FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND SOCIAL - Key Persons
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- Managing Director of GEE Global
Dr. Yanyun Chen is a visual artist, researcher, and lecturer. She runs a drawing, new media and installation practice.
She runs a drawing, new media and installation practice. Her works delve into the aesthetic, cultural and technological inheritances on one's body, unravelling fictional and philosophical notions of embodiment, heritage, and legacies. These works are grounded in the physicality of human and botanical forms.
She builds two trains of thought throughout her artistic works: on bodies and on constructs: in the former, she researches cultural wounds, dowry traditions, hereditary scars, philosophies of nudities, and etymology, and investigates stories as a skin which we wear and conditions of intergenerational pain; in the latter, she questions the disassociating states of representing and memorializing the artifice in artistic endeavours as opposed to being present to the experience of witnessing withering and death of what is outside and within one's self.
She received the prestigious Singapore National Arts Council Young Artist Award (2020) and ArtOutreach IMPART Visual Artist Award (2019). Her works were also awarded the Prague International Indie Film Festival Q3 Best Animation Award (2020), National Youth Film Awards Best Art Direction Award (2019), Singapore Art Museum President's Young Talents People's Choice Award (2018), Japan Media Arts Festival (2012) and Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal Award (2009). She is listed on Tatler's Asia's Most Influential: The Culture List (2021).
Over 25 years working in the cultural sector; involved in the fields of arts policy, research and facilities planning
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- Founder / Director of Foodbar Asia Square
Kelly Tang's Movements in Time - Artworks from the National Gallery
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- Artist in the Region of Southeast Asia
Kumari Nahappan is a prominent artist in the region of Southeast Asia; her practice encompasses inter-disciplinary genres, painting, sculpture and installations.
She has forged a reputation for effectively reconciling the language of "international contemporary art" with her own vocabulary and developing a visual identity that is decisively shaped by her cultural roots and beliefs.
Kumari is celebrated for her iconic sculptures in landmark locations in Singapore including Saga for Changi Airport, Nutmeg & Mace for the ION Orchard, Pedas-Pedas for the National Museum and Pembungaan for OUE Bayfront (the largest bronze mural in Singapore at over 45m) and other sculptures for corporate developments. Her sculptures have graced sites overseas including G Tower in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), the J.Y. Campos Centre in Manila (the Philippines), and Chengdu International Finance Square (China) in 2014.
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- Executive Director
- Founder
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Founder & Executive Director / Executive Director, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ( 2008 - 2009 ) Executive Director, Russia - Singapore Business Forum ( 2006 - 2013 )
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Co - Founder of TC Capital
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- Managing Partner of KREAB Singapore