New Contemporaries is an annual exhibition that is open to all final year undergraduates and current postgraduates of fine art at UK colleges. Selected by Phyllida Barlow, Eddie Berg, Christine Hohenbuchler and Adrian Searle, New Contemporaries 1998 was shown at Tea Factory, Liverpool, Camden Arts Centre, London and The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle.

Featured artists: Fabienne Audeoud, Gisel Carriconde Azevedo, Heike Baranowsky, Claire Baxter, Gillian Carnegie, John Patrick Clayman, Nigel Cooke, Lisa Daniels, Daniel Fox, Denis Glaser, Jonathan Gowing, Claudio Guarino, Ole Hagen, Max Hymes, Yasu Ichige, Emma Kay, Waseem Khan, Jo Lansley and Helen Bendon, Graham Little, Richard McRae, Paul Morrison, Michaela Muller, Miyako Narita, Sophy Rickett, Karin Ruggaber, Saki Satom, Nike Savvas, Alexandra Sell, George Shaw, Ronald Max Vollmer, Caroline Warde, Tom Woolford, Sonja Zelic.