{"id":17217,"date":"2008-11-17T04:46:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T20:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/curtin-art-graduate-co-curator-at-singapore-biennale-2008\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T13:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T05:04:28","slug":"curtin-art-graduate-co-curator-at-singapore-biennale-2008","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/curtin-art-graduate-co-curator-at-singapore-biennale-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtin art graduate co-curator at Singapore Biennale 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"title\">\n<div id=\"titledesc\">\n<p>C305\/08<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span>17 November 2008<\/span><\/div>\n<p>As the Singapore Biennale 2008 (SB2008) closes, acclaimed visual artist and  Curtin University of Technology art graduate Matthew Ngui reflects that he found  it interesting working as a curator at the city\u2019s largest international  contemporary visual arts exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Singaporean-born Mr Ngui, 45, of North Perth, found it a new experience to be  part of a curatorial team comprising Fumio Nanjo, Director, Mori Art Museum  Tokyo, and Joselina Cruz, independent curator based in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was great to be able to have the opportunity to work on the other side of  the fence in a large scale exhibition and working with other artists as a  curator,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ngui has a long association with Curtin having graduated with a Bachelor  of Arts (Fine Arts) 1991 and Post Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the late 1980s when he first started at Curtin, Mr Ngui was only the  third international student to be studying in the Department of Art.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Matthew Ngui: Points of View was showcased at the John  Curtin Gallery as part of the Perth International Arts Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Ngui: Points of View was a survey exhibition of Ngui\u2019s art practice  spanning over nearly 20 years which began at the Museum of Contemporary Art in  Sydney. This exhibition has since also toured to the National Museum of  Singapore for the Singapore Arts Festival 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ngui now lives and works in Australia and Singapore and is working on  public art projects in both countries.<\/p>\n<p>As a visual artist working in the areas of installation, video, performance  and site-specific works, Mr Ngui has also exhibited in Singapore and other  cities such as Berlin, Bordeaux, Caracas, Copenhagen, Graz, Hong Kong, London,  Manila and Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>He has also participated in the Sao Paul Bienal (96), DocumentaX in Kassel  (97), the Venice Biennale (2001) and Kwanju Biennale (2002).<\/p>\n<p><span>Modified: 17 November 2008<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Singapore Biennale 2008 (SB2008) closes, acclaimed visual artist and Curtin University of Technology art graduate Matthew Ngui reflects that he found it interesting working as a curator at the city\u2019s largest international contemporary visual arts exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,95],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17217","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community","category-fine-arts"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17217"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}