Anne Samat (b. 1973, Malaysia) graduated in 1995 from Mara Institute of Technology, in Malaysia. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Art and Design (textile design) with a major in Weaving and a minor in Print and Resist.

Since graduating, Samat has received a number of awards such as the Jurors’ Award Open Show Malaysia in 2014, Top Ten Malaysian Female Artists in 2013, and the Incentive Award by Shah Alam Gallery in Selangor, Malaysia, in 2012. She has also recently completed her residency in Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, New York in 2019, where her first solo exhibition in the United States, Greatest Love, was also held.

Samat is a pioneer in the contemporary weaving world, promoting the woven tradition by blending Malaysian Songket textile with her own unique and contemporary style and techniques. Using intricately-woven textile, synthetic fibres, rattan sticks, and other found objects, she creates colourful and elaborate totems inspired by ancient tales of her ancestry, evoking her familial lineage and the different cultures in Malaysia. Her work merges the old with the new; the feminine with the masculine.

Recent exhibitions include Stories We Scare Ourselves With, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan (2019); Contemporary Chaos, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway (2018); Elevation Laos, Vientiane, Laos (2018); Yokohama Triennale 2017, Yokohama, Japan; Di Mana (Where Are) YOUng?, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2017); and Sultanate in the Eye, Monarchy at Heart, at Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2017).