SINGAPORE.- Singapore Art Museum announced the 26 residents for its third international residency cycle. Comprising 23 individuals, 2 duos and 1 collective, they include artists, creatives, curators, and practitioners. They were selected from over 1200 applications received from more than 100 countries during the open call launched in March 2024.
Residents are offered a studio-based residency across three of the four residency types—Artists, Community & Education, and Curatorial & Research. The fourth type, EX-SITU: Art Spaces residency, which hosts independent non-profit art organisations, artist-run spaces, early-stage museum projects and community-led initiatives, is by invitation only.
The list of selected residents for Cycle 3
Artist residency: Ana Mendes (London/Stockholm), Anais-karenin (Tokyo), Arpita Akhanda (Bolpur), An Chorong (Seoul), Daniela Zambrano Almidón (Lima/Berlin), Intizor Otaniyozova (Almaty), Isa Pengskul (Ko Phangan/Singapore), Jenna Lee (Melbourne), Joaquín Segura (Mexico City), Josefina Paz (Montreuil), Marisa Srijunpleang (Bangkok), Rui Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Sian-Jie Ye (Taipei), Victoria Hertel (Singapore), Weixin Quek Chong (Singapore/Madrid), Youqine Lefèvre (Namur)
Community & Education Residency: Aliaskar Abarkas (London), David Shongo (Democratic Republic of Congo), Divaagar (Singapore), Hong Shu-ying (Singapore), jee chan (Singapore/Berlin) & Sharon Mercado Nogales (La Paz/Berlin), Jim Jasper Lumbera & Joey Alexis Singh (Batangas), Quek Jia Qi (Singapore) and Ateliê Vivo (São Paulo)
Curatorial & Research Residency: Mario A Llanos (Puerto Colombia), Sofía Dourron (Buenos Aires)
SAM Residencies
SAM Residencies supports innovative artistic and curatorial practices that respond to current global discourses. One of Asia’s most comprehensive interdisciplinary residency programmes, SAM Residencies aims to be a space of incubation and cultivation—offering discursive platforms for cross-disciplinary experimentation, collaborations and exchange of ideas between residents and communities within and beyond Singapore.
Set against the shifting landscape of the now-defunct Tanjong Pagar Port, selected residents will meet, work and learn together within SAM’s industrial warehouse-turned-office and residency studios. Supported by the museum’s curatorial team and SAM Residencies’ ever-growing networks, the residents are encouraged to develop research strands within new contexts and generate new approaches that culminate in various programmatic and non-programmatic activations.
With each cycle framed by concerns within the contemporary world, Cycle 3’s focus on notions of allyship & solidarities, building alternative knowledges, and flowing & thinking in betweens prompts residents to consider the role of art and the need for empathy amidst current realities; imbalances and over-visibilities; and navigating states of porosity and liminality.
Cycle 3 was juried by an international panel comprising Alfredo Jaar, artist, architect, and filmmaker (New York); Miguel A. López, writer and curator (Lima/Mexico City); Pratchaya Phinthong, artist (Bangkok); Shubigi Rao, artist and curator (Singapore); and was chaired by Haeju Kim, Senior Curator and Head (Residencies) at SAM.
SAM looks forward to welcoming the third cycle of incoming residents to SAM Residencies from June 2025. Each residency will span a period of one to six months during the cycle’s run until December 2026.
