Artists
Gilles Tran
Nguyen Huu Khoa
Tran Dan
Le Huy
Le Vo Tuan
Le Duc Hai - Le Ngoc Thanh
Sue Pedley
Gail joy Kenning
Nguyen Nhu Huy
Dinh Cong Dat
Luong Luu Bien
Tran Huu Nhat
Tran Trung Linh
Bui Bao Quoc
Truong Thien
Ngo Thai Uyen
Nguyen Thanh Truc
Rodney Dickson
Colin McGookin
Bonita Ely
Bui Cong Khanh
Glen Clarke
Le A
Ben Puah
Tiffany Chung
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| | | Name: Benjamin Puah
Born: 1979
Education:
- Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) with Distinction Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
- Diploma in Visual Arts (Sculpture)LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts Solo Exhibition: | | | | 2003: | Rats in a lab project
Rats in a lab: Back to my den, solo exhibition, The Art Gallery, NIE, Singapore
Rats in a lab: A spectacular child play, robots installation, various sites, Singapore
Rats in a lab: Battle of Benji Genki and the Plastic Beastie, Zouk, Singapore
Rats in a lab: Underground Symphony, 19 tay lian teck drive, Singapore
Rats in a lab: Mobile Rat Tour/ Phase 2, Millenia Walk, Singapore
Rats in a lab: Play with my Rat, ZOCARD, Singapore | | 2002: | - Mobile Rat Tour (M.R.T), one day solo exhibition by Benjamin Puah, various sites, Singapore
- Mental Images, an exhibition of works on paper by Benjamin Puah, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane, Australia
- “Flying Colours”, solo painting exhibition by Benjamin Puah, Mai’s gallery,Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- “The Sound in my Brain”, solo painting exhibition by Benjamin Puah, Hanoi Contemporary Art Centre, Vietnam
- 24 Hours, a solo show(private session) by Benjamin Puah, HDB flat,Singapore | | 2001: | - Flying Birdies around my Brain: Drawings by Benjamin Puah, The Honey Factory, San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Green Donkey, drawing installation, SPACE CONTEMPORARY ART,Bangkok, Thailand | | Exhibition: | | 2003: | - Remembering, Ministry of Information and the Arts, MITA Building, Singapore
- BOXED ii, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
- FUSION STRENGTH, group performance and installation, Benda Art Space, Langgeng Gallery, Puri Art Space, Indonesia
- Resolutions: a fresh start with art, Sculpture Square, Singapore | | | | | 2002: | - B.E.A.U.T.Y, Utterly Art, Singapore
- The Affordable Art Fair, New York City, USA
- ARTSingapore, The Contemporary Asian Art Fair, Suntec Singapore
- Singapore Contemporary Artists Exhibition, Hanoi Contemporary Art Centre, Vietnam
- Blind Spot (3rd Anniversary Exhibition), Sculpture Square, Singapore
- WILD@HEART, A Free Community Arts Event organised by WILD RICE and South West CDC, Singapore
- Chow Kit Fest 2002, art event at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- The show: auction, PKW fund-raising event, Plastique Kinetic Worms,Singapore | | 2001: | - Nokia Singapore Art 2001, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
- REFLECTIONS, group exhibition, The German School, Singapore
- The Hanoi International Painting Workshop/Exhibition 2001, Hanoi Contemporary Arts Centre, Vietnam Fine Arts Association, Vietnam
- A Day in the life of Singapore, LIEN photographic competition exhibition,Substation, Singapore
- B.E.A.N., group exhibition, Atelier FRANK & LEE, Singapore
- Art and The Public Space, for the Singapore Arts Festival organised by Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
- President’s Young Talents Exhibition 2001, Singapore Art Museum,Singapore
- FUSION STRENGTH, group performance and installation, curated by Juliana Yasin, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
- Plastic Works, PKW’s 3rd Annual Show, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
- Bye Bye Albert, group show/happenings, presented by The Artists Village,curated by Jennifer Teo, Hock Hiap Leong (coffeeshop),31 Armenian Street,Singapore | | 2000: | - Visual Arts/Video Art Exhibition, The Flying Circus Project:00 by
Theatreworks (Singapore) Ltd, collaboration with Japanese artist
Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Robertson Quay, Singapore
- Artists Investigating Monuments (AIM) documentation exhibition, The Substation’s Gallery, Singapore
- Space D: The Gallery Evason, Art in alternative spaces, Singapore
- Performance/Interventions on photos, International Exhibition, 2nd International Multimedia Art Festival, MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Yugoslavia
- Museum City Fukuoka 2000, contemporary art exhibition and event,Fukuoka City, Japan
- SINGAPORE ART AWARDS 2000, Philip Morris Group of Companies, Ministry of Information and the Arts, MITA Building, Singapore
- YEAR 2000: Transformation Through Art, Reduce Re-use and Recycle, Mail Art International Show, Galeria de Arte Vera Ferro, Campinas-SP-Brazil
- DIMENSIONS, group exhibition, Sculpture Square, Singapore
- Space C: WindowFront, Art in alternative spaces, Raffles City Shopping Centre, Singapore
- Anthology 2, group exhibition, Societe Generale Gallery, Alliance Francaise de Singapour, Singapore
- BOXED:26x26, group exhibition, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
- scratch, 7th RMIT Bachelor of Arts(Fine Art) exhibition, Earl Lu Gallery,Singapore
- Roll up the Walls, group exhibition, participate as visiting artist, Red Door Gallery, National Institute of Education, Singapore | | 1999: | - Nokia Singapore Art 1999, curated section, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
- Kunsthaus Tacheles, Festival Der Geister, parallel world by Plastique Kinetic Worms, Berlin, Germany
- 21st Shell Discovery Art Exhibition, Paragon Shopping Centre, Singapore
- JOTTER BOOK, group exhibition, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
- Searching, group exhibition, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
- 1, a FIRST ANNIVERSARY exhibition, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
- Move, group exhibition, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore | | 1998: | - 6x6x6, group exhibition, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
- The Drawing Show, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
- 500 & Below, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore | | 1997: | - Tokyo Urbanart ’97, Shibuya Parco, Tokyo, Japan
- Singapore Urbanart Competition 1997, Parco Bugis Junction, Singapore
- Singapore Art 1997, Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre,Singapore
- UOB Group’s 16th Painting of the Year Exhibition, UOB Plaza 1, Singapore
- Jewels of Asia 1997,Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Singapore
- Ericsson Scholarship Exhibition, Wetterling Teo Gallery, Singapore
- Anthology - 19th Fine Art Diploma Show, LaSalle gallery, Singapore
- Hot Metal, LaSalle gallery, Singapore | | 1996: | Beginnings… 3D Works, LaSalle gallery, Singapore | | 1995: | - Black Art, Photography exhibition, LaSalle gallery, Singapore
- The Incredible Wild & Wacky Great Singapore Kitsch Show, LaSalle gallery, Singapore | | PROJECTS | | 2001: | - Pulau Ubin Project, an Art Camp for 5 days in Pulau Ubin island, organised by The Artists Village, Singapore
- Yellow Brick Road, collaboration with Sylvia Goh, outdoor art project for Nokia Singapore Art 2001, Singapore
- participate in People By Our Side, Foto-Mail-Art-Projekt, initiated by KunstKeller, http://www.kunstkeller.purespace.de
- Founder/Editor/Publisher of GREEN DONKEY, a mobile noticeboard for the arts, http://www.greendonkey.info
- Our Mother Nature, an art workshop program with students from Dazhong Primary School, Singapore | | 2000: | - “Cuckoo Nite”, collaboration with Japanese artist Tsuyoshi Ozawa in his SODAN ART CAFE, Fukuoka City, Japan
- “Peace & Harmony to our Mother”, an interactive art-installation project with students, Maizuru Elementary School, Fukuoka City, Japan
- participate in Blowing in the Wind, an interactive internet art project initiated by Casmo Info, http://www.algonet.se/~haanmo/bitw/index.html http://www.algonet.se/~haanmo/bitw/BenPuah.html
- PLAY WITH MY RAT! a no deadline coloring project open to all | | 1999: | - BEN IS RAT, a lifetime art project, various sites
- ACT PACH(B)OTW, collective art project for Nokia Singapore Art 1999, various sites, Singapore
- “Mobile Temple MAKE friends” project, various sites, Singapore | PERFORMANCES | | 2001 | - musical performance “5 mins of bad sound, bad space and bad feeling”, Pulau Ubin island, Singapore
- performance “Art Police” with artist Lam Hoi Lit and “Paper planes“, FUSION STRENGTH, group performance and installation, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
- performance “bye bye Albert, hello Robert!” with French artist Gilles Massot,Bye Bye Albert presented by The Artists Village, Singapore | | 2000: | - performance “Have my love” at the opening of Museum City Fukuoka 2000,Fukuoka City, Japan
- performance “Having my fair share of that cheese in his land.”, AIM presented by The Artists Village, Installation Art and Performance Art by local artists, Raffles Landing Site at North Boat Quay, Singapore
- performance “Opera Rat is here for....”, BA studio, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore | | 1999: | - performance “make bread or make toy?”, Post-Ulu presented by The Artists Village, Guinness Theatre, Substation, Singapore
- performance “Studio make food”, BA gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
- performance “Have a bag of lucky soil?”, Regent Street, Seletar Camp, Singapore
- performance “listen and obey to have your hands clean?”, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
- performance “Make a sweet wish” at the opening of Super Luxury Art Machine by Danger Museum, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore | AWARDS | | | - National Arts Council SIA Travel Grant, 2002
- National Arts Council SIA Travel Grant, 2001
- Honourable Mention for the Singapore Arts Awards 2000, Philip Morris Group of Companies
- 1st Prize in the Beaujolais Nouveau art competition 1999
- Lim & Poly Building Scholarship in Ceramics & Sculpture
- Letter of Commendation for the Singapore Urbanart competition 1998
- Certificate of Commendation in the 16th Painting of the Year competition 1997
- The Judge’s prize in the Singapore Urbanart competition 1997 | PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS | | | - Hotel Equatorial, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore
- Vietnam Fine Arts Association, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Private collections in Thailand, Germany, Australia, USA, France, Japan, Vietnam and Singapore | PUBLICATIONS/NOTES | | | - How Hwee Young, Rats in a lab, Prime News The Straits Times, June 18, 2003
- Ronald Rajan, Rats in a lab, NewMan, issue no11, July 2003, p.16-17
- Kelley Cheng, I am benpuah, an artist, ish, issue 4.2, 2003
- Rats in a lab, Passion 99.5, June 3, 2003
- Mobile Rat Tour (M.R.T), Passion 99.5, Nov 8,9,10 &12, 2002
- Janice Lee, People don’t care, TODAY weekend, Nov 2-3, 2002
- Blind Spot, radio interview, FM 95.8, Oct 30, 2002
- Blind Spot, radio interview, Passion 99.5, Oct 29, 2002
- Andrew Duffy, Thinking outside the box, The New Paper, Oct 23, 2002
- Blind Spot, SHIN NICHI HO, Japanese newspaper, Oct 17, 2002
- Blind Spot, Tamil Murasu, Oct 11, 2002
- Blind Spot, The Straits Times, Oct 11, 2002
- VEHICLE contemporary visual arts, no 7/2002, p. 66
- Schooled in Asia, Life! The Straits Times, Oct 2, 2002
- ARTS-PLOSION, Life! The Straits Times, Sept 30, 2002
- Blind Spot (3rd Anniversary Exhibition), Project U:Ground, issue one, Sept 2002, p.7
- Artists draw the crowds and fill the void, The Straits Times, Sept 2, 2002
- Kim Machan, Mental Images, Art notes Queensland, August 2002, http://www.artmonthly.org.au/artnotes/qld.htm
- Mental Images, THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend, July 27-28, 2002, p.15
- Brandon Wee, Understating Controversy, ish, ishue 3.3, 2002, p.120-121
- “Flying Colours” solo painting exhibition, HTV9, Vietnam Television, May 2002
- Thanh Chung, “Flying Colours” solo painting exhibition, VAN HOA, Vietnam newspaper, May 22-26, 2002
- Hoang Anh, “The sound in my Brain” solo painting exhibition, My Thuat, Vietnam Fine Art Magazine, May 2002, p.19
- Phuong Minh, “The sound in my Brain” solo painting exhibition, SUCKHOE & DOISONG, Vietnam newspaper, April 30, 2002
- Nguyen Quynh Chi, “The sound in my Brain” solo painting exhibition, Tienphong, Vietnam newspaper, April 21, 2002
- “The sound in my Brain” solo painting exhibition, THE THAO & VAN HOA, Vietnam newspaper, April 16, 2002
- “The sound in my Brain” solo painting exhibition, LAODONG, Vietnam newspaper, April 17, 2002
- “The sound in my Brain” solo painting exhibition, VTV1, VTV3, HTV , Vietnam Television, April 2002
- Interview on artist Benjamin Puah, radio interview, Passion 99.5, April 2002
- Ben is Rat, proper gander, Jan-Feb 2002 #31, San Marcos, Texas
- Reflections exhibition, Impulse, The Magazine for the German speaking Community in Singapore, Feb 2002, p.26
- Parvathi Nayar, Making room for art, THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend,
- Feb 23-24, 2002
- Art with a Difference, I-S Weekend, Feb 22-24, 2002
- Articles of ‘Art land will happen again if....’ & ’Red tape and the kiasu mentality’, TODAY, Feb 21, 2002
- Jose Raymond, A surprise call from HDB, TODAY, Feb 20, 2002
- Jose Raymond, HDB art land, TODAY, Feb 18, 2002
- 24 Hours: solo show by Benjamin Puah, radio interview, Passion 99.5, February 2002
- Chit L.Lijauco, Nothing to do with cell phones, Nokia Singapore Art 2001, www.manilatimes.net, Jan 2002
- Wanphen Sreshthaputra, Art fest a big hit with Singaporeans, Bangkok Post, Jan 3, 2002
- Ahmad Mashadi, Lindy Poh, histories identities technologies spaces: SINGAPORE ART TODAY, catalogue for NOKIA Singapore Art 2001, p.24-29, p.40-45 , p.116 & p.131.
- Pulau Ubin Art Camp, Lianhe Zaobao, Dec 31, 2001 & Jan 1, 2002
- Nguyen Quynh Chi, artist interview, Tienphong, Vietnam newspaper, Nov 25, 2001
- GREEN DONKEY, vehicle: contemporary visual arts, issue_03-2001, p.53
- Jonathan Marcus, That’s more than entertainment, San Antonio Current, Oct 4-10, 2001
- Werner Riess, Grundshuler der deutschen Schule besuchen das “Singapore Art Museum”, Impulse, The Magazine for the German speaking Community in Singapore, Sept 2001, p.20
- Wong Chee Meng, Art on a platter, anyone?, VEHICLE contemporary visual arts, no 2/2001, p. 34-35
- Check in for the art of poetry, Life! The Straits Times, July 14, 2001
- Fusion Strength & President’s Young Talents Exhibition, art reviews by Susie Wong and Rachel Jacques, theartsmagazine, Singapore, Jul-Aug 2001, p.76-77
- Art Workshops in primary schools, Friday Weekly, June 8-14, 2001
- Josef Ng, Creature Comforts, METRO MAGAZINE, Bangkok, No 83 June 2001, p.64
- Contributing writer for the2ndrule, March 2001, http://here.is/the2ndrule
- Susie Lingham, Art Interpreting Heritage (of effacements, pilgrimages, exhumations & effigies), Focas- Forum on Contemporary Art & Society, The Necessary Stage, 2001, p.109-122
- President’s Young Talents Exhibition 2001, Lianhe Zaobao, April 14, 2001
- President’s Young Talents Exhibition 2001, Life! The Straits Times, April 13, 2001
- Artwork in the lift(The Gallery Evason), Lianhe Zaobao, Jan 14, 2001
- Contributing writer for Gravy magazine, Three visitors to my den, Ninth issue Fall 2000, http://gravymagazine.com/index.htm
- Contributing Artist for Global Collage, EMPOWERING ARTISTS & AUDIENCES, 2000
- http://www.globalcollage.com
- Sian E.Jay, The Heart Of A Visual Culture, ASIAN ART NEWS, Hong Kong, Volume 10 Number 2 March/April 2000, p.43 - Celebrating the release of Beaujolais Nouveau with art, Arts Connections, Jan-Mar 2000
- Contributing Artist for PerimeterPoint.com, A Virtual Community on the Web, An Online Magazine, 2000, http://www.perimeterpoint.com/galleries/art/colormyrat.htm http://www.perimeterpoint.com/contributors/artist_benpuah.htm
- NOKIA Singapore Art 1999, Friday Weekly, 1999
- Quay Yean Fee, Staging Problem; A Private Affair in Contemporary Art, CITY/COMMUNITY: SINGAPORE ART TODAY, catalogue for NOKIA Singapore Art 1999, p.31-34 & p.57.
- So what if king didn’t like it?, The Sunday Times, Nov 14, 1999
- Hou Hanru, 31 March 1999,Singapore, NU: THE NORDIC ART REVIEW, Sweden, First Issue No 1/99, 1999, p.94-95.
- When 3-D art looks better than 2-D, Life! The Straits Times, August 28, 1997
- Exhibition catalogue of PARCO ART PROJECTS 1997 URBANART #6, Tokyo, p.59.
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