Contributors

Goh Sze Ying is Curator at National Gallery Singapore. She has worked on exhibitions including Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia (2022), Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia (2022), Minimalism: Space. Light. Object. (2018). In 2019, she also co-curated the 6^th edition of the Singapore Biennale, Every Step in the Right Direction.

Roger Nelson is Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU).

Roy Ng is Assistant Curator at National Gallery Singapore. Broadly he explores art and aesthetics through a material and transhistorical lens, but specifically his research focuses on the social practices and object-based identities of Southeast Asian photography from the late nineteenth century to the present. Past exhibitions include Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia (2022) and Nam June Paik: The Future is Now (2021). He holds an MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture from Trinity College, University of Oxford.

Dr. Eugene Tan is Chief Executive Officer of National Gallery Singapore and Head of the Visual Arts Cluster (VAC).

Kenneth Tay is Assistant Curator at Singapore Art Museum. His research and writings span media histories, global infrastructures, and urban spaces, but he is broadly concerned with the mediation and performance of the ‘global’. Tay is the author of The Sea is All Highway: Singapore and the Logistical Media of the Global Surface (Temporary Press, 2019), and has curated projects including FLAT.SPACES (2018) and CONCRETE ISLAND (2016). He holds an MA in Media Studies from The New School, New York, which was made possible through the support of NAC Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate).

Charmaine Toh earned her PhD at the University of Melbourne, researching pictorial photography in Singapore from the 1950s to 1970s. She was Senior Curator at National Gallery Singapore where she worked on exhibitions such as Siapa Nama Kamu: Art in Singapore since the 19th Century (2015), Earthwork 1979 (2016) and Living Pictures (2022). Previously, Charmaine was the Programme Director at Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film. She co-curated the 2013 Singapore Biennale.