Unhiddenness 19th May - 6th June 10

This exhibition showcases the most memorable works by Surat Osathanugrah, which focus on scene and people of Thailand. Beside being a historical record of old Bangkok, it is also a piece of art which Surat has beautifully framed each scene to capture these moments in the daily lives of people.
(Con)Front 12th Jun 2010 - 03th July 2010
Like glimpses into a visual diary, (Con)Front is an attempt to tackle both the conscious and the unconscious. These visual dialogues pin down the artist response to his environment and his relentless search for a sense of place and identity. Provocative and disquieting, minimal yet profound, the exhibition examines the deconstruction of memory and time, the human desire to project towards the future, but what comes out of the future is the past.
SIPF Open Call is extended
till 11 April 2010. For more information, please visit SIPF 2010 website
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Exhibition "The whiteness of a whale"
by Zhao Renhui is now on exhibit at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum till 25th May 2010.
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CurioCity Book Launch & Exhibition by Bob Lee
Together with the book launch, selected 26 pieces of works are on exhibit from 26th Feb to 7th Mar, 12noon - 9pm.

Venue: Paragon, Atrium 2, Level 1. For more information, pls call 6339 8655
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Available at 2902 Gallery: Self-published books by Local Photographers
CurioCity by Bob Lee

2008 Singapore International Photography Festival Publication

the sky i wish to share with you by Han

Dance Me Through the Dark by Tan Ngiap Heng

30th Feb by Chow Chee Yong
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Winning Noise Festival, Photography Category
After receiving 28th UOB Painting of the Year Award last year, Zhao Renhui went on to win the Singapore Noise Festival, Photography category with his works A Strange Animal.

His works are now showcasing at Raffles City Shopping Centre till 10th March 2010.
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Shortlisted in Sony World Photography Festival 2010
Zhao Renhui's Pulau Pejantan Expedition is shortlisted in 3 categories: Natural History, Conceptual & Constructed and Landscapes.

The result will be announced in April 2010.
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Seasons Greetings and opening hours
2902 Gallery wishes everyone a happy and prosperous Lunar New Year.

The Gallery is close from 13th to 16th February and will resume per normal on 17th February.
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Singapore International Photography Festival 2010
A Regional Platform for Photography

With a panel of curators, and 6,000 over submission, this is a platform whereby new talents and best works are selected for a month long exhibition and featured in festival publication. Check out SIPF website for submission criteria and deadline.
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Singapore Young Photographer Award 2010
Turn your vision into victory

From behind the camera lens, a new vision of the world comes alive. From a different angle, another perspective is formed.

The same subject, yet different in everyone¡¯s eyes. This is the fascination of photography. And the possibilities are limited only by your creativity.

Photo enthusiasts between 13 and 25 years old, this is the stage set for you! Let your pictures express the vision that is unique to you. Submit your masterpieces by 17 April 2010. Log on to SYPA for participation details and entry form.
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Mark it on your diary!
The Artichoke Group puts the heart back into art with a philanthropic-driven group art exhibition, Labyrinth, in support of the Visual Arts enrichment program conducted by Down Syndrome Association (Singapore).

It will open with the exhibition, sale and auction of original art works on Thursday, 12 November followed by a fun-filled family day on Sunday, 15 November before closing on Wednesday, 18 November.
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Dance Photography
Photographer Sharing by Dennis Ng

Date: Sat, 17 Oct, 2pm -4pm. Free. Venue: 2902 workshop room
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On The Wall Photo Bazaar
is now open for registration:“May I Share…” is the edition focus on sharing and getting feedback from peers and professionals in the field.

For more information and registration, please email onthewall@2902gallery.com or visit www.f56gallery.com
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Live Interview of Kenneth Feinstein in Living Room talk show. Tune in to FM 93.8 on Wed,15 April between 10am -10.30am.
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Public Talk by Kenneth Feinstein on 18th April, 3pm at Gallery Workshop Room
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Open Call Submission
July 09: On The Road Again – A Travel Photography Show (closing date: 01 June 09)
Oct 09: Animals (closing date: 01 August 09)
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Launch of online portal to showcase works of photographers. www.f56gallery.com

F5.6 Gallery is supported by Creative Community Singapore to create an online platform for artists and art collectors to meet.
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TV Interview
Look out for 2902 Gallery on OKto Channel on 28th Feb, 2008, 8.30pm.

April – June
Upcoming workshops at 2902 Gallery: Travel, Street, Documentary, Photojournalism photography, and How to Break into the Magazine Market.

For course information, please email to info@2902gallery.com.
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Magic Moments II
till 27 Nov

Presented by Leica & SIPF
MAGIC MOMENTS II
consists of 40 original black-and-white photographs by well known photographers such as René Burri, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Inge Morath, Marc Riboud, Mary Ellen Mark and Sebastiao Salgado
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PhotoSynthesis
04-14 Dec 08

A group exhibition by 10 artists exploring photography image beyond printing on paper. Artists: Paul Kohl, Joel Yuen, Samantha Tio, Tan Peiling, Dominique Pommier, Sean Lee, Clarence Aw Presented by AVS & 2902 Gallery
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Prologue (reprise)
17 - 31 Dec 08
by Michael Tan

Michael Tan is currently lecturing in School of Art, Design and Media (ADM). He has received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his Masters in Photography and Urban Cultures from Goldsmiths College, University of London. As a visual artist, he has produced a body of photo and video installation works that were exhibited internationally and locally such as the recent The Singapore Art Show 2007 at the Singapore Art Museum and the London Design Festival 2006. He is currently a member of the International Visual Sociology Association.
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Check out the latest travel photography competition & exhibition organised by Singapore International Photography Festival. http://am.sipf.com.sg
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2902 Gallery congratulates Joel Yuen on winning the UOB overall winner award for his works titled Anatomical Fantasies of Meat, Part 2
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Singapore International Photography Festival is looking for volunteers between September and October 2008. For more details, please email volunteer@sipf.com.sg or visit www.sipf.com.sg
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HanoiHaiku
19 June - 05 July
By Sherman Ong

Shown as a complete series for the first time in Singapore, these works were made in Hanoi, Vietnam during my residency with the Goethe Institut Hanoi. Presented like a visual Haiku, the works are intentionally left untitled; the juxtaposition of images produces their own narratives, temporal connections, and is open to many interpretations infused with the personal experiences of individual viewers.
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Official Fine Art Paper for Thousand Miles or More is Sihl
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Opening Reception for Thousand Miles or More is sponsored by Wine Garage & Brewerkz
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2902 Gallery is in Facebook!
Search "2902 Photo Gallery"
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Starting May 08, 2902 Gallery kick starts GroupShows 2008.

Photographers are welcomed to submit their works to gwen@2902gallery.com
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Peek goes Japan!
Peek next travels to Tokyo for the Month of Photography on 10th March
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John CLANG
BIOGRAPHY
Born 'Ang Choon Leng' in Singapore in 1973, CLANG acquired his distinctive moniker during national service, as his name badge read 'C L Ang'. In 1999, the multi-disciplinary artist and award-winning photographer relocated to New York. Whilst working with some of the biggest commercial names like Herm¨¨s, Nike, IBM and Godiva, he continues to develop a parallel artistic career by producing and exhibiting an acclaimed body of works in photography. From 2000 to 2006, CLANG was also the Photographic Director of the experimental design and image title Werk, a platform dedicated to supporting new talent and run by longstanding Comme des Garcons collaborator, Theseus Chan.

His photographic oeuvre reads like glimpses into a visual diary¡ªautobiographical, evocative, and often elliptical. The images revisit key themes that continue a dialogue between contemporary landscapes and the individual: Urban alienation and a personal search for a sense of place and identity; the provocative displacement of the individual through an anti-juxtaposition of contexts; the interrogation, and recovery of memory; and the passage of time and its documentation through the axis of space. Nuanced yet startling, simple yet profound; these 'images of the mundane' lifted from the flow of an ordinary existence, seep into the cracks of our collective consciousness-and tear it apart.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007 Clang: A White Book, The Substation, Singapore

2004 Clang: A Self Portrait, Jendela Gallery, Singapore

2003 Fear of Losing the Existence, Bank Art Gallery, Los Angeles

2003 June 4 2001 - Jan 27 2002, Galerie Colette, Paris

2001 Backs, DVF Studio, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009 New York Photo Festival: (super)natural, Tobacco Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY

2009 TransportAsian, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2002 Porn?, Proud Galleries, London

1993 Critical Framework, Fifth Passage, Singapore

Collections

Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
 
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MinTio
 
BIOGRAPHY
Mintio was born in 1986 in Singapore. She began her practice as a fine art photographer while pursuing her Bachelors in Fine Art at the School of Art, Design and Media at NTU. As an artist, her work puts priority on the process as well as maintaining a high-level of craft in the execution of an image.

She believes that these are the key elements in the personalization her work. In her most notable series "Concrete Euphoria", Mintio works uses the large format camera to photograph urban landscapes around Asia.

Despite the discipline-oriented methodology, she allows chance, chaos and emotional impulse to be huge driving forces in her practice.
 
 
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Zhao Renhui
BIOGRAPHY
Zhao Renhui is a multi-disciplinary Singaporean artist. An artist and almost zoologist, his practice investigates the different modes of the human zoological gaze, that is, how people view animals. He is interested in the history and development of the zoological gaze alongside social progress and mediation. His practice also investigates the different modes of knowledge production in contemporary archives.

In 2007, he was awarded a research grant by the Chelsea Arts Club in London for his photographic research work in Spain. He has also won awards for his work including the AOP Student Photographer Of The Year award in 2007 (UK), Emerging Artist Award (Singapore International Photography Festival 2008) and most recently The United Overseas Bank Painting of the Year Award, 2009 (Singapore).

His research work on different animal traps from around the world was selected as the winning project for the Sotiri International Prize for Emerging Photographers (2009). At the moment, he is working closely with the Institute of Critical Zoologists (ICZ) on a series of public exhibitions, presentations, performances and installations.

The artist and the Institute recently exhibited and received a special mention for their research in the inaugural Photo-Levallois in Paris, "We decided to go to the zoo but it was raining" and the 'Ark Project' at Pickfords House Museum in the United Kingdom during the Format International Photography Festival (2009).

His documentary work on tiger farming in China was also shown in Chobi Mela V Festival, Bangladesh (2009). Most recently, the artist presented a major project with The Substation, Singapore, "If a tree falls in the forest" with the support of The National Arts Council Singapore.

He was also selected to present his research work on animal memorabilia/souvenirs of the world in the recent Asia-Europe Foundation Emerging Artists Forum. A series of his work, "The Blind" was also selected to be the cover and feature of Portfolio catalogue, a contemporary photography publication in Britain.

He is currently attending the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Artist's Residency Program in Japan.
 
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Joel Yuen
BIOGRAPHY
Joel's works take on an experimental approach, with a strong emphasis on narration and conceptualization. In order to execute an idea manifestly, staged photography has become the apt choice of expression for the contemporary arts.

His ideas and inspiration stem from religion and religious art (Roman Catholic), where a deep sense of ideology is portrayed. After exploring different mediums and art genres, the crux of a finished piece of work is for it to convey a message that relates to the human psyche.

After winning the 27th UOB Painting Of The Year Award, Crowbar Gold and Best of Show for Photography 2008, and Third Place for the International Photography Awards (Special-Special Effects: Lonely Supper), Joel continues to pursue photography as a fine arts genre.

Recently Symbiosis won the Crowbar Silver for Photography, 2009. He is currently taking his BFA in Photography and Digital Imaging in Nanyang Technological University.
 
 
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