She held her first exhibition in 1985 and began carving after an avocado tree fell outside her house. Her semi-abstract sculptures centre on women and their place in society; a retrospective of her work was held in Nairobi in 2024.1984–present
Cyrus Kabiru
Cyrus Kabiru grew up in Nairobi opposite a rubbish dump and builds sculptural eyewear from the junk found there: he officially began the C-Stunners series in 2011, though he had been making similar pieces since childhood. He photographs the sculptures himself in self-portraits. His works are held by the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.1984–present
Michael Armitage
Michael Armitage (born 1984) grew up in Nairobi and paints Kenya on lubugo, a Ugandan bark cloth made from fig-tree bark that the Baganda traditionally used as a burial shroud. In 2020 he founded the non-profit Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute, and in 2022 he was elected a Royal Academician. His work has been shown at MoMA, the Haus der Kunst in Munich and the Royal Academy of Arts.1962–present
Gabriela Trzebinski
Gabriela Trzebinski was born in Nairobi in 1962, studied in Southampton and London, and later lived and worked in Houston. Her paintings and short Super 8 films return to scenes from television news and to memories of a Kenyan childhood. Her exhibitions include solo shows in London (2000) and New York (2006) and group shows in Houston.1977–present
Jimmy Ogonga
Jimmy Ogonga, born in 1977, is a Kenyan multimedia artist and sculptor known for his multidisciplinary approach, combining traditional and contemporary methods in his work.1964–present
John Busuttil Leaver
The Maltese painter John Busuttil Leaver (born 1964) studied at the Malta Government School of Art under Harry Alden and began as a graphic designer of books. In 1997 the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta gave him a solo exhibition, and in 2008 “A Diary of Obsessions” at St James Cavalier, aimed against overdevelopment, was shown.05.02.1922–23.11.2005
Antoine Camilleri
Antoine Camilleri (1922–2005) was born in Valletta to a Maltese father and a French-Algerian mother, and studied in Malta and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He painted more than eighty self-portraits, sealed bread, cheese and wine under resin, and made “pictures in clay” with dry, cracked surfaces. In 1958 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale, in Malta’s first pavilion.1959–present
Simryn Gill
Simryn Gill (born 1959) was born in Singapore, grew up between Malaysia, India and Britain, and has lived in Australia since 1987. She works with photography and found objects: she gathered rubbish from roadsides, made beads from book pages and photographed an abandoned housing estate near Port Dickson. She took part in Documenta in Kassel in 2007 and 2012 and represented Australia at the 2013 Venice Biennale.1941–present
Latiff Mohidin
Latiff Mohidin was born in 1941 in Lenggeng and as a young man won a scholarship to study in Berlin. After returning in 1964 he travelled through Indochina and the Malay world, and these journeys grew into the “Pago Pago” cycle (1964–1968). He paints, makes sculpture and writes poetry; his collection “Sungai Mekong” appeared in 1971. In 2018 the Centre Pompidou in Paris showed his work.1939–2007
Redza Piyadasa
Redza Piyadasa was born in Kuantan into a family of Sinhalese origin, studied in London and from 1967 taught at the school of art and design at Universiti Teknologi MARA. He made paintings, collages and installations, and in 1983, with the art historian Sabapathy, published one of the first surveys of modern Malaysian art. In 1998 he received the Prince Claus Award.1973–present
Cheongsin Low
Cheongsin Low, born in 1973 in Malaysia, is an artist specializing in calligraphy and stone engraving. He is one of 400 members of the Xiling Seal Art Society and the only international member representing Malaysia.1934–16.12.2016
Shahrum bin Yub
Shahrum bin Yub (1934–2016) was the first Malaysian to receive a Diploma in Museology from the British Museum, and the first Malaysian to head the country's museum service: in 1972 he was appointed Director-General of Museums. He had joined the National Museum in 1966 to collect objects for its gallery of the indigenous orang asli. He left public service in 1991.1967–present
Germaine Koh
Since 1992 Germaine Koh (born 1967) has been unravelling worn garments and re-knitting them into a single growing object called “Knitwork”. She was born in George Town, grew up in British Columbia and works in Vancouver. Her projects include a telephone in a public place that dials random people by itself, postcards of found views, and “League”, a sports group playing games invented by its members.03.11.1945–?
Hassan Muthalib
Hassan Abdul Muthalib was born in 1945 in Alor Setar and became one of the first Malaysian animators: in the late 1970s he made short public-information films, and in the 1980s he directed a series of films about the cunning mouse deer Sang Kancil. In 2018 he received the Merdeka Award; for founding Malaysian animation he is called its “father”.1934–15.05.2018
Khalil Ibrahim
Khalil Ibrahim (1934–2018) was a Malaysian artist born in Kelantan. He was known for his drawings, watercolors, and acrylic paintings. His style ranged from realism to abstraction.?–?
Shing Yin Khor
Shing Yin Khor was born in Malacca, grew up in the Philippines and moved to the United States at sixteen. They began as a theatrical set and prop designer, then went on to make comics, installations, games and animation. The minicomic “Say it with Noodles” won an Ignatz Award, and the graphic novel “The Legend of Auntie Po” (2021) won an Eisner Award and was a National Book Award finalist.1966–present