Contemporary textile and fiber artists

Tschabalala Self's official site presents paintings, works on paper, sculpture, exhibitions and publications.

Cecilia Vicuña's official site documents visual art, poetry, performance, film and textile-related works shaped by memory and ecology.

Kimsooja official site documents sculpture, installation, public art or site-specific projects and exhibitions.

Tiffany Chung turns historical and geographical research into maps, embroidery, sculpture, video and other material forms. Her projects follow displacement, migration and the ways political and environmental forces reshape places over time. The Syria Project, presented in the 2015 Venice Biennale, used map-based drawings to trace cycles of conflict and movement. Vietnam, Past Is Prologue at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2019 developed a sustained inquiry into the war in Vietnam and its aftermath. Her biography also records the co-founding of Sàn Art in Ho Chi Minh City. These connections make her work valuable for readers interested in how a map can become an account of lived history rather than simply a diagram of territory. Compare the visual precision of individual works with the research questions that organize each project.

Nnenna Okore builds sculpture and immersive installations through the transformation of fibers, glass and biomaterials. Her practice centers on ecological relationships, with methods including shredding, pulping, dyeing, sewing and tying. These actions turn material change into both a visible form and a subject of inquiry. Her biography connects the studio work with teaching at North Park University in Chicago and with participatory environmental projects. The work is useful for readers interested in fiber beyond a conventional textile object: plant-like forms can expand into space, while the preparation and breakdown of materials remain important to their meaning. Her statement also describes studio encounters in which participants engage with the materials directly. Follow those processes alongside finished installations to see how making, learning and environmental questions become parts of the same practice.