Artist CHUN Kai Qun 曾凯 群 Born 1982

Country 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 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, , 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, , Singapore

Lost in the City, Singapore Art Show, National Museum, Singapore

TransportAsian, , 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 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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