Interview with Cui Fei

1. How did you start making art? Influenced by my father, I started to draw at a very early age. My sister and I often drew together. Besides drawing for fun, we sometimes drew pictures while arguing. One of our neighbors commented to my parents: “I never saw kids arguing like this—without even exchanging a word, they can make each other cry!” When I was a teenager, there... Read More

Interview with Raazia Chandoo

1. How did you start making art? I grew up in an environment in which there was limited access to Fine Art materials. At that time, I applied myself to learning some domestic arts such as needlework, knitting and crochet. During my teens, I designed a stage set for a school play, made earrings from watermelon seeds, a bird cage from flowers, a puppet theater in a shoe box, painted... Read More

Interview with Sangbin IM

1.How did you start making art? I do not remember the exact moment. My mother told me that she remembers since I was little, painting was my love and it continued every single day. As I also vaguely remember, whenever I finished the works, my mom put them up on all the walls of my house, then onto the ceilings. My works became the wallpaper of my family house, where each individual... Read More

Interview with Schandra Singh

1. How did you start making art? At the age of 15 I started to draw. The work was very private and personal, a kind of emotional diary. The drawings were technically imperfect so I kept them  a secret. I didn’t look at them as art but as a personal expression. My mother discovered the drawings while we were traveling in Europe.  She then got me a membership at MOMA. I attended... Read More

Interview with Zheng Chongbin

1.How did you start making art? I grew up in a neighborhood in Shanghai where a few of my neighbors liked to spend their retired life painting everyday. It was always fascinating for me to watch how they used the brush. The act of painting was a kind of ritual to them, and it was the moment for them to escape from the real world. (At that time, the Cultural Revolution was approaching... Read More

DIALOGUES IN ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART

In collaboration with ARTOnAIR.org, Leeza Ahmady, independent curator and director of Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), conducts interviews with artists, curators, critics, and experts working both inside and outside of Asia. The program will include Ahmady’s reports from around town and will feature select recordings of conversations, talks, and panel discussions across... Read More

Interview with Jung Hee Choi

1. How did you start making art? Art-making is a drive that the artist is compelled to fulfill and is the highest experience for the artist. It started as natural as breathing. 2. Briefly describe your art from the perspective of what it could tell us about you? Utilizing both traditional and experimental techniques, I have worked in a variety of contemporary media; painting,... Read More

Interview with Jian-Jun Zhang

1. How did you start making art? Since I was in Kindergarten I naturally liked to draw. Once the teacher announced to the class that my work was wonderful, it made me feel that I was an artist. I remember that when people asked me what I wanted to be, I always answered “artist.” In Junior High and High School, I studied drawing and oil painting professionally, and... Read More

Interview with John Jurayj

1. How did you start making art? As a child I was obsessed with construction and demolition, I could not tell them apart. I started out studying architecture; maybe it was the right thing to do, the right way to be correct and inline. But when I was 18, I met a painter in Rome, His name was John. I feel in love with him. I thought, yes, that’s who I am. 2. Briefly describe... Read More

Interview with Mihoko Ogaki

1. How did you start making art? As a child I was suffering from asthma, so instead of playing outside with friends I would rather stay home alone and draw. And maybe I have also been influenced by my mother, who was doing oil paintings. At the age of 15, I expected to go to art high school. I wished to study there mostly because I just don’t have interest studying any... Read More