• Genevieve Chua (born 1984, Singapore) is a painter who works primarily through abstraction. Chua employs a method of working that unfurls and reveals the painter's process through diagram, palimpsest, syntax, and the glitch. While notions of nature and wilderness persist across several works, the form taken by their exhibitions – image, text or object – is disrupted through painting.

    Selected solo exhibitions include Wilful Machine (Singapore, 2024); grrrraaanularrrrrrr (Singapore, 2023); Twofold (Singapore 2020); Moths (Hong Kong, 2015); Parabola (Singapore, 2014); Cicadas Cicadas (Los Angeles, 2014). They were conferred the Young Artist Award (2012) by the National Arts Council, Singapore.

    The artist has presented the work Artificially Intelligent in APT (Brisbane, 2021).

    Genevieve Chua is currently based in London and Singapore.

  • Last updated 8 NOV 2024

     

    EDUCATION
    2016-2018 Royal College of Art, UK (MA Painting)
    2002-2004 Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore (Dip Painting)

     

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

    2024 Wilful Machine, Helutrans, Singapore
    2023 grrrraaanularrrrrrr, STPI, Singapore
    2020 Twofold, STPI, Singapore
    2019 Closed during Opening Hours, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
    2017 Vestigials and Halves, 7 ½ , Seoul
    2016 Rehearsals for the Wilful, Silverlens Galleries, Manila
    2015 Moths, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
    2014 Parabola, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Singapore
    2014 Cicadas Cicadas, Gusford Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
    2012 Birthing Ground Not a Sound, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
    2011 Another Place, CCC Shizuoka, Japan
    2009 Full Moon & Foxes, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
    2007 As Brutal As, La Libreria, Singapore

     

    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

    2023 Chances of Contact: Contemporary Prints from the Philippines and Singapore, Manila, Philippines

    2023 Thirty Years of Contemporary Art from China and Singapore, SZMOCA, China

    2023 Thinking About Abstraction Part II, 39+, Singapore

    2022 Second Movement, STPI, Singapore

    2022 Notations in Space, STPI, Singapore

    2022 APT 10, QAGOMA, Brisbane

    2021 8th Asian Art Biennal, Taiwan

    2021 To Draw A Line, ADM Gallery, Singapore

    2021 Tonight the Air is Warm, Kristin Hjellegjerde, UK

    2021 Strange Forms of Life, STPI, Singapore

    2020 AORA:II, AORA, London, UK

    2020 First Light, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney, Australia

    2020 A Decade Apart, RKFA, Singapore
     2019 Matter and Place, Museum MACAN, Jakarta
     2018 Choruses  副歌, Edouard Malingue, Hong Kong
     2017 Shared Coordinates, The Arts House, Singapore
     2017 Translacion, Silverlens, Manila
     2015 My Sisters and Other Ghosts, The Cross Arts Projects, Sydney
     2015 I went to the forest to live deliberately, Art Informal, Manila
     2014 Afterimage, 8Q SAM, Singapore
     2014 Unearth/ed, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
     2013 Side-Glance, ICA, Singapore
     2013 Anthropos, Numthong Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
     2013 Encountering the Unknown, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
     2013 Disappearing Moon, Asia House Gallery, London
     2013 Disappearing Moon, ICA, Singapore
     2012 Encounter, Experience, Environment, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
     2012 Marcel Duchamp in South-east Asia, Equator Art Projects, SIngapore
     2012 Microcosmos, Goodman Arts Centre Gallery, Singapore
     2012 DiverseCities, 8Q, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
     2012 Poskad Pameran, Viridian Art House, Galerie Utama, Singapore
     2012 New Strange Faces, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
     2012 Future Proof, 8Q Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
     2011 BMW Young Asian Artist Series, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
     2011 The Art Incubator, Praxis Space, Singapore
     2011 Shadow in the Dark, EXIT Gallery, Central, Hong Kong
     2011 Art Project Ideas, Hiroshima MOCA, Japan 2011 Abject Systems, Studio Bibliotheque, Singapore
     2011 Cross-scape, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
     2011 Cross-scape, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju, Korea
     2011 Cross-scape, Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
     2011 Imagine Malaysia, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
     2011 House of Incest, Post Museum, Singapore
     2011 Selamatan Digital, Langgeng Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
     2011 Singapore Biennale, Old Kallang Airport, Singapore
     2010 Floating Worlds, ChanHampe Galleries, Singapore
     2010 Together in Electric Dreams, Giveart, Singapore
     2010 Singapore Survey 2010: Beyond LKY, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
     2010 No Conical Hats - Southeast Asian works on paper, Giveart, Singapore
     2010 Cabinet of Curiosities, HT Contemporary Space, Singapore
     2010 Next Wave Time Lapse, Big Screen at Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
     2009 Lost in the City: Full Moon & Foxes, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
     2009 Works on Paper: History Lessons, VWFA, KL
     2009 CUT 09 Figure: New Photography from Southeast Asia, VWFA, KL
     2009 Drawing Out Conversations, Studio Bibliotheque, Hong Kong
     2008 Drawing Out Conversations, Fost Gallery, Singapore 

    RESIDENCIES
    2012 AIRx Residency, Royal College of Art, London
    2011 GCC Creative Residency Programme, Gyeonggi Creation Centre, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
    2011 The Art Incubator, National Art Council Singapore, CCC Shizouka, Japan
    2010 BMW Young Asian Artist Series, Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Singapore
    2010 Late Fall Residency, The Banff Centre, Calgary, Canada

    AWARDS/ MENTIONS
    2018 “1 of 10 stars for 2018, Future Greats”, ArtReview Asia
    2017 NAC Postgraduate Scholarship
    2014 PULSE Miami, “Top Nine Trending Artists Under 40”
    2012 Young Artist Award, National Arts Council Singapore
    2003/04 NAC Georgette Chen Scholarship