Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan, the world's top-selling female artist, and the world's most successful living artist. Her work influenced that of her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.
The Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) is an art museum located in South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery is part of QAGOMA. It complements the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) building, situated only 150 metres (490 ft) away.
Ben Quilty is an Australian artist and social commentator, who has won a series of painting prizes: the 2014 Prudential Eye Award, 2011 Archibald Prize, and 2009 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. He has been described as one of Australia's most famous living artists.
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (장영혜중공업) is a Seoul-based Web art group consisting of Young-Hae Chang and Marc Voge. The group formed in 1999. Young-hae Chang is a Korean artist and translator with a Ph.D. in aesthetics from the Universite de Paris I, while Marc Voge is an American poet who lives in Seoul.
Michael Te Rakato Parekōwhai is a New Zealand sculptor and a professor at the University of Auckland's Elam School of Fine Arts. He is of Ngāriki Rotoawe and Ngāti Whakarongo descent and his mother is Pākehā.
Donna Ong is a Singaporean artist. She is known for her installation works, which often feature environments created with assemblages, found objects, and sculpture. Her practice draws upon notions of botany, landscaping, and representations of nature in both European and Chinese art.
Surendran Nair is an Indian artist who works with watercolour, printmaking and oils and his works are inspired from surrealism and symbolism.
Dame Robin Adair White is a New Zealand painter and printmaker, recognised as a key figure in the regionalist movement of 20th-century New Zealand art.
The Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, colloquially known as QAGOMA, is an art museum in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It consists of the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), which is the main building, and a second gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), situated 150 m (490 ft) away. Both are located within the Queensland Cultural Centre in South Bank. QAGOMA has a large collection of Australian art and is a leading institution in the Asia-Pacific.
Judy Watson is an Australian Waanyi multi-media artist who works in print-making, painting, video and installation. Her work often examines Indigenous Australian histories, and she has received a number of high-profile commissions for public spaces.
N. S. Harsha is an Indian contemporary artist from Mysore. He works in many media including painting, sculpture, site-specific installation, and public works.
Kiri Dalena is a visual artist, filmmaker and human rights activist who lives and works in the Philippines. Her work deals with issues of political and social injustice, drawing from events in Philippine history.
Kushana Bush is a New Zealand artist based in Dunedin. She is best known for her paintings which typically blend historic and contemporary styles. Bush has won several awards for her works and has held international exhibitions.
Suhanya Raffel is an art historian who has been serving as the museum director of the M+ Museum for Visual Culture in Hong Kong. She joined the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in November 2016 as executive director, M+, before being appointed Museum Director, M+, in January 2019. She succeeded Lars Nittve, who led the museum from 2011-2016.
Megan Cope is an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Quandamooka people of Stradbroke Island/Minjerribah. She is known for her sculptural installations, video art and paintings, in which she explores themes such as identity and colonialism. Cope is a member of the contemporary Indigenous art collective ProppaNOW in Brisbane.
Baatarzorig Batjargal is a Mongolian painter "who draws on the techniques of Mongol Zurag painting to address the broader history of Mongolia’s development over the past century". His artistic process includes his collection of various objects such as nomadic heirlooms and metal decorations which he often uses as a canvas for his paintings.
Shirley Anne Macnamara is an Australian Indigenous artist from the Indjilanji/Alyewarre language group of North West Queensland best known for her woven spinifex sculptures.
Lorraine Connelly-Northey is an Australian Aboriginal artist, a descendant of the Waradgerie (Wiradjuri) people. She also has Irish, English and Scottish heritage.
Winifred Schubert was an Australian businesswoman and philanthropist.
Douglas Grant Hall is an Australian art curator and historian.
