Artist CHUN Kai Qun 曾凯 群 Born 1982
Country Singapore Medium Mixed media
Artist Biography
______Year Education
2011 - 2013 MA (Fine Art), Glasgow School of Art, UK
2004 - 2007 Diploma in Fine Art, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
______Year Selected Exhibitions
2016 Art Stage Singapore with FOST Gallery, Singapore
2015 Dear Painter, Sundaram Tagore Galleries, Singapore
Singapore Survey 2015: Hard Choices, Valentine Willie Special Projects, Art Space @ Helutrans, Singapore
PAssionArts Festival, Bedok Reservoir Park, Singapore
Singapore Open Media Art Festival, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2014 A Lifetime of Warranties, LATENT SPACES, Haw Par Villa, Singapore*
Potong Ice-Cream $2, LATENT SPACES, Art Stage Singapore, Singapore
Looking at Things Closely, LATENT SPACES, Haw Par Villa, Singapore
Materialised Time, LATENT SPACES, Haw Par Villa, Singapore
Nameless Forms, LATENT SPACES, Haw Par Villa, Singapore
2013 The Social, The Old Hairdresser’s, Glasgow, Scotland
Always on the Move, Glasgow Malmö International Artists’ Exchange, Fleming House Underground Carpark, Glasgow, Scotland
The Glasgow School of Art MFA Degree Show 2013, Glue Factory, Glasgow, Scotland
Perfectly Hidden, New City Space, Glasgow, Scotland
Perfectly Situated, New City Space, Glasgow, Scotland
Perfectly At Home, New City Space, Glasgow, Scotland
2012 Squatting in the Moments of Comfort and Convenience, New City Space, Glasgow, Scotland*
Awkward Times, Sharp Space, Glasgow, Scotland*
The Glasgow School of Art MFA Auction 2012, SWG3, Glasgow, Scotland
______* Solo Exhibition
FOST Private Limited /Gallery 1 Lock Road /Education #01-02, Gillman Barracks /Advisory Singapore 108932 Telephone 65 6694 3080 Facsimile 65 6694 3081 E-mail [email protected] Website www.fostgallery.com
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______Year Exhibitions (cont’d)
2012 Overlapping Biennial, Biennial of Young Artists, Curated by Magdalen Chua, Bucharest, Romania
“Untitled” (Singapura #90), FOST Gallery, Singapore
MFA Interim Show 2012, The Mackintosh Museum, GSA, Glasgow, Scotland
Pop-Up Exhibition, JD Kelly Building, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2011 The Glasgow School of Art MFA Auction 2011, The Briggait, Glasgow, Scotland
Abject Systems, Studio Bibliothèque, Singapore
Singapore Survey 2011: Imagine Malaysia, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
Dream: Borderlands and Other Territories, NAC Goodman Arts Centre Gallery, Singapore
Art Stage Singapore with FOST Gallery, Singapore
2010 Utopia Highway, Esplanade Concourse, Singapore*
Stories That Move, Jendela (Visual Arts Space), The Esplanade, Singapore
Drawing Out Conversations: Taipei, Nan Hai Gallery, National Taipei University of Education, Taipei
The Artists Village: B.E.A.U.T.Y Show at ASTRONOMICAL FRONTIERS, BKS Garage, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 Eniminiminimos 2: Artists Who Make Small Things, Jendela (Visual Arts Space), The Esplanade, Singapore
From Green to Brown to Black to Brown to Green, 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 2009, Art Exchange Programme, FAAM, Japan
Drawing as Form, Sculpture Square, Singapore
Lost in the City, Singapore Art Show, National Museum, Singapore
TransportAsian, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Drawing Out Conversations (Hong Kong), Studio Bibliothèque, Hong Kong
Welcome to the Real World, Singapore Management University, Singapore
2008 Artists-Storm-The-Beach, Zoukout 2008, Sentosa, Singapore
1 x 1 x 1, FOST Gallery, Kim Yam Road, Singapore
Drawing Out Conversations, FOST Gallery, Singapore
The Artists Village: 20 Years On, OPEN, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
______*Solo Exhibition
3/5
______Year Exhibitions (cont’d)
2008 For Mr. & Mrs. Children, Post-Museum, Singapore
Extra Value Meal, Your MOTHER Gallery, Singapore
2007 1 x 1 x 1, FOST Gallery, Singapore
3rd CDL Singapore Sculpture Award Exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Long Kang, ticketart, City Link Mall, Singapore
2006 1 x 1 x1, FOST Gallery, Singapore
onSET, Public Art Space, Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore
WithDrawing, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Gallery 1 & 2, Singapore
Working the Plate, FOST Gallery, Singapore
Art Reach 2: Being Around, The Coffee Connoisseur, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
______Year Curatorial Projects
2016 “By Invitation Only”, The Peak [Singapore], January issue
2015 Martin, Mayo. “S’pore Art Awards: The painter, the toy pianist and the twins, TODAY [Singapore; online], 17 October
“S’pore Art Awards: The painter, the toy pianist and the twins, Malay Mail Online [Malaysia; online], 17 October
Lee, Rachelle and Leong, Wai Kit. “4 awarded Cultural Medallion”, Channel NewsAsia [Singapore; online], 16 October
Said, Nabilah. “Hour at The Museum”, The Straits Times [Singapore; online], 11 September
Wee, Darryl. ““Dear Painter” at Sundaram Tagore Gallery”, Blouin Artinfo [online], 31 August
Quek, Bruce. “Art review: TwentyFifteen.sg | Singapore Survey 2015”, TODAY [Singapore; online], 22 August
Shetty, Deepika. “Art for SG50”, The Straits Times [Singapore], 4 August 2015, pp. D4 – 5
2014 Potong Ice Cream $2, LATENT SPACES, Art Stage Singapore, Marina Bay Sands Expo Centre, Singapore
Looking at Things Closely, LATENT SPACES, Haw Par Villa, Singapore
Materialised Time, LATENT SPACES, Haw Par Villa, Singapore
Nameless Forms, LATENT SPACES, Haw Par Villa, Singapore
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4/5
______Year Curatorial Projects (cont’d)
2013 Perfectly Situated, New City Space, Glasgow, Scotland
An Eye For An I, New City Space, Glasgow, Scotland
Solid Solver, New City Space, Glasgow, Scotland
Perfectly At Home, New City Space, Glasgow, Scotland
2012 At the Leaky Margins, New City Space, Glasgow Scotland
Concept, Structure, Torture, Survival, Title, New City Space, Glasgow, Scotland
Tenuously Submerged: New Works by Rachel Yezbick, New City Space, Glasgow, Scotland
2011 Hive Mime: New Works by Peter Schoeffer, New City Space, Glasgow, Scotland
______Year Residencies
2013 Hospitalfield Graduate Residency Programme, Arbroath, Scotland
2009 Art Exchange Program, 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 2009, FAAM, Japan
2008 Artist-in-Residence, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
2007 – 2008 Resident Studio Artist, Post-Museum, Singapore
______Year Awards & Prizes
2015 Young Artist Award, National Arts Council, Singapore
2011 National Arts Council Scholarship (Overseas), Singapore
Arts Creation Fund (ACF), National Arts Council, Singapore
2007 3rd CDL Sculpture Award (Merit), Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2005 – 2007 Georgette Chen Arts Scholarship, National Arts Council, Singapore
______Year Selected Bibliography
2016 “By Invitation Only”, The Peak [Singapore], January Issue ______
5/5
______Year Selected Bibliography (cont’d)
2015 “S’pore Art Awards: The painter, the toy pianist and the twins”, Malay Mail Online [Malaysia], 17 October
“S’pore Art Awards: The painter, the toy pianist and the twins”, TODAY [online], 17 October
Lee, Rachelle and Leong, Wai Kit. “4 awarded Cultural Medallion”, Channel NewsAsia [Singapore], 16 October
Said, Nabilah. “Hour At The Museum”, The Straits Times [Singapore], 11 September
Wee, Darryl. “”Dear Painter” at Sundaram Tagore Gallery”, Blouin Artinfo [online], 31 August
Quek, Bruce. “Art review: TwentyFifteen.sg | Singapore Survey 2015”, TODAY [online], 22 August
Shetty, Deepika. “Art for SG50”, The Straits Times [Singapore], 4 August, pp. D4 – 5
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