Heman CHONG 张奕满

Born:
1977
Residence:
Singapore, Singapore
Nationality:
Singaporean
Trust:
APT Beijing
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  • Fost Gallery will be participating in Art Stage Jakarta 2017.

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  • The Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai and David Kordansky Gallery, California, collaborate to present the group exhibition ‘Please Fasten Your Seat Belts As We Are Experiencing Some Turbulence’ on view through April 30, 2017.

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  • The ongoing solo exhibition titled “Portals, Loopholes and Other Transgressions” showcasing artworks by acclaimed artist Heman Chong is on view at the

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  • Atlas of Mirrors features works by 63 artists and collectives, from a loudspeaker made out of woks to a jackfruit timber dwelling.

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  • Take Me (I’m Yours) is a re-staging of a show that first appeared at the Serpentine Gallery in 1995, when it was conceived of by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and artist Christian Boltanski. In this 2016 New York edition, curators Obrist and Jens Hoffmann feature more works by 42 artists.

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  • Not to be outdone by North Asia, which hosts major events like Art Basel every year, Southeast Asia is rapidly growing its own art fair line-up.

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  • From 16 September to 8 November 2015, Monnaie de Paris presents Take Me (I'm Yours), a collective and interactive exhibition which brings together the work of forty-four international artists under the curatorship of Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Chiara Parisi.

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  • The Biennale of Sydney has announced the final list of 83 artists from 35 countries for the forthcoming 20th edition from March 18 to June 5, including an additional 13 artists and collectives whose participation is detailed below.

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  • The first few months of 2016 are busy for the art market calendar in Asia, with key contemporary art fairs in Singapore and New Delhi in January, foll

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • Name: Stephanie Fong Hailing from: Singapore Presides over: FOST Gallery Gallery’s specialty: Contemporary art with a focus on artist based in Singapore

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  • The questions of nationality and cultural identity figure nowhere so intensely as in Singapore. It boasts Asia’s most racially diverse population, with its mix of ethnic Chinese, Indian and Indonesian-Malay.

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  • The complex and indeterminable nature of human engagements came under scrutiny in And The Difference Is, a residency and exhibition project

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  • The Part in the Story Where a Part Becomes a Part of Something Else is an exhibition that covers a lot of ground.

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  • Taking part in “Pilot Micro Multiplex│Mall” at the Sharjah Art Foundation in the UAE, an exhibition where several artist have transformed the site into a small shopping centre or micro mall.

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  • Southeast Asia is an interesting region belying a unit that is more disparate than it is whole. D R Sardesai’s introduction to the book Southeast Asia: Past and Present outlines in a nutshell Southeast Asia’s inherent diversity as a geo-political unit not bound “in the religious, historical, geographical, and ethnic senses.” It conveys itself as a puzzle, one so variegated that texts on Southeast Asia often begin with how the region’s naming only came after World War II. Before that, the present members of ASEAN (except East Timor) were once colonies beholden to different masters...

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  • For 52 Saturdays in an entire year between 7 September 2013 to 7 September 2014, you are invited to come to The Reading Room to participate in a work

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  • LEM1, the first solo exhibition in the UK by the Singaporean conceptual artist Heman Chong, is set to transform our gallery space into a functioning

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  • THERE is a house-like structure with transparent Perspex walls squatting in the middle of the gallery, surrounded by large frames tilted at an angle;

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  • The Part In The Story Where We Lost Count Of The Days is a series of three exhibitions developed by Heman Chong that occur over three spaces and

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  • WITH its 20 years in the local arts scene, The Substation is practically a matriarch - who's had a lot of botox.

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  • We usually think of stories as fairly straightforward things — they start somewhere, resolve something terribly dramatic along the way,

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  • Curator Eugene Tan explains how this week's Art Stage Singapore event may just be the breakthrough moment for the Singapore art scene

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BIOGRAPHY
Heman Chong is an artist whose work is located at the intersection between image, performance, situations and writing. He is interested in interrogating the functions of producing narratives in our everyday lives.  
 
The artist has developed solo exhibitions at NTU Center for Contemporary Art (Singapore), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), South London Gallery (London), Art Sonje Center (Seoul), Gallery Em (Seoul), P! (New York), FOST (Singapore), Michael Janssen (Singapore), The Reading Room (Bangkok), Future Perfect (Singapore), Wilkinson (London), Rossi & Rossi (London / Hong Kong), SOTA Gallery (Singapore), NUS Museum (Singapore), Kunstverein Milano (Milan), Motive Gallery (Amsterdam), Hermes Third Floor (Singapore), Vitamin Creative Space (Guangzhou), Art In General (New York), Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Amsterdam), The Substation (Singapore), Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Sparwasser HQ (Berlin). 
 
His work has also been shown extensively in group exhibitions including Tate Modern, New Museum, De Appel Arts Centre, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Sharjah Art Foundation, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Kumho Museum of Art, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Kroeller-Muller Museum, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Nam June Paik Art Center, Gertrude Contemporary, Arnolfini, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Hamburger Bahnhof, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Kadist Art Foundation, Daejeon Museum of Art. 
 
He has participated in numerous international biennales including 1st Yichuan Biennale (2016), 20th Sydney Biennale (2016), 10th Gwangju Biennale (2014), Asia Pacific Triennale 7 (2012), Performa 11 (2011), Momentum 6 (2011), Manifesta 8 (2010), 2nd Singapore Biennale (2008), SCAPE Christchurch Biennale (2006), Busan Biennale (2004), 10th India Triennale (2000) and represented Singapore in the 50th Venice Biennale (2003).
 
His work has been featured prominently in A Prior, ArtAsiaPacific, Artforum, Art in America, Art-iT, Art Lies, FlashArt, Frieze, LEAP, SITE and Visionaire. 
 
Chong's work is included in the permanent collections of Art Sonje Center, Kadist Art Foundation, M+ Museum, NUS Museum, Rockbund Art Museum and the Singapore Art Museum.

For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art