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ABOUT

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Artist Statement

My multidisciplinary practice explores the shifting boundaries between identity, memory, displacement, and place. Working across installation, sculpture, painting, performance, sound, and site-specific approaches, I draw from personal and familial histories to examine how the self is formed, fragmented, and reconfigured through lived experience.

 

I am particularly interested in the relationship between the body and objects—especially ordinary or sentimental belongings that carry traces of memory and attachment. Through processes of casting, transforming, compressing, and recontextualising these objects, I explore the tension between preservation and loss, permanence and impermanence, and the personal and collective.

 

My work often takes the form of liminal environments that invite physical and psychological encounters between body, object, and space. Performance becomes a way of activating these relationships, allowing the boundaries between subject and object, self and environment, to become unstable.

 

Informed by Buddhist and Advaita Vedantic philosophies, as well as concepts of ego dissolution, my practice considers identity as fluid rather than fixed. I am interested in what emerges when familiar structures of selfhood begin to dissolve: not disappearance, but transformation, expansion, and becoming.

Select Group Exhibitions

2026

 

​Judgement Day — The Wrong Biennale, Virtual

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The Paper Menagerie — ISA Art Gallery x Omah Budoyo, Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia

The Paper Menagerie — ISA Art Gallery, Indonesia

Performative Practices Lab — Singapore Art Week 2025

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​姓 — NAFA and UAS, Studio Theatre, Singapore

Singapore Art Book Fair 2024 — Thing Books, Singapore

Belonging — Visionary Art Collective, Virtual

tip it, top it, tape it! — Chelsea College of the Arts, London

Jeune Pinceau International Young Artist World Exhibition — International Curator of Youth Arts, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, and China

Collective Activations: Waterloo Street — Singapore Art Week 2024

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Stories of Care III — NAFA x Assisi Hospice, Singapore

Ice Cream — Singapore

Realism Beyond Reality — Super Duper Gallery, Philippines

'Escape To:' — School of The Arts (SOTA) Gallery, Singapore

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Open House — NAFA, Singapore

2023

2024

2022

2025

Performances

2025

Artist-In-Residence Public Presentation, Studio Plesungan, Solo, Indonesia

TGE2025 Performative Practices Showcase, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Gallery & Fashion Gallery, Singapore

TGE Opening Durational Performances, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Gallery, Singapore

Performative Practices Lab, NAFA x Singapore Art Week 2025, Campus 2 Fashion Gallery, Singapore

Select Awards

2025

2024

2023

LASALLE Scholarship Award for Academic Year 2025/2026, LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore

Woon Tai Jee Art Prize, Woon Brothers Foundation, Singapore

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NAFA Scholarship (Degree), NAFA

Runner Up Award for the NDC Facade Design Competition, UAS

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Jeune Pinceau Young Artist Competition 2023, ICYA​

Mentions & Listings

2025

2024

“The Paper Menagerie,” ISA Art Gallery, June 2025

“Traces of Time, Echoes of Light,” Living Archive of Contemporary Asian Art, May 2025

“The Grad Expectations Showcase,” UAS, May 2025

“Performative Practices Lab 2025,” Art Week SG, National Arts Council, January 2025

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“Belonging, March 2024, Curated by Victoria J. Fry,” Visionary Art Collective, March 2024

“Collective Activations: Waterloo Street,” Art Week SG, National Arts Council, January 2024

Residencies

June 2025

Studio Plesungan, Solo, Indonesia

Speaking Engagements

Jul 2025

Presenter, Study Circle 01: Embodied Kinships, dblspace, Singapore

Artist Talk Moderator, Downsizing: Menjadi, Singapore

Mar 2025

Get in touch

If you have any inquiries, ideas for collaboration, or simply want to reach out, please use the form below or send a message on any of my socials. I am always open to new opportunities and would be delighted to explore ways to work together.

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