Donna Chiu is a Singaporean visual artist working primarily across photography, painting and writing, with an expanded practice that also encompasses moving image. Her work is rooted in a desire to make sense of lived experience, often beginning with personal encounters, memories and relationships as a way of examining the circumstances that shape individual lives.

Drawing from personal and family histories, archival photographs and found materials, Chiu explores memory, migration, identity, intimacy and loss. Her works frequently emerge from autobiographical experiences but gradually move beyond the personal, opening onto broader questions of belonging, displacement and human vulnerability. She is particularly interested in the shifting relationship between individuals and the social, cultural and political circumstances they inhabit, and in how these forces quietly reshape our understanding of ourselves and one another.

Chiu’s practice often moves between what is present and what is absent, what can be remembered and what becomes fragmented, withheld or lost. Rather than seeking definitive narratives, her works create spaces in which ambiguity, emotional tension and uncertainty can remain unresolved. Through this process, art becomes both a means of inquiry and a way of negotiating experiences that are difficult to articulate through language alone.

Chiu has presented solo exhibitions in Singapore, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and Malaysia between 2023 and 2026. Her work has also been exhibited across Asia and Europe, including the Singapore International Photography Festival (2016, 2026), Obscura Festival of Photography, Malaysia (2018), and A(R)TITUDE Festival, Italy (2022).