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).


Live Your Life Be Free #2
Anne Samat
2020
Rattan sticks, yarns, rakes, washers, plastic swords, toy soldiers, beads, metal and plastic ornaments
267 x 122 x 18 cm

Live your life be free #3
Anne Samat
2020
Rattan sticks, yarns, rakes, washers, plastic swords, toy soldiers, beads, metal and plastic ornaments
249 x 122 x 18 cm

Live your Life be free #4
Anne Samat
2020
Rattan sticks, yarns, rakes, washers, plastic swords, toy soldiers, beads, metal and plastic ornaments
244 x 100 x 22 cm
In Our Own Frame: 15th Year Celebration
3 - 19 December 2020
Richard Koh Fine Art,
34-1, Jalan Telawi 2,
Bangsar Baru, 59100
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 7pm
Closed on Sundays, Mondays & Public Holidays
Asia Society Triennial “We Do Not Dream Alone”
27 October 2020 - 7 February 2021
Asia Society Museum,
725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
New York, NY 10021
Thursday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm
Thursdays, 11am - noon are reserved for seniors age 65+ and immunocompromised persons only
Cantum-Combine, Online Exhibition Curated by Elham Shafaei
15 September - 10 October 2020
Online Exhibition
Richard Koh Fine Art
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ContemporaryIdentities International Art Magazine
The Foot Beneath the Flower: Camp. Kitsch. Art. Southeast Asia (Curated by Louis Ho)
28 August - 31 October 2020
NTU ADM Gallery
School of Art, Design & Media
Nanyang Technological University
81 Nanyang Drive,
Singapore 637458
Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
Saturday, 12 - 5pm
Closed on Sundays, Public Holidays & Term Holidays
Anne Samat – SPECTROSYNTHESIS II, Exposure of Tolerance: LGBTQ in Southeast Asia
23 November 2019 - 1 March 2020
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC)
939 Rama 1 Rd., Wangmai,
Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 9pm
Closed on Mondays
Anne Samat – ASEAN Crafts: From Heritage to the Contemporary
8 October 2019 - 15 January 2020
ASEAN Culture House
162 Jwadong-ro, Jwa 4(sa)-dong,
Haeundae-gu,
Busan, South Korea
Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 6pm
Saturday - Sunday, 10am - 7pm
Closed on Mondays & Public holidays
8 October - 17 November 2019
Cheongju Craft Biennale 2019
Old Tobacco Processing Plant,
Cheongju, Korea
Natee Utarit & Anne Samat – Metafysica
28 September - 29 December 2019
Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum,
Gråbrødregaten 17
Tønsberg, 3110 Norge
Tue - Fri, 11am - 4pm (Closed on Mondays)
Sat - Sun, 12 - 5pm
Anne Samat – Greatest Love
9 May - 8 September 2019
Hudson Valley MOCA,
1701 Main Street, Peekskill,
NY 10566
Wednesday - Friday, 11am - 5pm
Saturday - Sunday, 12pm - 6pm
Anne Samat & Minstrel Kuik – Stories We Tell To Scare Ourselves With
26 Jan - 14 Apr 2019
Museum of Contemporary Art
No. 39, Chang'an West Road,
Datong District, Taipei City 103,
Taiwan
Daily, 10am - 06pm
Anne Samat – SULTANATE IN THE EYE, MONARCHY AT HEART
09 - 23 August 2017
Richard Koh Fine Art,
229 Jalan Maarof,
Bukit Bandaraya, Bangsar
59100 Kuala Lumpur.
10 am - 7pm, Tues - Sat
Opening Reception
09 August, 5 - 8pm
Malaysian Art, A Special Preview
22 - 26 November 2016
Richard Koh Fine Art,
229 Jalan Maarof,
Bukit Bandaraya, Bangsar
59000 Kuala Lumpur.
Tues - Sat, 10am - 7pm
GWKL Opening Reception
25 November 2016, 6 - 8pm
Anne Samat – The Armory Show
5 - 8 March 2020
Booth F30, Pier 90
Marc Straus
The Armory Show,
711 12th Avenue,
Piers 90 & 94
New York City
VIP Preview
4 March, Wednesday (Invitation Only)
Public Days
5 March, Thursday
6 March, Friday
7 March, Saturday
8 March, Sunday
ART – staged : No Booth
25 - 27 January 2019
Richard Koh Fine Art
Blk 47 Malan Road,
#01-26 Gillman Barracks,
Singapore 109444
10am - 7pm
Taipei Dangdai 2019
17 January 2019
VIP Preview, 2 - 5pm
Vernissage, 5 - 9pm
18 - 20 January 2019
Open for public
Booth F08
Taipei Dangdai - Art & Ideas
Taipei Nangang Exhibiton Center,
Taipei, Taiwan.
Art Central 2018, Hong Kong
27 March - 01 April 2018
Richard Koh Fine Art
Booth C1
Central Harbourfront,
9 Lung Wo Road, Central, Hong Kong.
India Art Fair 2018
09 - 11 February 2018
India Art Fair
Booth D2
NSIC Exhibition Grounds,
Okhla Industrial Estate,
New Delhi.
ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair
09 - 12 November 2017
Richard Koh Fine Art
Booth E07
Shanghai Exhibition Center
No.1000 Middle Yan An Road
Jingan District Yanan,
Shanghai, China.
Asia Now, Paris Asian Art Fair
18 - 22 October 2017
Richard Koh Fine Art, Booth A101
9 Avenue Hoche,
75008 Paris
VOLTA 13, Basel
12 - 17 June 2017
VOLTA 13
Booth C16, Marhthalle,
Viaduktstrasse 10,
CH-4051 Basel.
Art Central 2017, Hong Kong
21 - 25 March 2017
Art Central 2017
Booth C1
Central Harbourfront,
No.9, Lung Wo Rd,
Central, Hong Kong
Art Stage Singapore 2017
12 - 15 January 2017
Richard Koh Fine Art,
Booth C8, Level B2,
Sands Expo and Convention Center,
Marina Bay Sands,
10 Bayfront Avenue,
Singapore 018956