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List of artists

The links under the biographies directly lead
to the works shown in the Singapore Biennale.

A

Bani Abidi

* 1971 Karachi, Pakistan; lives there.
Tanglin Camp, Tanglin Camp - 2

Ebtisam AbdulAziz

* 1975 Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Lives in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Sultan Mosque

Aida Makoto

* 1965 Niigata, Japan. Lives in Tokyo, Japan.
National Museum, Tanglin Camp, Tanglin Camp - 2

Vyacheslav Akhunov

* 1948 Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Lives in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Tanglin Camp

Jane Alexander

* 1959 Johannesburg, South Africa. Lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
City Hall

Brooke Alfaro

* 1949 Panama City, Panama; lives there.
Tanglin Camp

Jonathan Allen

* 1966 Surrey, UK. Lives in London, UK. In his performances he acts as his alter-ego Tommy Angel.
City Hall, National Museum

Eugenio Ampudia

* 1968 Melgar, Valladolid, Spain. Lives in Madrid, Spain.
National Library, National Library - 2

Nuha Asad

* 1983 Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; lives there.
City Hall

B

Agathe de Bailliencourt

* 1974 Paris, France. Lives in Singapore.
Tanglin Camp

Alwar Balasubramaniam

* 1971 Bangalore, India; lives there.
Ss. Peter & Paul, Tanglin Camp

Shigeru Ban

* 1957 Tokyo, Japan. Lives there and in Paris, France.
SMU

Yason Banal

* 1972 Philippines. Lives in Quezon City, Philippines, and in London, UK.
City Hall

Bigert & Bergström

Lars Bergström: * 1962 Sweden; lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
Mats Bigert: * 1965 Sweden; lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
National Museum

Johanna Billing

* 1973 Jönköping, Sweden. Lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
Tanglin Camp

Scott Bowe

* 1976 Massillon, Ohio, USA. Lives in New York, USA.

Luchezar Boyadjiev

* 1957 Sofia, Bulgaria; lives there.
various sites

Philip Brophy

* 1959 Melbourne, Australia; lives there.
Tanglin Camp

C

Muhanned Cader

* 1966 Colombo, Sri Lanka; lives there.
City Hall

Sheba Chhachhi

* 1958 Harare, Ethiopia. Lives in New Delhi, India.
City Hall

George Chua, Alwyn Lim,
Yuen Chee Wai

George Chua: * 1973 Singapore; lives there.
Alwyn Lim: * 1975 Singapore. Lives in New York, USA.
Yuen Chee Wai: * 1975 Singapore; lives there.
Tanglin Camp

Com & Com

Johannes M. Hedinger: * 1971 Switzerland; lives in Zurich and in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Marcus Gossolt: * 1969 Switzerland; lives in Zurich and in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Tanglin Camp

Santiago Cucullu

* 1969 Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lives in Milwaukee, USA.
City Hall, Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho

D

Muratbek Djumaliev, Gulnara Kasmalieva

M. Djumaliev: * 1965 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; lives there.
G. Kasmalieva: * 1960 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; lives there.
Tanglin Camp

Drik Picture Library Ltd

Founded in 1989 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
City Hall, SMU, SMU - 2

G

Simryn Gill

* 1959 Singapore. Lives in Sydney, Australia, and Port Dickson, Malaysia.
Tanjong Pagar Railway Station

Hossein Golba

* 1956 Iran. Lives in Tokyo, Japan, and Italy.
City Hall

H

Khaled Hafez

* 1963 Cairo, Egypt; lives there.
Tanglin Camp

Usman Haque

* 1971 Ohio, USA. Lives in London, UK.
Padang

Takafumi Hara

* 1968 Tokyo, Japan; lives there and in Berlin, Germany.
City Hall, Blk 79, Indus Rd

N.S. Harsha

* 1969 Mysore, Karnataka, India; lives there.
Sri Krishnan Temple

Amanda Heng

* 1951 Singapore; lives there.
City Hall

Federico Herrero

* 1978 San José, Costa Rica; lives there.
Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho, Tanglin Camp

Ho Tzu Nyen

* 1976 Singapore; lives there.
City Hall

Jenny Holzer

* 1950 Gallipolis, Ohio, USA. Lives in Hoosick Falls, New York, USA.

Hu Fang, Zhang Wei
(curators)

Hu Fang: * 1970 Zhejiang Province, China. Lives in Guangzhou, China.
Zhang Wei: * 1973 Jilin Province, China. Lives in China.
Orchard Rd

I

IEPE

* 1974 Rotterdam, Netherlands. Lives in Berlin, Germany.
Singapore Miracle

J

Uchechukwu James-Iroha

* 1972 Nigeria. Lives in Lagos, Nigeria.
Tanglin Camp

Jeon Joonho

* 1969 Busan, South Korea; lives there.
City Hall, City Hall - 2

Jin Shan

* 1977 Jiangsu, China. Lives in Shanghai, China.
Orchard Rd

Charles Juhász-Alvarado

* 1965 Clark (US military base), Philippines. Lives in Puerto Rico.
Tanglin Camp

K

Eduardo Kac

* 1962 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lives in Chicago, USA.
Tanglin Camp

Otto Karvonen

* 1975 Helsinki, Finland; lives there.
Tanglin Camp, Tanglin Camp - 2

Mohammed Kazem

* 1969 Dubai, United Arab Emirates; lives there.
Tanglin Camp

Amal Kenawy

* 1974 Cairo, Egypt; lives there.
Tanglin Camp

Shin Il Kim

* 1971 South Korea. Lives in New York, USA.
St Joseph's Church, Tanglin Camp

Barbara Kruger

* 1945 Newark, New Jersey, USA. Lives in New York and Los Angeles, USA.

Kuo I-Chen

* 1979 Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Lives in Taipei, Taiwan.
City Hall

Vladimir Kuprianov

* 1954 Moscow, Russia; lives there.
City Hall

Takashi Kuribayashi

* 1968 Nagasaki, Japan. Lives in Japan.
Orchard Rd, Tanglin Camp

Yayoi Kusama

* 1929 Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan. Lives in Tokyo, Japan.
Sri Krishnan Temple, Orchard Rd

L

Learning Site

Formed in 2004. Cecilia Wendt, Sweden, and Rikke Luther, Denmark (co-founders of the artist group N55); Julio Castro, Mexico, (co-founder of the artist group Tercerunquinto)
Blk 79, Indus Rd

José Legaspi

* 1959 Manila, Philippines. Lives in Camarines Norte, Philippines.
National Museum

Lim Tzay Chuen

* 1972 Singapore; lives there.
City Hall

Liu Jianhua

* 1962 Ji'an, Jiangxi Province, China. Lives in Shanghai, China.
Sculpture Square

Cristina Lucas

* 1973 Jaén, Spain. Lives in Madrid, Spain, and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Ss. Peter & Paul, Tanglin Camp

M

Jennifer Wen Ma

* 1973 Beijing, China. Lives in New York, USA.
Maghain Aboth Synagoge, St Joseph's Church, Sultan Mosque

Daniel Malone

* 1970 New Zealand. Lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
City Hall

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

* 1961 Madrid, Spain. Lives in Chicago, USA.
National Museum

Hiroyuki Matsukage

* 1965 Fukuoka, Japan. Lives in Japan.
Tanglin Camp, Tanglin Camp - 2

Mogas Station

Formed in 2005 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Hoang Duong Cam: * 1974 Hanoi, Vietnam
Gulschan Gothel: * 1974 Postdam, Germany
Sandrine Llouquet: * 1975 Montpellier, France
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba: * 1968 Tokyo, Japan
Bertrand Peret: * 1971 Talence. France
Rich Streitmatter-Tran: * 1972 Bien Hoa, Vietnam
Tam Vo Phi: * 1972 Saigon, Vietnam
National Museum, Tanglin Camp, Tanglin Camp - 2

Julio César Morales

* 1966 Tijuana, Mexico. Lives in San Francisco, USA.
City Hall

Mariko Mori

* 1967 Tokyo, Japan. Lives there and in New York, USA.
National Museum

N

Carsten Nicolai

* 1965 Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz), Germany. Lives in Berlin and Chemnitz, Germany.
National Museum

O

Tomás Ochoa

* 1965 Cuenca, Ecuador. Lives in Switzerland and Argentina.
City Hall

Donna Ong

* 1978 Singapore; lives there.
City Hall, City Hall - 2, City Hall - 3, City Hall - 4

P

Pratchaya Phinthong

* 1974 Bangkok,Thailand; lives there.
Tanglin Camp

Jaume Plensa

* 1955 Barcelona, Spain. Lives there and in Paris, France.

Wilfredo Prieto

* 1978 Sancti Spíritus, Cuba. Lives in Havana, Cuba.
National Library

Ana Prvacki

* 1976 Serbia. Lives in Singapore and New York, USA.
Tanglin Camp

Chatchai Puipia

* 1964 Thailand. Lives in Bangkok, Thailand.
National Museum

Rizman Putra

* 1978 Singapore; lives there. In his performances he acts as his alter-ego Manic Jango.
City Hall

Q

Imran Qureshi

* 1972 Hyderabad, Pakistan. Lives in Lahore, Pakistan.
City Hall, Sultan Mosque, Sultan Mosque - 2

R

R&Sie(n) + D + L

Collaboration since 1999. François Roche, Stephanie Lavaux, Jean Navarro, Benoit Durandin - all France.
Tanglin Camp

Younès Rahmoun

* 1975 Tétouan, Morocco; lives there.
Tanglin Camp

Rashid Rana

* 1968 Lahore, Pakistan; lives there.
City Hall

Thiago Rocha Pitta

* 1980 Tiradentes, Brazil. Lives in Brazil.
Tanglin Camp

Gustavo Romano

* 1958 Buenos Aires, Argentina; lives there.
City Hall, City Hall - 2

S

Roy Samaha

* 1978 Beirut, Lebanon; lives there.
Tanglin Camp

Handiwirman Saputra

* 1975 Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Lives in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
City Hall

Hiroshi Sugimoto

* 1948 Tokyo, Japan. Lives there and in New York, USA.
National Museum, Ss. Peter & Paul, Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho

Ashok Sukumaran

* 1974 Japan. Lives in Bombay, India.
Armenian Church, Tanglin Camp

Nakhee Sung

* 1971 Seoul, South Korea; lives there.
Tanglin Camp, Blk 79, Indus Rd

Agus Suwage, Titarubi

Agus Suwage: * 1959 Purworejo, Central Java, Indonesia. Lives in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Titarubi: * 1968 Bandung, Indonesia. Lives in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Tanglin Camp

T

Erika Tan

* 1967 Singapore. Lives in London, UK.
City Hall, Tanglin Camp

Brian Gothong Tan

* 1980 Singapore; lives there.
Tanglin Camp

Tang Maohong

* 1975 Guangxi, China. Lives in Shanghai, China.
Tanglin Camp

Ana Maria Tavares

* 1958 Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Lives in São Paulo, Brazil.
Orchard Rd

Tsai Charwei

* 1980 Taipei, Taiwan. Lives there and in New York, USA.
Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho, Tanglin Camp

W

Mark Wallinger

* 1959 Chigwell, UK. Lives in London, UK.
National Museum, National Museum - 2

Jason Wee

* 1978 Singapore. Lives in New York, USA.
City Hall

Jagath Weerasinghe

* 1954 Sri Lanka. Lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
City Hall

X

Xu Bing

* 1955 Chongqing, China. Lives in New York, USA.
National Museum, Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho

Y

Yee I-Lann

* 1971 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
City Hall

YKON

Formed in 2003. Tellervo Kalleinen (* Finland), Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen (* Germany), Petri Saarikko (* Finland), Sasha Huber (* Switzerland), Tomas Ivan Träskam (* Finland); live in Finland.
City Hall

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