Artist Biography
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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 2/5 __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ © April 2016 Chun Kai Qun and FOST Private Limited. 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