Adeline Kueh
Adeline makes installations, photography and sound works that reconsider the relationship we have with things and rituals around us. Her works are imbued with a sense of desire and longing, and act as modern-day totems that explore personal histories and overlooked moments. Adeline has also produced installations and interventionist projects within the collaborative MatriXial Technologies (with subRosa) in old boys network 01 (Hamburg, 2001), Next 5 Minutes 4: International Festival of Tactical Media (Amsterdam, 2003), and Version >03 Digital Art Convergence (Chicago, 2003). Her recent works were shown in What it is about when it is about nothing (Mizuma Gallery, Singapore); Prudential Singapore Eye Exhibition (ArtScience Museum, Singapore); Latent Spaces Exhibition (Art Stage, Singapore); An Eminent Takeover (Eminent Plaza, Singapore); Limitless city: Abstraction, Materiality and Authenticity - As If (Kings, Australia); 100% Linen (Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore), and NINE +_1 (Sabanchi University, Turkey). Currently, Adeline is a Senior Lecturer with the MA Fine Arts programme at LASALLE College of the Arts.
George Liu Zhen
George Liu Zhen makes paintings that explore the conflict between individuality and modern civilization. The basis of his art comes from deep reflections into his perspective on reality. With a deep passion to reconsider issues of sentiment and affectation, his desire is to make expressions with the influence from modernism and pop art. He wants to encourage conversations with the audience about this highly civilized modern society and gain a better insight into his practice.
Gilles Massot
A visual artist, performer, educator and academic, Gilles’ artistic process looks beyond forms to establish links between disciplines, people, occurrences and parts of the world. Coming to live in Singapore in 1981, his early participation to the local art scene saw him involved in a string of seminal events. His book Bintan, Phoenix of the Malay Archipelago (2003) had a profound influence on his artistic work, which since then often deal with history and ethnology. In 2006 his MA-FA investigated the apparition of the photographic concept in the 18th century in relation to the notion of “image” as found in the English garden. He is currently researching on Jules Itier who did the first dated photographs of Asia in 1844. Currently a lecturer in LASALLE College of the Art, his work is part of the LTA Integrated Art Program (Buona Vista Station), the Singapore Art Museum and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris among other collections. He recently received the French cultural award Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
Hazel Lim
Hazel Lim is a visual artist who completed her Masters degree in Fine Arts at Lasalle College of the Arts in 2008 and has a Bachelor degree in Sociology and Statistics from NUS. Trained in painting, she also frequently employs installation, photography and drawings to express her concerns about notions of displacement, construction of histories and imaginary landscapes. She had taken part in exhibitions showcased in Singapore, Indonesia, Korea, Ireland and Vietnam and participated extensively in international artists exchange programs such as the ASEF Creative Camp 2003 in Paris, Artists’ Workshop in Vietnam, 2005, Documenta: International Workshop for Art Academies in Germany during 2007 and Connected:09 at Pollau, Austria in 2009. In 2013, Hazel showed her work at Peranakan Museum - A Botanical and Wildlife Survey as part of the Artists-in-schools programme for Singapore Biennale 2013. Hazel currently lectures at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.
Ian Woo
Ian Woo is an artist working and living in Singapore. His works are in the collection of ABN AMRO, Singapore Art Museum, The Istana Singapore, The National Gallery Singapore, UBS, and the Mint Museum of Craft & Design, USA. Woo’s paintings are featured in the publication “Art of the New Cities: 21st Century Avant-Gardes”, a publication by Phaidon 2013. He is currently Programme Leader of the MA Fine Arts programme at the Faculty of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts.
Jeremy Sharma
Jeremy Sharma (b 1977 Singapore) works across all media around ideas of aesthetics and production. His practice investigates various modes of enquiry in the information age, addressing our present relationship to modernity and interconnectivity in the everyday and our place in an increasingly fragmented and artificial reality.
Over the past decade, he has had a number of solo presentations that includes Mode Change with Michael Janssen Gallery Berlin/Singapore, Terra Sensa at the Singapore Biennale (2013), Exposition (2013) at Grey Projects and Apropos (2012) at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. He has also done projects with the NTU Centre of Contemporary Arts Singapore, ifa Gallery Berlin (2015), Fundación Sebastián Mexico (2015), Busan Biennale (2014), Osage Art Foundation and City University Hong Kong (2014), Tokyo Art Book Fair (2011), 14th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh (2010), Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (2008) and the ICA London (2005). His work has also been shown in numerous group exhibitions in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, England, Mexico and the United States.
Kray Chen Kerui
Kray Chen (b. 1987, Singapore) received a BAFA (first Class) from LASALLE College of the Arts under the validation of Open University in 2012 and subsequently, was awarded LASALLE Scholarship, Lee Foundation Grant, and Winston Oh Postgraduate Research Fund to complete his MAFA under Goldsmith’s College in 2014. Since he started his practice in 2010, Kray has exhibited in various shows in Singapore, including the Prudential Eye Show, in which he was the finalist of the inaugural Prudential Singapore Young Artist Award in 2014.
Using performance and new media installations in his work, Kray addresses the question of purpose through the appropriation of everyday actions and scenes. In their mediated reenactments, Kray confronts his identities, memories and conditions, in the futile attempts to resolve the anxieties and dilemmas of living and functioning.
Lina Adam
Lina Adam completed her Masters of Arts in Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts. She is the co-founder of Fetterfield (2006-2008) a site specific performance art festival and Your Mother Gallery (2004-2008) an alternative art space in Little India. She is a member of The Artists Village (since 1999).
Her work involves the scope of dissecting agents of socialization and habits dealing with but not limited to memories, environment and systems of daily life. Her work deals on the notion of social political identity, involving the observation of constructions such as family, work, school, playground, shopping malls, supermarkets, offices, etc and its influence on people’s behavior. She is interested in the idea of exploring structures that forms the existing frame of social reality.
Maria Khoo
Maria Clare Khoo is a Singaporean with an artistic agenda, with an affection for intellectual horror movies, ironic humour and intangible objects. She is currently interested in the idea of ‘absolute nihilism’ and is continually exploring and analyzing the brutally truthful undercurrent of the human condition, exposing the supposed glossy sheen of an ‘ideal existence’. Maria is currently enrolled at the BA Fine Arts programme at the Faculty of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts.
Moses Tan
Formerly trained in Chemistry and Biological Chemistry in Nanyang Technological University, Moses is currently in his final year of Bachelor of Fine Arts in LASALLE College of the Arts.
Moses is mostly inspired by social-political issues and queer politics. Working with drawing, sounds, video and embroidery, he is interested in creating experiential works in the form of installations. Informed by writers such as Judith Butler and Thomas Fuchs, his current interest is in Queer Melancholia as a quiet political resistance.
Nadiah Alsagoff
Nadiah Alsagoff (b. 1991) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Singapore. She has graduated with an honours degree in Fine Art at LASALLE College of the Arts. She is interested in the relationship between the body, the self and its position the everyday world individually as well as with others. Her work looks at themes of identity and existence, how people are born into a world of predetermined circumstance, and how identities are contextualised beings, tied to the world by their bodies. She explores this through the use of the body in video and performance.
Ng Wugang
Ng Wu Gang presents an illusion of time that navigates through the subjectivity of authorship and medium. He creates an alternate reality while being unable to distinguish the borderline between the trick and the truth. For their collaboration, Wu Gang will re-interepret part of Jeremy's Endgame series.
Patrick Ong
Patrick Ong is a film director and artist. His practice is a meditation on human feelings, in particular its fragility and temporality. Working within the space of neither/nor, he seeks to expose the shadow that exists in all of us; to find equanimity and reduce the gap between ‘you and I’. His current explorations centre on bringing film language and techniques, together with sound, music and text, to be an experiential site-specific installation.
Born in Singapore and trained in film-making, he works as a television commercial director for a varied list of clients, including Levi’s, Sony, Coca-Cola, Yamaha, Axe, FedEx, Djarum, Mazda and Asia Pacific Brewery (APB), with recognitions at Singapore Creative Circle Awards, Young Guns, EFFIE, Phoenix Awards and Citra Pariwara. He has also directed for theatre and television programs, including an award-winning documentary he co-directed for the inaugural National Geographic Channel/Economic Development Board's 'Showreel Asia' film initiative.
Often inspired by music, his continued passion has inspired him to photo-document Singapore's musicians, and in recent times, initiated an art collective ‘33a3rd’, that designs and uses age-old traditional printing techniques and typography to make concert posters, t-shirts and album covers.
Paul Hurley
Paul Hurley is a British born artist whose work incorporates image making, installation and various other disciplines. Paul is interested in exploring how we adapt to new technologies and scientific ideas, and how such developments shape contemporary life.
Paul has a varied creative background that includes music production and sound engineering. Paul completed a Diploma in Art, Media and Design at the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design based in East London. He has since relocated to Singapore where he is continuing his studies in fine art at LASALLE College of the Arts. Paul’s individual and collaborative works have been shown in number group exhibitions, both in London and in Singapore.
Raymond Wu
Raymond Wu is a Singaporean-based artist who mainly uses photography to capture the ironic nuances of Singapore. Currently working on the topic of indeterminacy, he explores photography as a form of allowing the audience to engage in his works visually. Hiding and reducing certain elements and leaving certain clues as information, Raymond leaves space in his work to allow the audience to imagine and have their own interpretation. Moreover, he also believes that this project will lubricate our mental and visual engines to promote better mileage in imagination. Raymond is currently enrolled at the BA Fine Arts programme at the Faculty of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore.
Victoria Tan
Victoria Tan’s practice explores a variety of subjects including landscapes, mythology and history through various media. Influenced by Southeast and East Asian aesthetics, she enjoys inquiring into phenomena and looks to experiment with both traditional and contemporary methods used in the process of creating. Always seeking comfort in displacement, her travels and culture experiences influence her desire for knowledge; creating the need for her to question the idea of boundaries, borders and blurred lines.
Victoria received her Diploma in Fine Art from LASALLE College of the Arts and is currently pursuing her Bachelor studies.
Wang Ruobing
Wang Ruobing (b. 1975) has worked as a curator at the National Gallery Singapore prior to LASALLE. Her research concentrates on the identity, hybridity, and transcultural discourses with a special focus on the contemporary art in China and Southeast Asia. Ruobing often uses everyday objects in her art practices challenging ways of seeing and commenting on the process of knowledge acquisition. She has exhibited widely, including solo shows The Earthly World, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art , Oxford (2010); Eat Me, The Dolphin Gallery, Oxford (2009); Seeded I, The Substation Gallery, Singapore (1999), and international group shows #TransActing: A Market of Values, Chelsea College of Arts, London (2015), EVA International, Limerick, Ireland (2010).
Wulan Dirgantoro
Wulan Dirgantoro is a lecturer and researcher at the MA Asian Art Histories programme, Faculty of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore. Prior to joining the College she has worked and taught at cultural institutions in Australia and Indonesia. Wulan is the co-author of the first book on Indonesian women artists “The Curtain Opens: Indonesian Women Artists” (2007), along with Carla Bianpoen and Farah Wardani. Her research interests are transnational feminisms, memory and trauma, modern and contemporary art in Southeast Asia.
Adeline makes installations, photography and sound works that reconsider the relationship we have with things and rituals around us. Her works are imbued with a sense of desire and longing, and act as modern-day totems that explore personal histories and overlooked moments. Adeline has also produced installations and interventionist projects within the collaborative MatriXial Technologies (with subRosa) in old boys network 01 (Hamburg, 2001), Next 5 Minutes 4: International Festival of Tactical Media (Amsterdam, 2003), and Version >03 Digital Art Convergence (Chicago, 2003). Her recent works were shown in What it is about when it is about nothing (Mizuma Gallery, Singapore); Prudential Singapore Eye Exhibition (ArtScience Museum, Singapore); Latent Spaces Exhibition (Art Stage, Singapore); An Eminent Takeover (Eminent Plaza, Singapore); Limitless city: Abstraction, Materiality and Authenticity - As If (Kings, Australia); 100% Linen (Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore), and NINE +_1 (Sabanchi University, Turkey). Currently, Adeline is a Senior Lecturer with the MA Fine Arts programme at LASALLE College of the Arts.
George Liu Zhen
George Liu Zhen makes paintings that explore the conflict between individuality and modern civilization. The basis of his art comes from deep reflections into his perspective on reality. With a deep passion to reconsider issues of sentiment and affectation, his desire is to make expressions with the influence from modernism and pop art. He wants to encourage conversations with the audience about this highly civilized modern society and gain a better insight into his practice.
Gilles Massot
A visual artist, performer, educator and academic, Gilles’ artistic process looks beyond forms to establish links between disciplines, people, occurrences and parts of the world. Coming to live in Singapore in 1981, his early participation to the local art scene saw him involved in a string of seminal events. His book Bintan, Phoenix of the Malay Archipelago (2003) had a profound influence on his artistic work, which since then often deal with history and ethnology. In 2006 his MA-FA investigated the apparition of the photographic concept in the 18th century in relation to the notion of “image” as found in the English garden. He is currently researching on Jules Itier who did the first dated photographs of Asia in 1844. Currently a lecturer in LASALLE College of the Art, his work is part of the LTA Integrated Art Program (Buona Vista Station), the Singapore Art Museum and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris among other collections. He recently received the French cultural award Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
Hazel Lim
Hazel Lim is a visual artist who completed her Masters degree in Fine Arts at Lasalle College of the Arts in 2008 and has a Bachelor degree in Sociology and Statistics from NUS. Trained in painting, she also frequently employs installation, photography and drawings to express her concerns about notions of displacement, construction of histories and imaginary landscapes. She had taken part in exhibitions showcased in Singapore, Indonesia, Korea, Ireland and Vietnam and participated extensively in international artists exchange programs such as the ASEF Creative Camp 2003 in Paris, Artists’ Workshop in Vietnam, 2005, Documenta: International Workshop for Art Academies in Germany during 2007 and Connected:09 at Pollau, Austria in 2009. In 2013, Hazel showed her work at Peranakan Museum - A Botanical and Wildlife Survey as part of the Artists-in-schools programme for Singapore Biennale 2013. Hazel currently lectures at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.
Ian Woo
Ian Woo is an artist working and living in Singapore. His works are in the collection of ABN AMRO, Singapore Art Museum, The Istana Singapore, The National Gallery Singapore, UBS, and the Mint Museum of Craft & Design, USA. Woo’s paintings are featured in the publication “Art of the New Cities: 21st Century Avant-Gardes”, a publication by Phaidon 2013. He is currently Programme Leader of the MA Fine Arts programme at the Faculty of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts.
Jeremy Sharma
Jeremy Sharma (b 1977 Singapore) works across all media around ideas of aesthetics and production. His practice investigates various modes of enquiry in the information age, addressing our present relationship to modernity and interconnectivity in the everyday and our place in an increasingly fragmented and artificial reality.
Over the past decade, he has had a number of solo presentations that includes Mode Change with Michael Janssen Gallery Berlin/Singapore, Terra Sensa at the Singapore Biennale (2013), Exposition (2013) at Grey Projects and Apropos (2012) at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. He has also done projects with the NTU Centre of Contemporary Arts Singapore, ifa Gallery Berlin (2015), Fundación Sebastián Mexico (2015), Busan Biennale (2014), Osage Art Foundation and City University Hong Kong (2014), Tokyo Art Book Fair (2011), 14th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh (2010), Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (2008) and the ICA London (2005). His work has also been shown in numerous group exhibitions in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, England, Mexico and the United States.
Kray Chen Kerui
Kray Chen (b. 1987, Singapore) received a BAFA (first Class) from LASALLE College of the Arts under the validation of Open University in 2012 and subsequently, was awarded LASALLE Scholarship, Lee Foundation Grant, and Winston Oh Postgraduate Research Fund to complete his MAFA under Goldsmith’s College in 2014. Since he started his practice in 2010, Kray has exhibited in various shows in Singapore, including the Prudential Eye Show, in which he was the finalist of the inaugural Prudential Singapore Young Artist Award in 2014.
Using performance and new media installations in his work, Kray addresses the question of purpose through the appropriation of everyday actions and scenes. In their mediated reenactments, Kray confronts his identities, memories and conditions, in the futile attempts to resolve the anxieties and dilemmas of living and functioning.
Lina Adam
Lina Adam completed her Masters of Arts in Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts. She is the co-founder of Fetterfield (2006-2008) a site specific performance art festival and Your Mother Gallery (2004-2008) an alternative art space in Little India. She is a member of The Artists Village (since 1999).
Her work involves the scope of dissecting agents of socialization and habits dealing with but not limited to memories, environment and systems of daily life. Her work deals on the notion of social political identity, involving the observation of constructions such as family, work, school, playground, shopping malls, supermarkets, offices, etc and its influence on people’s behavior. She is interested in the idea of exploring structures that forms the existing frame of social reality.
Maria Khoo
Maria Clare Khoo is a Singaporean with an artistic agenda, with an affection for intellectual horror movies, ironic humour and intangible objects. She is currently interested in the idea of ‘absolute nihilism’ and is continually exploring and analyzing the brutally truthful undercurrent of the human condition, exposing the supposed glossy sheen of an ‘ideal existence’. Maria is currently enrolled at the BA Fine Arts programme at the Faculty of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts.
Moses Tan
Formerly trained in Chemistry and Biological Chemistry in Nanyang Technological University, Moses is currently in his final year of Bachelor of Fine Arts in LASALLE College of the Arts.
Moses is mostly inspired by social-political issues and queer politics. Working with drawing, sounds, video and embroidery, he is interested in creating experiential works in the form of installations. Informed by writers such as Judith Butler and Thomas Fuchs, his current interest is in Queer Melancholia as a quiet political resistance.
Nadiah Alsagoff
Nadiah Alsagoff (b. 1991) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Singapore. She has graduated with an honours degree in Fine Art at LASALLE College of the Arts. She is interested in the relationship between the body, the self and its position the everyday world individually as well as with others. Her work looks at themes of identity and existence, how people are born into a world of predetermined circumstance, and how identities are contextualised beings, tied to the world by their bodies. She explores this through the use of the body in video and performance.
Ng Wugang
Ng Wu Gang presents an illusion of time that navigates through the subjectivity of authorship and medium. He creates an alternate reality while being unable to distinguish the borderline between the trick and the truth. For their collaboration, Wu Gang will re-interepret part of Jeremy's Endgame series.
Patrick Ong
Patrick Ong is a film director and artist. His practice is a meditation on human feelings, in particular its fragility and temporality. Working within the space of neither/nor, he seeks to expose the shadow that exists in all of us; to find equanimity and reduce the gap between ‘you and I’. His current explorations centre on bringing film language and techniques, together with sound, music and text, to be an experiential site-specific installation.
Born in Singapore and trained in film-making, he works as a television commercial director for a varied list of clients, including Levi’s, Sony, Coca-Cola, Yamaha, Axe, FedEx, Djarum, Mazda and Asia Pacific Brewery (APB), with recognitions at Singapore Creative Circle Awards, Young Guns, EFFIE, Phoenix Awards and Citra Pariwara. He has also directed for theatre and television programs, including an award-winning documentary he co-directed for the inaugural National Geographic Channel/Economic Development Board's 'Showreel Asia' film initiative.
Often inspired by music, his continued passion has inspired him to photo-document Singapore's musicians, and in recent times, initiated an art collective ‘33a3rd’, that designs and uses age-old traditional printing techniques and typography to make concert posters, t-shirts and album covers.
Paul Hurley
Paul Hurley is a British born artist whose work incorporates image making, installation and various other disciplines. Paul is interested in exploring how we adapt to new technologies and scientific ideas, and how such developments shape contemporary life.
Paul has a varied creative background that includes music production and sound engineering. Paul completed a Diploma in Art, Media and Design at the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design based in East London. He has since relocated to Singapore where he is continuing his studies in fine art at LASALLE College of the Arts. Paul’s individual and collaborative works have been shown in number group exhibitions, both in London and in Singapore.
Raymond Wu
Raymond Wu is a Singaporean-based artist who mainly uses photography to capture the ironic nuances of Singapore. Currently working on the topic of indeterminacy, he explores photography as a form of allowing the audience to engage in his works visually. Hiding and reducing certain elements and leaving certain clues as information, Raymond leaves space in his work to allow the audience to imagine and have their own interpretation. Moreover, he also believes that this project will lubricate our mental and visual engines to promote better mileage in imagination. Raymond is currently enrolled at the BA Fine Arts programme at the Faculty of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore.
Victoria Tan
Victoria Tan’s practice explores a variety of subjects including landscapes, mythology and history through various media. Influenced by Southeast and East Asian aesthetics, she enjoys inquiring into phenomena and looks to experiment with both traditional and contemporary methods used in the process of creating. Always seeking comfort in displacement, her travels and culture experiences influence her desire for knowledge; creating the need for her to question the idea of boundaries, borders and blurred lines.
Victoria received her Diploma in Fine Art from LASALLE College of the Arts and is currently pursuing her Bachelor studies.
Wang Ruobing
Wang Ruobing (b. 1975) has worked as a curator at the National Gallery Singapore prior to LASALLE. Her research concentrates on the identity, hybridity, and transcultural discourses with a special focus on the contemporary art in China and Southeast Asia. Ruobing often uses everyday objects in her art practices challenging ways of seeing and commenting on the process of knowledge acquisition. She has exhibited widely, including solo shows The Earthly World, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art , Oxford (2010); Eat Me, The Dolphin Gallery, Oxford (2009); Seeded I, The Substation Gallery, Singapore (1999), and international group shows #TransActing: A Market of Values, Chelsea College of Arts, London (2015), EVA International, Limerick, Ireland (2010).
Wulan Dirgantoro
Wulan Dirgantoro is a lecturer and researcher at the MA Asian Art Histories programme, Faculty of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore. Prior to joining the College she has worked and taught at cultural institutions in Australia and Indonesia. Wulan is the co-author of the first book on Indonesian women artists “The Curtain Opens: Indonesian Women Artists” (2007), along with Carla Bianpoen and Farah Wardani. Her research interests are transnational feminisms, memory and trauma, modern and contemporary art in Southeast Asia.