Biographies

Chua Chye Teck employs both photography and sculpture to execute his ideas. He draws inspiration from things in the environment that catch his eye, transforming them from their original state to take on a different context as works of art. Chye Teck’s philosophy is in re-presenting them, offering a fresh way of looking at something we may already know. He recently launched his book Beyond Wilderness, produced as a grant recipient of the National Arts Council’s Creation Fund, and participated in exhibitions Shanshui: Echoes and Signals (M+ Museum), Wikicliki : Collecting Habits on an Earth Filled with Smartphones (NGS) and They Do Not Understand Each Other (Tai Kwun Contemporary), with the Singapore Art Museum. Chye Teck has a BA in sculpture from RMIT and his works are collected or commissioned by public institutions and local museums. 


Marc Gloede is a curator, critic and film scholar. His work focuses on the relationship between images, technology, space, the body, and the dynamics between art, architecture and film. He was senior curator of Art Film, Art Basel's film programme (2008-14) and has curated exhibitions including “STILL/MOVING/STILL – The History of Slide Projection in the Arts” (Knokke/Belgium). More recently, Gloede curated exhibitions including To Draw A Line at NTU ADM Gallery and Suzanne Victor: Of Waters at STPI, Singapore. He has also curated film programmes, such as NTU CCA’s Resonating Structures to accompany the “Siah Armajani: Spaces for the Public Spaces for Democracy” exhibition (2019), and co-curated the A+ Online Festival of Video Art (Kuala Lumpur, 2020). He authored the book Farbige Lichträume/Colored Space of Light (2014), was co-editor of Synästhesie-Effekte (2011), and recently contributed to  The Impossibility of Mapping [Urban Asia] (2020). He is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the MA in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices at NTU ADM.


Hilmi Johandi  works primarily with painting and explores interventions with various media to pursue ideas of image-making. He revises images from film, archival footage and photographs into a fragmented montage that hints at the social effects of rapid development. Beyond the reflection of nostalgia in Hilmi’s work is a subtle portrayal of a society that encourages the viewer to reflect existing historical narratives, within the context of Singapore. Hilmi is an artist finalist in the President’s Young Talents 2018, recipient of the Young Artist Award 2018, NAC Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate) 2018, LASALLE Scholarship 2017 and the Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Award. Recent exhibitions include Singapore Deviation: Wander with Art Through the Rail Corridor (2023) commissioned by Singapore Art Museum; Guest Relations (2023) at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; EMOTIONAL ASIA: Miyatsu Daisuke Collection x Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (2022).


Wei Leng Tay  is an artist working across photography, video, and installation whose practice explores constructions of identity, memory, and history, particularly in relation to migration. Her works draw on long-term engagements with individuals, families, and communities, and include research into photographic archives, interviews, and collaborative processes. Central to her practice is a sustained inquiry into the medium of photography through its materiality, modes of circulation, and communicative possibilities. By working at the intersection of the intimate and the structural, Tay unpacks the complexities of belonging, displacement, and the politics of representation, bringing attention to what it means to be human within today’s shifting political and cultural contexts. A recipient of the WMA Prize, NAC's Art Creation Grant and a Yale Poynter Fellow, her works are in collections including those of Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Singapore Art Museum, and Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney.