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Lee Weng Choy is president of the Singapore Section of the International Association of Art Critics. He was Artistic Co-Director of The Substation from 2000 to 2009. Lee has taught at such institutions as the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as done project work with various organisations, including Ilham Gallery, A+ Works of Art (both in Kuala Lumpur), the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and National Gallery Singapore. In recent years, he has focused on the writing workshop, which he’s facilitated in Brisbane, Hong Kong, Kampot, Kuala Lumpur, London, Manila, Saigon and Singapore. He is slowly working on a collection of his essays on artists, titled, The Address of Art and the Scale of Other Places.


















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Singapore Art Museum

Singapore Biennale 2019: Interview with artistic director and curators

Contemporary visual art exhibition the Singapore Biennale 2019 will return on 22 November with Every Step In The Right Direction, featuring artworks by over 70 artists from Singapore, Southeast Asia and beyond. In the lead-up to the opening of the sixth edition, Lee Weng Choy speaks with artistic director Patrick Flores, and curators Andrea Fam, […]

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June Yap

An Interview with Dr June Yap: President’s Young Talents 2018

The seventh edition of the President’s Young Talents exhibition (PYT) opened 4 October 2018 at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM). Since its first presentation in 2001, the platform has presented 38 artists, including this year’s Chen Yanyun, Chong Weixin, Debbie Ding, Hilmi Johandi and Zarina Muhammad. David Chan, Grace Tan, Zaki Razak, Roger Nelson, Jason

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Art that Moves: Time and Tuition

This essay is the first in a new series where artists and writers reflect on artworks that were personally important to them. Syria, climate change, Brexit, Trump, the loss of beloved public figures from Prince to Muhammad Ali — my friends and I couldn’t wait for 2016 to end. But the sense of renewal that

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