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6th June, 2014

osage art foundation	
  Osage Art Foundation & City University of Hong Kong
co-present

MARKET FORCES
Exhibition | ERASURE: FROM CONCEPTUALISM TO ABSTRACTION
Curated by Charles Merewether
Symposium | ART AND VALUES
Moderated by David Elliott, with respondent Lewis Biggs
	
  
	
  

Detailed installation view of Erased Erasers by Nilo Ilarde. Image courtesy of the artist and OsageArt Foundation. Photographed by Kwan Sheung Chi.

	
  

Exhibition | ERASURE: FROM CONCEPTUALISM TO ABSTRACTION
Curated by Charles Merewether"The act of erasing—removing traces of existence or presence—entails both thedestruction and production of the visual: making invisible what has been previously
perceived and surfacing new images in the process... In Erased Erasers, Nilo Ilarde rubs
an ordinary eraser until the whole form disappears; the discrete and brightly coloredresidue produced is then cast using resin, into the eraser’s original form." (Liminal
Materiality, Lisa Ito, Philippine based Art Historian and Theorist, 2014.) Consisting of 15
erasers, Erased Eraser is also a reference to the 15 erasers Robert Rauschenberg used toerase de Kooning's drawing in 1953 to produce the legendary Erased de Kooning
Drawing. Philippine-based artist Nilo Ilarde explains, "I thought to push the material farther.
Using it to go somewhere else. To dematerialize. The eraser erased itself."'Erasure: From Conceptualism to Abstraction' highlights works of artists whose practices
are distinguished by intangible factors – either their concept or focus on re-looking at the
everyday, working between materiality and the abstraction or spirit - whether it iscognitive, or emotional - of material. Art critic Anthony Leung Po Shan elaborates, “Thecurator of the exhibition insightfully used ‘erasure’ as a theme to expose theinvisible/visible traces in the relationship between materiality and concept...”John Clark, Art Historian, expert on Asian art and Professor Emeritus at the University ofSydney, states, "It is a great pleasure and inspiration to see some much good and somegreat work together in one carefully considered and conceptually defined exhibition.
This is unusual these days where spectacular appeal drives museums of contemporaryart, and market fashion and self-proclaimed importance drives commercial gallery
exhibition. Market and cultural show values are not those of art, which the curator
Charles Merewether aptly notes, require the ‘slowing down of looking’...The work of Mee
Ai Om reminded the viewer that the heritage of Asian abstraction whether in the Koreanmonochrome direction or the linear skills inherited from the grand tradition of Chinese ink
painting still remained as a resource for contemporary art, rather than be trivially shunted
aside as passé. Ian Woo layered his light colours over-subtly discriminated and almost
cartouched grounds so that the painting surface danced. I have rarely seen these works
so well displayed in Singapore... Nipan Oranniwesna showed impeccable digital prints
overlaid with a dancing insertion so that the discrete rending of a cultural tissue overlaid
the going-nowhere highway in the midst of the Bangkok floods of 2011...Finally themasterwork of tolerance and a small gap for human love across the divisions of religion
or regional culture with FX Harsono’s Purification... Concept, execution, and humanempathy are all set before us to reveal a profound intervention in everyday life which isalso aesthetic in its pleasure."
As the third in the Market Forces Series, this year’s exhibition and took as a focus therelationship between the aesthetic and market values of art, posing questions such as:
how is ‘value’ created in today’s market? How does the market value of art affect theinterpretation of art? How does the art market impact the practices of artists, curators andcritics and the development of an art scene? What is and isn't inherent in material – inother words, what can and can’t be sold or bought?

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  Event Dates	  16 May 2014 to 30 June 2014	
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  Artists Featured	  Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Au Hoi Lam
Tang Kwok Hin

Tang Kwok Hin	
  Mainland China

Song Dong

Yu JI
Zhao Zhao

Japan

Japan

Kishio Suga

Masanori Handa

South Korea

The Philippines

Shinil Kim
Young Rim Lee
Mee Ai Om

Ringo Bunoan
Bernardo Pacquing

Mainland China

Singapore

Nilo IlardeMaria Taniguchi

Ng Joon Kiat
Milenko Prvački
Grace Tan

Singapore

ThailandJeremy Sharma
Ian WooNipan Oranniwesna

The Philippines

Indonesia

Tintin Wulia

Indonesia

FX Harsono	  For docent-guided visits, please contact Ms Grace Lam at gracelam@osagegallery.com
or (852) 2389 8332.
FOR ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES PLEASE REFER TO THE ANNEX.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS
Osage Art Foundation
The Osage Art Foundation was established in 2004 with three main goals - Creative
Communities, Cultural Cooperation and Creative Capacity and has since played an
active role in developing education and training of young people, broadening culturalawareness and participation in artistic endeavours, nurturing creativity and criticalthinking and fostering international cultural exchange. The Osage Art Foundation is now
widely recognised by the local community and internationally as having initiated many
pioneering projects of international calibre.
The current focus of the Osage Art Foundation is on developing deeper discourse in andaround the arts in the wider community. We believe that research, analysis, examinationand promulgation of issues pertaining to society, contemporary culture and value byartists, writers, critics, curators and commentators will build better understanding ofregional perspectives throughout Asia and beyond.
In order to better contextualize the work of the current generation of Asian
contemporary artists, the Osage Art Foundation has helped to introduce a number ofseminal contemporary Asian masters to the wider international art world. For example,
Roberto Chabet (1937 - 2013) made an unparalleled contribution to Philippine
contemporary art as an educator, mentor, visionary, conceptualist, innovator, alchemist,
poet and tireless promoter of younger talents, but until recently was not as well known
internationally.
In 2013, Osage Art Foundation presented It’s Me, Goodbye: Andy Warhol’s Cinema,
jointly presented by The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums ofPittsburgh. Osage also presented the second in its series of Market Forces exhibitions thatdraw attention to the non-commercial, intrinsic values of art: The Friction of Opposites,
which opened in Hong Kong in May 2013, coinciding with the commercial art fair Art
Basel Hong Kong. In May 2013, The Osage Art Foundation was honoured at the Hong
Kong Arts Development Awards with an Award for Arts Sponsorship. In 2014, The OsageArt Foundation will present two projects, Market Forces, co-presented with the City
University of Hong Kong from May to July and Sigma Square in August. In 2015, Osage Art
Foundation will present South by Southeast, continuing to present innovative and criticalworks.
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Installation view of Purification by FX Harsono. Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Art
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Blind Spot by Ian Woo (2013; acrylic on linen; 75 x 85 cm). Image courtesy of the artist
and Osage Art Foundation. Photographed by Kwan Sheung Chi.

Memorandum (To Forget Someone) by Au Hoi Lam (2014; pencil, colour pencil, acrylic,linen; 153 x 122 x 5 cm). Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Art Foundation.
Photographed by Kwan Sheung Chi.

From left to right: Infinite Ability, Equalization of Space and Passing Space by Kishio Suga.
Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Art Foundation. Photographed by Kwan Sheung
Chi.

ANNEX | Artist Biographies
Au Hoi Lam graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (MFA 2004 & MPhil in Philosophy2009). She works and lives in Hong Kong. Recent exhibitions include Au Hoi Lam: My Father is Over
the Ocean. Shanghai Postscript. (Osage Shanghai, 2014), Time Traveller, Au Hoi Lam and Sara Tse(Espace Louis Vuitton, Hong Kong, 2014), Painting On and On 5. Taciturn (HKICC Lee Shau Kee
School of Creativity Gallery, Hong Kong, 2013), Au Hoi Lam: My Father is Over the Ocean (Osage
Open, Hong Kong, 2013), Open 15: International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations (Lido,
Venice 2012), Definitions of Time: Paintings by Au Hoi Lam (Edge Gallery, Hong Kong, 2010), Lui
Chun Kwong. You Are Here, I am Not. (Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, 2010), Reversing Horizons:
Artist Reflections of the Hong Kong Handover 10th Anniversary (MOCA Shanghai, 2007), Artists in
the Neighbourhood Scheme III: When Words are Sweet…Paintings by Au Hoi-lam (Hong Kong
Central Library and Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2006) and the Hong Kong Art Biennial 2003 (Hong Kong
Museum of Art, 2003) etc. Her works are collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art and private
collectors.

Ringo Bunoan is an artist, curator and researcher based in Manila, Philippines. She received her BFA
in Art History from the University of the Philippines in 1997. Her work explores ready-mades, histories
and given situations. Emphasizing the physical and metaphorical dimensions of the material, she
responds to personal and collective everyday experiences in the context of larger social, culturaland historical issues.
She taught at the UP College of Fine Arts from 1997 – 1998. From 1999 – 2004, she led an
independent artist-run space, Big Sky Mind. From 2007 to 2013, she worked as the researcher for thePhilippines for Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong and initiated special research projects on artist-run
spaces and Filipino artist Roberto Chabet. In 2010, she co-founded King Kong Art Projects Unlimited
in Manila, and was of the lead curator of Chabet: 50 Years, a series of exhibitions in Singapore,
Hong Kong and Manila from 2011 – 2012.
In 2003, she received the Thirteen Artist Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and in2007 the Silverlens Foundation Completion Grant.

Masanori Handa (b. 1979 in Kanagawa, Japan), holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Tokyo University of
the Arts where he continues to work today. His works have been previously shown at the EchigoTsumari Art Triennale (2006) and the Art Tower Mito (2007). In 2009, Handa was selected to be apart of the prestigious Rolex Art Initiative Mentor and Protégé program where he was mentored by
Rebecca Horn, an accomplished German installation artist and film director. Subsequently, heparticipated in notable group exhibition, workshops and site-specific projects at the National
Museum of Art, Osaka (2011), the Hara Museum, Tokyo (2009) the Edoardo Chiossone Museum,
Genoa (2009) and the TATE Modern, London, (2009). His works are in public collections such as at
the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, the Edoardo Chiossone Museum, Genoa, theDaiwa Radiator Factory, Hiroshima and the Japan Foundation.

FX Harsono was born in 1949, and is a Jakarta-based artist and teacher who studied painting from1969-1991 at STSRI ‘ASRI’, Jogyakarta, Indonesia and the Jakarta Institute of the Arts (IKJ). Since
2005, he has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Art and Design in Pelita Harapan University,
Tangerang.
Harsono’s solo exhibition career started in 1994 with Suara (Voice) in the National Gallery ofIndonesia in Jakarta. Some of his recent solo exhibitions include Surviving Memories at the Vanessa
Art Link Beijing (2009), Writing In The Rain at Tyler Rollins Fine Art New York (2010) and “what wehave perceived as truth/ we shall someday encounter as beauty” at Jogja National Museum in
Jogyakarta (2013).

Harsono has been involved in group exhibitions since 1973, at first nationally in events such as
establishing the Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru (New Art Movement) with 10 young artists in Jakarta (1975)
and the Jakarta Biennial Contemporary Art at the Taman Ismail Marzuki (1994). His art reaches
across Asia and the Pacific early on in his career, quickly extending to Europe and the US, toinclude a variety of group exhibitions such as, Allegorical Bodies at A-Art Contemporary Space
Taipei (2008), Pleasures of Chaos, Inside New Indonesian Art at the Primo Marella Gallery in Milan(2010) and Concept Context Contestation, Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia at the Bangkok
Art and Cultural Center (2013).
Harsono’s work in is various collections around Asia and the Pacific region, these include the
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), National Gallery of Singapore, the Gallery of Modern Art inQueensland (Australia) and The National Gallery of Indonesia.

Nilo Ilarde (b. 1960, Philippines) has held over numerous one-man exhibitions since 1987. He started
out as an artist-curator in the early 1980s, after being commended in the 1980 Young Arts in Asia
Now exhibition at the Hong Kong Art Center and winning the Art Association of the Philippinescompetition (Painting category) a year later. His work is strongly influenced by both Conceptualand Minimalist art practice. Ilarde also served as the Exhibition Director of Pinaglabanan Galleries
from 1984-1985 and has curated numerous shows of Philippine art. He currently lives and works in
Makati City, Manila.

Shinil Kim is a Korean artist, born in 1971, graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture
from the Seoul National University in 1999 and acquired his Masters in Fine Arts at the School of
Visual Arts in New York, USA in 2001. A few of his solo exhibitions include Invisible Masterpiece at thePei Ling Chan Gallery in SCAD Georgia USA (2007), Into at the Riccardo Crespi Gallery in Milan Italy(2010) and Object, Seeing at Gallery Simon in Seoul Korea (2012). His involvement in groupexhibitions has been extensive and includes works at the Singapore Biennale in 2006, the fifth Seoul
International Media Art Biennale in 2008, the fordProject at Summer Affair in New York (2011) and in
the Korean Art from the Museum Collection: Grand Narrative Part II at the National Museum ofModern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Korea (2013). Shin il Kim has received numerous awards andgrants throughout his career, the Kim Se Joong Young Sculptor Award in 2012 being the latest. His
works are housed in several collections, some of which include the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern
Art in Korea, the Queens Museum of Art New York, the National Museum of Contemporary Art andthe Kim Chong Yung Museum in Korea.

Young Rim Lee is a mixed media artist born in 1969 in Seoul, Korea. Lee completed the courseworkof her Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology at Ewha Womans University in 2004 and went on to study
Furniture Design at Raffles Design Institute in Singapore, obtaining her BFA from LASALLE College of
the Arts in 2012. She has participated in group exhibitions in Singapore since 2009 and has exhibitedin Poetics of Materiality (Osage Hong Kong, 2014) Painting in Singapore & A Star In The Overcast(Equator Art Projects, Gilman Barracks, Singapore, 2013), Make Space Initiative – Finding Humour(Merely Ice Cream, Singapore, 2013), LASALLE Show (Praxis Space, Institute of Contemporary Arts
Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts, 2012) and Raw Art Competition Finalist Show (The Gallery,
Singapore, 2011).

Ng Joon Kiat Graduated from Singapore’s LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Ng Joon Kiat
completed his master degree of Fine Arts at the University of Kent in England. Ng lives and works in
Singapore where he is heavily involved in the art community. In 2012 he was selected as one oftwenty-five Asian artists to exhibit work with Britain’s Royal Academicians at the Institute ofContemporary Art, LASALLE. He currently also serves on a panel at the National Arts Council ofSingapore.
The artist exhibits his work on international platforms as well as within Singapore. His work has beenshown abroad in galleries such as Osage Gallery in Hong Kong and the Cultural Centre of thePhilippines. His solo exhibitions include those at the National Museum of Singapore in 2007 and at
the Esplanade in 2010. Collectors of his art include The National Art Gallery of Singapore andprivate collectors from across Europe and Asia. He was awarded the SIA Excellence in the Arts
award, Singapore’s National Arts Council scholarship, Singapore’s Georgette Chen Scholarshipand the Ericsson Scholarship for art.

Mee Ai Om was born in Korea and now lives and works between Hong Kong and Singapore. Om
obtained a Master of Fine Art from The Open University in UK after graduating with a Bachelor ofFine Art from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University and a Diploma in Fine Art
from LASALLE College of the Arts.
Since then she has participated in several group and solo exhibitions and been awarded several
recognitions. Om has won the prestigious UOB Painting of the Year Competition three times in the
Abstract category and received Platinum Award in 2009. Om was one of the 30 finalists of theSovereign Asian Art Prize in 2007 and 2008.
Her artworks are held in important collections such as the Singapore Art Museum, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs Singapore, Ministry of Manpower Singapore, United Overseas Bank, Philip Morris Singapore,
European Financial Group, INSEAD Business School and Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Singapore andJakarta, Indonesia.
Nipan Oranniwesna (b. 1962, Bangkok, Thailand) has been widely exhibited around the world inexhibitions such as Paper Matter (2010, BACC, Bangkok), NIPAN ORANNIWESNA (2009, Osage
Singapore, Singapore), Reminiscence of Earth (1996, Yokohama Museum of Art, Art Gallery,
Yokohama, Japan), the 52nd Venice Biennale, Thai Pavilion (2007, Venice, Italy), Show me Thai
(2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan), 35 x 30 cm, (1995, Gallery Kinter, Germany),
and The 11th Norweigian International Print Triennale (1995, Fredrikstad, Norway). The artist currently
lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand.
	
  Bernardo Pacquing studied Fine Arts in the University of the Philippines from 1984 to 1989. He won
the grand prize in the Non-representational Painting category of Art Association of the Philippines
Open Art Competition in both 1992 and 1999. In 2000, he received ‘Thirteen Artists Award’ from the
Cultural Center for the Philippines and the Freeman Fellowship Grant from the Vermont Studio
Center.

Milenko Prvački, born in 1951 in Yugoslavia, acquired a Master of Fine Arts (Painting) from theInstitute of Fine Arts in Bucharest, Romania. From 1994 to 2011 he was the Dean of the Faculty ofFine Arts at LASALLE College of Arts Singapore and has since become a Senior Fellow at the Officeof the President at the college.
Some of his solo exhibitions include, Methods & Materials at the Plastique Kinetic Worms Art Space
Singapore (2002), Construction Site at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (2006) and works
at the Bergamont Station Art Center in Santa Monica California, USA (2014).
Prvacki has also been involved in various group exhibitions such as the Youth Biennale at theModern Gallery in Rijeka, Zagreb Croatia (1983), and ASEAN Art Today at Earl Lu Gallery in
Singapore (2002). Some of his recent group exhibitions include, Loveletter to a Surrogate at theTorrance Art Museum Los Angeles (2010), Decode/Recode at Media City in the University of Salford
Manchester (2012) and We do, we do Art at One East Asia, Singapore (2014).
Prvacki has participated in numerous symposiums around the world, the latest being an Art
Residency at the 18th Street Art Center in Santa Monica, California USA, in 2013. He is also arespected curator and has received copious awards throughout his career.

Permanent collections of Prvacki’s art can be found at the National Museum in Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, the Museum of Contemporary Drawing in Nurnberg, Germany and at the Singapore
Art Museum, to name just a few.

Jeremy Sharma (b. 1977, Singapore) obtained his Master of Art (Fine Art) at the LASALLE-SIA
College of the Arts / Open University, United Kingdom in 2006, and his Bachelor of Art (Fine Art) withHigh Distinction from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia in 2003. Over the
past nine years, he has had a number of solo exhibitions in Singapore, that includes Apropos (2012)at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Variations (2011) at Art Forum, The Protection
Paintings – Of Sensations and Superscriptions (2008) at Jendela, Esplanade and End of A Decade(2007) at The Substation Gallery. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Singapore,
Malaysia, Bangladesh, Italy, England and the United States.
Sharma has had overseas residency programmes, and received several awards, including Royal
Overseas Travel Scholarship Award (2007) Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry ofSingapore (JCCI) Foundation Arts award with the art collective Kill Your television (KYTV) (2005),
Studio 106 residency award (2004 Singapore), Finalist in the Philip Morris Singapore Arts Awards(2003), The Lee Foundation Study Grant (2002) and the Della Butcher Award (1999). His work has
been the subject of critical discussion in catalogues of exhibitions in which he has participated andhas been widely reviewed by the local press. His work is part of a number of public and private
collections, notably the Singapore Art Museum, National Library Board Singapore, Ngee Ann Kongsi
Singapore and Societe Generale. His work has been collected by the Singapore Art Museum, theNational Library Board Singapore, Ngee Ann Kongsi Singapore, Société Générale, and The Westin
Singapore. He currently teaches in the Faculty of Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts.

Song Dong (b. 1966, Beijing) graduated from the fine arts department of Capital Normal University
in Beijing in 1989. Song was the focus of many solo and group exhibitions around the world. He
presented his solo shows at MoMA, New York, and was included in various prestigious internationalshows, such as The 5th Moscow Biennale in 2013, dOCUMENTA 13 in 2012, The 54th Venice Biennale
in 2011, The 6th Liverpool Biennial in 2010, Gwangju Biennale in 2006 , 2002 and 1995, The 26th Sao
Paolo Biennale in 2004, The 8th Instanbul Biennale in 2003, The 4th Asia-Pacific Triennial ofContemporary Art in 2002, the first Guangzhou Triennial in 2002 and the 2002 Taipei Biennale. His
most representative works include Water Diary (1995- ), Breathing (1996), Stamping the Water(1996), Touching My Father (1997), Broken Mirror (1999), Crumpling Shanghai (2000), Eating the City
(2003- ), Waste not (2005) and Intelligence of the Poor (2005-2013 ). He curated various
experimental events such as Wildlife Starting from 1997 Jing Zhe (1997) and Next Wave News (2001).
Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen together created a new way of collaboration: THE WAY OF
CHOPSTICKS in 2001. He is also the co-founder of an artist collective “Polit-Sheer-Form Office”,
which was initiated by Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Liu Jianhua, Song Dong, and Leng Lin in 2005. Hecurrently lives and works in Beijing.
Kishio Suga (b. 1944, Morioka, Japan) graduated in painting from Tama Art University in 1968. In acareer spanning more than 40 years, he has participated in many historical and international
exhibitions, including Kishio Suga – Stance (1999, Yokohama Museum of Art), Kishio Suga (1997,
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and other venues) the 38th Venice Biennale(Japanese commissioner, Yusuke Nakahara); Japon des avant-gardes – 1910-1970s (1986, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris) and Scream Against the Sky: Postwar Japanese Art (1994, YokohamaMuseum of Art and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York). Suga’s work is included in
major public collections including the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and the Tate Modern.

Grace Tan is formally trained in fashion design and began her practice in 2003 under the kwodrent
series to explore the design and production of clothing based on the study of rectangle, material,and construction method. The progressive series is defined and shaped by an intuitive andmethodological working process where each individually handcrafted piece is numbered anddated to form a chronological record of the series' development. Tan’s wearable works eventually
evolved organically into sculptural objects, digital compositions and more recently, large-scalespatial installations. Despite the array of media, the works are intrinsically connected and resonate
with Tan’s fundamental methodology and approach.
Tan has exhibited at the Singapore Biennale 2013, Fukutake House / Setouchi Triennale 2013 [incollaboration with The Substation], Aichi World Expo 2005, Venice Architecture Biennale 2008,
London Design Week 2006 and State of Design Melbourne from 2008 to 2010. Her works have beencollected and commissioned by art institutions, corporate organisations and private collectors. Tan
was awarded the distinguished President's Design Award (conferred by the President of the
Republic of Singapore) for her Building as a Body in 2012 and the Young Artist Award 2013 by the
National Arts Council, Singapore.

Tang Kwok Hin, mixed media artist, independent curator and writer, was born in 1983 and raised in
Hong Kong. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008
and Bachelor of Arts (major in Fine Arts) in 2006. His art focuses on occasion, space, time and waysof encountering symbols to explore hidden rules in every day societal contexts and our daily
routines, often depicted through techniques such as collage. He has previously participated in the
15th WRO Media Art Biennale, Hong Kong Contemporary Biennial Award 2009, 1st Hong Kong Art
Basel (Discoveries sector) with a solo presentation. He has also exhibited in the Ice Palace, Miami,
U.S.A.; Esplanade, Singapore; Singapore Art Museum; Venice Arsenale, Italy; Vargas Museum,
Manila, Philippines; Hong Kong Museum of Art; Kuandu Museum, Taipei, etc. He was awarded thefirst prize at Hong Kong Biennale 2009, selected by the Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2010 and 2011,
awarded Special Award Personal Exhibition by the 5th International Arte Laguna Prize, awarded
Young Artist Award 2010 by the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards and is a 2013 Asian Cultural
Council grantee. Collectors of his art include Hong Kong Museum of Art, Deutsche Bank, Amelia
Johnson Contemporary and private collections over the United States, United Kingdom, Australia,
Singapore and Hong Kong.

Maria Taniguchi (b. 1981, the Philippines) was born and raised in Dumaguete City. After a BFA in
Sculpture at the University of the Philippines, she completed an MFA in Art Practice at Goldsmiths in
London in 2009. In the same year she joined the LUX Associates Artists Program, a post-academic
program based in London for artists working with the moving image.
She currently lives and works in Manila, where she received the Ateneo Art Award for her solo
exhibition Echo Studies (2011) at the Jorge Vargas Museum, where she showed the first of several
large-scale ‘brick’ paintings, a video installation, drawings, and photographic work. The following
year, she again received the Ateneo Art Award for the video Untitled (Celestial Motors) (2012)
shown at Silverlens Manila.
Taniguchi was recently selected for Art Statements (2013), a section of solo presentations by
emerging artists at Art Basel 44. Selected recent projects include HIWAR: Conversations in Amman(2013), a residency and exhibition program curated by Adriano Pedrosa at the Khalid Shoman
Foundation in Amman; and Without a Murmur (2012), a group exhibition curated by Joselina Cruzat the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) in Manila; and The Philippine
Contemporary: To Scale the Past and the Possible, an exhibition curated by Patrick D. Flores at theMetropolitan Museum of Manila.
Forthcoming group exhibitions include Material Memory, Fluxia Gallery Milan, and Don’t You Know
Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics, Museum of Contemporary Art (MHKA), Antwerp. She will also
be in residency at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute in 2015.

Ian Woo was born in Singapore in 1967, and began his studies at the Nanyang Academy of Fine
Arts (Singapore) in 1991. Between 1995 and 2006, he received a Masters in European Fine Art at theWinchester School of Art (UK) and a research practice DFA with RMIT University (Australia).
Woo’s works are characterised by an interest in painting’s inherent ability to suggest modes ofrepresentation. Painting and drawing as a reflexive language, ideas pertaining to the incidental
and that of spatial change are pivotal influences to his practice.
Recent solo exhibitions include How I Forgot to be Happy at Tomio Koyama Gallery Singapore(2013) and Ian Woo: A Review 1995 – 2011 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (2011).
Recent group shows include Panorama: Recent Art From Contemporary Asia at the Singapore Art
Museum (2012), Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
Singapore (2012), and Sovereign Asian Art Prize Exhibition at The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Hong
Kong (2010).
His works are in the collection of major institutions such as ABN AMRO, Singapore Art Museum, The
Istana Singapore, The National Art Gallery Singapore, UBS, and the Mint Museum of Craft & Design,
USA.
Woo’s paintings were recently featured in the publication Art of the New Cities: 21st Century AvantGardes, a publication by Phaidon 2013.
Tintin Wulia was born in 1972, and is an Indonesian artist, initially trained in Film Scoring with a
Bachelor of Music from the Berklee College of Music USA (1995-97), she then obtained a Bachelor
of Engineering in Architecture degree from the Universitas Katolik Parahyangan Indonesia (1991-98).
She also holds a PhD in Fine Art from the RMIT University, Australia (2007-2012). She now lives andworks in Melbourne, Australia.
A selection of Wulia’s solo exhibitions are Invasion at the Motive Gallery in the Netherlands (2008),
Deconstruction of a Wall at the Ark Galerie Indonesia (2010) and Subjektive Projektionen: Tintin
Wulia at the Bielefelder Kunstverein in Germany (2011). Her work has been exhibited internationallyin events such as the 9th Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea (2004), the Istabul Biennale(2005), the Jakarta Biennale XIII: Arena (2008), the 4th Moscow Biennale: Rewriting Worlds in Russia(2011), the Gwangju Biennale (2012), the Sharjah Biennale Re:emerge (2013) and the Jogja
Biennale (2013).
Wulia’s work is a part of private and public collections including the Van Abbemuseum, Singapore
Art Museum, Gallery of Modern Art Queensland and Hexiangning Art Museum. In the past 8 years,
she has also received various residencies and commissions internationally.

Yu Ji was born in Shanghai and graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Fine Arts Collegeof Shanghai University in 2011 with a MFA degree. She now lives and works in Shanghai. Her works
consist mainly of sculptures and installations ,and also include performance and videos. Paying
particular attention to nature and the movement reflection of the human body, her works
endeavor to explore the relationship between time and nature, looking at the vital yet mysterious
connection between body, spirit and the world. To Yu Ji, work and acts of creation are important
everyday life practices. Being an artist is more of a spiritual journey of transforming things into life
experience rather than a mere career title. Apart from her role as an artist, in 2008 Yu Ji cofounded “AM Art Space”, one of the few active non-profit experimental art spaces in Shanghai.

Zhao Zhao (b. 1982, Xinjiang, China) obtained a BFA from the Department of Oil Painting, Xinjiang
Institute of Arts. He works with a number of media, including painting, sculpture, installation andperformance. He has been internationally exhibited in solo exhibitions including "Constellations"(Art Basel, Hong Kong, 2013), "Constellations" (Chambers Fine Art, New York, 2013), "According toZhao Zhao" (Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, 2011), "Naked Walking" (Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin,

Germany, 2011) and "Da Quan Gou" (China Arts Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China, 2008).
He has also participated in group exhibitions such as The Armory Show 2014, "China: Focus" (2014,
New York), "ON/OFF" (UCCA, Beijing, China, 2013), "CAFAM – Future Exhibition" (CAFA, Beijing,
China, 2012), "1+1: A Cross-strait-four regions Artistic Exchange Project" (He Xiangning Museum,
Shenzhen, China; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, 2011)and "Interposition 366" (Zendai MOMA, Shanghai, China, 2008). Zhao Zhao currently lives and works
in Beijing.
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