Chow Chee Yong (Singapore)
Chow Chee Yong graduated with a BFA (Honours) degree in Photography in 1994 from Western Michigan University, USA. In 1998, he received the JCCI Art Scholarship, which brought him to Tokyo where he pursued his graduate studies. He received his MA (Distinction) degree in Photography in 2001 from Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan. He has participated in about 30 solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States.
Chee Yong’s works have been featured in publications such as Passages North (USA), Photo Asia (Singapore), OP Editions (Hong Kong), m2photosynthesis (Singapore), Light Trails (Singapore), Things unseen, Places not been (Singapore), 11+1 (Japan), Nippon Camera (Japan), Asahi Camera (Japan) and Photographs by the Next Generation: Young Portfolio (Japan), among others. His first publication, “30th Feb” a hardcover book of his Surrealistic Images, was recently launched in Singapore in conjunction with his 6th solo exhibition.
His original prints can be found in the Permanent Collection of Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Japan), Epigram Pte Ltd (Singapore), Kay Ngee Tan Architects Gallery (Singapore), Center of Photography (Japan), Back in Time International (USA), OP Editions (Canada and Hong Kong), Rothmans of Pall Mall (Singapore) and other various corporate, private and museum collections in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States.
He currently teaches photography in the Department of Visual Communication at Temasek Design School in Temasek Polytechnic (Singapore).
Terence Yeung (Singapore)
Terence Yeung is an independent curator. He is trained both as an artist and designer. He graduated in postgraduate fine art studies from Goldsmiths’ College and Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London. He is a specialist in Print and Photo Media and is lecturing in imaging theory and communication design at Temasek Design School, Singapore.
Terence is both active in exhibiting and curating. His photographic works had been exhibited local and abroad. His work is selected into the opening exhibition of the Alexander Library Opening Exhibition by UN. The European House of Photography selected his photographic works for the Singapore edition of The Month of Photography in 2003. In June 2004, he was in a group photography exhibition called ‘The Month of Photo 2004’ as part of the Singapore Arts Festival.
He comes from a diverse background of practice before trying his hand at curating. Since then he has been curating for CPVI,2001 (Centre of Photography and Visual Imaging, Singapore), Singapore Art Museum 2002, the Esplanade 2003, the Goethe Institut, Singapore, and other alternative spaces. He is the creative adviser to the Biopolis, One North Public Art Programme, and master plan by Zaha Hadi, 2002-2004. He has been an important agent of promoting art and photography in the local context, his guerilla movement has been influencing and engaging the main stream establishment to continue the evolving cultural dialogue of and design.
He is currently commissioned by the Singapore Youth Council to create a sculpture for British High Commissioner to Singapore representing the youth of Singapore in this very important milestone in the UK and Singapore relationship. He is also working on his latest “REAL Project” concerning the blurring boundaries of Art/Design with four groups of artists and designers in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, and Taipei.
Wang Xi (China)
Wang Xi, is a course manager of the Master of Arts program in International Photojournalism at the Dalian Medical University Image Art College in China (in association with the University of Bolton, UK). China. He holds a Master of Arts in Photography from Bolton University, and shot numerous landscape and documentary films in Nanning, Guangxi. He also used to work for local NGOs like CSAPA (China Small Animal Protection Association) and BHAEEC (Beijing Human and Animal Environmental Education Center), while his professional work has been widely used in the Chinese media.
Ark Fongsmut (Thailand)
Curator Ark Fongsmut received his MA in Fine Art Administration and Curatorship from Goldsmiths College, London, and his MA and BA in Political Science from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
He has been a curator at Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok since 2000 and has produced many important exhibitions and initiations, including the annual Brand New Project and Artist Residency Program. With insight and experience in the field of contemporary Thai photography, Ark was appointed chief curator of the 2004 and 2006 Month of Photography – Bangkok, a major international photography exhibition.
One of the vocal contributors to critical writings on contemporary Thai art, Ark has published in a number of exhibition catalogues and books, including “Art Now,” his latest collections of art writings. He has also contributed to many publications, namely, Esquire (Thai Edition), MARS, CRUSH and East Bridge, an online Korean art magazine.
He was a recipient of several Curatorial Fellowships and Residencies including BIZ Art Residency (Shanghai); Association Francaise d’Action Artistique Fellowship (Paris); The Alliance Francaise Residency (Bangkok) and The Japan Foundation Fellowship (Bangkok and Tokyo).