Curators involved across the various exhibitions

Akai

Akai has a background in architecture, built heritage and photography. In his practice, he had participated in several experimental collaborative practices including ‘and everything in between’ and ‘passthejpeg’. During his recent further studies in the University of Tasmania, he was in the community of the students’ Powerhouse Gallery, curated 2 shows, and presented work under the university at Dark MOFO 2018.

Anathapindika Dai

Experienced Digital Marketing & Advertising executive with a demonstrated history of working in the fine art industry — Dika is an exhibition manager focused in Singaporean and Indonesian contemporary art. She has managed exhibitions and projects for Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore Art Week 2018, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, One East Asia Gallery, Hotel G Singapore, and Raffles Maldives Meradhoo; with experiences of working with Larasati Auctioneers and Art Apart Fair. Currently handling the digital portfolio of STPI and SEA Focus 2020, she’s had the privilege to work with Genevieve Chua, Melati Suryodarmo, Takashi Murakami, Pinaree Sanpitak, Aaron Curry, Jason Martin, Manuel Ocampo, and more. She moderates artist panels (Lasalle, 2019) and speaks (LCS, Supernormal, SAW2020; NAFA, 2019; Omnispace, Bandung, 2018) on the side.

artnvoid

Under the moniker artnvoid, Bernice curates, writes, and researches. She has a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices from Nanyang Technological University. Nothing is uninteresting and everything/everyone is Something. She is open to collaboration @artnvoid on instagram. Her current research interest is in Catholic churches in Singapore.

Isaac Benjamin/ Simbaro

Jennifer Teo

Jennifer Teo is a Singapore-born cultural worker, whose main focus is activism, collaborative artmaking, and curating. She co-founded Post-Museum in 2007, and primarily works under that name, creating social practice projects.

lee ju-lyn/meekfreak

Meekfreak is involved in the arts, mainly as an artist and culture producer. She is interested in connections between art and life and pluralistic, collaborative paradigms, as in Better late than never. She is also known as Lee Ju-Lyn, who studied at NAFA, NTU, and In(ter)dependent Studies. More info at meekfreak.com.

Liza (Lija) Markus

Lija (b. Indonesia, 1995) trained as a sculptor in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, expresses her ideas about shared human emotions through objects, drawings, sculptures, installations, writings and exhibitions she curated. In recent years, she has been exploring a more managerial and curatorial role in the exhibition-making process. Her current interest lies in the phenomena of religious masochism, and traces of postcolonial hybrid cultures in Southeast Asian Christian and Catholic rituals. Her recent projects include organising artistic exchange between ArcoLabs curators and Singaporean artists while organising an artist-in-residency programme with Studio Batur Bandung in 2019 - 2020. She published ORTHODOX Art Book at Singapore Art Book Fair 2019, co-curated and exhibited in ORTHODOX by TheRightBelief for Singapore Art Week 2019. In 2018 she curated and managed ‘Conversations on Lack and Excess’ a two-city show featuring artists from Singapore and Bandung at Gajah Gallery Yogyakarta.

Ratna

Ratna has BSc in Economics and MA in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices. She was the exhibition coordinator of A Way of Life: Photographs from the Leica Collection, a collaborative exhibition between Leica and Asian Civilisations Museum in 2013. The exhibition displayed 23 original prints from six prominent photographers, Henri Cartier-Benson, Sebastiao Salgado, Constantine Manos, René Burri, Jane Evelyn Atwood and Klavdij Sluban.
Her internship at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada in Summer 2019 got her interested to explore the relevance of arts and heritage in contemporary society.

T. Shuxia

After a five-year hiatus working for her family’s business, Shuxia decided to return to making art. Previously, she studied graphic design at Temasek Polytechnic, took her B.A in Fine Arts Cultural Studies and Master degree in Environmental Studies with a focus in Community Arts at York University, Canada. She worked in arts education research at UNESCO-NIE Centre for Arts Research in Education (CARE) at NIE, NTU, and did community arts projects with migrant workers, seniors and adolescents.
Currently Shuxia is pursuing illustration and reacquainting and practicing art skills again. She can be found on instagram @t.shuxia.

Stephanie

Stephanie is an artist and a student intending to enter the Arts formally and fully once freed from the shackles of the A-Levels. Besides taking Visual Arts at the A-Level, she has spent much of her school life in desperate pursuit of passion projects involving visual art, literature, theatre, and film. She takes her greatest inspiration from artists such as Patti Smith, and Cai Guo Qiang, and authors such as Vladimir Nabokov and Exurb1a. Stephanie is, by definition, coming-of-age, and hopes to discover a path in life that ultimately leads to the creation of Good Work and acquisition of Greater Understanding.