Born in 1973, Singapore
Currently lives and works in Singapore
Education
Fine Art at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2021
‘Staggered Observations of a Coast’, STPI Creative Workshop and Gallery, Singapore
2019
‘Proclamation Garden’, Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission, National Gallery Singapore
2018
‘SEA STATE 9: Proclamation’, Future Perfect, Singapore
2017
‘Stealing the Trapeze’, Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
2016
‘SEA STATE’, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore
2015
‘SEA STATE’, Singapore Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2014
‘SEA STATE 3: Inversion’, Future Perfect, Singapore
2013
‘In Search of Raffles Light’, NUS Museum, Singapore
2012
‘SEA STATE 2: As Evil Disappears’, Future Perfect, Singapore
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2025
‘All Sea-8 Oceanic Artistic Practices From Southeast Asia and Hong Kong’, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
2024
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
‘Transformative Currents: Art and Action in The Pacific Ocean’, Oceanside Museum of Art, California, United States of America
‘Liquidscape: Southeast Asia Today’, Arts Maebashi, Tokyo, Japan
‘Artistic Splendours: Thirty Years of Contemporary Art from China and Singapore’, Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, Suzhou, China
‘The Sea Is A Field’, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2023
‘Terra Libera’, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, The Netherlands
2022
‘Sea Lane – Connecting To The Islands’, 21st Museum Century of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
‘Walking With Lightning Bugs’, Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju, South Korea
‘Land Marks’, Le Plaza Cinema, Geneva, Switzerland
2021
‘Nation, Narration, Narcosis: Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories’, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
‘Reclamation, New Rocks, Stray Dogs, Birds, and Acoustics of the Garden’, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, South Korea
‘Wikicliki: Collecting Habits on an Earth, Filled with Smartphones’, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2020
Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea
‘Interrupted Meals’, How Art Museum, Shanghai, China
‘Inundation – Art and Climate Change in the Pacific’, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A
2019
‘The Stranger From Beyond The Mountain and The Seas’, 7th Asian Art Biennale, Taichung, Taiwan
2018
‘A Beast, a God, and a Line’, 4th Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Para Site, Hong Kong; TS1, Yangon, Myanmar; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
‘In the Open or in Stealth’, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
‘In Search of Southeast Asia through the M+ Collections’, M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong
2017
‘After the End of the World’, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
‘The Pacific’, Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
‘Takuji Kogo: CANDY PROJECTS’, The Private Museum, Singapore
‘Singapore Gridded Currents’, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2016
‘There are too many episodes of people coming here…’, NUS Museum, Singapore
3rd Aichi Triennale, Aichi, Japan
20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
‘Still (the) Barbarians’, EVA International Biennial, Limerick, Ireland
SONSBEEK ’16: transaction, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2015
‘Open Sea’, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Moving Images, M+, Hong Kong
‘Prudential Singapore Eye’, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
2014
‘SAFE SEA’, National Museum, Singapore
‘Going Going Until I Meet The Tide’, Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea
‘Visions and Beyond’, 2nd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennial, Shenzhen, China
‘The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
UNEARTHED’, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2013
‘Rendez-vous 13’, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
‘Little Water’, Dojima River Biennale, Osaka, Japan
‘Welcome to the Jungle: Contemporary Art in South East Asia’, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
2012
The Singapore Show: Future Proof, Singapore Art Museum at 8Q, Singapore
‘Move on Asia 2012’, Alt.Space LOOP, Seoul and Eunam Museum of Art / Song Won Art Center
Gwangju, South Korea
Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
2011
3rd Singapore Biennale, Open House, Singapore
2009
Biennale Cuvée – Weltauswahl der Gegenwartskunst, O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
2008
7th Shanghai Biennale, Translocalmotion, Shanghai, China
‘BARNACLE 1: it’s not that I forgot, but rather I chose not to mention’, AIAV, Yamaguchi, Japan
2007
MANIFESTA 7 European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
2006
‘Islanded: Contemporary Art from New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan’, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2005
‘Singapore Open Nature’, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
‘Space and Shadow’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
President’s Young Talents Award, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2004
‘Gravity: MAAP in Singapore’, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2002
Documenta 11 (with tsunamii.net), Binding Brewery, Kassel, Germany
2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Media City, Seoul, South Korea
