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Contemporary Art Asia is a half-yearly journal of criticism concerned with the work of artists of Asian cultural background practising in Britain and internationally. It is published in Britain and devoted solely to critical writing on contemporary Asian art, British-based and international in scope.
The journal takes as its subject the relationship between cultural inheritance and contemporary form, across visual art, performance, dance, moving image, sound and interdisciplinary practice. It is not organised around medium or national origin, and it does not treat Asian identity as a fixed category to be illustrated. Its interest lies in how artists working from Asian cultural formations negotiate, resist, inherit and remake form in the present. The journal does not treat identity as the end point of its enquiry. It is equally concerned with what these practices become once they enter the longer trajectory of art, with what carries forward into a global present and what survives of it there.
Contemporary Art Asia is published by Contemporary Art Asia (10374552), an independent arts organisation registered in England and Wales, based in Bath.
Published half-yearly
ISSN application pending
Issue 1 is in preparation for mid 2027. The journal is currently commissioning reviews and welcomes submissions.

Artist and curator
Founder, Contemporary Art Asia
Arts Organiser Member, Artists Now
Member, Museums Association
Member, Engage, the National Association for Gallery Education
External reviews: Written by contributors outside the journal.
Commissioned reviews: The journal reviews exhibitions of Asian art in Britain and internationally. Curators and artists are welcome to send exhibition invitation to the journal for consideration. The journal is particularly interested in exhibitions organised by emerging artists themselves.
Critical and analytical writing on contemporary Asian art, Asian art history and the Asian art business. The journal welcomes submissions from academics, curators, independent critics and postgraduate researchers, and reads every submission on the strength of its argument rather than on the standing of its author.
Submission is free of charge. Publication fee applies.
A comprehensive presentation of an artist's work, comprising images, a statement and an interview. Artists wishing to be featured are invited to send their CV and a selection of work. Features are prepared with artists whose work the editorial board considers suited to the journal.
There is no charge to submit.
For External Reviews and Articles, a fee of £150 is payable once a submission has been accepted.
For Commissioned Reviews, a fee of £400 covers the visit and the editorial work involved, and includes travel within the United Kingdom. The fee is for the visit and the writing, not for a favourable assessment. The journal retains full editorial control over the content of the review, and reserves the right to decline to publish.
For Artist Features, a fee of £300 is payable by the featured artist once a feature has been accepted.
These fees cover the editorial work involved in preparing a piece for publication, including copy editing, image preparation and typesetting, and the cost of hosting the published issue. Articles published in Contemporary Art Asia will be assigned a DOI registered with Crossref.
Payment has no bearing on whether a submission is selected for publication. Decisions are made by the editor and the editorial board on the merits of the work alone.
The journal welcomes submissions to its Articles section from academics, curators, independent critics and postgraduate researchers. Writing on contemporary Asian art in Europe has long been uneven, and has largely come from a single external perspective. The journal exists in part to widen the number of people writing seriously about it. Every submission is read on the strength of its argument rather than on the standing of its author.
Articles are typically between 2,000 and 6,000 words, though we will consider pieces outside this range where the subject warrants it. Submissions are read first by the editor and then by a member of the editorial board. Authors are notified of one of three outcomes: acceptance, acceptance subject to revision, or decline, with written reasons in each case. The journal operates editorial review. There is no charge to submit. A publication fee is payable once a piece has been accepted.
The journal encourages submissions from writers for whom English is an additional language. Where the argument and analysis are sound, language alone is not a ground for decline.
Submissions for the first issue should reach the journal by 1 April 2027. Please send the text as a Word document, together with your curriculum vitae, by email. Where images are included, please confirm that permission to reproduce them has been obtained and supply the required credit line.
Contemporary Art Asia
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