CAWA (Connecting Asian Women Artists) is an online platform and non-profit organization dedicated to showcasing and promoting the creative and research works of Asian women artists. Its mission is to forge a communication platform, artistic community, and support network for Asian women, advocating for equal dialogue and cultural inclusivity.
Over the past year, CAWA has developed a diverse content matrix across multiple platforms:
Instagram
Drawing on current events and developments in the art world, CAWA’s Instagram offers timely updates and concise observations on Asian women artists. Recent coverage has highlighted the participating Asian women artists, their works, and their representation at the 2025 Shanghai Biennale and the Taipei Biennial. It has also spotlighted influential Asian women artists, including Ayoung Kim, Christine Sun Kim, Lin Tianmiao, and Guan Xiao.
Followers can stay closely connected to the achievements and expanding visibility of Asian women artists worldwide while participating in an emerging network of interaction and exchange.
Newsletter
CAWA sends a monthly newsletter featuring a curated selection of significant updates from all CAWA platforms. The Newsletter provides subscribers with a clear, thoughtful guide to the month’s highlights. Recent recommendations include essential exhibitions such as At Home in the World, a major Georgette Chen retrospective at He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen, and Duan Jianyu: Yúqiáo, the inaugural show of the newly launched YDP space in London.
The Newsletter also highlights key publications on Asian women artists, including Dance in Herland, which traces the lives of diasporic Asian women dancers in Chinatowns, and Women Artists in Singapore—a panoramic volume that presents the creative achievements and historical significance of Singaporean women artists.
By subscribing, readers can quickly access monthly essentials and explore further via embedded links that lead directly to CAWA’s platforms. Subscribe to CAWA’s Newsletter: here.
Website
The CAWA website is continually building a comprehensive database of Asian women artists. The ARTISTS column currently includes profiles of more than 100 artists from across Asia or with Asian backgrounds. This evolving database grows alongside CAWA’s documentation of exhibitions, research, and publications. CAWA aims for it to serve as both a valuable resource for readers and an essential archive for art professionals.
The LATEST column provides a consolidated overview of global exhibitions featuring Asian women artists. Nearly 30 exhibitions have been compiled to date, ranging from major solo shows by Lin Tianmiao, Lee Bul, and Kim Lim to feminist-oriented group exhibitions such as Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists at MMCA in Seoul and Green Snake: Women-Centred Ecologies at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong.
The LIBRARY column gathers foundational texts and experimental publications related to Asian women artists, including many artist-initiated projects.
CAWA invites writers and researchers worldwide to contribute in-depth features to the FEATURES column. These long-form essays enable readers to revisit women who shaped Singapore’s modern and contemporary art history through a feminist lens; uncover the making of Half of the Sky (1998), the first group exhibition to introduce contemporary Chinese women artists to the Western world; explore alternative relationships between humans and technology through the practices of a new generation of Asian women artists engaging with technological themes; as well as a wide range of other articles on Asian women artists.
CAWA warmly invites you to follow us on Instagram, subscribe to our Newsletter, visit our website, or contact us at info@cawa.art.
CAWA looks forward to collaborating with readers, artists, practitioners, researchers, and like-minded organizations to build a more resilient, dynamic, and impactful network—one that continually advances the work of Asian women artists.
CAWA was launched with support from CHANEL.
