EDUCATION
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
September 2024 – September 2025
Master of Fine Arts
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
August 2020 – May 2024
Bachelors of Law (Hons)
YALE-NUS COLLEGE
August 2019 – May 2024
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) (Arts and Humanities - Art Practice)
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
• 2025 – Open Studio: creatures of aqueous forest, Cycladic Arts, Greece, Paros
• 2024 – princ~puteri, NEIRO Association for the Expanding Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2024 – oyster whisper~whale song, NEIRO Association for the Expanding Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2024 – to carve an ocean, Sculpture 2052, Singapore
• 2023 – body~sea, Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
• 2022 – The Ocean and Her Islander, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
GROUP
• 2025 – Shoreline, Corner Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
• 2025 – Sights & Sites (of Resistance), Propositions, London, United Kingdom
• 2025 – home as memory, The Horse Hospital, London, United Kingdom
• 2025 – Housewarming, Safehouse, London, United Kingdom
• 2025 – Footfalls Echo, Safehouse, London, United Kingdom
• 2025 – Master of Fine Arts Showcase, The Hangar Gallery, London, United Kingdom
• 2025 – An Aide-Memoire: Trace of Camden, Hockney Gallery, London, United Kingdom
• 2025 – Magic Hour, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
• 2024 – Resonances, Hockney Gallery, London, United Kingdom
• 2023 – Digital Futures, The Holy Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Athens, Greece
• 2023 – Renaissance, Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
• 2022 – Residency Open Studios and Show, Art House Holland, The Netherlands
• 2022 – Singapore Art Week, Post-Museum, Singapore
• 2022 – AIR Summer Open Studios and Show, Berlin Art Institute, Germany
• 2021 – End of Semester Showcase, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
• 2019 – Singapore Biennale 2019 Echo Chambers, National Gallery, Singapore
CURATION
• 2022 – when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
RESIDENCIES
CYCLADIC ARTS (Paros, Greece) - Apr 2025 – May 2025
NEIRO ASSOCIATION FOR EXPANDING ARTS (Prague, Czechia) - Jun 2024 – Sep 2024
ART QUARTER BUDAPEST (Budapest, Hungary) - May 2023 – Jul 2023
PLATAFORMA DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO (ART HOUSE HOLLAND) (Leiden, The Netherlands) - Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
BERLIN ART INSTITUTE (Berlin, Germany) - May 2022 - Jun 2022
LECTURES
Royal College of Art (London, United Kingdom) - Jun 2025
Speculative Jurisprudence: Material Imaginaries of Law and Mythmaking
Wandsworth Council (London, United Kingdom) - Jun 2025
Zine Ecologies: Found Matter, Bio Matter, and Urban Myth-Making
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore) - Mar 2025
Tidal Mythopoesis: Narratives of the Sea
Yale-NUS College (Singapore) - Feb 2025
Careers in the Arts
HCSA Community Services (Singapore) Feb - Dec 2024
Legal Literacy Youth Course
University College London (London, United Kingdom) - Jul 2023
Art & Folklore: Contemporary Art Practice & the Restoration of Oral Histories
AWARDS AND GRANTS
SINDA Excellence Awards – 2024
Dean of Students Development Grant, Yale-NUS College – 2024
Rhodes Scholarship Finalist – 2024
Summer Academic Scholarship, Yale-NUS College – 2023
Summer Arts Scholarship, Georgette Chen Fund, Yale-NUS College – 2022
Summer Arts Scholarship, Chen Chong Swee Asian Arts Programme, Yale-NUS College– 2021


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