10 Digital Artists: Asian Women Defining The Landscape
In support of the diverse voices and perspectives that enrich the world of digital arts, we are spotlighting ten digital artists who create and support Asian culture in digital arts and Web3.
Exploring themes ranging from identity and heritage to technology and spirituality, Asian women are making significant strides, reshaping the landscape with their creativity, innovation, and cultural perspectives.
From immersive digital installations to thought-provoking visual narratives, these artists are not only pushing the boundaries of what is possible within the digital realm, but also challenging societal norms and redefining cultural representation.
Here’s a list of female digital artists from Asia who are pushing the boundaries of digital expression by experimenting with several forms and techniques, such as interactive media, augmented reality, AI art, and more.
Whether you are an artist looking for inspiration, a curator working on an exhibition, or a digital arts fan looking to discover digital artists, this list is for you.
Here’s 10 Asian women digital artists you need to know.
Scroll to learn more about them! Here’s the featured artists:Ibuki KuramochiJiatong YaoSnow Yunxue FuSaeko EharaUgly KikiKeer ZhaoKaoru TanakaTong WuYiting LiuRiniifishLet's be friends on Instagram!
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Ibuki Kuramochi is a Japanese-born interdisciplinary artist who is currently based in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Sydney, Taipei, and Rome.
She incorporates the Japanese modern/contemporary dance Butoh, performance, video, installation, and painting in her art and explores concepts around the body, the resonance of thought and body, metamorphosis, cyborg feminism, and post-human feminism.
“My work evokes a break from the oblivion of the body in today’s virtual world, and an awakening to a new physicality extracted from the media.”
With a background in fine arts and computer science, Jiatong Yao hones her skills in programming, digital art, and multimedia installations. She works with a variety of digital tools, including game engines, virtual reality, and augmented reality technology, to create interactive installations that engage viewers.
Through her works, she invites the audience to explore new forms of creative expression. She seeks a disturbance, innocence, simplicity, and tender space for the audience. Her creative process includes conceptualizing different aesthetics and real-time interactive media to express her feeling about the future of technology and body politics in digital space.
“I was supposed to use the computer to do my homework, however I decided to use it for art. My style was mad with distortion and felt like a beast. I try many experimental ways of combining different tools just to do cool things.”
Snow Yunxue Fu is a Chinese-American new media artist and curator based in New York City. She is also a full-time Assistant Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Institute of Emerging Media. She works with imaging technologies including 3D Simulation, AR, and XR to create digital images and installations as well as interactive projects.
As an artist, her work has been exhibited globally and featured in various prestigious media outlets including the New York Times;, and as an academic, she has been invited to presented her research in numerous universities all around the world.
Daughter ICE is the artist’s long-term digital human art project. Using 3D-imaging techniques such as modeling and texturing, she “gave birth” to a virtual daughter as a digital human. The project is an exploration of intimacy across generational, familial, cultural, and continental lines — it is about how international families form deep connections within the virtual realm. You can visit The Metaverse Home of Daughter ICE via Sansar VR platform.
Snow Yunxue Fu is also featured in 10 Digital Artists: Augmented Reality Art
Saeko Ehara is a Kirakira (Japanese word for glitter, glisten, twinkle) artist and video journalist based in Tokyo. She represents Kirakira motifs such as jewels and flowers in her works and is inspired by Japanese Anime culture. With a background in oil painting, she is interested in finding a connection between analog and digital experiences and mixing the old with the new.
Saeko’s inspiration comes from memories and joys of her childhood. She continues to learn and explore the expressions of Kirakira using multiple types of software to make the world full of Kirakira and joy through her art.
“In my more recent creations, I integrate a diverse range of AI-generated images. However, a perpetual theme persists: “I would love to make the world full of Kirakira.” As a result, my artworks consistently radiate and twinkle, despite their often distinct appearances.”
UGLYKIKI is a Taiwanese digital media artist known for her thought-provoking and metaphysical artworks. Currently based in LA, she writes about, curates, and creates digital art.
UGLYKIKI's distinctive focus on experimental video art, which explores the transcendence of human physicality, has led to its recognition in esteemed international exhibitions. She also passionately advocates for creating an inclusive metaverse that integrates multicultural experiences through XR and online exhibitions.
“Personally, the process is better than the result. I feel immersed and enjoy the process which can surprise me all the time. I always change or expand my ideas during the process. I try new tools and watch tutorials; and try new effects. I think digital technology is important in every project. I just keep it and save everything I enjoy into the work.”
Keer Zhao (赵珂尔) is a New York-based multimedia artist from China. Feeling restricted by the physical limitations of traditional film and photography, the artist started creating 3D worlds to further express her emotions and thoughts about life.
She uses abstract visual languages to create art that’s vague yet expressive, and personal yet universal. Her spontaneous creative process spans across various art forms including digital art, XR, photography, and film, exploring the boundary between different mediums to express the complexities of herself.
“I think I was attracted to digital art and started pursuing it mainly because of the possibilities and potential it offered. Unlike traditional filmmaking and photography, it felt more like an in-house production—just me and my computer.”
Kaoru Tanaka is a designer and digital artist based in Japan. She creates generative art, installations, videos, wall art, and real-time interactive works, mainly using TouchDesigner. Her work has been featured in various exhibitions and events such as Japanese Contemporary Collection in Bright Moments Gallery in Tokyo and Prada Extends Tokyo.
Kaoru Tanaka visualizes the behavior of feeling the life force through her art. We love her recent work Inhabitants, which is a collection of creatures that once lived in her great-grandparents' house — it’s super inspiring to see the digital art versions of these floating mysterious creatures which she used to play with as a young child.
“Inspiration comes from nature, everyday events, dreams, and interaction with people.”
Tong Wu is a researching creative technologist and multimedia artist whose practice explores the subtle yet dynamic connections we make with ubiquitous AI systems embedded around us and the societal or cultural shifts that come along.
The artist incorporates interactive installation, AI models, web, creative design, and workshops, and has exhibited her award-winning work internationally. She is currently a User Experience Engineer with Google, focusing on socio-technological research and prototyping.
We love her and Yuguang Zhang’s collaborative AI art project Bureau of Cloud Management – a fictional bureau that collects, stores, and manages the clouds observed by humans in collaboration with generative AI.
“My artistic practice is consistently grounded in thorough research of both philosophical theories and emerging technologies, with Internet culture, novels, and behavior studies serving as continuous sources of inspiration.”
Yiting Liu is an XR developer and designer who intertwines a personal odyssey with artistic innovation. Yearning for independence, the artist moved to the United States at 18 and started her creative journey that celebrates her intrinsic connection to community and power of personal freedom.
Alongside dance, music, and poetry, the artist creates AR experiences and simulations where technology meets human experience, emphasizing empathy and understanding. After completing her studies at NYU and UW-Madison, she has worked as a mentor at ITP Camp and collaborated with companies like Accenture and Disney.
“Looking ahead, I will continue exploring the intersection of technology and community. It is rewarding to use technology to do social good for people in need. I want to make the world a better place and make peoples life easier. I have the drive to always create and connect as many people together as I can in this life time and I will never stop.”
Riniifish creates bugs – her work depicts fantastical versions of otherworldly life and parallel universes with extraterrestrial civilizations. The artist explores themes of life and death, emotional struggles and burnout as well as everyday life through tiny, translucent creatures.
The Chinese artist has worked with fashion brands including Pull&Bear, Adriana Hot Couture, and JIU JIE. Her “bugs” series has been exhibited in Berlin, Tokyo, New York City, Madrid, Vienna, LA, and Dubai.
“As an introvert with many emotions, dreams, and stories constantly spinning in her mind, creating art is the way through which she speaks most freely and eloquently.”
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