Dr Vichaya Mukdamanee, D.Phil., is currently a Dean of the Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, and also an assistant professor of the Faculty’s Department of Painting. Dr Mukdamanee received his Bachelor Degree of Fine Art (Painting) from Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University. As a Fulbright scholar, he then received his Master Degree of Fine Art from Pratt Institute in New York. Dr Mukdamanee completed his PhD in Fine Art (Practice-led Research) at The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

Dr Mukdamanee has performed various roles relating to art – as an artist, a curator, and art teacher. He also gives lectures as a visiting art instructor and speaker in several institutions and venues. In addition, he writes articles in art magazines and art catalogues. For the past 10 years, Dr Mukdamanee’s artworks have been created and exhibited in various media and techniques, such as painting, sculpture, video, and installation. He focuses on the narrative and perceptions from city life, especially the everyday life that gets reflected in the design and function of found objects and readymade. The artworks act as evidence of the endless journey of artistic learning, which also mirrors the concept of experimentation and trial-and-error, while coping and questioning the experience of living in a rapidly changing society.

Dr Mukdamanee has had numbers of solo exhibitions both inside and outside of Thailand, including City Life, Bangkok at Thailand Cultural Centre, Bangkok (2007), Combination: Vermont at Vermont Studio Center, USA (2007), Urban Motion at WhiteSpace Gallery in Bangkok (2008), Industrial Reflection at Donald Weiss Gallery, New York City (2009), Art-ificial Being at Thailand’s National Gallery in Bangkok (2011), Conditioned; Unconditioned at North Wall Arts Centre, Summertown, Oxford (2015), Becoming (Un)conditioned at Suan-Mokha Bangkok and Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Centre in Bangkok (2016), Strive to Fail at Thailand’s National Gallery in Bangkok (2017), and recently Expected Unforeseen at 333 Anywhere Bangkok (2020). His artwork has also been shown in many group exhibitions, such as The Mysterious Lines at Smile Gallery in Philadelphia (2009), Diverse Harmony at The Art House, Singapore (2010), 26^th Asian International Art Exhibition at Seoul Art Centre (2011), and Cut Thru: The View on 21^st Century Thai Contemporary Art at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, Singapore (2011).

As a curator, Dr Mukdamanee has managed and curated several exhibitions in the national and international levels. For example, during 2017-2018, he was one of the assistant curators of Thailand Biennale, Krabi, 2018, an exhibition organised by Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture that focused on the site-specific artworks in the outdoor natural environment in Krabi Province. Dr Mukdamanee was also a curator of Anthropocene (2019) and Art from Banyan Tree (2019) exhibitions by members of the Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, exhibited at H.R.H. Princess Sirindhorn Art Gallery, Silpakorn University. He was also a co-curator of Existence Sense (2018), a joint exhibition of artists from Tunghai University, Taiwan, artists from Silpakorn University, which got exhibited both in Thailand and Taiwan. Recently, Dr Mukdamanee was a co-curator and co-organiser of International Art Workshop (Archade 2019) at the Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, Nakornpathom Province.

Zheng Chongbin was educated as a classical Chinese figurative painter at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he taught for four years after graduation in 1984. Acclaimed as one of China’s preeminent young experimental ink painters in the 1980's, he mounted his first solo exhibition at the Shanghai Museum of Art in 1988. In 1989, he received a fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute to study installation, performance, and conceptual art, receiving his MFA in 1991. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area for over three decades, Chongbin is inspired by the region's distinctive atmospheric and environmental effects and rich ecologies, as well as by the California light and space movement. Chongbin’s works can be found in the collections, among others, of the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Chicago Art Institute, Museum of Fine Art Houston, Seattle Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, the Orange County Museum of Art in California, M+ in Hong Kong, the Daimler Art Collection in Stuttgart, Germany, the DSL Collection in France, and the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Chongbin is the subject of a documentary film, The Enduring Passion of Ink, and an in-depth monograph Zheng Chongbin: Impulse, Matter, Form, edited by Britta Erickson and distributed by D.A.P. in the United States.

Chongbin has held the classical Chinese ink tradition and Western pictorial abstraction in productive mutual tension. Systematically exploring and deconstructing their conventions and constituents – figure, texture, space, geometry, gesture, materiality, he has developed a distinctive body of work that makes the vitality of matter directly perceptible. Central to Chongbin’s art is the notion of the world as always in flux, consisting of flows of matter and energy that repeatedly cohered and dissipated. Inherent in pre-modern Chinese and especially Daoist thought, this worldview enables contemporary inquiries into complex systems like climate and social behavior, artificial intelligence, and quantum physics. Through the interactions of ink, acrylic, water, and paper, Chongbin’s paintings generate and record the processes that underlie the emergence of order (including organic life and human consciousness) and its inevitable dissipation. His paintings thus resemble natural structures ranging from neurons, blood vessels, and tree branches to mountains, rivers, and coastlines, but by instantiating their formation rather than by objective depiction. Maintaining his work with painting, Chongbin synergistically has integrated his multi-media-based exploration throughout his installation and video projects. His landmark light-and-space installation Wall of Skies (2015) consists of a complex folded structure fully enclosed by a tilted ceiling and slanted walls, creating a delicate interplay of nonparallel lines and planes. Resolving neither into painting, nor sculpture, nor pure light and space, it insists on its material presence even as its objecthood is dissolved in a spatial experience. The latest example includes his major site-specific installation Liquid Space (2019) in the landmark Zen Temple Ryosoku-in / Kenninji in Kyoto Japan. In his video installations, he represents processes of nature—from molecular and cellular to topographical and climatic—in the scale of human perception through microscopic and macroscopic imagery and accompanying soundscapes, unfolding these processes spatially and temporally.

Alan Yeung is a curator and art historian. He joined M+ as Associate Curator, Ink Art in July 2023. Previously, he was Fellow at CAMLab , a new initiative at Harvard University that combines humanistic inquiry with creative digital media practice, and Associate Curator at the Beijing based gallery Ink Studio.

Alan co-edited The Liu Kuo Sung Reader: Selected Texts on and by the Artist , 1950s Present (Cambridge, MA: Harvard FAS CAMLab , 2024). He has taught art history at Harvard and Suffolk universities and presented academic research at Cleveland Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Museum of Asian Art, and at Berkeley, Harvard, and Princeton. He is a director of the nonprofit Li Huasheng Art Foundation and a graduate of Columbia and Harvard.

Ms Melati Suryodarmo is Indonesia's long durational performance artist par excellence using her body as a container of memories and experiences that with movements is her performance art. Living between the cultures of the East and the West where she lived for twenty years, Ms Melati Suryodarmo's work has felt the impact of elements of both worlds.

She is a PhD candidate in Artistic Research / Art as Practice at the Institute of the Arts Surakarta. She also received her postgraduate Program (Meisterschüler) in Performance Art at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany, under Professor Marina Abramovic.

One of her bold breakthroughs in the Indonesian art world was when as Artistic Director of the Jakarta Biennale 2017 she brought in the androgynous shamans from South Sulawesi to perform prayers and blessings at the opening night.

On 28 February 2020, the first solo exhibition of her 20 years of practice opened at Museum Macan in Jakarta. Featuring the most popular Exergie-Butter Dance and I Am A Ghost in My Own House through which she challenges her own body physically and psychologically in pursuit of a deeper understanding of the self.

Mr Heri Pemad is the founder of Heri Pemad Art Management (HPAM) the organiser behind Art Jog and Art Bali. Since 2001 HPAM has been looking for new talents and organises art exhibitions held by art galleries or communities in Jogjakarta, Semarang, Surabaya, Jakarta and Bali.

He is also an artist and is engaged in the realm of fine arts and received awards for his work of art. One of the most important was Adhikarya in 2014 from Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economic Republic Indonesia. He was recently awarded the Pioneer of Performing Art during the Cultural Appreciation Night 2022 from Ministry of Education Culture, Research, and Technology.

Mr Heri Pemadalso contributes as Artistic Director in Sarinah Art District Jakarta and Ina Art in Sarinah Jakarta.

Dr Agung Hujatnika, M.Sn, also known as Agung Hujatnikajennong, is a lecturer at the Visual Art Study Program, Faculty of Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in Bandung, Indonesia. He is also currently a member of the Research Group of Aesthetics and the Science of Arts at ITB.

He received his doctorate from his alma mater on the subject of art curatorship in 2012 and Master of Art in 2007. His academic contributions to the school’s curriculum include courses on Art Management (undergraduate and master degrees), Art Studies, Communication of Art and Sociology of Art (undergraduate).

In 2013, he received the Independent Vision Curatorial Award from the Independent Curators International, New York, USA, and in 2018, he founded and convened a regular international conference on art curatorship Imagined Curatorial at ITB.

As an independent curator, he has curated several major national and international exhibitions in Indonesia and abroad, including Ruanrupa’s OK Video at Jakarta Video Festival (2003), SUB/VERSION (2005) and Flesh (2011), Heri Dono’s Nobody’s Land (2008), Fluid Zones, Jakarta Biennale – ARENA at the National Gallery of Indonesia and various public spaces in Jakarta (2009), etc.

Ms. Bibi Chew, a prominent figure in Malaysia's art scene, embarked on her distinguished career in the mid- 1990s. Renowned for her multi-disciplinary art practice, she holds a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting, Distinction) from LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore, and earned both her BA (Distinction) and MA in Fine Art from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. With a rich background in academia, she served as a sessional lecturer and postgraduate program facilitator at RMIT University, Australia, before joining the Malaysian Institute of Art (MIA) in 1998.

Over the years, Bibi has held various leadership positions at MIA, currently serving as the Dean of Academic Studies & Head of Illustration. In recognition of her expertise, she was appointed as the Industry Advisory Panel (Visual Arts) by CENDANA Malaysia in 2020 as well as the Technical Advisory Panel (Visual Arts) with THINK CITY since 2022. Actively contributing to arts education and the contemporary art scene, Bibi has received numerous awards, including the Major Award recipient for the Young Contemporaries Award by the National Art Gallery Malaysia in 2000. Her artworks have been showcased in prestigious exhibitions globally, with notable appearances at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, Blackburn Museum & Gallery in the UK, Malmo Art Museum in Sweden, and the KL Biennale organized by the National Art Gallery Malaysia. Bibi's works are highly regarded and collected by major public and private institutions, as well as private collectors, cementing her status as a leading figure in Malaysian art development.

Mr. Ahmad Fuad Osman, born in Kedah, Malaysia, in 1969, graduated with a BA in Fine Art from MARA Institute of Technology (UITM) in 1991. Initially involved in Malaysia's film and theatre industry during the 1990s, Fuad's artistic practice shifted towards conceptual multi-disciplinary works encompassing installation, sculpture, print, and video. Exploring socio-political themes such as identity politics, abuse of power, and historical amnesia,

Fuad employs wit and philosophy to engage diverse audiences. His recent conceptual turn delves into the veracity of truths, alternate histories, and contesting existing narratives. Notable works include "Recollections of Long Lost Memories" and the "Enrique de Malacca Memorial Project," showcased internationally at prestigious events like the Singapore Biennale and Sharjah Biennale. Fuad's practice challenges established historical canons and has been exhibited globally, with works housed in prominent collections such as the National Visual Art Gallery (Malaysia), the Singapore Art Museum and the KADIST San Francisco.

Mr. Baktiar Naim, currently serves as the Head of Division Media, Networking, and Design at the esteemed National Art Gallery (Malaysia). He has a Masters in Creative Arts from the National Academy of Arts, Culture and Heritage, Kuala Lumpur.

With a diverse background and extensive practical experience, Mr. Baktiar has performed a myriad of curatorial and research initiatives nationwide exhibitions such as the KL Biennale. He has also served as a juror for various local competitions and events, and authored art publications, all of which have made an impact on Malaysia's cultural fabric. With a passion for nurturing artistic talent and fostering cultural dialogue, Mr. Baktiar continues to play a pivotal role in shaping and enriching the Malaysian art scene.

Mr Amrit Chusuwan is one of the country’s most prominent artists, who has received many honourable mentions in Thailand. He is currently a Consultant for the Songkhla Old Town Foundation and a Member and Secretary of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre Foundation Committee. In his early career, he received a scholarship and a diploma from the ASP Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. His artworks have received numerous prizes, such as being the 2nd Prize recipient at the 32nd National Exhibition of Art in Bangkok and receiving the Silpa Bhirasri Creativity Grants in 2002. He has organised many international exhibitions and has served as a curator and artist consultant for the Venice Biennale in Italy. He was named Thailand’s National Artist in Visual Arts (Painting-Mixed Media) in 2020.

Professor Emeritus Pishnu Supanimit is a renowned artist who specializes in printmaking, painting, writing, and art criticism. His exceptional talent has garnered him significant recognition, including three gold medals in printmaking and painting from the National Art Exhibition in 1977, 1979, and 1983. He has also achieved international acclaim, receiving awards for his printmaking work in Japan and Germany. He led the working group illustrating the royal writings "Phra Mahachanok" and "Khun Thongdaeng" for His Majesty King Rama IX. In 2022, Professor Emeritus Pishnu was duly honoured as a National Artist in Visual Arts in the field of Printmaking. His contributions to the art world as an artist and critic have solidified his position as a respected figure in the industry, and his work continues to inspire and captivate audiences.

Mr Tawatchai Somkong is a veteran of the art scene in Thailand. He is the Founder and President of MATDOT Art Center, having graduated from Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan, India, in 1995, where he was profoundly influenced by Indian artists K.G. Subramanyan and Jogen Chowdery. In 2003, he established Fine Art Magazine and The Great Fine Art Co., Ltd., believing that Thailand and its art community needed a quality art magazine to call its own. His desire to open Thai people’s art knowledge beyond borders led him to collaborate with world-class publishers such as TASCHEN, Phaidon Press, and Quintessence Editions to publish books in the Thai language. Furthermore, with a vision extending beyond his role as an artist and CEO, he leveraged his expertise to curate influential art exhibitions. In 2020, Tawatchai realised his aspiration by launching the MATDOT Art Center in Bangkok, fostering an inclusive artistic environment for all.