I am a photographer and visual artist.
My artwork is a product of an interdisciplinary collaboration between photography, video, audio, and mixed media. I often explore how people see, remember, and define themselves in my art. This usually leads to creating metaphoric artworks inspired by various topics like gender identity, daily life, and elements of impermanence.
While I use a variety of materials and processes, in each project my methodology is consistent, leading to coherently resolved works. My choice of material, shape, and format are always guided by the subject matter of a particular body of work. Each project often consists of multiple pieces, usually in a range of different media grouped around specific themes and meanings. During the research and production, new areas of interest arise and lead me to the next body of work.
EDUCATION
2014 Master in Fine Arts, Lasalle College of The Arts, Singapore (Degree awarded by Goldsmiths, University of London)
1997 Bachelor of Arts(Hons), St.Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad – India
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​EXHIBITIONS
2024 Online Group Exhibition - A Testament to Loss Curated by Maria Barham-Black as part of Too Tired Project
2023 Group Exhibition: Of Spaces in Between, Two artworks, centered around the theme of duality, are connected across two locations through augmented reality. Hin Bus Depot, Georgetown and ZHAN Art Space, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2021 Group Exhibition: Crossing Borders: A Global Exhibition Exploring Themes of Migration at Konstrundan City Vernissage, Galleri Soho, Vasteras, Sweden
2019 Group Exhibition: Affordable Art Fair Singapore represented by Gallery Studio-ID, Singapore. Also featured as spotlight artist.
2019 Group Exhibition: Travelling exhibition across multiple Malaysian cities, The 8” by 6″ Project, Malaysia.
2019 Solo Exhibition: Digital Waste: The Sweet Smell of Burning, Galleri Soho, Vasteras, Sweden
2019 Group Exhibition: Konstrundan City Vernissage, Galleri Soho, Vasteras, Sweden
2019 Group Exhibition: You Are All Invited, China House Penang, Malaysia.
2018 Solo Exhibition: Digital Waste: The Sweet Smell of Burning, OME at Artspace, Penang. Part of the George Town Festival
2016 Group Exhibition: Rainbow Centre fundraising public exhibition and auction, At ION Orchard, Singapore
2015 Group Exhibition: Metamorphosis; Singapour En France, FRAC Des Pays De La Loire. Curated by Laurence Gateau (Toulouse/France)
2014 Group Exhibition: Consciousness; Art stage, Singapore
2014 Ready As I’ll Ever Be: Landings; Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. Curated by Adeline Kueh and Ian Woo.
2014 Wait for me, on the other side: Eminent Takeover at Eminent Plaza; Curated by Khai Hori, David Chew and Naomi Wang. (Singapore)
2014 Ready As I’ll Ever be: Silent Giraffe; Institute of Contemporary Art, Praxis Space, Singapore. Curated by Adeline Kueh and Ian Woo
2014 Artist Talk at MIA&D International Photography and Design Art Fair, Singapore
2014 Nominated for ‘Prudential Young Artists Award’.
2014 Huis Clos – Lucky the dog: Lasalle College of the Arts Winstead. Curated by Françoise Huguier
2013 Round table: Portraits between reality and fiction, Part of the Panel with François Huguier, Gilles Massot, Charles Lim, Edwin Koo
2013 Open Studio: Superfiction, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.
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RESIDENCY | GRANTS | AWARDS
2025 Art Ichol, India - Artist Residency (upcoming)
2021 NPE Singapore - Artist Residency (cancelled due to Covid)
2018 George Town Festival grant for development and exhibition of new works.
2014 Nominated for ‘Prudential Young Artists Award’
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PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2019 Penang Monthly a feature about the series Digital Waste: The Sweet Smell of Burning
2013 Work was published in Turkish eBook and eMagazine ‘Fotoritim’
2018 Turning digital waste into art feature in Star Online by Jeremy Tan
2018 ‘Digital Waste’: an Exploration of human dependence, focus on virtual world article in Malay Mail by Opalyn Mok
2013 Feature in Photozoom magazine as the photographer – Asia
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OTHER ART INITIATIVES
2019 - 21 Co-founder of a global art collective Crossing Borders, Crossing Borders: A Global Exhibition Exploring Themes of Migration through concurrent shows. (cancelled due to Covid)
2019 Co-curated and organised the exhibition “You are all invited”, China House, Penang – Malaysia.
2018 Co-founded the Penang Monthly Art Meet Up initiative to support exchange and collaborations amongst the artist and art community