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Singapore Art Museum (SAM) is pleased to announce the 25 residents of the second cycle of its international residency programme. The selected residents include 23 independent practitioners and 2 artist duos from all over the world. They were carefully selected from over 1000 applications across 107 countries during the open call launched in May 2022.
Selected applicants have been offered a studio-based residency across three of the four types—Artist, Community & Education, and Curatorial & Research. The fourth residency type, EX-SITU, which hosts independent art organisations, artist-run spaces, early-stage museum projects and community-led initiatives, is exclusively by invitation.
The list of selected residents for Cycle 2 includes:
Artist Residency: Chand Chandramohan (Singapore), Nilanjan Das (Kolkata), Rehab Hazgui (Montreal), Lee Pheng Guan (Singapore), Huijun Lu (Singapore), Oliver Musovik (Skopje), Charmaine Poh (Berlin and Singapore), Bruno Ruiz (Mexico City), Sungsil Ryu (Seoul), Naomi Segal (Sydney), Bolun Shen (Beijing), Sorawit Songsataya (Ōtepoti Dunedin), Adrian Van Wyk (Cape Town), Takuya Watanabe (Tokyo and Amsterdam)
Community & Education Residency: Chong Lingying & Winnie Li (Singapore), Irfan Hošić (Bihać), Weed Day – Tiffany Lay & Zo Lin (Taipei), Sumugan Sivanesan (Berlin and Sydney), Arie Syarifuddin (Jatiwangi)
Curatorial & Research Residency: Jumanah Abbas (Doha), Akram Ahmadi Tavana (Tehran), Yvon Langué (Merrakesh and Douala), Engy Mohsen (Cairo and Zurich), Carlos Jr Quijon (Manila), Suvani Suri (New Delhi)
About SAM Residencies
One of Asia’s most comprehensive interdisciplinary residency programmes, SAM Residencies aims to provide platforms for artistic experimentation and expression. Taking place in Singapore, the selected residents will meet and work in SAM’s Tanjong Pagar Distripark industrial warehouse turned art space against the backdrop of the iconic Tanjong Pagar Port.
SAM Residencies is a platform for residents to engage in active dialogue, collaborations and co-creation between residents, audiences, and the art community. Tailored for up-and-coming artists, curators and practitioners, SAM Residencies aims to serve as a catalyst for collaborative and collective becoming.
Supported by SAM’s curatorial team and associated networks, the residents will delve deeper into their respective research interests, generate new approaches and develop discursive platforms culminating in various public and closed-door activations.
With each cycle reflecting contemporary concerns, Cycle 2 focuses on themes of postindustrialism, critical alliances, and the possibilities of a transformed future – broadly confronting burgeoning questions on recent capitalism, ground-up initiatives concerning mutual aid and thinking through perspectives on our collective futures.
The residents were juried by an international panel, comprising Isabella Rjeille, Curator at Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo; Ade Darmawan, artist, curator and member of ruangrupa, Jakarta; Tan Pin Pin, filmmaker and artist, Singapore; Patrick Flores, Deputy Director (Curatorial & Research) at National Gallery Singapore; and was chaired by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, Senior Curator and Deputy Director (Residencies) at SAM and National Gallery Singapore.
SAM looks forward to welcoming the second cycle of incoming residents from July 2023 onwards. Each residency will span a period of one to six months and run until December 2024.
For more information on SAM Residencies, past and incoming residents, visit our website. For enquiries, contact residencies [at] singaporeartmuseum.sg.
