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Genevieve Leong
b. 1992, Singapore
Currently based in Singapore

Genevieve Leong completed her BA Fine Art (Photography & Digital Imaging) at Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design & Media, Singapore, in 2015, and her MA Contemporary Art Practice (Critical Practice) at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2019. She was based in Switzerland from August 2019—March 2023 and relocated back to Singapore in April 2023.

Her art practice attempts to visualise the intangible. Beginning with the immaterial, her work often combines text, image, found and made objects and the manipulation of space to create what she describes as “an almost physical image”. The installations that she creates often embody an impermanence with possibilities for change, whether it be due to audience participation or natural environmental factors. Her work seeks to shed new light onto her emotions, sensations, and realisations.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education
2017-2019   Royal College of Art, London, UK (MA Contemporary Art Practice, Critical Practice)
2011-2015   Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (BA Fine Art, Photography & Digital Imaging)

Solo Exhibitions
2022 ‘Recipe #03: How to soundproof a room’, Hiltibold, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2022 ‘Evaporation Studies’, so-da space, Zürich, Switzerland
2021 ‘Frühstück’, Mokka-Rubin, Olten, Switzerland
2019 ‘Configurations’, Supernormal, Singapore

Group Exhibitions
2023 ‘Some Exercises in Futility’, Singapore Art Week 2024, Shun Li Industrial Complex, Singapore
2023 ‘Lucky Cats’, ISLANDS, Singapore
2023 ‘We keep going around in circles and we never know why until we break them all’, Supperhouse, Singapore
2023 ‘Exploit me’, curated by JKON, Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland
2022 ‘Page Break’, A Curatorial and Research Residency by Berny Tan, Singapore Art Museum Residencies, Singapore
2022 ‘Traces’, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
2022 ‘Mise en Place’, Appetite, Singapore
2022 ‘Jubiläum Ausstellung’, EWJR, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
2022 ‘Sicht-Wechsel’, EWJR, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
2022 ‘bis morgen’, Galerie Durchgang, Basel, Switzerland
2021 ‘Heimspiel’, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2021 ‘Grosse Regionale’, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
2021 ‘JKON 2021’, Olten, Switzerland
2021 ‘Rapperswil Kulturspaziergang’, Rapperswil Old Town, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2021 ‘Maybe we read too much into things’, Singapore Art Week 2021, 72-13, Singapore
2020 ‘Precious Things’, Coda Culture, Singapore
2020 ‘Huette auf Wanderschaft’, Studio Huette x Bad Hemberg, Kunsthalle(n) Toggenburg, Switzerland
2020 ‘A5 @ MOKKA-RUBIN’, Mokka-Rubin, Olten, Switzerland
2020 ‘flat’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore
2019 ‘Grosse Regionale’, Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
2019 ‘Configurations’, Royal College of Art Graduate Exhibition, London, UK
2019 ‘Terminal O’, The Horse Hospital, London, UK
2019 ‘Deviations’, 49 Hackney Road, London, UK
2018 ‘Fantasy Island’, ISLANDS, Peninsular Shopping Centre, Singapore
2018 ‘Lose yourself along the way’, 9 Norris Road, Singapore
2018   'New Margins' by THEBOOKSHOW, DECK, Singapore
2018   ‘DISRUPT’ by Subject Matter, London, UK
2016   Noise Singapore 2016 Alumni Exhibition, Esplanade Concourse, Singapore
2016   ‘Undescribed’, DECK, Singapore
2015   ‘Reiterated Spaces’, Goodman Arts Centre, Singapore
2014   Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2014   Noise Apprenticeship Programme, 8Q, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Residencies
2023 dblspce, Singapore [December 2023–January 2024, coinciding with Singapore Art Week]
2021 Sasso Residency, Vairano, Ticino, Switzerland [September 2021]
2020 n ear residency, Singapore [July 2020]

Contributions
2023 ‘Process: Roving Ideas’, curated by Goh Chun Aik, Singapore Art Week, Singapore
2020 ‘Short Provocations on Form’, by Yin Ying Kong, Judith Hagan, Bryony Bodimeade & George Leith
2019 ‘Playing Houses’, Flat Time House, London, UK

Publications
2023 ‘a pocket dictionary of word slips’, Edition of 200
2023 ‘a pocket dictionary of word slips (english/german special edition)’, Edition of 100
2021 ‘a pocket dictionary of things misunderstood’, 2 Editions of 100
2019 ‘a pocket dictionary of non-understanding’, 3 Editions of 100/200
2019 ‘all the land left free’, in collaboration with Tom Medwell, Edition of 50
2018 ‘not too sure’, Edition of 100
2018   ‘our breaths are short, this breeze untameable’, Edition of 100 
2017   ‘air’, Edition of 50
2016 ‘if skin were pink’, Edition of 3
2015 ‘180°’, in collaboration with Jocelyn Ang & Leanna Teoh, Edition of 100
2014   ‘Come Home’, Edition of 2
2014   ‘secrets’, Edition of 100

Articles / Interviews
2022 ‘Genevieve Leong on Self-Recognition, Object Transformations, and a New Language for the Senses In-Between’,
Object Lessons Space, Singapore (read here)
2021 ‘Berny Tan in conversation with Genevieve Leong’, Maybe we read too much into things, Singapore (read here)
2020 'An artist residency in Singapore goes virtual', The A List, Singapore (read here)