

Shaghayegh Cyrous - artist and curator whose interactive time-based investigations, participatory projects, and video installations have been said to " create a poetic space for human connections."Ĭhaw Ei Thein - painter and a conceptual as well as a performance artist, her international career is highly profiled as she candidly portrays contradictions and conflictions of her socio-political environment works to expose the linguistic imperialism of this so-called common tongue Jesse Chun - artist who studies the way language-especially English-shapes cultural experience. “It’s a way for us to tease out all the tensions around their race, class, sexuality and gender,” says Durand. Tiffany Chung - multimedia artist inspired by the experiences of war, such as "migration, displacement, urban progress, and transformation in relation to history and cultural memory."ĭaniel Chew - filmmaker and creator of Negative Two.


Patty Chang - artist and educator who uses performance, video, installation and narrative forms when considering identity, gender, transnationalism, colonial legacies, the environment, large-scale infrastructural projects and impacted subjectivities. Kelly Akashi - challenge conventional concepts of form using a variety of media including fossils, wax, fire, glass, and rope. Jaishri Abichandani - interdisciplinary artist focuses on the intersection of art, feminism, and social practice the finalists are also a really great introduction to some amazing, contemporary asian artists
