jason wee (Singapore)
Jason Wee was born in Singapore in 1978, and lives in New York. Recently
a Studio Fellow in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Wee
works with photography, sound and installations. Multimedia installations
have included Farewell at 5pm (Singapore), and 1987 at
the first Singapore Biennale. He was awarded the prestigious Shell-NAC
Award, Singapore’s largest award for emerging artists in 2004.
He is actively making work internationally, having exhibited in the Chelsea
Art Museum (New York), Singapore Art Museum, Peer Gallery (New York),
Photo New York, PS122 Gallery (New York), Asian-American Art Center,
Art Seasons Gallery (Singapore). This year he will be presenting projects
in Manchester, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Stuttgart and Berlin. Jason is also
known for his critical writing and poetry, which has been published in
Art Papers, Vehicle (Singapore), Softblow, the2ndRule, QLRS & The
Substation. He graduated from the National University of Singapore (BA
(Hons) in Political Science, and Parsons School of Design (MFA Photo).
Wee’s work is best characterised by his history. He came to art
after sojourns in theatre, poetry, queer activism and political theory.
Working across a range of forms including photography, drawing, sound,
writing, painting, and site-specific installation, his practice focuses
on failures and disappearances in and of the cultural field. He is currently
exploring the landscape as technology, theatre as non-sites and the poetic
in art.
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